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Conason and Lyons mention quite a few names in their book. Having shown that there are other connections worthy of scrutiny in the history of the Clinton mafia.
'The challenge facing Arkansas journalists was to find a single "true" or "documented" statement in The Clinton Chronicles. Veteran reporter Carrie Rengers drew the assignment of reviewing the Citizens for Honest Government opus for the resolutely Republican Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. She painstakingly debunked the its most absurd assertions....Had he, as the video alleged, issued a full pardon to a political supporter named Don Lasater who was convicted of giving cocaine to his acquaintances? Impossible, because Lasater has pleaded guilty to a federal crime.
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As presented by Larry Nichols in the video, ADFA's purpose weasn't to help Arkansas cities and businesses finance sewage projects, schools, and industrial parks. Rather, it was designed to help Clinton's cronies loot the public treasury and launder billions in drug-smuggling profits -- and to finance Clinton's out-of-state partying with loose women. Again, every allegation that could be checked was phony.
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The video's intellectual style would be familiar to any student of historian Richard Hofstadter's' classic essay, The Paranoid Style in American Politics. "The typical procedure of the higher paranoid scholarship is to start with....a careful accumulation of facts or at least what appear to be facts and to marshal these facts toward an overwhelming 'proof' of the particular conspiracy that is to be established. Cinematically, the video resembled the anti-Communist films churned out at Arkansas's Harding College during the fifties and early sixties, when the young Kenneth Starr matriculated there, with a pseudodocumentary format, a deep-voice narrator warning of impending doom, and a musical score evocative of Bride of Frankenstein. As in these old movies about the totalitarian Communist conspiracy, the new video depicted the "Clinton machine" as achieving "absolute control" over the state of Arkansas and misusing that power for sinister purposes.'
(Conason and Lyons, op cit)
'The challenge facing Arkansas journalists was to find a single "true" or "documented" statement in The Clinton Chronicles. Veteran reporter Carrie Rengers drew the assignment of reviewing the Citizens for Honest Government opus for the resolutely Republican Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. She painstakingly debunked the its most absurd assertions....Had he, as the video alleged, issued a full pardon to a political supporter named Don Lasater who was convicted of giving cocaine to his acquaintances? Impossible, because Lasater has pleaded guilty to a federal crime.
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As presented by Larry Nichols in the video, ADFA's purpose weasn't to help Arkansas cities and businesses finance sewage projects, schools, and industrial parks. Rather, it was designed to help Clinton's cronies loot the public treasury and launder billions in drug-smuggling profits -- and to finance Clinton's out-of-state partying with loose women. Again, every allegation that could be checked was phony.
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The video's intellectual style would be familiar to any student of historian Richard Hofstadter's' classic essay, The Paranoid Style in American Politics. "The typical procedure of the higher paranoid scholarship is to start with....a careful accumulation of facts or at least what appear to be facts and to marshal these facts toward an overwhelming 'proof' of the particular conspiracy that is to be established. Cinematically, the video resembled the anti-Communist films churned out at Arkansas's Harding College during the fifties and early sixties, when the young Kenneth Starr matriculated there, with a pseudodocumentary format, a deep-voice narrator warning of impending doom, and a musical score evocative of Bride of Frankenstein. As in these old movies about the totalitarian Communist conspiracy, the new video depicted the "Clinton machine" as achieving "absolute control" over the state of Arkansas and misusing that power for sinister purposes.'
(Conason and Lyons, op cit)