Debunking All-Wing Lies About Clinton and Paula Jones

Things aren't going well for Bush so the nut-cases are talking about Clinton again. But the defenders are leaving out a couple of facts too. Pretty soon they will all be talking about the lies about Gore lying again as well. Political Stratagy.org picked up this from Bob Beckel.

Sean Hannity Defends Bush Citing Paula Jones

To site Paula Jones as a victim of Bill Clinton and proof that Clinton is completely immoral is not only absurd it is a flat out lie.

THE FACTS

-Cliff Jackson, a former Fulbright Scholar, was a friend of Clinton's when they both were in England.

-Returning to Arkansas with political ambitions, Clinton became Governor, and Jackson became a bitter Clinton hater and small time lawyer.

-Clinton is elected President in 1992 and Jackson begins a sleazy campaign against the Clintons, which became known as the Arkansas Project [funds primarily by...Richard Mellon Scaife].

-Jackson recruits two Clinton hating state troopers, Larry Patterson and Rodger Perry, to tell sex stories about the Clintons and promised them $1 million each from a book advance and royalties. They signed the deal.

-David Brock, (El - now newest NYTimes columnist, liberal media indeed!), former writer for the right wing rag the American Spectator {again partially funded by Scaife} was contacted by Jackson, and leaked the story about how Clinton, while he was governor, revealed himself to a poor little public employee named Paula Jones.

In December 1993 Brock writes a Jones story for the Spectator entitled His Cheatin' Heart. Brock admits being paid by Peter Smith, Newt Gingrich's finance chairman to write sex stories about Clinton during the '92 presidential campaign.

-Peter Smith, who is Newt's man on the Arkansas Project, pays both troopers Paterson and Perry $6500 each and Cliff Jackson $5000. Jackson calls a press conference in Washington on Feb. 11, 1994 and introduced the troopers, Brock, and Paula Jones. Jones told her story including, when prompted by Jackson, that Clinton pulled down his pants and ask her for sex.

-A legal case, Jones v Clinton, paid for by the right wing follows.

-When the Jones v Clinton case heard witnesses, Arkansas Supervisor of troopers, Buddy Young, testified that neither Patterson nor Perry knew anything about Clinton's sex life. Further he said Patterson was a sex fanatic and Perry used State telephones to call his various girlfriends running up several hundred dollars in long distance charges.

-On April first 1994, Federal Judge Susan Wright dismissed Jones case against Bill Clinton as totally without merit.

EL - I have to interject here. Although all of this was true, Jones lawyers appealed and Clinton paid $870,000 to settle out of court just before his impeachment trial.

Jones went on to 'pose' for magazines your kids shouldn't read. (EL - It appears her two groups of lawyers got over 82% of the money. She owed more in taxes then she received and she went to Penthouse to keep her house.)

Those are the facts. They are all a matter of public record yet the right wing continues to say it was true, showing no respect for the rule of law. But when the right refuses to accept the rule of law over and over they become a law onto themselves, and I can tell you from personal experience that there are lots of wing nuts out there that want an excuse to take the law into their own hands.

El I have to call out liberals as well as conservatives, for leaving out significant parts of any story. Clinton settled out of court, very probably for political considerations and not based on the facts, but I'm sure people need to remember that he did settle.

You want a tiny peek at her, don't you?

- Taking the law into their own hands writ large scale, the new Bush neo-con doctrine of pre-pre-emption war.