Fox News article here.
For an article with so much potential for inflating the facts and showing their natural bias, Fox News did a fairly decent job of sticking to the point. The article did start off with a purely subjective opinion, however: "The release of 10,000 pages of Clinton White House papers only reinforces how his eight years in office were defined not by "the economy, stupid" or welfare legislation -- but Monica Lewinsky." Here's the thing, Fox: The only people reinforcing what defined President Clinton's term are the people who report on it. Which, as a part of the media, you are partly to blame for.
Another problem with this article is the author side-tracking halfway through to highlight some informal notes written by Hillary Clinton, with almost no context given: ""We've been so incompetent," Mrs. Clinton complained at one point, the notes show. She complained of "yet another meeting that goes nowhere, another useless conversation." Of White House counsel Bruce Lindsey, Mrs. Clinton complained that his "weakness" was that he "doesn't tell you what he doesn't know." Mrs. Clinton also complained about the absence from a critical briefing of then-White House advisor George Stephanopoulos, adding: "Make George go to briefings." Mrs. Clinton complained that the team had "no strategy to deploy resources" and asked pointedly: "Why is it we don't get it done?"'. Not only are these unnecessary, they paint Mrs. Clinton as a whining b$*%#. We are given no context for these notes, or any information on what each specific meeting was about. We only know that they have something to do with the Whitewater scandal. Not exactly objective journalism being displayed here.
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