Patterico's Pontifications

1/3/2017

Examples of Stories I Don’t Care About

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:28 pm



Megyn Kelly going to NBC.

Billary going to the inauguration of their pal.

Donald Trump tweets about Ford.

Celebrities acting like celebrities again.

Maybe you care. I have no idea why you would. But maybe you do.

The way I feel these days reminds me of what Thomas Sowell wrote in his farewell note:

During a stay in Yosemite National Park last May, taking photos with a couple of my buddies, there were four consecutive days without seeing a newspaper or a television news program — and it felt wonderful. With the political news being so awful this year, it felt especially wonderful. This made me decide to spend less time following politics . . .”

I’ve spent the last two weeks with family, paying very little attention to what is going on in the world. I read books, and played games, and reconnected with the piano, and talked, and laughed.

I don’t feel like I missed much of anything by reading very little news.

Unlike Sowell, I’m not planning on retiring from writing any time soon, but if the stories listed at the head of this post are what passes for “things to care about” these days, then you can count me out.

P.S. When I get more sleep and energy, I plan to write about Sowell’s retirement. He has arguably had as great an impact on my way of thinking as any living man or woman (at least among people I don’t know personally). He’s certainly in the top five. His departure is a loss but his contributions were great, and I am still exploring them. A great man and a life well lived.

63 Responses to “Examples of Stories I Don’t Care About”

  1. Thank God I am not professionally required to write about trivia like that.

    Patterico (115b1f)

  2. Don’t mind me. United got us in late last night and I am tired and cranky.

    Patterico (115b1f)

  3. My sympathy.

    I have had two really bad plane trips. One was on ElAl, the other was with United, who managed to screw up both the to and from part of our trip.

    Both involved the airport for Rome. Possibly coincidence. But I intend to never fly United again.

    Kishnevi (3bfc26)

  4. What non-familial development in the time you were out of pocket do you believe to be the most significant?

    I think it’s the forced retraction of the WaPo story about Russian disruption of our election. It’s likely a precursor of how DJT will deal with the legacy media. Lord knows they will give him and his team boatloads of opportunity to brand them as a fifth column for Dhimmis and Dems they are.

    In addition to Sowell, another giant is leaving her position. Dr. Curry, preeminent climate scientist, has resigned her tenured position at Georgia Tech, citing the corruptions of the Ivory Towers. By the bye…how are your ark-building skills? You may wish to bone up.

    Ed from SFV (3400a5)

  5. President and Mrs Clinton will be honored guests as President Trump’s inauguration just like all formers Presidents. Your snarky crack about Mrs Clinton doesn’t honor the Presidency.

    Charlie B (33219d)

  6. It looks like they will have to reconstitute team b: its striking how Robert m lee, wordfence and letaroo did the work the risotto tray carrier supposed to do.

    narciso (d1f714)

  7. I have a friend who is professionally required to write about trivial things. It has consumed and changed him into some one I no longer talk to or think about, except in prayer. I am gladdened that your eyes are opened a little more. We have enough to care about in just our family and friends; enough to enrich ourselves beyond measure by the love we can share with them.

    felipe (023cc9)

  8. That is a shame, curry is some who speaks truth to power to the skydragon worsippers.

    narciso (d1f714)

  9. Just spent a half hour, as I do every so often, watching Milton Friedman debate leftists on various videos.

    What a guy.

    Patterico (115b1f)

  10. President and Mrs Clinton will be honored guests as President Trump’s inauguration just like all formers Presidents. Your snarky crack about Mrs Clinton doesn’t honor the Presidency.

    Honoring the Presidency is not really my first concern. Nor is it much of a concern for most Presidents, frankly.

    Patterico (115b1f)

  11. You know I didn’t realize how much experience Friedman had at the outset, unlike Von mises and Hayes he didn’t come from a merely theoretical perspective

    narciso (d1f714)

  12. Patterico,

    Remember how much better you felt when you stopped reading the LA Times?

    AZ Bob (f7a491)

  13. What a timely post for the new year. It’s always a good thing to be reminded of what matters most, given that it can easily get lost in the daily minutiae and demands of life.

    Dana (d17a61)

  14. For those of us who care about history and the traditions that go along with passing of the torch for an orderly and peaceful transfer of presidential power having the ex presidents Bushes and the Clintons and the Carters there at the inauguration is an important and symbolic thing. There was concern until recently that they were not going to go. I don’t think the elder Bushes are able healthwise to attend.

    elissa (b4eebe)

  15. Its mostly been a wilderness of mirrors, btw the one who brought that phrase into the common lexicon, had an agenda of his own.

    narciso (d1f714)

  16. Don’t mind me. United got us in late last night and I am tired and cranky.

    If you want cranky, try the flu . It’ll be here all week.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  17. Powers Boothe comments upon learning of Megyn Kelly’s departure from Fox [YouTube].

    papertiger (c8116c)

  18. Has anyone seen where Obama promised to cone to the Inauguration? Not all presidents have.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  19. #14 elissa, you make an excellent point there.
    Lots of countries have a transfer of power due to a coup or some other malfeasance. But here in America, we facilitate a peaceful transfer of power after the states have spoken. And whether our team wins or loses, we need to bite our lip and act civilly during the transfer of power.
    One must not love the new President, but it’s important that we honor and maintain a civil process, and the inauguration is central.

    Everyone’s a good sport when their team wins, but it’s how you conduct yourself when your team loses that reveals character.

    The peaceful transfer of power is a component of being that shining city on the hill.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  20. Oh, Obama will be there. He’s one of those “bride at every wedding, corpse at every funeral, baby at every christening” type of guys. This great quote was attributed to Alice Roosevelt Longworth speaking about her father Teddy, another president who apparently thought rather highly of himself and liked to be the center of attention. Barack is giving a big farewell speech at McCormick Place Convention Center next week, BTW.

    elissa (b4eebe)

  21. I kind of thought the Jerusalem star, that Donald sensing noted wee worth some interest.

    narciso (d1f714)

  22. ==The peaceful transfer of power is a component of being that shining city on the hill==

    Yes. Very well put Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/3/2017 @ 9:10 pm. I’m not sure the solemnity of the occasion of an inauguration and its relative rarity among nations is fully appreciated as much as it should be. I know many schools are not teaching history and civics anymore in a way to help kids understand that.

    elissa (b4eebe)

  23. Elissa–

    I bet that many schools that made the inauguration of Barack Obama the center of lesson plans for weeks will basically ignore this one.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  24. Barack is giving a big farewell speech at McCormick Place Convention Center next week, BTW.

    Jimmy Carter did a lame-duck State of the Union speech in 1981.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  25. Friedman.

    A blast from the past. And quite dead.

    The holidays bring down time but The Beast still needs fed. Spent an evening lost in time and space… back when America did things differently… reviewing network video feed from 1968 of Apollo 8. Still incredible to watch. No Christmas Eve has ever matched the reading of Genesis from lunar orbit at the end of that very, very, very miserable year.

    And unlike Milton, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders are still very much alive to recount the tale in the present.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  26. I think it might have been Mark Twain who said, “A man who doesn’t read the newspaper is uninformed. A man who reads newspapers is misinformed.” It sounds like it might have been Mark, but, it was definitely true in 2016.

    Jim (a9b7c7)

  27. aside from lacking the professionalism to make sure she had her ducks in a row ahead of time I thought Mariah comported herself just fine

    was impressed how she remembered to hit her mark in front of the cheap champagne props and the planet fitness logo

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  28. The democrats put forward a war they didn’t believe in. Within an enemy they didn’t understand, they did much the same on the domestic front in 1968, there are modern day parallels.

    narciso (d1f714)

  29. I miss Sowell already.

    The Hoover Institution has a lot of videos with interviews with Sowell if any of you aren’t aware. They have a whole playlist devoted to him. I’ve watched them all several times.

    Peter Robinson is a great interviewer also.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzWwWbbKHg4aodl0S35R6XA

    Dan S (e312ac)

  30. Sores tool duckworth will follow the danegeld.

    narciso (d1f714)

  31. “For those of us who care about history and the traditions that go along with passing of the torch for an orderly and peaceful transfer of presidential power having the ex presidents Bushes and the Clintons and the Carters there at the inauguration is an important and symbolic thing. There was concern until recently that they were not going to go.”

    – elissa

    You mean like the “history and the tradition” of presidential candidates releasing their tax returns prior to election day? Isn’t that something of “an important and symbolic thing” – respecting the American people enough to be transparent with them? Or what about the “history and tradition” of establishing blind trusts with respect to a sitting president’s business interests? I would say that’s an important and not-at-all symbolic thing.

    Leviticus (efada1)

  32. Rooney released his taxes, what good it do him, whereas allnof red queen’s operating budget came through the foundation.

    narciso (d1f714)

  33. Megyn Kelly going to NBC.

    Billary going to the inauguration of their pal.

    Donald Trump tweets about Ford.

    Celebrities acting like celebrities again.

    Maybe you care. I have no idea why you would. But maybe you do.

    These are all significant updates on old stories.

    1. Megyn Kelly isn’t staying at Fox, although maybe the controversy is not teh reason,

    2. Hillary Clinton, unlike a number of people encouraged by, I guess Democrats, isn’t boycotting Donald Trump’s inaguration. That’s significant to point out. She’s not one of Sonald trump’s enemies, or at least Donald Trump probably doesn’t think so.

    3. Donald Trump gets yet another company to claim they are leaving a small number of jobs in the United States because of DOnald Trump. Well, the companies don’t say it is because of Donald trump, but Donald Trump does.

    Now these are not really big stories. They just refine other stories.

    About the celebrities, whatever it was, I probably don’t care. Was that the Mew Year’s Eve equoment (or perfomer?) failure on ABC? In that case, I may not care too much, although people who weer watching probably do. In pher TV news, “The Apprentice” is not really working with a different host.

    There’s one and only Donald Trump. Arnold Schwwarzenegge isn’t a good successor. They needed to bring in a supposed businessman, even if not well known to the public.

    Sammy Finkelman (eb0eea)

  34. In so far as fords decision reflects confidence in administrations overall posture. Re tax and regulatory issues.

    narciso (d1f714)

  35. Put kaleev letaroo’s dissection of how bozos committed media malpractice is worth a note.

    narciso (d1f714)

  36. narciso @34 That’s what they say. They’ve got to say something for their Board of Directors. So they say new economic policies championed by the Trump Administration change the equation.

    More likely, they’ve got government contracts, and/or don’t want to penalized in some way by some executive order, and this keeping of some jobs in the USA is trivial.

    Sammy Finkelman (eb0eea)

  37. This is a story that we should care about. Glenn Greenwald:

    “WashPost is richly rewarded for false news about Russia threat while public is deceived.”

    The WashPost pushed two false stories: Russia was behind fake news and Russia hacked into the power grid. On both cases, the newspaper walked back the stories. He wrote:

    “A very common dynamic is driving all of this: media group-think, greatly exacerbated (as I described on Saturday) by the incentive scheme of Twitter. As the grand media failure of 2002 demonstrated, American journalists are highly susceptible to fueling and leading the parade in demonizing a new Foreign Enemy rather than exerting restraint and skepticism in evaluating the true nature of that threat.”

    Greenwald points out that the stories get a lot of traction via repeats on cable news and Twitter but these sources fail to correct themselves after the retractions.

    It is all about the narrative.

    AZ Bob (f7a491)

  38. 27. happyfeet (28a91b) — 1/4/2017 @ 3:46 am

    aside from lacking the professionalism to make sure she had her ducks in a row ahead of time I thought Mariah comported herself just fine

    Her people say she dis rehearse and the sound was working at 3 pm. It stopped working later, and she or they complained more than once, but they say, the producers wouldn’t listen.

    Sammy Finkelman (eb0eea)

  39. well public statements should count more than anonymous assertions don’t you think

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/cnn-panelist-to-trump-why-not-stay-silent-as-intelligence-community-has-information-on-you/

    narciso (d1f714)

  40. I know we’re in a crazy place, but lets leave gleen out of it, wordfence and Robert m lee’s shop showed how little due diligence was done with these reports, even crowdstrike’s alperovitch took exception,

    narciso (d1f714)

  41. and this crew that preferred the Bezos narrative, is who megyn is joining,

    narciso (d1f714)

  42. 27, 39: you have to admit the true winners of that NYE cluster-eff was her girdle’s designer and manufacturer.

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb)

  43. yes, that train wreck isn’t worth the candle, but note that not so subtle luigi vercotti ploy,

    narciso (d1f714)

  44. ah remember how she left out the backstory to that trump projects licensee’s predicament,

    https://twitter.com/AlMonitor/status/816651400453230592

    narciso (d1f714)

  45. I remember how there was a guy, tom Barnett, who was all hot and bothered by aq’s penetration into Africa,

    https://twitter.com/MENASTREAM/status/816361297453391872

    narciso (d1f714)

  46. and yes, the ansar leader’s name, means something else in the local idiom,

    narciso (d1f714)

  47. Leviticus–That comment @7:28 AM does not elevate you. I am getting tired of you being a cynical D*ick at every turn. No. Quite obviously I was referring to the traditions and the simple symbolic gestures that a civil society places on important and serious rites of passage–including former presidents (at least in the modern era and whenever possible for them to do so) attending inaugurations because transfers of presidential power in this country have always been and are in fact noble to this day. Another tradition is playing “Day is Done” taps at soldiers’ funerals. Do you think it’s fun to snark at that, too, like some of the lovely people who viewed them as undeserving and baby killers?

    Had you paid attention in school and thought about it, you might realize that presidential inaugurations in America are not just a “I WON” swearing in ceremony for the actual person assuming office whomever he or she may be. Throughout our nation’s history inaugurations have been meant to serve as a public celebration and respectful recognition of the regular head of government change-over via free election, and to bind the populace together under a new leader who has been peacefully and duly elected whether he was their personal choice or not. Having past presidents of both parties in attandance is part of that theme. Exceptions to this “attendance tradition” are obviously unusual circumstances such as when LBJ was inaugurated on the plane in Dallas.

    elissa (b4eebe)

  48. elissa,

    You made a point about history and tradition. So did I. I wasn’t trying to be a “cynical dick.” It has traditionally and historically been important for presidential candidates to release their tax returns – I am far from the only person to make this point. Do you think it is more important, historically and traditionally, for presidential candidates to release their tax returns, or for former presidents to show up at the inauguration of their successor? I think it’s something worth discussing.

    You’re making this far more personal than I am.

    Leviticus (efada1)

  49. At the time of Nixon’s second inauguration in 1973, was LBJ there? He died two days ater at his ranch.

    Sammy Finkelman (eb0eea)

  50. It’s more important to acknowledge the new president legitimately holds the office (and that doesn’t mean you think what he will do is something you would would not oppose a lot of the time, and try to fristrate some of what he might want to do)

    There might be some exceptions to acknowledging legitimacy, but Trump hasn’t reached them.

    Sammy Finkelman (eb0eea)

  51. narciso @41. The Grizzly Steppe report actually did not claim to be offering proof as to who dd it, only a warning and some help in avoiding being hacked.

    http://www.robertmlee.org/critiques-of-the-dhsfbis-grizzly-steppe-report/

    ■The report is intended to help network defenders; it is not the technical evidence of attribution… I understand that it is always hard to publish things from the government. In my time working in the U.S. Intelligence Community on such cases it was extremely rare that anything was released publicly and when it was it was almost always disappointing as the best material and information had been stripped out….

    But why is this so bad? Because it does not follow the intent laid out by the White House and confuses readers to think that this report is about attribution and not the intended purpose of helping network defenders. The public is looking for evidence of the attribution, the White House and the DHS/FBI clearly laid out that this report is meant for network defense, and then the entire discussion in the document is on how the DHS/FBI confirms that APT28 and APT29 are RIS groups that compromised a political party. The technical indicators they released later in the report (which we will discuss more below) are in no way related to that attribution though.

    Or said more simply: the written portion of the report has little to nothing to do with the intended purpose or the technical data released.

    The technical part is also not high quality and they seem to confuse malware names with campaign names and even with names for methods of attack.)

    Sammy Finkelman (eb0eea)

  52. == It has traditionally and historically been important for presidential candidates to release their tax returns ==

    Oh good allah. You still do not see your responding comment to mine as an apples and oranges comparison and that changing the subject from inaugurations to tax returns does not compute?

    As far as I know candidates providing tax returns is a fairly recent issue/phenomenon. The United States imposed income taxes briefly during the Civil War and the 1890s, and on a permanent basis for citizens in 1913.

    Did Lincoln, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon and Reagan et al publish their tax returns for public and media scrutiny? I don’t know and frankly I don’t have time to research it, but I doubt many of them did or were asked to. I’ll agree that opening politicians’ tax returns may be interesting and useful in many cases, but is hardly “tradition”.

    elissa (b4eebe)

  53. What is the reason to believe traditions are important? I think one reason is that it helps us act more civilized as a society. Traditions like an inauguration help bind us together as a nation in a respectful, mannerly way. But another reason is that traditions help us maintain a more orderly society that respects law and authority.

    To me, elissa seems concerned about the former and Leviticus is concerned about the latter. They are both important but there is a relationship.

    DRJ (15874d)

  54. grizzly steppe was a joke report from failmerica’s wacky and corrupt comey fbi

    happyfeet (a037ad)

  55. Patterico–I read this interesting story yesterday.

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/attorney-ordered-identify-dead-client-who-taunted-james-woods-twitter-960457

    The bizarre case involves actor James Woods (a somewhat right leaning celeb) and his fight to get info about a person, “Doe” (who may or may not be dead) that Woods claims libeled him. “Doe’s” attorney is shown as Ken White. Our Ken White??? It sounds like his kind of case.

    The judge now has ordered White to reveal the name of his client.

    “This is a significant step forward in our ability to recover the millions in damages caused by John Doe’s cowardly Tweet,” says Weinsten of Lavely & Singer. “It also sends a message to others who believe they can hide behind the anonymity of online social media to falsely accuse public figures of heinous behavior without recourse to themselves.”

    White provided his comment to the ruling.

    “Sometimes in law the bad guys win,” he said. “I remain proud to have represented Mr. Doe in the face of Mr. Woods’ frivolous and petulant case. I’m pleased that the court denied Mr. Woods’ demand to compel me to answer a number of other questions, and that the court denied the meritless demand for sanctions.”

    Do you have any lawyerly thoughts or comments on this defamation case that you can, or are willing to share, Patterico?

    elissa (b4eebe)

  56. @narcisco: I clicked your link. They retroactively justified J. Edgar Hoover. I would say “unbelievable” but it’s not, it’s just more evidence that they have no principles except seeing their guys win. They will stoop to anything.

    After host Don Lemon brought up Trump’s tweet this evening where he claimed his meeting with intelligence agency heads was delayed while labeling the Russian hacking as “so-called,” Naftali said it was a “bad idea” taking them on.

    “The intelligence community has information about him that I’m sure he would like not to be released,” the historian explained.

    Naftali noted that there was probably no “great secret there” but it “doesn’t make sense for Donald Trump to make adversaries” in the intelligence community.

    He further asked, “Why not stay silent?”

    Gabriel Hanna (64d4e1)

  57. That is not the use that the report is being Put toward.

    narciso (d1f714)

  58. Megyn Kelly going to NBC.

    Billary going to the inauguration of their pal.

    Donald Trump tweets about Ford.

    Celebrities acting like celebrities again.

    3 of those stories are little more than celebrity news. If you care about what is happening to your favorite celebrity, those stories are for you.

    But, Ford reversing it’s decision to build a $1.6B plant in Mexico and instead spend $700M to upgrade an existing US plant and keep those jobs in the US… Well, that sounds like news.

    Of course, you may prefer to ignore what the President-elect has to say about a legitimate news story. But, it is still news.

    Anon Y. Mous (9e4c83)

  59. There was the story about the fire on board the Titanic helping cause the sinking. I found that a little interesting.

    I have to tell you the truth about what I think.

    The new Titanic story gives you only half the story. In reality, THERE WAS NO ICEBERG!

    The architect was on the ship, talked to the manager, and I think he realized what was the problem, and he went down with the ship.

    Nobody saw an iceberg. They only thoght they saw an iceberg – a possible iceberg actually – it was clouds, and swerved to avoid it. Some ice also fell down from the top of the ship but taht was not an iceberg. That’s all the evidence for an iceberg there is. There is a photograh of what is supposed to have been the iceberg, but I don’t believe any real connection was drawn, and it probably doesn’t check out.

    This was the cause:

    The ship was made of steel that became weak in cold water. It couldn’t take sharp turns.

    There were 3 ships, all of the same design.

    The Britannic went down in Mediterrean during World War I, in 1916 on November 12. It was attributed to a German submarine or a German mine. The fact that they say both means they didn’t know for a fact what caused it to sink. They said they heard an explosion which seemed to have no cause. They now link it to some German mines. My theory is because it had been commissioned for war service, (as a hospital ship) any secret about the vulnerability of the ship was not passed on.

    German records now would probably prove there was no submarine and I’m not sure how plausible the mines are. The SM U-73 under the Command of Gustav Sieß had planted mines on October 28, 1916.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Britannic

    The 3rd ship, the Olympic, (in one book by Len Fisher – How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life isbn=1559706805 – it says the Majestic, and other books seem to follow that – but that was taken out of service and scrapped in 1914) nearly went down in 1928, or some year soon after that, but didn’t, because the crack in the hull was stopped by a porthole. (But there was another Majestic commsiooned June 1914 as SS Bismarck, and given to the British after World War I losses, renamed the Majestic and sailed with the White Star Line from 1922 to 1934, so I don’t know)

    It maybe doesn’t need something specially wrong with the hull for a crack to develop. The one-day old T2 tanker SS Schenectady split in half on January 16, 1943, after a huge bang was heard. Off the coast of Portland, Oregon and there were no Japanese submarines or mines there. (It was salvaged and repaired)

    This was caused by brittle fracture of low-grade steel which became highly brittle in cold weather, just like with the Titanic. The cause of the Schenectady failure was not understood at the time, because the Titanic coverup was still going on.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Schenectady

    The weakness of the hull had to do with the possibility of the crack beginning.

    Sammy Finkelman (eb0eea)

  60. Now, there’s no way, if this theory about hull weakness is correct, that the Majestic, or was it the Olympic stayed in service for so many years without the captain taking precautions, and White Star lines knowing all about it. Otherwise each captain would not have known to take precuations.

    The fire that they report now in the Titanic maybe contributed something, I don’t know.

    But there was no iceberg.

    This coverup has been maintained for over a centruy, The need to cover it up is the reason we even known about the Titanic because it wasn’t the only ocean liner that sunk. Another one did in the first half of 1914. I’m not talking about the Lusitania, in 1915, which was sunk by a German submarine. The Empress of Ireland sank on May 29, 1914 in the Gulf of St Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 of the 1,477 people on board when it was rammed by another ship the Storstad from Norway) in .

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Empress_of_Ireland_(1906)

    That’s a worse ratio than that of the Titanic where 1,514 lives out of 2224 were lost.

    This story about an iceberg being responsible for the sinking of the Titanic was pushed out as late as the 1950s, in order to stop some other theory story from gaining hold. There was probably still somebody who cold be held liable.

    There’s not the slightest bit of good evidence that the Titanic ever encountered an iceberg, and they might have figured it out long ago, if there wasn’t all this publicity about it.

    Sammy Finkelman (eb0eea)

  61. elissa (b4eebe) — 1/4/2017 @ 11:08 am

    Did Lincoln, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon and Reagan et al publish their tax returns for public and media scrutiny? I don’t know and frankly I don’t have time to research it, but I doubt many of them did or were asked to.

    Nixon, after some deductions came under question, including the exemption from capital gains from selling a primary residence of you bought another (the Democrfats said San Clmente wa snot his primary residence – the White House was) let Congress investigate it and they may have bene made public.

    By the time reagan ran for president in 1980 – maybe not in 1976 – they were being made avalable to selected reporters at least.

    The Clintons let the New York Times examine their returns in 1992, but only going back to 1984.

    They made other returns available to the New York Times in 1994, which showd the Cattlegate futures gains in their 1979 tax return, quite possibly as a distraction from Whitewater and other things, since this was way beyond the statute of limitations. The Clintons always knew what hits they could take and what they could not.

    Sammy Finkelman (eb0eea)


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