CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 24, 1998
Re "Richard Scaife: A 'Savior' of Right, a Scourge of Left," April 17: It's about time that The Times starts to take a look into who is funding the anti-Clinton nuts' sordid campaigns. Without funding from eccentric billionaires such as Richard Mellon Scaife, even Newt Gingrich admits that modern conservatism wouldn't be what it is today. The media should continue looking into who is bankrolling the anti-Clinton forces, and expose their real agenda to the light of public exposure.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 22, 1999
Re "Inside Politics Distracts Gore's Campaign Team," July 17: OK, L.A. Times, you're exonerated now for that report on Gov. George W. Bush in the Air National Guard after the unbelievably negative article you carried about Vice President Al Gore's questionable management style with his confused campaign staff. If I weren't already a member of the "vast right-wing conspiracy," I'd never vote for Gore to run our government. DICK ETTINGTON Palos Verdes What's all this nonsense about Gore being stiff?
NEWS
August 12, 1998 | From The Washington Post
When the allegations involving her husband and former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky arose seven months ago, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton attributed the investigation to a "vast right-wing conspiracy." Now, she is blaming her husband's legal difficulties on anti-Arkansas bias as well. "I think a lot of this is prejudice against our state," the first lady said in a telephone interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette published Tuesday.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 17, 2001
Re "A Victim of the Third Great Awakening," Opinion, Jan. 14: According to Neal Gabler, Bill Clinton's presidency represents "the forces of cultural secularism." I find this contention more than a little strange, considering all of the trappings of religiosity that surround Clinton and his administration. We have seen numerous photographs of Clinton coming out of church, Bible in hand. The Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are prominent spokesmen for Democratic causes. Clinton has been a faithful participant in prayer breakfasts.
OPINION
October 3, 2009
Re "Truth is in the ear of the beholder," Opinion, Sept. 28 Obviously, a person's political viewpoint will have an influence on virtually all debatable political issues. There exists reams of data, theories, espionage and counterespionage on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Why would anyone in their right mind, even author Cass Sunstein, think that a person's opinion on WMD would be based strictly on President George W. Bush's assessment and the CIA's report? And this "scares" writer Gregory Rodriguez?
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 14, 1998
Whatever possessed your staff to allocate two-thirds of its Commentary page to the disjointed, rambling braying of Gore Vidal ("The Real Crime Is Going Against the Will of We the People," Aug. 12)? Compared to this fearfully unedited tirade, Hillary Clinton's famous sound bite about the vast "right-wing conspiracy" against her husband sounds like the Gettysburg Address. Had Vidal's piece been submitted by a citizen of less notoriety (literary or otherwise), its trajectory to the round file would have been painfully short.