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profound and devastating, 1 April 1998
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This review is from: Secret Life of Bill Clinton (Hardcover)
This blistering critique of the policies and personalities of what is transparently the single most malignantly and viciously corrupt criminal/political dreadnaught since the Kennedy dynasty should be required reading by serious journalists, historians and political scientists. Neo-Stalinists, radical lesbians, post-modern deconstructionists and assorted apparatcheks who looked to Wm J. Clinton to march every American citizen into a new 'worker's paradise' will have much to answer for as future scholars debate the results of personal/political irresponsibility combined with abject contempt for those governed carried to the heart of the capitol. Evans-Pritchard paints a grotesque circular image of a president consumed by his own appetites; a 'garden of earthly delights' where Hillary Clinton smiles beatifically over a White House hell filled with every conceivable vice and perversion. Evans-Pritchard painstakingly documents the multiple murders, wholesale narcotics distribution as well as the cynical and cruel manipulations of law enforcement agencies all employed exclusively for the Clintons' carnal pleasure and consolidation of power. Evans-Prichard has written a well reasoned, throughly researched Decline of Western Civilization for American politics in the late 20th century.
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Evans-Pritchard commits logical falacies, 28 Feb 1998
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This review is from: Secret Life of Bill Clinton (Hardcover)
I had gotten about half way through the first chapter of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's book "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton" before I figured out that he had forgotten two topics I usually place under the heading of "The World is a Funny Place." 1. If you have a bad event, it almost always the result of incompetence, not conspiracy. Incompetence is so much more common than conspiracy that you have to have definite proof of the latter. 2. After-the-fact coincidences are common. People assume that because before-the-fact coincidences are rare, that after-the-fact ones are also. In fact, they are very common. There is a story somewhere that Abe Lincoln always had a secretary named Henry, or something like that. It was just coincidence. As I recall Evans-Pritchard does a little guilt-by-association too, but incidences of that are easy to spot.
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This book is an indictment of the U.S. judicial system, 21 Feb 1998
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The author provides lots of detail about the illegal activity of scores of people who are identified in the book by name. He provides interview data with many of the key players and documnetation that is very credible. After reading the book, I am astonished that the U.S. Justice Department and the many independent councils investigating Bill Clinton and his friends have not done more than they have to get to the bottom of this. The Monica Lewinsky story is just child's play compared to the other things our president is accused of doing. Any one of the many allegations in this book should be enough to send many of our top government officials to jail. If they are true, we certainly deserve better than we've gotten from the Justice Department. If they are false, then let the people referred to by name in the book say so. If any part of this book proves to be accurate, then Kenneth Starr, Louis Freeh, Janet Reno, and others in the DOJ have some serious questions to answer (maybe under oath before a grand jury).
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