A Vast Conspiracy Vs.

Uncovering Clinton

The more I read Chomsky the more diversionary and inconsequential political

porn seems to me. The book by Toobin is definitely more of what a left-winger would

want to read about the issue of Clintons sex life. Isikoff on the other had provides a

more subjective and morally judgmental portrayal of the issues related to sex. Isikoff is

said to be a democrat, however his conspiratorial behavior aligned with right wing

interests to a level that goes beyond an objective reporter trying to report the facts.

Isikoff takes an active roll in the conspiracy to bring down Clinton and tries to pretend in

his book that he is somehow ignorant of what he has done. Isikoff should have been a

porn writer and has even shown promise in his days of freelancing for Penthouse

Magazine. Toobin does a better job of staying somewhat objective and repeatedly offers

candid interpretation of the social and psychological factors behind the diversionary dirt

we the stupid American public are repeatedly fed. Not only through the media, but

unfortunately also via the educational system.

Two the great social movements of the late twentieth century, feminism and the

Christian right, were ordinarily seen as ideological opposites. But in onc critical respect,

they pushed the country in precisely the same directions, toward the idea that the private

lives of public people mattered as much as their stands on issues (Toobin, p.7).

Repeatedly we are expected to except the premise for this investigation into Clintons sex

life as a valid reason for uncovering as many of the gory details as would certainly

shock the American public into abandoning support for Mr. Filthy Pervert. Unfortunately

this tactic backfired on the morally correct right wing would be impeachers. Instead, the
public grew tired of the long and drawn out process, which forced the vivid details of

Clintons sex life down every homes throat. Perhaps we can conclude that some justice

was served after all. If the drive to eradicate a man from office is so profound that its

zeal becomes obtuse and vial, why not let the obvious vengeance shine forth as the most

prominent feature of this mechanistic reaction. In this sense we must give the public

some credit in that they have probably succeeded in deterring this type of attack for as

long as the republicans lick their wounds.

Ultimately Jones retracted her demand for an apology from Clinton and settled on

the payoff. It is hard to take her original supposition as a victim to sexual attention when

Jones later accepted an offer to pose in Playboy magazine. Her trail of debaucherous and

unsightly affairs persists after the Clinton scandal in the form of various media

appearances and the Paula Jones Psychic Friends Network, most of which mock her lack

of intelligence. Jones, like many Americans most likely suffers from a guilt and shame

complex that centers in sexuality. Moral judgments are frequently made out of this

psychic condition, which permeates society and results in the manifestation of patriarchy,

oppression, and fascism. Much of religion is rooted in the psychology of shame as

evidenced in the portrayal of the first man and women loosing their exalted state of purity

and digressing to the illusion that their own bodies were somehow bad and in need of

cover. Certainly this underlying behavioral pathology contributes to the psychological

basis of Paula Jones perception that her sexual encounters were bad and in need of

vindication. No doubt the behavioral anchors instilled by her fathers preaching at the

First Church of the Nazarene contributed to Paulas pathology. In the moralistic right

wing of American society stands a chorus of voices whose guilt drives them ever onward
to point a finger at some wrong, which ultimately originates in their own minds.

Ultimately it is the mind of the individual wrought with this kind of guilt that must come

to grips with their own disease, thereby alleviating the public from the manifestation of

their underlying pathological psyche emotional complex.