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The mediacracy

Some of the Clintonphilic journalistic crowd are fighting a game rear-guard action. RW Apple Jr. of the New York Times, for example, wrote the other day of the FBI file scandal: "Watergate it is not. There is no evidence here, as there was in the Nixon era, of a premeditated attempt to subject the democratic process and the operation of government agencies for narrow partisan gain. No one suggests that Mr. Clinton has committed anything approaching an impeachable offense here."

Apple should pull the clip files on Watergate and read what the impeachment of Nixon actually said before he writes any more stuff like this.