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_______________ THE (NOT SO) MIGHTY QUINN BY HARRY JAFFE (03/09/98)

After reading Harry Jaffe's article on Sally Quinn, I can only surmise that Mr. Jaffe must be one of those Clinton sycophants who regularly gather at the trough to dream up new ways of defending the president and his wife. I knew nothing about Sally Quinn before reading his piece; now I not only know something about her, I also know a great deal about Mr. Jaffe.
Sally Quinn has every right to appear on any show she wishes to express her opinion about the Clintons and their travails -- travails that are of their own making, by the way. Is Ms. Quinn responsible for the fact that the president got caught with his pants down, that an independent counsel statute that HE signed into law is now the source of his impending ruin or that Mrs. Clinton looks like a fool and a hypocrite blaming a so-called right-wing conspiracy for the fact that her husband has a loose fly? As a feminist par excellence, shouldn't she be excoriating her husband as a pig who sees any female orifice as a receptacle for his own selfish pleasure? As for Mr. Jaffe claiming there is no proof of Mr. Clinton's dalliances: Ha. Anyone with half a brain knows this president is a lecherous liar who offers his own interpretation of the words fidelity, truth and privilege as his defense. Unfortunately for him, his legal beagle semantics will only end up doing him in since he can't get away with them under oath.
Mr. Jaffe would do better to save his vitriolic attacks for a president who has decimated his office and a wife who views marriage as an avenue to power. Ms. Quinn may not be Mrs. Cleaver, but then, she doesn't PRETEND to be.
So much for hypocrisy, Mr. Jaffe.
-- Lee Nichols

_______________ THE FALWELL CONNECTION BY MURRAY WAAS (03/11/98)

Imagine, a piece of investigative journalism that features sources with names, allegations that are confirmed by the targets and documentation. I must be in heaven. The piece by Murray Waas was just the latest in a string of outstanding stories published by Salon. You folks have put the mainstream "news" outlets to shame. Salon should get a Pulitzer. Thanks for digging up the truth.
-- Mike Drury
SALON | March 12, 1998

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_______________ THE (NOT SO) MIGHTY QUINN BY HARRY JAFFE (03/09/98)
	After reading Harry Jaffe's article on Sally Quinn, I can only surmise that Mr. Jaffe must be one of those Clinton sycophants who regularly gather at the trough to dream up new ways of defending the president and his wife. I knew nothing about Sally Quinn before reading his piece; now I not only know something about her, I also know a great deal about Mr. Jaffe. Sally Quinn has every right to appear on any show she wishes to express her opinion about the Clintons and their travails -- travails that are of their own making, by the way. Is Ms. Quinn responsible for the fact that the president got caught with his pants down, that an independent counsel statute that HE signed into law is now the source of his impending ruin or that Mrs. Clinton looks like a fool and a hypocrite blaming a so-called right-wing conspiracy for the fact that her husband has a loose fly? As a feminist par excellence, shouldn't she be excoriating her husband as a pig who sees any female orifice as a receptacle for his own selfish pleasure? As for Mr. Jaffe claiming there is no proof of Mr. Clinton's dalliances: Ha. Anyone with half a brain knows this president is a lecherous liar who offers his own interpretation of the words fidelity, truth and privilege as his defense. Unfortunately for him, his legal beagle semantics will only end up doing him in since he can't get away with them under oath. Mr. Jaffe would do better to save his vitriolic attacks for a president who has decimated his office and a wife who views marriage as an avenue to power. Ms. Quinn may not be Mrs. Cleaver, but then, she doesn't PRETEND to be. So much for hypocrisy, Mr. Jaffe. -- Lee Nichols
_______________ THE FALWELL CONNECTION BY MURRAY WAAS (03/11/98)
	Imagine, a piece of investigative journalism that features sources with names, allegations that are confirmed by the targets and documentation. I must be in heaven. The piece by Murray Waas was just the latest in a string of outstanding stories published by Salon. You folks have put the mainstream "news" outlets to shame. Salon should get a Pulitzer. Thanks for digging up the truth. -- Mike Drury SALON \| March 12, 1998