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EDITORI
Jennifer Stanlc
Kurt Johnson,
Rob Gioelli, Assist*
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In light of President
Clinton's flHflHUiA
speech given to the The Preu
American people scandal h
?hr?r'd thepublk
that he had a sex- r .
ual relationship ^
with intern Moni- VTnrYST
ca Lewinsky, the
editorial board of We arejusi
The Gamecock asthepul
though this an ap- ft fa y
propriate issue to
give our attention.
With all the
media hype for the past seven
months, President Clinton finally
admitting to the scandal has
taken the matter to greater proportions.
And with that, when we as a
staff came together to decide on
what kind of stand to take on this
issue, we found ourselves divided,
with contrasting feelings on
what to write about.
Some of us felt that his private
life was his, while others felt
that a man in such a high position
does not have a private life and
his every action should be reported
to those who have hired him..
And so, we throw it out to you,
the students. We are sure that you
guys are as equally divided over
this issue.
Provided below is the text of
the speech President Clinton gave,
which aired on national television
Monday evening.
We hope that you will be inclined
to offer us your opinions
and insights via letters to the
editor. We are going to let the
words speak for themselves.The
following is President Clinton's
speecn:
Good evening.
This afternoon in this room,
from this chair, I testified before
the Office of Independent Council
and the grand jury.
I answered their questions
truthfully, including questions
about my private life -- questions
no American citizen would
ever want to answer.
Still, I must take complete responsibility
for all my actions, both
public and private. And that is
why lam speaking to you tonight.
As you know, in a deposition in
January, I was asked questions
about my relationship with Mon
ica Lewinsky. While my answers
were legally accurate, I did not volunteer
information.
Indeed, I did have a relationship
with Ms. Lewinsky that was
not appropriate. In fact, it was
wrong. It constituted a critical lapse
of judgment and a personal failure
on my part for which I am solely
and completely responsible.
But I told the grand jury today,
and I say to you now, that at no
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aff, public
time did I ask anyWkSHHHH
one to lie, to hide or
iidential destroy evidence, or
as divided any oi^er un~
:from the lawful
. I know that my
ginning. public comments
^prr?nHB and my silence
about this matter
t OS divided gave a false impresblic,
SO tve don. I misled peoour
hands p^e' ^nc^ding even
my own wife. I
deeply regret that.
I can only tell
you that I was motivated by many
factors. First, by a desire to protect
my self from the embarrassment of
my own conduct.
I was also very concerned about
protecting my family. The fact that
these questions were being asked
in a politically inspired lawsuit,
which has since been dismissed,
was a consideration, too.
In addition, I had real and serious
concerns about an independent
council investigation that began
with private business dealings
20 years ago. Dealings, I might
add, about which an independent
federal agency found no evidence
of any wrongdoing by me or my
wife over two years ago.
The independent council investigation
moved on to my staff
and friends, then into my private
life. And now the investigation
itself is under investigation.
This has gone on too long,
cost too much and hurt too many
innocent people.
Nnm thic mnHor i e hotmoen me
the two people I love most - my
wife and our daughter -- and our
God. I must put it right, and I am
prepared to do whatever it takes
to do so.
Nothing is more important to
me personally. But it is private,
and I intend to reclaim my family
life for my family. It's nobody's
business but ours.
Even presidents have private
lives. It is time to stop the pursuit
of personal destruction and the
prying into private lives and get
on with our national life.
Our country has been distracted
by this matter for too long, and I
take responsibility for my part in
all of this. That is all I can do.
Now it is time -- in fact, it is
past time -- to move on.
We have important work to do
-- real opportunities to seize, real
problems to solve, real security matters
to face.
And so tonight, I ask you to turn
away from the spectacle of the past
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ric of our national discourse and
to return our attention to all the
challenges and all the promise of
the next American century.
Thank you for watching, and
good night.
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by the na- The bi
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tween press coverage and the Super reporters
Bowl-caliber circus running twenty- the charg
four hours a day on CNN, MSNBC, etc., press or^
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enough to cover more than the local one else tl
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be greatly interested in this matter, or Ever s
they wouldn't be reading the newspa- the print c
pers and watching the news programs, ed to be o
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TV leads t<
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while some visited family. Others L*ves>
padded their resumes with sum- grade. 11
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ships. di place..
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columnist anyway, af- ter my br
ter which I tion)mod?
had my husband take it back to Wal- makes mi
Mart. hours spe
Of course, they asked what was other pur
wrong with it. I don't know what he ing. Imag
said, but I would've said this: "Well, fai we'd fc
ma'am I just liked it too much." g0 re.
Really, I did like it. I watched those televi'sioi
talk shows -- you know, the ones with Reaso:
really generic names like "tonight" and us ^ gjvjr
"late" -- and I was fascinated (not by jjVgg that
the conversations, but by the fact that a
people would watch such insipid things. ^
I felt like an anthropologist studying families \
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1 are watching their coverage. , ,
end of the day, the national Of broadcast ar*
ain commercial organizations OUtdone Oil a St
ttom line is making money. i... ?
I top-notch anchors and re- * political COIIJ
:omprehensive coverage of be the next Wat
, big name guests, and slick
n, they hope you will watch
ead of the other stations. But cause it could be the next Wa
tional level, all the networks If there is some snippet of goss:
venty-four hour news chan- anonymous quote or insider sou
retty much equal in these ar- another paper or station does
i lure the viewer over to their access to, then it will be exploit*
jy are forced to out scoop each fullest. The public then belie1
oil .1 < ii i n
n li mere is notning to scoop, tney nave access tu uuurmauoi
Irth of this phenomenon can other station or paper does, a
be traced back to Watergate, will keep watching and readir
rington Post, with two lowly These tendencies are then
from the metro desk leading fied by our existence in the info
;e, out scooped every major age. Twenty-four hour news i
fanization in the country, and Internet sites sell thems
rabbed onto a story that every- being able to provide coveragi
lought was old news and ran as up-to-date as possible. To
ghting the U.S. Government interested in their station
st of the media the whole way. gram, they do everything eve
since then, no journalist, in station is doing and more. Politi
>r broadcast arenas, has want- dais move fast, but in many v
utdone on a story, especially fast enough for our informat
i of political conspiracy, be- Thus to fill time, we are barraj
3 a useless t\
caught up on "Days of Our
lich I hadn't seen since eighth "Don't worrv if
ladn't missed anything; the , . , ^
s were played by different ac- DOUgllt it Clsew
;he same old story lines were anything foack
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ins. it off."
i't read a book, or work on
aovel-in-progress, for two
ras just too fascinated by what Cloud," in Dubliners by Jame
V (excepting the three sitcoms No, there is no TV in the story, 1
id above) says about us as a happens is this: A Dublin n
ftrich is, of course, that we are parently happy with his wife ar
too easily entertained. quiet life, meets up with an ol
he TV was gone, I became (af- who has seen the world, wii
ain recovered from hiberna- dined - all those things that
irately productive again, which posed to be glamorous and ins
i wonder: imagine if all those vy. The friend is obviously sha
nt watching TV were used for the man envies his freedom a
poses, like reading and writ- rience.
ine how much more thought- So when the man goes hon
ecome as a people. gards his wife with contempt
ason number one for banning es patience with his son.
a: to smarten everyone up. What if our social ills wer
n number two: TV reprograms bv virtually the same Dhenc
ig us expectations for our What if, whenever we watch'
are unrealistic, keeping us in Place" or some such trash, we
t state of dissatisfaction. We'd jealous of these glamorous pec
r without it, and our lives and their sexier problems? We mui
vould be in better states. ting something from these sh
a exploration of how this dis- To some extent, we are sei
ion sets in, read "The Little cape from our experiences. N
^ Ihe Gamecock will try to print all letters received letters should lx
Hand written letters must lie personally delivered hy the author to The Ga
phone number. The Gameaxk reserves lltc^ighl to edit all letter for style.
"Students should be better
educated about where their
money goes."
Leigh-Ann Travers,
Student Services Chairman
"1
We.
college press EXCHANGE
Watergate
i, no journalist, in print
enas, has wanted to be
ory, especially some kind
ipiracy, because it could
ergate."
tergate. minutiae about stains and dresses,
ip, some Rarely during the course of this whole
irce that fiasco have there been davs as imDor
n t have taiit as Monday, so there has been plenty
of time to fill,
ii that no Hopefully this will all come to a head
nd they very soon- feet of the matter is Bill
tg Clinton is the leader of our country, and
. magni- he has what many would say is the
rmation toughest and most important job in the
stations world. If we have no respect for his abilelves
as ity to do this job, then we should im3
that is peach him right now. If we are not goeep
us to (Jq that, then we should let the
ryother man '3ac^ doing his job, which is
cal scan- we are Paymg him for. Then the
/ays not media, this paper included, can go back
ion age. to covering things that are a little more
jed with relevant than presidential blow jobs.
vo weeks
your TV is old or you
here, Wal-Mart will take
for some reason. Like we
Seinfeld,' they just 'write
(S Joyce, some level we want to experience our
Dut what lives more fully, and those commitments
lan, ap- that hold us back -- our loved ones -id
rather have to suffer our frustration.
Id friend Television could be responsible for
aed and the divorce rate. And I'm not even
are sup- getting into the violence it inspires,
spire en- So here's a proposition: everyone
llow, but take your TVs to Wal-Mart and get your
nd expe- money back, and let's see how much
smarter and happier we become as a
le, he re- nation. Don't worry if your TV is old or
and los- you bought it elsewhere, Wal-Mart will
take anything back for some reason,
e caused Like we all learned on "Seinfeld,"
tmenon? they just "write it off."
'Melrose I would love it if we really could have
i become a TV blackout, just to see what would
>ple with happen; I doubt many people would volst
be get- untarily go along with such an experiows.
ment. Any electronics experts who want
eking es- to tell me how to get them all to stop
laybe on working for a while, give me a call.
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