What the heck is Salon anyway? Is it a knee jerk liberal magazine that women read while under the hair dryer? Is it an extreme left wing radical internet publication? Is it a possible media organ for the Whitehouse smear campaign directed against it's perceived enemies? All of the above, some of the above, you say? Okay, maybe.

Here is some possible food for thought, as best as I can remember the reporting:

1) March 1998. Supposedly, Sidney Blumenthal is at a party with a whole crowd of Salon associates.

2) April 1998. Salon crowd is invited to the Whitehouse for some function.

3) May 1998. The President starts to mention Salon in various speechs.

4) June 1998. The President jokes that Salon should have their own special table at a Whitehouse function.

5) August 1998. Salon publishes an article naming Henry Hyde as a possible future target of a media smear job.

6) September 1998. Salon publishes a smearing attack piece on a decades old indisgression by Henry Hyde.

7) September 20, 1998. William McDaniel, billed as Sidney Blumenthal's lawyer, admitted that Sidney discussed the Hyde matter with reporters. He just seemed to deny that Blumenthal had urged them to do anything about " it ", even suggesting quite the opposite? Hold on, I see the " mincing words " defense coming again!

* You decide, correct me if I am wrong. I think I got the months correct, but I am sure that I got the order right.

So you are not convinced. You say that you saw some Whitewater reporting in their pages, and that proves they are not just a Whitehouse spin xerox machine. Those may have been softball, puff pieces, and designed to deceive you. The same way that possibly, the Red Chinese government gave a couple of grand to Republicans while giving hundreds of thousands to the DNC ( so they could claim everyone got some of their illegal bucks ).

- Bongo ( Sidney, Sidney, Sidney... )