the indisputable reality is that we have a media establishment that is at best biased far to right and downright subversive at worst (the latter being the far more likely). For 30 years Big Media has worked hand in hand with republican/conservatives to turn the US into a plutocracy by misinformation, outrageous promotion of the right, distortion of facts, and neglect real news.

The options for changing the dynamic are:

 1) get Congress to breakup Big Media, preventing the control of most information Americans receive to be concentrated into very few mega corporations.

 2) subvert Big Media's influence by communicating via alternate communications

A sitting congressman hides, doesn't report, lies about 1million in extra assests and we're supposed to ignore it because Bush isn't in jail for toture?

Ted Stephens was almost sent to jail (saved by a crappy prosecuter) because he lied about $250K.  

Rangel is in for up to $1million in unreported income going back almost a decade.

It was convenient in the "family values" era of the GOP to play it that way, but the Clinton resentment ran much deeper than jealousy of his libido. The fact that he broke the law was the reason he was impeached, not a cigar and a bj.

You overarching point about WaPo is well-taken, and, frankly, almost irrefutable on many issues, but let's not downplay the fact that his actions were--in part--an effort to deliberately deny due process to a separate woman, regardless of the merits of her case. THAT is why he was impeached.

He should have settled and have been done with it.