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A A A Comments By Michael Roberts Thursday, Mar 30 2000

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As for the Ramseys, their astonishingly clever rehabilitation campaign appears to be making considerable headway, and not just on Larry King Live, where they held sway on both March 27 and 28. (Hell, even Bill Clinton usually doesn't get two days in a row.) Consider this: Reggie Rivers, who's heard afternoons on KHOW, the radio home of persistent Ramsey-basher Peter Boyles, spent two full days (and parts of others) bashing Governor Bill Owens for casting aspersions against the couple -- and the vast majority of his callers agreed with him that Owens was out of line for doing so. Moreover, the News's Charlie Roos wrote an editorial on March 27 that said practically the same thing. Can you imagine that happening three years ago? Two? One? Me, neither.

Why is this happening now? It's simple, my friends. America loves a comeback.

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Not that the Ramseys' critics have suddenly lost their voices. Witness Post columnist Chuck Green, who stated as part of a March 20 John-and-Patsy-should-be-in-shackles screed that he hoped the piece would be his last on the topic until the couple took lie-detector tests. This near-pledge held up for almost a whole week: Green's March 26 effort, "Don't Hold Breath for Boulder," charged that the community should simply order the Ramseys to take such tests rather than dillydallying.

If Green ever writes that he hopes he won't have to shoot the President, expect the man in the oval office to be eating lead before the month is out.

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