by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 2, 1998

Like Johnnie Cochran and the “dream team” that prevented justice from being done in the O.J. Simpson trial, Hillary Clinton seems to have mastered the “O.J. defense.”
The essence of this defense is first to change the subject from the guilt of the accused to the character of the accusers, second, to suggest a sinister plot, and third, to appeal to the jury’s innate bias.

In O.J.’s trial, the race card was played. A crass appeal was made to black jurors to use the verdict to punish an allegedly racist LAPD, which supposedly had framed O.J., by turning Simpson loose.