Happy Birthday, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is 10 years old today. It was first identified on January 27, 1998 on the morning TV program “The Today Show”, the day after Bill Clinton delivered his unpersuasive denial. The full transcript is online here. Excerpt:

[Hillary] CLINTON: … I do believe that this is a battle. I mean, look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. This is—the great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president. A few journalists have kind of caught on to it and explained it. But it has not yet been fully revealed to the American public. And actually, you know, in a bizarre sort of way, this may do it….

[Today show host Matt] LAUER: Let me take you and your husband out of this for a second. Bill and Hillary Clinton aren’t involved in this story. If an American president had an adulterous liaison in the White House and lied to cover it up, should the American people ask for his resignation?

CLINTON: Well, they should certainly be concerned about it.

LAUER: Should they ask for his resignation?

CLINTON: Well, I think that—if all that were proven true, I think that would be a very serious offense. That is not going to be proven true.

Poor Hillary was still a deceived wife at this point, not a co-conspirator in her husband's coverup, right?