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    Newspapers Urge President to Quit
    By Greg Mitchell
    Editor & Publisher

    Friday 06 January 2006

Outrageous, out of the question? Of course. Then again, here's what happened in the summer of 1998 when the president was named Clinton. Dozens of editorial pages clamored for him to quit (see this list). "He should resign," the Philadelphia Inquirer declared, "because his repeated, reckless deceits have dishonored his presidency beyond repair."

    What did "I" do? On Dec. 21, I wrote a little news story for this site about the sudden appearance of the "I" word - impeachment, that is - in reputable publications. The outrage over revelations about President Bush's approval of spying on Americans without a warrant was then at its height, before subsiding to its current level of what-will-they-think-of-next cynicism.

    We got a lot of negative mail about that article, even though we didn't take a position on the matter, but simply pointed out that the "I" word was now being uttered in some surprising places (Barron's magazine?). Certainly, it's no "slam dunk" - to coin a phrase - that the president should be impeached, and most Democrats don't even want it to happen, either because they think they can make hay in the November elections with Bush still in office, and/or they fear a short but perhaps brutal reign of our own King Richard I.

    Still, it amazes me when people make fun of the very notion that a president under a dark cloud might be asked to leave office, or given a push, in light of the very recent experience involving one William Jefferson Clinton. This seems especially poignant, in light of President Clinton leaving office with an approval rating over 60%, while the current occupant of the White House sits at around 40%. Then there's the perennial debate over the relative demerits of fooling around with an intern vs. fooling an entire country into going to war based on false evidence (and anything else you'd care to add on top of that).

    In any case, while still not taking a position on impeachment, I thought it would be interesting to look back at how the press reacted to the Clinton Crisis of 1998. Did newspaper editorials condemn Clinton for his screwing around, and lying about it, and leave it at that, or did they come out squarely for his exit from office?

    What follows, from an Associated Press rundown on September 15, 1998, is a long list of newspapers that "called for President Clinton's resignation." AP added that some of those listed "did so before the release of Kenneth Starr's report on Sept. 11."

    Indeed, the Philadelphia Inquirer responded to the coming of the Starr report this way: "Bill Clinton should resign. He should resign because his repeated, reckless deceits have dishonored his presidency beyond repair."

    The Los Angeles Times pointed out: "The picture of Clinton that now emerges is that of a middle-aged man with a pathetic inability to control his sexual fancies."

    The New York Times, on its Howell Raines-led editorial page, thundered that until the Starr turn, "no citizen ... could have grasped the completeness of President Clinton's mendacity or the magnitude of his recklessness." Yet a Washington Post poll that month showed that while a majority of Americans wanted Congress to censure Clinton, they did not want it to boot him out of office.

    Here is that AP partial list of newspapers calling for Clinton to quit (other papers no doubt joined in later):

    National:
    USA Today

    Alabama:
    The Mobile Register
    Montgomery Advertiser

    Arizona:
    Tucson Citizen

    California:
    San Jose Mercury News
    The Orange County Register
    The North (San Diego) County Times
    The Record, Stockton

    Colorado:
    The Denver Post

    Connecticut:
    The Day of New London
    Norwich Bulletin

    District of Columbia:
    The Washington Times

    Flordia:
    The Orlando Sentinel
    The Tampa Tribune

    Georgia:
    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
    The Augusta Chronicle

    Illinois:
    Chicago Tribune

    Indiana:
    The Indianapolis Star
    Chronicle-Tribune of Marion
    South Bend Tribune
    The Times of Northwest Indiana

    Iowa:
    The Des Moines Register

    Kansas:
    The Topeka Capital-Journal

    Louisiana:
    The Times-Picayune of New Orleans
    The News-Star, Monroe

    Michigan:
    The Grand Rapids Press
    Detroit Free Press

    Minnesto:
    Post-Bulletin of Rochester

    Mississippi:
    Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo

    Missouri:
    Jefferson City News-Tribune

    Nebraska:
    Lincoln Journal Star

    Nevada:
    Reno Gazette-Journal

    New Jersey
    The Trentonian, Trenton

    New Mexico:
    Albuquerque Journal
    The Santa Fe New Mexican

    New York:
    Sunday Freeman of Kingston
    Utica Observer-Dispatch

    North Carolina:
    The Herald-Sun of Durham
    Winston-Salem Journal

    Ohio:
    The Repository, Canton
    The Cincinnati Enquirer
    The Cincinnati Post

    Oklahoma:
    The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City
    Tulsa World

    Oregon:
    Statesman Journal, Salem

    Pennsylvania:
    The Philadelphia Inquirer
    The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    South Carolina:
    The State, Columbia

    South Dakota:
    Argus Leader, Sioux Falls

    Texas:
    San Antonio Express-News
    El Paso Times

    Utah:
    Standard-Examiner, Ogden
    The Spectrum, St. George
    The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City
    Deseret News, Salt Lake City

    Virginia:
    Daily Press of Newport News

    Washington:
    The Seattle Times

    Wisconsin:
    The Post-Crescent, Appleton
    The Journal Times, Racine

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TVNL Editor's Comments: The criminal pretend news networks halted their broadcasts yesterday each time there was a press conference regarding the medical condition of the one surviving miner (you thought I was going to say Ariel Sharon…didn’t you?) of the accident we all know so much about. How do they keep from laughing as they announce this type of information as if it were a real national news event? Why are this man’s doctors holding press conferences in the first place? Who is affected by the news of his condition? They should be holding briefings with the man’s family and nobody else! (I spent 2 hours calling up the news networks so that I could yell my head off at them for their laughable coverage! I asked them if they would cover news about my mother’s hangnail which was more important to me than the health of an accident victim that I never met and has absolutely no impact on my life and never will! 

The US media made sure they informed you about every single aspect of this man’s health, which included in depth questions being asked by the mob of reporters spending their entire day waiting for this unimportant news. What the US media did not have time to do however, is report to you the details or even a summary about the 38,000 people who are dying each month as a result of the ongoing conflict in the Congo

The reason for this is that ever since Henry Kissinger recommended that “population reduction” in Africa should be official US foreign policy because the US may one day grow to a point of needing the natural resources of Africa, the policy has been followed and the US media will not let you know this.

You see, the US media has been compromised by the powerful entities that actually control our government and dictate policy. This has been proven time and time again. But even if you refuse to believe this you can not deny the fact that the US media ignores all news that exposes atrocities that are committed, supported or quietly tolerated by US. Think about it! – Jesse, Editor, TvNewsLIES.org