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"On Headline News, former prosecutor Nancy Grace goes after defense attorneys as a self-styled crime-victims advocate.

"And at MSNBC, Keith Olbermann lately has begun sounding off on the Bush administration."

Speaking of Keith, who has become more passionate and opinionated in his commentaries, he takes a break from blasting Bill O'Reilly and rips Chris Wallace for his "Fox News Sunday" interview of Clinton. And then he says:

"Had it been true that Clinton had been distracted from the hunt for bin Laden in 1998 because of the Monica Lewinsky nonsense, why did these same people not applaud him for having bombed bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan and Sudan on Aug. 20, of that year? For mentioning bin Laden by name as he did so?

"That day, Republican Senator Grams of Minnesota invoked the movie 'Wag The Dog.'

"Republican Senator Coats of Indiana questioned Mr. Clinton's judgment.

"Republican Senator Ashcroft of Missouri--the future attorney general--echoed Coats.

"Even Republican Senator Arlen Specter questioned the timing.

"And of course, were it true Clinton had been 'distracted' by the Lewinsky witch-hunt, who on earth conducted the Lewinsky witch-hunt?

"Who turned the political discourse of this nation on its head for two years?

"Who corrupted the political media? . . .

"Who preempted them in order to strangle us with the trivia that was, 'All Monica All The Time'?"

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