Mullings by Rich Galen | Secret Decoder Ring for March 24, 2000

Maybe He Spilled Iced Tea on the Keyboard Friday, March 24, 2000

Title: "Maybe He Spilled Iced Tea on the Keyboard" See the body copy where it is explained how Gore used the "Iced Tea Defense" to explain how he did not know that the Buddhist Temple gig was a fundraiser.

"… the U.S. Justice Department - which has not exactly been …" The Justice Department, under Attorney General Janet Reno, has gone out of its way to protect the Veep. From the tortured explanation that Gore's fundraising on public property was not illegal because he was raising soft-money, to the Charles LaBella affair where she brought a highly respected member of the Justice Department in to help her decide whether an Independent Counsel should be appointed in the Buddhist Temple affair (and then fired him when he came up with the wrong conclusion), she has protected, protected, protected.

"like an owl delivering a letter at Hogwarts." From the unbelievably popular Harry Potter (and highly entertaining) series of books by J.K. Rowling. Hogwarts is the school for budding wizards and witches. At Hogwarts, letters from home are delivered via owl. For a summary of the Potter books go here.

"…Nathan Detroit?" Nathan Detroit was the lead character in the fifth longest running Broadway musical of all time, "Guys and Dolls." Detroit ran "the longest established permanent floating crap game in New York." The music and lyrics were by Frank Loesser. The book was by Abe Burroughs based

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