The Man from Nowhere
1999; University of Minnesota Press; Issue: 43 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1354486
ISSN1460-2458
Autores Tópico(s)Rhetoric and Communication Studies
ResumoOn November 2, 1998-the day before midterm congressional elections contrary to earlier predictions of substantial Democratic losses, were to result in loss of five Republican seats in House of Representatives-staff writer Sally Quinn published story called Not in Their Backyard in Washington Post. The piece was about response of official-which is to say unofficial, but real-Washington to yearlong scandal over President Bill Clinton's involvement with White House intern Monica Lewinsky: about how offended, shocked, and disgusted people who run Washington were and their offense, shock, and disgust that rest of country apparently did not share their judgment. To set scene, Quinn cast back to Clinton's first Inaugural Address. His presidency was only few minutes old, he had arrived from Arkansas just days before, and he spoke of capital as a place of intrigue and calculation, where those struggling for power often forgot people who sent them to Washington and why they had been sent. With that, Quinn wrote, the new president sent clear challenge to an already suspicious Washington establishment. She went on to contrast that event with one taking place five years later-an event she clearly found more significant. Clinton adviser Rahm Emanuel-who, Quinn noted, unlike president, had become part of Washington Establishment-was speaking at
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