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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Paula Jones and Sex Harassment: By Laura Flanders It seemed like May madness had hit--at least as far as sexual harassment was concerned. Hoards of previously unreconstructed misogynists supported a working-class female who charged a powerful man with grimy sexual misconduct. New Republic editor and PBS pundit Fred Barnes, who once derided Anita Hill as"delusional," claimed that Arkansas state employee Paula Jones' accusations against Bill Clinton were "credible." (McLaughlin Group, 5/8/94) Rush Limbaugh, who'd previously boasted of a sign on his office door that read,"Sexual harassment at this work station will not be reported.... It will be graded," evinced sympathy for a woman who said she'd been harassed. At the same time, liberal pundits often trivialized the accusation against the president. In an offhand comment that conflated consensual sex and sex harassment, columnist Mary McGrory remarked (NBC's Meet the Press, 5/8/94),"This debate was held two years ago in New Hampshire, where people knewt his president was not a model husband." Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune(5/8/84)called sexual harassment "a vehicle for witch hunts"--apparently forgetting who killed whom in Salem. Newsweek's Joe Klein lamented on CBS's Face the Nation (5/8/94) that "we're going to end up with government by goody-goodies." He went on to claim that historically, presidents with "interesting sexual histories" have made better leaders. Klein also seems to have a problem distinguishing sex from assault--isn't that what feminists are accused of? One might have thought spring lunacy had taken over--especially when Rush Limbaugh started criticizing feminists for being too quiet about sexual harassment. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1238 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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