Sleazier than the Swifties? New "Hillary Attack Book"

[wyldwolf]

WASHINGTON, June 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A June 5 article in the British Mail on Sunday suggests that the forthcoming attack book on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is equal parts Swift Boat Veterans For Truth and Gary Aldrich.

The publisher of Edward Klein's The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President, the conservative Sentinel imprint of Penguin Putnam, has made no secret of its goal, declaring: "Just as the Swift Boat Veterans convinced millions of voters that John Kerry lacked the character to be president, Klein's book will influence everyone who is sizing up the character of Hillary Clinton."

Now, the Mail on Sunday article shows that the book is not only a Swift Vets-style political attack; it's also a lurid Gary Aldrich-style stew of sexual rumor-mongering and gay-baiting innuendo.

Thus far, U.S. media coverage of the content of the book has been limited to an excerpt in Vanity Fair and a few news reports focusing on Klein's ho-hum claims about Clinton's relationship with former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his wife Liz -- claims that the Moynihans' daughter, Maura, has refuted.

The apparent leak of the book's claims of "revolutionary lesbianism" to the British media follows a time-tested strategy of Clinton antagonists in the 1990s, who often used Fleet Street as a dumping ground for ludicrous claims that the mainstream U.S. media would not report. Often, such claims eventually made their way back to the States through right-wing outlets like the New York Post and talk radio.

Thus, the Mail on Sunday report is instructive not for what it reveals about Hillary Clinton, but for what it reveals about what Klein is really up to: ...

http://press.arrivenet.com/pol/article.php/649843.html

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. Edward Klein

A complete sleazemaster. Even bottomfeeders avoid him.

His recent literary contribution was a book about the late JFK, Jr. and his wife, attributing all sorts of things to two dead people who could neither respond nor defend. The allegations were shredded, though, by their surviving friends.

Klein's the kind of guy who gives whores the creeps.

[snowbear]

2. The storyline sounds so absurd...

..that I'm surprised the author would even create such a piece of crap.

I'll bet anything it BACKFIRES on Klein big time...

[Orangepeel]

3. I hope, but never underestimate the impact of sleaze

the whole swift boat story was absurd, too.

[LittleClarkie]

4. aka

We will lie like no one has lied before.