Tripped Up on Two Fronts

Doc's DIS-patch

Tripped Up on Two Fronts

July 7, 1998 --- New York (APJP) -- The Doc returned from a prolonged and well-deserved vacation in Vegas today only to find himself glued to MSNBC for the last couple of hours, with the announcement that Maryland State Prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli has commenced a grand jury probe today concerning Linda Tripp's recordings of conversations with Monica Lewinsky.

Good. Serves the lady right.

What Montanarelli did, though long overdue, was the right thing. There have been rumblings around the Beltway grapevine that something was coming down the pike from Maryland, and Montanarelli said that the state had held off commencing an investigation in deference to Whitewater Special Persecutor -- whoops! make that Part-Time Prosecutor -- Kenneth Starr's investigation.

Well, Linda's paid her amicable visit to the Starr Chamber, and now that she's testified, the state of Maryland can begin their investigation into what the most unpopular "best friend" in America was really up to.

Now, The Doc, whose distaste for politically motivated hypocrites is well-known to APJ readers, could "dis" Linda for any number of reasons. Sure, he could take a cheap shot because she bears more than a passing resemblance to transvestite "Pink Flamingoes" superstar Divine. Uh-huh, he could remind his loyal readers she failed to disclose on a security clearance application the fact that she had been arrested as a teenager. Yeah, he could point out that she had a knack for putting herself smack in the middle of a number of so-called White House "scandals" and was the very last person Vincent Foster saw before committing suicide -- heck, that fact alone might partially account for Mr. Foster doing so.

But no. Instead, this "dis" goes out to Linda for three reason, the first two being listening to others' stupid advice and her own blind ambition.

Tripp's would-be literary agent Lucianne Goldberg gave a truly choice piece of bad advice which made her look like a weasel: tape her conversations with Monica Lewinsky to "protect" herself. Instead, the tapings look more like overkill -- twenty hours worth filled with bonehead lines that sound like Tripp trying to "lead" Lewinsky into implicating the President in anything.

Goldberg was also outright wrong when she apparently "told" Tripp that it was not illegal to tape phone conversations, when in fact it was a violation of state law -- and now it turns out that a Maryland statute which states that not knowing about the law may get you off the hook may not apply in this case. In fact, there is the suspicion that Goldberg intentionally told this to Tripp in order to help her evade that very statute, so don't be surprised to see Goldberg herself hauled before the grand jury! Maybe Goldberg's pal Matt Drudge will "scoop" everybody when Goldberg is subpoenaed.

But I digress.

Tripp's amateur sleuthing and taping smacks not so much of trying to "protect herself" but of far broader ambitions -- trapping and "taking down" Clinton, the ultimate "inside" story of "scandal" guaranteed to grab at least a seven-figure sum from the top bidder.

Instead, Tripp finds herself with a lower approval rating among Americans than Saddam Hussein or even Newt Gingrich. In this case, The Doc feels that the masses are not asses -- they know Tripp is the quintessential "best friend from Hell."

And Tripp's new Maryland problems aren't her only worry -- she is now under assault on a second front.

During his vacation, The Doc read with interest both here and in Jane Prettyman's The Real News Page of the work of Skip Fox and John Gillis, whose thorough analysis of the so-called "Talking Points" raises questions about both their provenance and purpose. If even ten percent of their analysis proves true, then it would follow that Tripp, not Lewinsky, was obstructing justice!

Fox and Gillis appeared yeaterday as guests on CNN's Burden of Proof, and explained their conclusions concisely and convincingly -- so much so that cowlicked preppy Starr partisan Bobby Burchfield looked completely uncomfortable as he stumbled to squeal out a rebuttal.

In an impromptu news conference broadcast live this afternoon on MSNBC, Tripp attorney Anthony Zaccagnini, looking far less smug that he did after Tripp's two previous appearances before Starr's grand jury, said Tripp "views [the investigation] as politically motivated and selective in nature… [she said] 'I believe today's announcement is the latest in a series of attacks to intimidate me'…"

Honey, look in the mirror.

Then look at the crowd you hang with.

Then ask yourself -- that is, if you're woman enough -- do you REALLY expect us to believe that your decision to tape Lewinsky, and the subsequent and selective leaking of soundbites from the tapes to Newsleak… er, Newsweek, wasn't politically motivated, even to a small degree?

And what about the material Newsweek derived from your tapes -- talk about turning out to be "selective in nature!"

And don't you think that all the mud being slung by right-wing partisans via a complacent ratings-obsessed press at Clinton about his alleged behavior isn't a series of attacks and an attempt at intimidation, not to mention part of a political pogrom to "bring down" Clinton?

Which brings The Doc to his third reason for "dissing" Tripp today -- her statement issued through her belabored attorneys today exposes her as a nothing less than a world-class hypocrite.

'Nuff said.

-- Dave "Doctor" Gonzo

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