1998
"The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president."
— Hillary Clinton in Jan. 1998 on NBC's Today Show, explaining the motives behind the Monica Lewinsky story.
"I think that there is an awful lot behind all of this that is political."
— President adviser Paul Begala on the Lewinsky affair, CNN Jan. 25, 1998.
2006
"The people who want to see this thing blow up are ABC News and a lot of Democratic operatives, people funded by George Soros."
— Speaker Dennis Hastert, in the Chicago Tribune Oct. 5, theorizing on the motives behind the Mark Foley story.
"Just saying there's a whole lot of stuff that's not even being considered because the political prism through which the Drive-By Media and the Democrats are looking at this."
— Rush Limbaugh on the Foley affair on his Oct. 5 radio show.
This article appears in Oct 11-17, 2006.