From: mitch@lsil.com (Mitch Sako)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Bush's Marital Problems
Date: 13 Aug 92 23:27:22 GMT
Reply-To: mitch@lsil.com
Organization: LSI Logic Corporation

In article 13AUG199202004872@jetson.uh.edu, wmporter@jetson.uh.edu (Porter, William M.) writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.195635.29245@lsil.com>, mitch@lsil.com writes...
> >I'm going to be unable to listen for the next few days but the Jennifer
> >Fitzgerald news broke yesterday, apparently in the New York Post?  Anyway,
> >I would be interested in hearing from those folks who are listening how
> >Limbaugh treats this one, as compared to "Slick Willie's Philandering."
> >Is he giving it equal time, or any time?
>Is there any reason that he should? There is no story here and in fact even
>these rumors are stale. Read the article in the recent SPY magazine, if you're
>desperate, but it contains nothing that deserves the name "information", nor
>does this story in the Post. So paltry is this story that Ted Koppel devoted
>tonight's Nightline show to once again engaging in Kierkegaardian
>soul-searching about the ethics of news reporting. As the Albert Brooks
>character says (sarcastically) in "Broadcast News": "Oh, yes, let's NEVER
>forget that WE are the real story here."

Actually, there is a story here and it's not Bush's philandering either.  It's
fairness, the media, personal lives, and privacy.  One thing for sure, this has
sure managed to kill the Gennifer Flowers rumors, of which there wasn't a story
either.  Gennifer Flowers was a well-paid hired-gun who showed a pattern of
pathological lying and nothing was ever proven.

>But this story about Bush is really "despicable" (Mrs. Bush's word). The CNN
>reporter (a woman) who asked Bush about the "tryst" during his public news
>conference on the Middle East should be relegated to a job as a copy-editor on
>the Sally Jesse Raphael show. And Mr. Koppell and his colleagues should stop
>agonizing so much about their profession in public and start behaving like real
>reporters, gathering facts.   

I agree that the whole matter stinks.  It's just that the Gennifer Flowers
incident opened the can of worms.  Clinton went on 60 Minutes to clear the
air.  Whether this was effective or not, we might never know.  I believe that
Bush needs to do something similar to clear the air immediately, before more
damage is done to him.  Now that Baker has joined him, perhaps he will do
something about it, and quick.

I believe that Bush has a problem here and it's not his womanizing either.  It
has more to do with his crisis management skills.  If this issue gets mishandled
then it's over for him.  I'm confident that Baker will come up with a well-
crafted solution but I'm not sure it's too late.  I read the Spy Magazine
article last month and while it lacked credibility, it sure was enough to 
make me think about this.

Lastly, I don't care one hoot about womanizing, homosexual encounters, or
illegitimate kids.  I care about a man's honor and his word.  So far, Bush
is the only one who has gone back on his word with respect to a presidential
campaign promise.

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