text: No matter how carefully Starr 's sympathizers explained the distinction between the two cases--and even the superior gravity of the criminal case over the civil case--journalists fell back on the Clintonite spin that , as Tom Brokaw put it , Starr 's probe grew out of the Paula Jones case and had therefore lost its viability .
  
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  Starr has been angry at Clinton ever since he ran over his foot with a golf cart .