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  Jacob Sullum -- Reason magazine
A week after Zippergate broke, CNN presented two hours of self-flagellation in which a panel of journalists pondered whether their coverage of the scandal amounted to "Media Madness." At one point, host Jeff Greenfield asked the panelists whether they were enjoying the story--a sin none of them was prepared to confess.
Zippergate is funny and bizarre, titillating and suspenseful, vastly entertaining and richly satisfying.
One of the wonderful things about Zippergate is the way it showcases the Clintons' hypocrisy, forcing them to look us in the eye and indignantly tell us bald-faced lies, over and over again.
reason.com /sullum/021198.shtml   (710 words)

  
 (3/9/98) Study Finds Media Overplays Clinton Scandal, Liberal Image
Zippergate is woven into many aspects of daily life, from fodder for the nighttime talk shows, material for cartoons and Doonesbury, to insider stories making the rounds of the Internet and off-color jokes and gossip around the water cooler.
Zippergate for the time being has transformed the nature of the national conversation.
While some of the Zippergate figures received recognition scores as high as 93 percent for Monica Lewinsky and 89 percent Paula Jones, even some of the less salacious details of Clinton scandals were more familiar than most of his policy positions.
www.monitor.net:16080 /monitor/9803a/mediagrade.html   (1816 words)

  
 Zippergate: Monica Lewinsky Scandal Web Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This site was created in 1998 when the ZipperGate scandal with Monica Lewinsky and President Clinton broke.
Perhaps the saddest legacy of the ZipperGate scandal is the ruins of the World Trade Center.
Well if you remember, the ZipperGate scandal period was interspersed with mini-confrontations with Iraq and air and missile strikes against Al-Quaida terrorists camps.
www.btlarkin.com:120 /monica   (268 words)

  
 NOW President Patricia Ireland Predicts Colorado Women Will Make the Difference in November   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Using Zippergate as a smokescreen to distract voters, the Gingrich-led Congress is passing laws that hurt women and working to increase their stranglehold on power.
And while the Republicans in Washington, D.C. accelerate their partisan game of chicken, heedless of whether the government crashes, religious political extremists in Colorado and other states are working to pass ballot measures that will turn back the clock for women.
In the wake of Zippergate, women's progress is indeed at risk -- less from the president's appalling behavior than from the impact of this scandal on electoral politics in 1998 and beyond.
www.now.org /press/10-98/10-14b98.html   (638 words)

  
 The A-Z of 1998: from air rage to Zippergate
BILL CLINTON and Viagra have left their mark on the English language during 1998 in the form of the new words "Zippergate" and "poke" (a slang term for the anti-impotence drug).
Many of them are fairly ephemeral, but it's sometimes surprising which ones do survive.
"Zippergate is probably unlikely to stick around - but I suppose it all depends on how long Clinton survives."
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/12/20/nword20.html   (539 words)

  
 How the Net made sense of Zippergate | Tech News on ZDNet
But even more remarkable, according to observers, is the manner in which ordinary people are making use of the Net to lampoon the entire "Zippergate" drama.
A site called "Warp the Politician" presents users with face-shots of the main figures in Zippergate, which can be distorted as though they were made out of goo.
He argues that the number of Web pages, and the voluminous debate about Zippergate online, shows the public is more interested in the scandal than the mainstream media has been willing to admit.
news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-511588.html   (1056 words)

  
 Social Nonsense & Odd News: October 2005
A flute playing, knuckle dragging, mouth breather, painting dinosaur pictures on Noah's Ark, is not proof you aren't dumber than dog turds on the tundra, but this email sure is. Our midgets are slamming their little heads against the wall trying to understand what you wrote.
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
A man was walking down the street when he was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked him for a couple of dollars for dinner.
zippergate.blogspot.com /2005_10_01_zippergate_archive.html   (16066 words)

  
 CNN - Naming the White House scandal: From A to Zippergate - January 26, 1998
CNN - Naming the White House scandal: From A to Zippergate - January 26, 1998
Naming the White House scandal: From A to Zippergate
TV and print headlines range from Fox's tabloidy "Naughtygate" to CNN's ever-so-sober "Investigating the President" to PBS's melodramatic "Gathering Storm." There's also "Zippergate," "Interngate," "Sexgate" and "All the President's Women.
www.cnn.com /US/9801/26/fringe/naughtygate   (89 words)

  
 Social Nonsense & Odd News
Professor Lynn whose studies have concluded that men are on average 5 IQ points smarter than women [SN reported], has also concluded that climate plays a role in brain development, specifically colder climates demonstrate an increase in brain size.
David Mason, 27, was raided by Vice squad officers and they discovered 5,000 obscene films and 16 DVD burners set up to his computer in his home at The Village, Charlton, south-east London.
HOUSTON -- For the first time since 1972, the United States is planning to fly to the moon, but instead of a quick, Apollo-like visit, astronauts intend to build a permanent base and live there while they prepare what may be the most ambitious undertaking in history -- putting human beings on Mars.
www.zippergate.blogspot.com   (1085 words)

  
 Where no President has gone before
SEATTLE, Jan 31: A new era in journalism has begun and nothing illustrates this better than the current sex-scandal US reporters have dubbed ``zippergate''.
But even Drudge's competitors in the mainstream media make mistakes -with little time to correct them if stories go straight from the writer's desk to the internet.
With this quote by former US attorney Joseph Di Genova, the Dallas Morning News tried to defend itself after its recent zippergate debacle.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19980201/03250174.html   (403 words)

  
 Rants & Raves: Pentagon Cracker Mind Games, Zippergate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Essentially, they compiled code that exploited the stated bug, something you could teach a toddler to do.
Jon Katz’s eloquent commentary vis-a-vis "Zippergate," and the resultant terrible journalism, is a perfect shot ("Soul Salvation," 11.Mar.98).
Please keep up your rants, they may put the real world in perspective for someone in Washington's "news" establishment.
wired-vig.wired.com /news_drop/news_lycatalog/story/0,2149,10996,00.html   (409 words)

  
 Dilbert.com - DNRC - Read the Newsletter
Clinton offers him a Presidential cigar and Arafat says, "If you don't mind, could I have one that is still in the original wrapper?" This ugly incident turns into a towel fight and triggers World War Three.
That's the best scenario I could come up with in which the President's ability to govern is affected by Zippergate.
According to my flaming e-mail, the Zippergate jokes seemed like opinions because of the things I did NOT address, such as the legal and moral implications of adultery and lying under oath.
dilbert.com /comics/dilbert/dnrc/html/newsletter21.html   (2811 words)

  
 AlterNet: Viagra Falls: Talking Impotence in the Age of Zippergate
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Experts say there are as many as 20 million men in the U.S. afflicted with ED -- Erectile Dysfunction -- as impotence is now officially called.
Reproduction of material from any AlterNet pages without written permission is strictly prohibited.
www.alternet.org /story/3528   (3695 words)

  
 Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton in-depth up to the minute news coverage.
Zippergate is just beginning for the President and Hillary.
Kenneth Starr will hunt Clinton down like a mad dog over that blue semen stained dress that Monica Lewinsky and zippergate claims to contain DNA evidence of their oral sex.
Monica Lewinsky claims President Bill Clinton had a long running affair with her in the White House theator and the oval office.
www.eaglestock.com /news/lewinsky-v.htm   (338 words)

  
 Zippergate
Instead of going to hospital in Galway (which would have saved me a lot of pain) some sort of homing instinct kicked in and I got the bus to my home town of Kells……………to be continued
How I unzipped the secrets of the universe (zippergate continued)
A bus departs Galway for Dundalk via Kells every Friday morning.
www.zippersnbleeders.blogspot.com   (1616 words)

  
 MEDIA WATCH: Liberal Media Neglect 'Zippergate's' Legal Side
MEDIA WATCH: Liberal Media Neglect 'Zippergate's' Legal Side
In this country, where a minister was recently ousted for spending time with prostitutes in a sauna, U.S. President Bill Clinton is forgiven for sins of the flesh he may or may not have committed, but the United States receives its share of venom for what it is doing to its leader.
You might also be interested in our free E-mail News Summary, which delivers our entire edition every day straight to your inbox.
www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1998/01/29/033.html   (166 words)

  
 AlterNet: E-mail: Viagra Falls: Talking Impotence in the Age of Zippergate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
AlterNet: E-mail: Viagra Falls: Talking Impotence in the Age of Zippergate
Viagra Falls: Talking Impotence in the Age of Zippergate
ED is coming out of the closet with a flourish as a new array of drugs emerge designed to help men get their penises working, or working better as the case may be.
www.alternet.org /module/email?storyID=3528   (142 words)

  
 Bombing Boosts Web Traffic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
President Clinton, for the second time in as many days, remained in the middle of the news, causing huge Web traffic jams.
Earlier this week, his "Zippergate" confession gave ABC, CNN, and MSNBC record numbers of visitors; 300,000 people voted in separate online polls sponsored by the three, and flooded online chatrooms.
Today's news about the strike against suspected terrorist sites in Afghanistan and Sudan also brought surfers out in droves.
www-2.cs.cmu.edu /~srini/Papers/presentations/spand/cnn.html   (179 words)

  
 The Webfairy -- [CIA-DRUGS] INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS TO ZIPPERGATE
However, if there was a conspiracy, all of the players in Zippergate had intelligence community
I know that the CIA has an interest in Zippergate from the presence of Plato Cacheris, who is always on the scene when the Agency needs him.
The problem here is that it is hard to tell where RICHARD SCAIFE ends and the CIA starts.
thewebfairy.com /911/cia-drugs/Msg00920.html   (9310 words)

  
 It's Funny Money Honey
Gas prices fell to below a dollar a gallon.
Then Zippergate empowered Clinton's enemies to give Ken Starr a fortune to blow...
No single president can be responsible for the economy going down the toilet can he?
www.angelfire.com /zine/secondsight/funny_money.html   (540 words)

  
 The FAL Files Forums - The Bush Rape Story: Is the Media Ignoring Zippergate 2?
The FAL Files Forums - The Bush Rape Story: Is the Media Ignoring Zippergate 2?
The FAL Files Forums » Discussion Forums » General Non-Firearms Discussion » The Bush Rape Story: Is the Media Ignoring Zippergate 2?
There is a story floating around the Internet that is being ignored by the mainstream press.
www.falfiles.com /forums/showthread.php?postid=534085   (3595 words)

  
 A Starr is born (Metro Times Detroit)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Best Actors to Play Clinton and Lewinsky in Zippergate
Max Studios (size does matter!) — in association with Gossip-Friendly productions — presents: One of the best movies of the year!
Cut to TRIPP and AGENT behind the door trying desperately not to burst into song.
www.metrotimes.com /19/24/Features/bodCivicStarr.html   (272 words)

  
 TIME.com Print Page: Nation -- Squeezing Military Secrets Out of Saddam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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SADDAM HUSSEIN'S refusal to allow U.N. inspection of sensitive sites suspected of harboring secrets about his chemical- and biological-warfare capability has sharply raised the stakes in the confrontation with the U.S. "Sooner or later, something is going to give," President Clinton said publicly last week during one of the few escapes he got from Zippergate.
Privately, White House aides are suggesting that U.S. military force may soon be unavoidable.
www.time.com /time/nation/printout/0,8816,10295,00.html   (275 words)

  
 FORCES - SUMMARY OF THE WEEK'S NEWS REPORTING OF THE ZIPPERGATE SCANDAL
FORCES - SUMMARY OF THE WEEK'S NEWS REPORTING OF THE ZIPPERGATE SCANDAL
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK'S NEWS REPORTING OF THE ZIPPERGATE SCANDAL
In the aftermath of the initial administration responses to the breaking story, it seems apparent that Mr.
www.forces.org /articles/files/zippergt.htm   (280 words)

  
 Clinton Jokes
You know, Nancy, the man is a better actor than I ever was.
What do the Zippergate and Watergate scandals have in common?
Did you hear that Monica Lewinsky is going to give a statement to the press?
home.pon.net /zip/comedy/clinton.htm   (432 words)

  
 STAN FREBERG HERE - Zippergate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Satiric radio commentary for the 90s from the man who drained Lake Michigan and filled it with hot chocolate!!!
Nixon had his Watergate, but this era is definitely going down in history as "Zippergate." [:60 SPOT BREAK]
William Jefferson Clinton has been juggling a lot of things in the air lately: a possible military strike against Saddam Hussein, his Paula Jones deposition, getting ready for his State of the Union speech...when all of a sudden, out of the wooodwork, HERE CAME MONICA LEWINSKY!!!
members.tripod.com /~LeeMichaelWithers/sfh2_09_98.htm   (158 words)

  
 JARS.COM - The #1 Java Review Service - Zippergate: the Game
JARS.COM - The #1 Java Review Service - Zippergate: the Game
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Pretend you're the President and try to hide your insatiable intern.
www.jars.com /games/puzzle/resource.php/12459   (187 words)

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