Three Stories You're Not Likely to See on the Networks' Evening Newscasts
1) A Bill Clinton Story that Doesn't Treat Him Like the Spawn of Satan
2) Proof that Bill Rehnquist is Chief Perjurer of the SCOTUS
3) Exactly Why Ted Olson's Solicitor General Nomination is in Trouble
by Tamara Baker

Monday, May 14, 2001 -- SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA (APJP) -- Here are three news stories you're not likely to see on the evening news.

The first is a story that, by gorry, puts President Clinton in a positive light!

Clinton Hits Bush Education Plans As Teachers Cheer
Saturday, May 12, 2001 6:32 PM EST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton got a rock-star
reception from the biggest U.S. teachers local on Saturday as he
criticized the Republican education agenda.

Joining other Democrats who have knocked President Bush's education
plans, Clinton said the GOP ignored gains that had been made through
federal aid for school construction and teacher recruitment.

``This is not rocket science here,'' the former president told a
cheering luncheon of the United Federation of Teachers, the
140,000-member New York school employees local.

``We just have to make decisions on the basis of evidence,'' said
Clinton, who received an award from the local. Teachers unions
strongly backed him in his two terms as president, which ended in
January.

The story continues on to mention Clinton's tumultuous post-speech reception, wherein he was mobbed by worshipful New Yorkers.

But, since it's not about Marc Rich, don't expect it on the evening news anytime soon. Just like the trip to India he made on behalf of Indian earthquake victims: he spent several weeks there, yet nary a word on his Jimmy-Carter-like efforts made it past Tom Brokaw's lips. Or Dan Rather's.

The second thing you're not likely to hear on the evening news: 

There is ample evidence to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, committed perjury at least twice during his career: once to get onto the SCOTUS, the second time to become Chief Justice. 

Who says so?

Vincent Bugliosi, that's who. America's most famous, and successful,
prosecutor. 

Bugliosi spends several pages of his new book, The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President, explaining how, in order to get onto the Supreme Court (and later to become Chief Justice), Rehnquist tried to pass off his own right-wing and racist views as actually belonging to another man, Robert Jackson, who was on the US Supreme Court in the early 1950s, and for whom Rehnquist clerked during that time.

However, as Bugliosi shows, virtually every other person who knew both Rehnquist and Jackson during that time -- including Justice Jackson's own secretary -- have gone on record as stating that Jackson was not a right-wing racist. Furthermore, these same people have stated that Rehnquist was known as being by far the most conservative of Jackson's law clerks.

Well, hey, at least he didn't lie about SEX, right?

Speaking of lying, guess what _American Spectator_ Arkansas Projecteer (and big-time Federalist Society member) Ted Olson has been caught doing?

Yupper.

That's my third thing you won't see on the nightly news -- at least, not in full. 

For the full story, I highly recommend this troika of stories, all up at the Salon.com website: 

• The First Ted Olson Scandal, by David Neiwert, in which the story of how Ted Olson's ham-handed legal advice brought down Ronald Reagan's first EPA chief, and how Olson's equally-ham-handed CYA tactics nearly got him jailed for perjury, among other things;

• Ted Olson's Arkansas Problem, by Daryl Lindsey, describing exactly how Olson lied when he denied having anything to do with the Scaife-funded "Arkansas Project" run by the American Spectator; and

• Twisting the Truth in Florida, by Jake Tapper , showing how Ted Olson, working for the Bush team, lied out his ass about what was happening in Florida.

Even the Washington Post finally has come out of its on-bended-knee coma, an earlier Salon.com series of articles on Ted Olson inspired a landmark WP piece last week -- and that piece is credited with giving Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy the spine-stiffener he needed to throw up a roadblock on Olson's Solicitor General nomination.

But the evening news isn't reporting the full story on Democratic opposition to Olson. They're just spinning it as "tit for tat revenge" after the GOP Senate snuffed so many of Clinton's nominees.

Oh, well.

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