You might say that Stephanopoulos helped invent the philander-protection techniques that seem to have made Clinton so overconfident of his ability to not get caught. He was one of Clinton's principal enablers, to use a word employed by Maureen Dowd in today's New York Times.
Stephanopoulos helped invent the philander-protection techniques that made Clinton so confident of his ability to not get caught. He was one of Clinton's principal enablers.