THE STARR SCANDAL
A WEB PAGE DEVOTED TO
RECORDING FOR POSTERITY THE EVIL DONE BY THE SANCTIMONIOUS, HYPOCRITICAL,
FAR-RIGHT EXTREMIST KENNETH STARR.
BOOKS ON THE EVIL OF STARR’S
MONOMANIACAL QUEST:
There are growing archives of books devoted to the examination of Starr’s relentless overreaching and hypocrisy. While it’s doubtful that James Carville’s And the Horse He Rode In On is terribly balanced, the far more brilliant Alan Dershowitz has chimed in with the book Sexual McCarthyism. Another title is The Hunting Of the President by Gene Lyons.
Click here for a New York Times Book Review piece on Jeffrey Toobin's book on the Starr Scandal.
Click here for the NYT Book Review's scathing appraisal of the "Truth At Any Cost" book.
CHARLES BAKALY:
On July 6, 2000, the news media announced that Charles Bakaly, Starr’s former Starr Scandal spokesman, would be facing criminal prosecution for his leaks while he was Starr’s minion, and could go to trial as soon as the next week. Reporters and commentators noted the irony that he would be facing trial for criminal contempt, while Clinton only faced trial for civil contempt. Clinton also owned up to the consequences of his actions, while the sniveling and wormlike Bakaly, is fighting this all-too-just action tooth and nail. Take it like a man. You dish out crap, and commit crimes to do it, and then you whimper, “It’s OK! Clinton, he was a bad, bad man. A bad, bad, BAD man!” Not as bad as you and your ilk, Bakaly...Starr...and all the other inhabitants of your lowest circle of Hell.
THINKERS OF OUR TIME WRITE OF
STARR’S EVIL:
Click here for various quotations picking apart Starr's partisanship, ineptitude, etc.
TWO 1999 NYT ARTICLES WITH
INTERESTING MATERIAL ABOUT STARR’S EVIL:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/9634/nyt020299.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/9634/nyt020799.html
STARR AND TEAM LAP UP AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS:
JOE CONASON NEW YORK OBSERVER
PIECE ON SOME OF THE FLAWS OF STARR’S SUCCESSOR ROBERT RAY:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/9634/ray.html
TIMELINE OF ENDLESS, POINTLESS INQUIRIES:
HELPFUL INFORMATION:
Click here for where to write to Mr. Starr.
“A ZEALOUS PRIG OUT OF ‘THE CRUCIBLE.’”—FRANK RICH ON
STARR.
EXTENSIVE ARCHIVES OF ARTICLES
AND LINKS:
International Outrage At Starr.
Commentary On/Analysis Of Starr's Report.
Starr's Violations Of the Constitution.
(Also click here for a Washington Post essay on those violations.)
Starr Profiles/Biographical Material.
Compilations, Directories, Catalogues Of Starr Abuses and Misdeeds.
The Anti-Clinton Plotters: Scaife, Racists, Assorted Fascists.
Satires On Starr, Poetical and Otherwise.
The Fourth Estate: Low Media Standards Fed Into This Mess.
A Journal Of the Plague Years (The Starr Plague Years).
“GOVERN
THE PEOPLE WITH THE UTMOST CAUTION AND LENIENCY, FOR YOU HAVE NOW LEARNED BY
EXPERIENCE, HOW TOO MUCH VEHEMENCE MAY DRAW UPON YOU THE HATRED OF THE
PEOPLE.”—PETER STUYVESANT (1610-1672), GOVERNOR GENERAL OF NEW AMSTERDAM.
CARTOONS:
Ken Starr the Sleaze Merchant.
Ken Starr the Overreacher, the Law Unto Himself.
Ken Starr and His Endless, Pointless, Stupid Quest To Topple the President.
Ken Starr, Shameless and Clueless.
“A
SMALLISH, WHITE-HAIRED BOY, OF THE TYPE THAT MUST BE PROMOTED ON ACCOUNT OF ITS
INTELLECT, AND EVER AFTERWARDS APPEALS TO THE HEAD TO SUPPORT ITS AUTHORITY
WHEN ZEAL HAS OUTRUN DISCRETION.”—DESCRIPTION OF A SENIOR PREFECT FROM
KIPLING’S “STALKY & CO.”
DAVID BROCK IN GEORGE MAGAZINE:
Writing in George, your favorite magazine and mine, Mr. Brock paints a full picture of the plotting of the Far Right that led to this debacle. His ending observation?—“[P]ublic discourse has been debased, especially on the right.” Also: “James Carville’s lament that you can hear just about anything about Clinton by dragging a $100 bill through an Arkansas trailer park was exactly right. Sit in the Capitol Bar, in downtown Little Rock, for a few nights, and you can be told that virtually every public figure in the state is a rapacious womanizer and is also gay—including Clinton. Even Hillary Clinton was not spared this treatment: One can hear that she was having an affair with Vince Foster and also that she is a lesbian, often from the same lascivious gossips.” For more:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/9634/georgeoct98.html
“KENNETH STARR IS A NIGHTMARE OUT OF
KAFKA.”—BOB HERBERT, ESSAYIST IN NEW YORK TIMES.
THE WASHINGTON POST ON STARR’S CHURCH IN MCLEAN:
I had a link to this article, but that is now dead. You’ll have to look up the October 7, 1998 issue yourself. Suffice it to say, it appears that, except in its starchiness and moral condemnation, Starr’s church is pretty typical: it overlays its extremism with a layer of psychobabble, obscuring its conservatism and allowing members like Starr to pat themselves on the back for how they “forgive” sinners.
“ALL
POWER TENDS TO CORRUPT AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.”—LORD ACTON
(1834-1902).
PHILOSOPHER THOMAS NAGEL’S
MAGISTERIAL TAKE:
In the Times Literary Supplement, Thomas Nagel, professor of both Law and Philosophy at New York University
(check out his Web page), offers some of the most intelligent commentary on Starr and the harm he is doing to not only privacy and the political process, but even our political structures. “The machinery of the law is being used to shred every ordinary boundary between matters of public concern and matters that are the business of no one but the parties involved, in the name of the ostensible value to the nation of getting at The Truth.” . . . “Civilization is a delicate structure that allows wildly different and complex individuals to co-operate peacefully and effectively only if not too much strain is put upon it by the introduction of disruptive private material, to which no collective response is necessary or possible. Americans who recognize this fact can only look on in shame at the destructive spectacle now being acted out by a group of childish and powerful figures who have never understood it.”
Click here for the complete article.
Click here for a list of Nagel books at Amazon.com.
Click here for a Jeffrey Rosen New Republic piece quoting Nagel.
Click here for a Ferdinand Mount Sunday Times of London piece quoting Nagel.
“Another prosecutor
would have said that he did not go to law school to become a private Dick,
standing out in the cold and looking up at two silhouettes on a window
shade. But Starr, brimming with a
dangerous righteousness, plunged in. He
would have wired Lewinsky and sent her into the White House, if he could
have. It is clear he would stop at
nothing. * * * Now we now things about the chief executive of the United States
we do not know about our best friends—or, in many cases, our own spouses. Clinton has not merely been exposed as an
adulterer, he has been mortified, subjected to an Orwellian intrusion by the
gumshoes of the state. His interior life,
virtually his fantasies, have been nailed to a wall for the populace to see. This is a public evisceration. * * * The
answer is that we live in an erea in which the boundary between public and
private has been obliterated, in which fame has become synonymous with
celebrity, in which personality has replaced ideology and a prosecutor,
suffused with zealotry, went where he should not have gone. This is what concerns me. Only one of us is president. But all of us have bedrooms.”—Richard Cohen,
The Washington Post, September 13, 1998.
BOB HERBERT IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
ON THE PARTISANSHIP OF THE REPUBLICANS, LED BY THEIR POINT MAN, “THE TERMINALLY
PRURIENT KENNETH STARR.”:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/9634/nyt092498herbert.html
A VILLAGE VOICE ESSAY:
An essay on how the absurd drama in Washington is like some absurd medieval mystery play—supposedly done to enlighten us poor slobs as to correct doctrine, but really only providing transitory gossip and amusement. And the essentially un-Christian nature of the debacle, and the hypocrisy of the politicos, cannot be forgotten:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/9634/vv091698.html
FRANK RICH’S ESSAY, “PIG VS.
PRIG.”:
“[A] report and a grand jury interrogation that chill the rest of us not so much with their salacious detail as with their vision of what America might be like if the Starrs, Robertsons and Dobsons were in power beyond this one investigation.”:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/9634/nyt092398rich.html
WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE:
While I don’t espouse socialist views (except to the extent that I think the extreme disparities of income in the United States are a crime and a scandal), this Web site has the right idea about just what is going on in this whole laughable mess. “The Lewinsky affair has been essentially a dirty tricks operation financed and mounted by reactionary elements.”:
http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/sep1998/cbrn-s02.shtml
http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/aug1998/med-a25.shtml
http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/jun1998/lead-j06.shtml
THE NEW YORK TIMES:
The do-nothing Congress hounding Clinton. Thomas Mann, an expert on Congress at the Brookings Institution: “This Congress will be known as the Monica Lewinsky scandal Congress.” It certainly won’t be known as a Congress that has done anything worthwhile:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/9634/nyt090198.html
THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
An editorial on widespread disgust at Starr’s sheet-sniffing quest, even among his own aides:
http://www.nydailynews.com/archive/98_03/030398/news/50040.htm
LEADING HISTORIAN ARTHUR
SCHLESINGER SPEAKS OUT AGAINST STARR:
“His pursuit of Mr. Clinton has rightly been compared to Captain Ahab’s monomaniacal ‘quenchless feud’ with the White Whale.”:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/9634/nyt080398.html
STARR RESISTS RELEASING HIS
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FORMS, ALTHOUGH THEY ARE REQUIRED BY LAW:
When on earth did Starr turn in these form—certainly not remotely on time, if ever. What would they have said about his obscene wealth? Was he afraid that the public would learn more about his conflicts of interest?:
http://www.nydailynews.com/archive/98_06/060298/news/59348.htm
THE NATION:
“If the polls are any indication, most Americans understand that it doesn’t require choosing sides between Clinton and Starr to say that the public interest is poorly served by a political assault disguised as a judicial inquiry[...].”:
http://www.thenation.com/issue/980907/0907EDT1.HTM
A story on how Ken Starr’s overzealous pursuit of the piss-ant “scandal” legally and economically damaged the lives of ordinary government workers:
http://www.thenation.com/issue/980727/0727DREY.HTM
David Halperin’s commentary IN 1996 on Starr’s partisanship and “selective approach to ethics considerations”:
http://www.thenation.com/extra/starr/0520halp.htm
SALON MAGAZINE:
Here is the story of how fascists in the judiciary, such as Ken Starr and Rehnquist, are trying to remake the nation in their own right-wing image, regardless of the Constitution or even garden-variety morality:
http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/1998/07/03news.html
Here are stories on how the American Spectator has been lapping up public funds to pursue partisan politics aimed against the President. A truly disgusting picture of R. Emmet Tyrrell living in the lap of luxury—at your expense. Also note the fact that the magazine replaced its whistle-blower publisher with a close ally of Ken Starr’s:
http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/1998/06/cov_08news.html
http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/1998/06/cov_09news.html
THE STARTLING RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN
STARR AND DROOPY THE DOG??!!
You know—Droopy, the star of countless MGM cartoons, the dog referred to some time ago in the Washington Post as “Droopy, the doom-spreading, mush-mouthed bloodhound.” How appropriate that the resemblance between him and Starr should be so uncanny. Can’t you just see the whole Tex-Avery scenario, the President, trying to escape, swimming across oceans, flying to the moon, and wherever he gos, there’s Starr, saying in that Droopy monotone, “Excuse me, Mr. President, if we could have a few words with you....” You must agree the resemblance is startling:
ISN’T THIS PHOTO PRICELESS?? WHAT A BUNCH OF SCHMUCKS:
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Because I will likely screw up the insertion of the “counter” in this and future revisions of this Web page, let it be known that it had 32,251 hits from its inception to June 16, 2000. Not incredible, but nothing to sniff at, either.
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