Starr’s Report

In “Timing Is Everything, Mr. Starr” (editorial, Aug. 11) you say, “Inevitably Starr’s final report will be politically explosive. That’s why he should spare no effort to assure that it reaches the public well before the November 2000 elections.”

Unless, of course, what the report says is so convincingly damning as to properly prevent Hillary Clinton from ever being elected to anything anywhere. In which case, intelligent patriotism demands its release should be timed to ensure exactly that.

DENNIS MARKS

Los Angeles

Re “Lies Told Often Enough Are as Good as Truth,” Column Left, Aug. 10: My, my, my, what a short memory Robert Scheer has. Seems like only six short months ago he was doing the same thing to “sex-obsessed” independent counsel Kenneth Starr. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, he takes offense at falsehoods? Where were his howls of condemnation when President Clinton lied to the American people? Scheer hypocrisy.

KEITH HIGGINS

Oceano

Scheer’s defense of Hillary Clinton’s latest abuse excuse for the behavior of her wayward husband is tantamount to crying wolf too often. Maureen Dowd and Cokie Roberts are rebuked for taking Hillary’s comments out of context and distorting the truth. This is from the same first family that gave new meaning to the word “is.” This after we were asked to swallow the vast right-wing conspiracy and persecution of those outside the Beltway and specifically those from Arkansas.

Scheer and other Clinton apologists should know by now that there is a limit to the number of excuses even a naive and forgiving public will accept from this failed presidency. Enough already!

LEON SPAUGY

Riverside