" Mickey Kaus, for example, aka "Chatterbox" in the online
magazine Slate, declares he "worships" Isikoff "like a god" (Feb.
3, 1998) while incongruously pointing out Newsweek's highly
misleading graphic reproduction of the so-called "talking points"
memorandum allegedly given to Linda Tripp by Monica Lewinsky. The
graphic makes the talking points appear to have been typewritten
and in fact Isikoff and Thomas describe the memo as a "three-
page, single-spaced typed document" (Feb. 2 p. 41).
Yet all
indications are that the talking points were not typed but word-
processed--Kaus reports that Newsweek employees who have seen the
document report that it appears to have come off a laser printer;
the passages scanned by ABC News and posted on the web January 23
show a proportional-spaced font, clear evidence that it cannot
have been typed and, of course, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr
seized a computer and printer from Lewinsky's apartment as well
subpoenaing the computer rental store she apparently frequented
in the Watergate Mall; Linda Tripp identifies the talking points
as having been word-processed in a later story in Newsweek itself
("What Made Linda Do It?," March 23, 1998, p. 27). "
Newsweek's Lies:
By: With the assistance of:
John F. X. Gillis Willard Fox
Ph.D. Graduate Assistant Professor
Department of English Department of English
Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana
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