The Vanity Fair article concerning the BS which the republicans crafted against Al Gore, and how the "liberal media" reported these as "gospel truth" had my antenna up for this trick.
So when this Letter, Written by the then 23 year old Bill Clinton dropped in my lap (thank G-d Gore invented the internets) I just had to check it out.
Before being bespoiled by the truth, what is your (media shaped) memory of this?
I was still doing the talk show at Jeanette, reading the NY Times, wall street journal, Trib and Post every day, I would listen to NPR while delivering pizza and would sample as much Limbaugh as I could stand.
My memory is of a proud and elitist Clinton, proclaiming the military to be a task "beneath him" and stating that HE, PERSONNALLY "LOATHED THE MILITARY"
I never remember ANYONE, not NYT, not NPR, putting this statement in to the context of the letter.
The most charitable treatment I remember hearing, is of an "older wiser Clinton" disowning his "youthful indiscretion"
Here is the letter, read the letter!
The “loathing” “smoking gun” is in the final paragraph
The media treatment of this issue was, as usual; Bullshit!
http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/clinton.htm
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