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The trouble is that Stephanopoulos himself helped propagate those lies in the first place. During the 1992 campaign, when Gennifer Flowers first brought Clinton’s philandering to public attention, Stephanopoulos–as Clinton’s chief spinner, distracter, and all-around bullshit artist–played a crucial role in discrediting Flowers and anyone else who tried to point out the truth, namely that Clinton had a disturbing zipper problem. (Don’t say Stephanopoulos didn’t know. Again, he’s not a fool.) Simply put, Stephanopoulos did as much as any man to get the country into the mess he now so telegenically laments. The 1993 documentary The War Room captures some of his efforts on tape. Early in the film, with the Flowers crisis in full bloom, Sam Donaldson interviews Stephanopoulos, who blames it all on the “Republican attack machine.” “Gov. Clinton has no character problem,” Stephanopoulos declares. Donaldson suggests that on 60 Minutes Clinton had admitted to infidelity. “He said he had problems in his marriage,” says Stephanopoulos, correcting Donaldson’s deviation from the pre-scripted fudge-phrase of the day.