On the twitter machine Chris Bowers wrote, "if you are too young to know what politics was like in the 1990's, today gives you a pretty good taste." I do think people forget just how crazy and stupid our national news media were then. It was truly insane. Literally any claim about the Clintons would be aired.
We've had some insanity since, and certainly the consequences of that insanity have sometimes been worse (Iraq war), but we really haven't matched the sheer lunacy of the Clinton era.