Our media class has a hard time focusing on more than one subject at a time. Keith Olbermann’s latest column suggests that the media’s (and political elite’s) mad quest to convict Bill Clinton of adultery helped push more important topics — like our vulnerability to terrorist attack — off the national agenda. It’s a great piece: “Ann Coulter didn’t cause Sept. 11… But with hindsight one has to ask why the prospect of a country unprepared for terrorism wasn’t a sexy enough topic for her and the others to use to pound Clinton and the Democrats.” Remember, during Monicamania, any time the Clinton administration decided to do anything in the international sphere — like firing missiles at bin Laden’s Afghanistan training camp — it was accused of pulling a “Wag the Dog” stunt to divert the national dialogue from the more pressing matter of the presidential genitalia.
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