Reply #22: I believe the surface issue in both cases was integrity, however when I'm speaking of integrity

[Uncle Joe]

only in the sense of this issue benefiting the mega rich or major corporations.

The corporate media used integrity against Bush the lesser to help Clinton, with the continuous replaying of his "read my lips no new taxes" pledge, even though some economists would later say this along with the expansion of the Internet helped lead the economy on a rebound in the 90's.

Clinton would repay them later by giving Bush the least and the corporate media the integrity issue on a silver platter, by the Clinton/Lewinsky affair and compounding that by directly lying to the American People while knowing the Republicans and the media had him under a microscope from the very beginning. Al Gore would've been far better off had Clinton either kept his mouth shut or told the truth up front, but Clinton didn't have to run for election after that so I don't believe he cared.

In short I believe the ongoing witch hunt by the corporate media against Clinton was in truth a back door strategy to keep Al Gore from coming to power. I believe the corporate media was motivated in large part because Al Gore empowered the American People by being the primary political champion for opening up the Internet for them and as the Internet grew in power and influence diverting attention away from television and allowing the American People to freely converse among them selves and analyze the news of the day for all the world to see without having to go through a corporate media filter first, the corporate media saw their power, influence, ability to brain wash the American People by shaping the message and money slowly slipping away. So they just transferred the sins of the President on to the Vice-President by slandering, trashing and libeling him within weeks after Clinton's impeachment beginning in March of 99 ie; Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet, etc. etc. etc. and whenever Al Gore started to pull away from Bush in the polls they came out with a brand new set of slander and libel.

I don't believe it was coincidence that Bush the least started illegally wiretapping the American People going around FISA shortly after coming to power and before 9/11, the corporate media knew Al Gore would do no such thing.

They also began promoting Hillary Clinton for President almost immediately after she won her first term as Senator. I believe the whole thing was a set up by the corporatists to stab Al Gore and by extension the American People in the back.