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Journalists were so fixated on maintaining a skeptical distance from the V-word that they neglected to screen out subtler phrases through which Clinton's surrogates equated his legal escape with moral exoneration.
My closing comment referred to current research that attempts to show that homosexuality is gene-related, which I termed “fatalistic” because it would appear to relieve any individual of responsibility for his actions: as we learn from frequent press reports, defense attorneys are seeking exoneration for their clients on the grounds that although they committed the crime in question, it was circumstances--abuse when they were children is quite popular--that were responsible for their actions, and they should be let off.
The GOP's most remarkable complaint is that if the Senate votes not to remove Clinton, the White House will stage another "pep rally" and will spin the vote not just as an "acquittal" but as an "exoneration."
NYT off-leads a piece about Republican pesidential hopeful John McCain's 1989-91 "14-month Senate ethics investigation that ended with his exoneration."