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Conservative monthly, founded 1967 by R. Emmett Tyrell at Indiana University.

The January 1994 issue included an article by David Brock reporting that an Arkansas state trooper claimed that then-governor Bill Clinton had screwed some woman 1991 "whom the trooper remembered only as Paula." The article generated a firestorm that gave rise to the Paula Jones lawsuit, the Ken Starr investigation, and the subsequent Lewinsky scandal.

In late 1997, billionaire conservative Richard Scaife gave $2.4 million for The American Spectator to launch what they called the "Arkansas Project" -- a four-year effort to dig up dirt on President Clinton.

Official Website:
http://www.spectator.org/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jed Babbin	Columnist	c. 1948		Human Events
Fred Barnes	TV Personality	1-Feb-1943		Fox News regular
Bob Barr	Politician	5-Nov-1948		Congressman from Georgia, 1995-2003
David Brock	Journalist	1962		Blinded by the Right
James Branch Cabell	Novelist	14-Apr-1879	5-May-1958	Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice
Christopher DeMuth	Activist	5-Aug-1946		American Enterprise Institute
Andrew Ferguson	Journalist	?		Senior Editor, The Weekly Standard
J. P. Freire	Journalist	c. 1982		Managing Editor, The American Spectator
Malcolm Gladwell	Columnist	3-Sep-1963		The Tipping Point
Sandy Hume	Journalist	c. 1969	22-Feb-1998	The Hill Correspondent, 1996-98
Michael Ledeen	Government	1-Aug-1941		Neoconservative activist
William McGurn	Government	4-Dec-1958		Chief speechwriter for Bush, 2005-08
Richard Miniter	Pundit	1967		Losing bin Laden
George Jean Nathan	Author	14-Feb-1882	8-Apr-1958	American Mercury
George Neumayr	Columnist	c. 1972		Editor, Catholic World Report
Grover Norquist	Activist	19-Oct-1956		Washington lobbyist, anti-tax crusader
Ted Olson	Government	11-Sep-1940		US Solicitor General, 2001-04
Alfred Regnery	Publisher	21-Nov-1942		The American Spectator
Richard Scaife	Activist	3-Jul-1932		The Republican George Soros
Ben Stein	Game Show Host	25-Nov-1944		Host of Win Ben Stein's Money
James Taranto	Columnist	1966		Wall Street Journal
Kenneth R. Timmerman	Journalist	4-Nov-1953		Foundation for Democracy in Iran
Emmett Tyrrell	Columnist	1943		Publisher, The American Spectator
John Von Kannon	Activist	c. 1950		Heritage Foundation
Byron York	Columnist	c. 1956		Former National Review columnist

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