This is True: politics http://www.thisistrue.com/politics.html en-us 2006-02-05T15:15:06-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Blame It on the Intern http://www.thisistrue.com/klink.html Political dirty tricks are nothing new. What's new is being busted doing it on the Internet. Yeah, they took the photo down, but thanks to Google caches and such, idiocy can live forever. From True's 5 February 2006 issue:

Campy Campaign

Coleen Rowley, running for Congress from Minnesota, has apologized to her opponent, incumbent U.S. Rep. John Kline, for a photo of Kline on her web site. The photo used Kline's face pasted over a publicity shot of Nazi prison camp commandant Col. Wilhelm Klink from the 1960s TV show, Hogan's Heroes. Rowley's campaign manager blamed the deed on "a volunteer Web site person who didn't understand the implications of using the Colonel Klink image." (St. Paul Pioneer Press) ...So can we assume he's been "Disssssmissssed!"?

]]> 1208@http://www.thisistrue.com/ Photo 2006-02-05T15:15:06-07:00 Equal Time ...to Invoke Indignant Anger http://www.thisistrue.com/invoke.html A fair number of governmental bodies have a minister say a prayer at the start of official meetings -- an invocation. When criticized by those who favor a true separation of church and state, they often insist that the invocation is not really religious. So what happens when an atheist is invited to give an invocation? The officials sit in respectful silence, as they would insist an atheist should do when a Christian preacher gives the invocation, right? Yeah, sure. From True's 8 August 2004 issue:

]]> 1167@http://www.thisistrue.com/ politics 2004-08-08T14:52:39-07:00 Bias? You be the Judge http://www.thisistrue.com/liberal-response.html Anytime This is True runs stories with (shall we say) controversial subjects, it generates letters. But nothing brings more letters than the division between left- and right-wing politics! Some of the people who read the column on President Clinton's White House Intern 'Fornigate Scandal' thought I was unfairly biased. (One, from Arizona, said I'm a "fascist right-wing conspirator" and a "Christian Coalition prevericator (sic)"! Oh, my! How quickly they forget!)

]]> 1104@http://www.thisistrue.com/ Religion 1998-02-05T11:32:07-07:00 Special Fornigate Edition http://www.thisistrue.com/fornigate.html Written 1 February 1998 (stories not updated since)

Update: Don't miss the "Liberal Response" to this special edition. To comment on this see Randy's Blog: Fornigate.

Fornigate

President Clinton is not terribly convincing when he denies having a "sexual relationship" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. A Cable News Network/Time magazine poll taken just after the charges came to light finds that 48 percent of Americans believe he did have an affair with her. Just 31 percent think he didn't; 21 percent are unsure. A parallel CBS television network poll found 41 percent said the charges were "probably true" while 21 percent thought the charges were "probably untrue". Clinton has steadfastly insisted the charges are false. (UPI) ...However, he has offered to pay Monica's dry cleaning bill.

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