Joe Conason is probably my favorite political-type commentator and reporter. During the Clinton scandals, he was one of the few voices out there pointing out how things like Whitewater and Filegate were ginned-up scandals based on nothing, just to smear Bill and Hillary and to make some of the scandal-mongers very wealthy. Ken Starr did everything in his power to sculpt those allegations (and Travelgate and the death of Vince Foster) into something indictable and couldn't. They finally found something to "get" Clinton with but it was something pretty petty, contrived and none of anyone's business.
The notion that Bill 'n' Hillary had committed crimes in Whitewater had about as much solid evidence behind it as the charge that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. That it went a lot farther — special prosecutor, talk of impeachment and/or imprisonment for that — had a lot to do with the so-called Liberal Media leaping on the allegations and giving them credibility. In the above-linked piece, Conason reminds us of how that happened…and suggests that those who were so wrong about the Clintons need to answer for their bad reporting. And since some of them are still in a position to do the same thing with Obama — and since his enemies are determined to treat every breath he takes as an impeachable offense — we need to make sure it doesn't happen again.