Distractions, Background Noise and Bears, Oh My!!

I couldn't pass up this from Is That Legal?:

John Hinderaker, yesterday:

Tomorrow may bring indictments of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby on charges that can charitably be described as trivial. Tonight, one of our readers urged us to link to President Bush's great speech to the Joint Armed Forces Officers' Wives' group rather than being distracted by the minutiae of the day. Good suggestion.

John Hinderaker, December 17, 1998:

"Like many others, we have been frustrated by the apparent inability of much of the American public to take the Clinton scandals seriously. "It's not about sex," we have patiently repeated to our benighted friends. "It's about perjury. It's about obstruction of justice. The sex is only incidental. At most it was the motive for the crimes. You wouldn't think murder was unimportant just because the motive for the murder was sex, would you?" So goes our argument."

Well, they're not indicted yet and certainly not proven guilty, but either way I agree with the opinion of one commenter to the above: "I am waiting for the day the American people realize that what the right wing is saying is that adulterous oral sex is worse than outing a CIA operative."