Subject: Return of the Episodic Apologists
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Date: 12/22/11, 12:46
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Return of the Episodic Apologists
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Return of the Episodic Apologists
By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
Rallying around the Clintons yet again.

WASHINGTON -- They are back! I speak of the Episodic Apologists who have been a phenomenon of the Clinton Saga since its earliest days back when the Clintons were flipping real estate and exchanging bad checks in Arkansas. The Episodic Apologists, like the legendary Court Historians of Franklin Roosevelt's time, are an essential ingredient of the era in which they labor. The Court Historians gave us Roosevelt's "One Hundred Days," "He Saved Us From Communism," and other legends of the 1930s -- forget not, "He Ended the Great Depression."

The Episodic Apologists are admittedly somewhat different. Drawn from the ranks of journalists, historians, and politicians, they have contributed more actively to the soap opera of the Clinton Saga than mere historians, for they are active participants in the drama...

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