In this March Madness season of religious conversion, I join David Brock (Clinton basher turned sympathizer) and Trent Lott (Starr malcontent turned sympathizer) in the mass confessional.
You know, if you listen to Sid the Sycophant in the White House, who sold Hillary on the vast Right-Wing conspiracy spin, the evidence is overwhelming that Ken Starr is Saddam Hussein without the bushy eyebrows and mustache.
Indeed, we might know more soon about Zippergate. Bill says he’ll speak before the Starr Chamber, but only if Monica goes first. As you can see, this is complicated stuff.
With that introduction, I now come before you prostrate and humble to fess up my reporting screw-ups.
First, I apologize to the wireless industry for giving Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. a free ride early on before learning what I now know and still don’t know. Maybe, had I not asked all of you to give Dr. George Carlo a second chance a year or so ago, I could have saved carriers and manufacturers a few million dollars and some heartache.
WTR’s laboratory research results, had they existed, would have come in handy last week in Hardwick where Vermonters speculated about the special glow of those exposed to cell phones and antenna towers.
Next, I apologize for parroting President Clinton, when upon signing the ’96 telecom act, promised competition would reign throughout the land. Should have known better. Hell’s Bells, there’s not going to be residential telephone competition anytime soon, if ever.
Third, I was wrong for ever using the words `small business’ in auction stories. No such thing exists in auction La La Land. Small businesses, though, typically are not in the winner’s circle. We were duped and became enablers of an FCC that talked small business but wrote policy for Big Wireless.
Fourth, I was wrong for suggesting the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau might have a bias against private wireless. I should have suggested indifference.
Fifth, I was remiss about giving so much ink to telecom free trade. The great sucking sound emanates not only from the South, but also from another region, Asia. More jobs? Whatta joke. Try massive layoffs. American telecom firms will take cheap foreign labor over American workers any day.
Ah, there, I feel better now.
