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1-26-98 Back home in Los Angeles from a trip to New York promoting his latest book, Dennis Prager appeared on KTLA's Morning News show. "How can you allow your children to watch the news?" he asked. "It's more raunchy than R-rated movies." At 12:07 PM, Prager began his KABC radio show. "Why are we discussing semen on a dress?" Dennis asked ABC News correspondent John Bascomb(?). For ten minutes they talked about the media obsession with Clinton's sexual hikinks. Then Prager gave a commentary. "A plague on all your houses. I am not enamored with the President. I do not believe that he has a commitment to truth… "Society's preoccupation with the sexual lives of public figures sickens me. We are turning into a nation of voyeurs… "The media is preoccupied because it's sex. Other issues are boring because they have no sex. There are far more important issues to get the President on. What about Filegate? Hundreds of Republicans were investigated for no other reason than that they are Republicans… And the terrible decision of Mrs. Clinton to fire the White House travel staff…" Prager says that newsworthiness should equate with importance. Instead, the media are preoccupied with "who will scoop whom? "This is a seminal event…. The silence of Barbara Boxer [on the infidelity charges against Clinton]… When she ran up the steps of the Congress, leading the charge against [Supreme Court Justice nominee] Clarence Thomas for, possibly, using the words "pubic hair" in a private conversation ten years before. Where are the feminists who were so mad at Thomas? Where is NOW?" Prager enjoyed seeing the Democrats punished for inventing the "independent prosecutor." Prager found hilarious that one poll found that half of Americans believe that Clinton has the "honesty and integrity" necessary to hold office. Prager says that he does not want to hear the word "impeachment," even if Clinton had the affair with Monica Lewinsky, lied about it and urged her to lie about it. Prager endorsed and echoed today's Wall Street Journal editorial. "What type of person becomes addicted?" Prager asked. He interviewed the author (Paul Fichte?) of "The Dysfunctional President: Inside the Mind of Bill Clinton," by a Southern California psychologist who discussed Clinton, an "adult child of an alcoholic… I treat adult children of alcoholics…and those with sexual compulsions… I've long had grave concerns about the President." Prager says that media coverage of the private lives of public figures discourages good people from running for office "because they do not want to be subject to a media rape. I know that I do not, and I have fewer skeletons in my closet than most people." Dennis has previously cited such reasons for not running for office as: * The loss of credibility that frequently accompanies an entrance intopolitics. * A dislike for fundraising. * The trivial concerns of much of politics, such as "alard on apples." Despite such protests, methinks Prager would run for office in a second if he thought the position worthy of his time, such as president. In the past, Dennis has said that the only political office that he would run for would be president. In 1981, Dennis began running for the Democratic nomination for his house seat, then held by Henry Waxman (?). He has told the story of a fundraiser, where after hugging an acquiantance, the man essentially acused of him of political motivations for giving the hug. "I find this stuff (sex scandals) interesting. That is normal for humans. The issue is whether the press needs to be preoccupied with it. That Americans want crap does not mean that we in the media need to provide crap." Prager says that Clinton has not dignified the office of President. He mentioned the time on MTV that Clinton was asked whether he wore boxers or briefs. "President Bush would not have been asked such a question." Dennis Prager is appearing on talk shows across the country promoting his new book HAPPINESS.... Monday night, 1-26, Prager appeared on the Stephanie Miller show on KABC, and also for an hour on a talk show on WOR radio in New York. He fielded a call from a young man who said how much he enjoyed Prager's KABC talk show and how much he longed for the show to go national. Then he asked Dennis to what extent he thought movies contributed to happiness. The last statement was the give away. Prager suddenly realized that the call was from his 15-year old son David, who was staying with Kenneth, the brother of Dennis, and their family in New Jersey.
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