Why Hillarygate won’t happen: "It might be Carl Bernstein who loses this time."

[wyldwolf]

A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton (Knopf) doesn't reach the bookshops until June 19, but trumpet blasts of pre-publicity are already echoing through her White House campaign. (With 640 pages, it gets a 'bestseller' initial print run of 350,000 in the US, and is being published in London by Hutchinson.)

After eight years of research and a boast of 200 interviews, Bernstein finds 'discrepancies' in the Hillary story as told by Hillary over the years, including in her own books. "He shows us for the first time the true trajectory of Hillary's life," claims publisher Sonny Mehta.

Here's a teaser: Hillary feigned surprise and faked her 'stand by your man' act when Bill suffered his first, fabled, bimbo-eruption back in the 1992 New Hampshire primary. She had known about Gennifer Flowers, Little Rock cabaret star, all along.

Bernstein will surely have to do better than that to sell another 640 pages of Clinton dirt. He has been ferreting through the papers left to the University of Arkansas by Diane Blair, Hillary's best buddy and FOB (Friend of Bill) who died of cancer in 2000. We already know that it was her hubby Jim Blair who tipped Hillary off to the $100,000 profit to be made on trading cattle futures. That is old, old stuff too.

Is there any more damage to be done? It might be Bernstein who loses this time. With Bob Woodward he may have helped the Washington Post bring down President Nixon 30 long years ago, but it has been pretty much downhill ever since...


Bernstein got writer's block and took years to produce a memoir on his relationship with his dad, and then His Holiness, a biography of Pope John Paul II which flopped.

For all the huff and puff from the publicity guys, Bernstein might be doing Hillary a favour. If he fires off a monster dud Hillary will be immunised against what is sure to be more of much-the-same...

Beloved Bill Clinton could end up back in the White House, and his wife could indeed be A Woman in Charge.

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=2&subID=1734&p=2

Like ants streaming out of an anthill... here they come...

[aquart]

1. She "faked her 'stand-by-your-man act'"?

Except she did stand by him and still does? Or did they get a secret divorce? Does the fool mean she was pissed as shit while doing it? Well, uh, we knew that. To this day I admire her ability to go thru that and never once crack in public. Grace under extreme fire.

This is Bernstein, right? The horndog who was screwing around on a pregnant Nora Ephron who got a book AND a movie with Meryl Streep out of it? Does he think Hillary should have done what Nora did?

[wyldwolf]

2. yes, it is one and the same...

[w4rma]

3. God I dread years of this BS.

It's time to turn the page on the Clintons.