Rushing In
Guy Montag has the low down on Rush and drugs. Choice quote:
Amazing! Somehow, a high profile subject of a drug investigation is being alerted through the National Enquirer that he is the subject of an investigation!
While on the subject of scandals, Clayton Cramer calls hypocrites, well, hypocrites.
Hi other foot, my name is shoe.
October 3rd, 2003 at 11:31 am
I’m no fear of the smear tactics, but Cramer does miss a not-so-subtle and very important difference between Clinton/Lewinsky and Schwarzenegger: The Clinton/Lewinsky relations, whatever you might think about them, were mutually consensual.
October 3rd, 2003 at 11:47 am
Also, wouldn’t conservatives be equally hypocritical for defending behavior that they themselves vilified in someone else?
October 3rd, 2003 at 11:52 am
Well, cramer also says:
We were supposed to “move on” when President Clinton was accused of at least equivalent behavior (Kathleen Willey getting groped) and in some cases much worse (Paula Corbin Jones), but now character matters
And yes conservatives would be equally hypocritical.
October 3rd, 2003 at 11:55 am
Perhaps one aspect of the Clinton affair slipped by you. Last I heard, perjury is a crime and the judge who fined Clinton agrees with me. The disbarment board agreed with me on that point too. Quite an uncomefortable thought when judges and common lawyers are agreeing with me.
Committing adultery in the oval office, concentual or not, is a whole different crime that he was not prosicuted for.
Humm, so it is now okay for bosses to do interns? Great! I will start advertising at the local campuses for a web intern. Yumm! I was hearing for years that bosses had too much power over the impressionable young folks.
October 3rd, 2003 at 11:56 am
Also, wouldn’t conservatives be equally hypocritical for defending behavior that they themselves vilified in someone else?
I have yet to hear anybody defend Arnie’s behaviour, but still waiting for the feminists to chime in like they did for Clinton.
October 3rd, 2003 at 12:20 pm
The mainstream press is catching up with me!
Checkout the records of the drug dealers in this story.
October 3rd, 2003 at 12:44 pm
First, if anyone thinks I’m defending Clinton’s behavior, ya got me wrong!
Second, nobody (of note) may be explicitly defending Arnie’s behavior, but they’re implicitly defending it (or, at the very least, deeming it irrelevant) by continuing to campaign for him and push him for Governor. This is absolutely no different than the feminist complicity in Clinton’s transgressions.
Here’s a snippet of a supporter actually defending Arnie:
That type of logic is scary, regardless of whose names have D’s and R’s next to them.
But I do agree that this is probably character assassination, and I find it contemptible when either party engages in it.
October 3rd, 2003 at 12:56 pm
Both sides are charging each other with hypocrisy (on Ahnold and on requests for an independent council for the Plame affair). And I think both sides are right: lots of people on both sides are putting aside their principles for political gain.
As far as Ahnold, the most recent incidents were alleged to have happened in 2000, so he can’t even use Bush’s “it was before age 30 so it doesn’t count” defense. And he apologized for his behavior towards women this morning, so he’s admitting to at least some of the charges, instead of denying them.
But, hey, Democracts ignored Clinton’s philandering for years when they were supposed to be the soccer mom party, and some of that philandering was allegedly non-consensual.
October 3rd, 2003 at 1:16 pm
Arnie’s big mistake: non-virtual women. He needs more porn.
Concious women in real life can be a lot of trouble sometimes . . .