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She is always so impressive to listen to; if you have never heard her, you should listen to this one, or wait for any other speeches carried by C-SPAN, since the rest of the media has always censored her. She is very intelligent, describes things very well and with a lot of atmosphere, so the whole story is interesting and clear, and has a very attractive personality--honest and modest. If you listen to her explain the whole development of the events, not only are you angry at how these two separate situations were falsely put together by Republicans, just so they could persecute the Clintons with it, but it shows you yet again just what a totally corrupt manipulator this Kenneth Starr prick was. I always wondered why Starr was not imprisoned for leaking Grand Jury testimony to the media, and the media for reporting it, (supposed to be a Federal offense), and why a "criminal" probe that morphed from Whitewater to Paula Jones to Monica Lewinsky, etc., etc., was even pretended to be serious. I still wonder why Starr and etc. were not made to pay back the completely wasted tax money on all this shit, that ended with the official verdict of no guilt.
Susan McDougal explained--so clearly that you could feel it--the threat of this group, why they were so intimidating, how organized they were, how they got others--notably Jim McDougal--to crumble and cave, and how they manipulated a totally phony case by getting all the accused/witnesses to lie the same way and by bribing the corruptible ones. If she had been a male, the media would have been hailing her by now as a brave martyr and the harbinger of the new age to come, only now starting. As it is, she suffered this persecution almost completely ignored, except by those who picked up on things early. Notice that, whatever your opinion of Clinton, overwhelming majorities on every poll, did not support impeachment and were disgusted at Republican destruction-tactics.
The way she tells a story, step by step, takes you along over the developments of the time as they happened, and helps you to remember. It also packs a huge impact as later, in prison after she was defeated by this organized Republican campaign she would not cooperate with, she is exposed to a world she never knew about, and meets oppressed women who have never had a part of this society, abused by a system that does not even care if they are raped in prison, women who never had any kind of path in life, or plans. For the first time, she realizes a whole world of activity going on--totally shut off from the outside world--in prison. This is where the story lofts to another level completely. She discovers, beyond all the fake acts and memorized slogans, the true behavior of real Christians, serving the poor and oppressed among these women, and equally ignored by the corporate media, the Republican smear machine, and all the others she has ever known on the outside. This higher level, as she develops sympathy and even a common bond in prison, comes out of nowhere and is thrilling to listen to. You can almost see it happening.
Her step by step path as a real Christian, and what it took to get there, is beautifully told, and you end up with a real, real-world sense of the difference between good and evil. The current type of throat-slitting Republicans are evil, and a huge threat; Susan McDougal is moral, honest, and was never guilty of anything. Scary--and only now do we seem to be moving away from this demonic plague.
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