Newsweek noted Bossie's upcoming "tough documentary" about Clintons, but not his past slimy tactics

[wyldwolf]

An article for the June 18 edition of Newsweek reported that Republican activist David Bossie is producing "a tough documentary" about former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) aimed at "a new generation of voters who don't remember the old Clinton wars." The article noted that Bossie "worked tirelessly as an investigator for" Rep. Dan Burton's (R-IN) House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight in the 1990s. But Newsweek failed to inform readers that Bossie's alleged actions in that post ultimately got him fired from the committee and earned him the condemnation of congressional Republicans and Democrats.

From the Newsweek article, headlined "Can Hillary Overcome Her Likability Gap?":

Some grudges just don't die. In the 1990s, David Bossie worked tirelessly as an investigator for Rep. Dan Burton's government-reform committee. Burton was a top-echelon antagonist to Bill and Hillary Clinton, leading wide-ranging investigations of Whitewater and campaign finance. All the digging didn't amount to much: six years after the Clintons left the White House, Burton is a little-heard-from member of the minority party and Hillary Clinton is the front runner to be the Democrats' nominee for president in 2008.

But Bossie is still working away. In recent months, he has returned to investigating the Clintons, this time for a tough documentary scheduled for release in theaters this fall. One of the documentary's key potential audiences: a new generation of voters who don't remember the old Clinton wars. He points out that someone who is 18 today was "4 years old when the travel-office scandal broke." These young voters, he predicts, will be hungry for Hillary dirt, new and old. "There's an enormous market for Hillary Clinton information," he tells NEWSWEEK. Other inveterate Hillary hounders agree. R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., the editor of The American Spectator who has authored multiple books on what he sees as the Clintons' sins, says there are "active research teams" looking into the New York senator. "They're out there," Tyrrell tells NEWSWEEK. "I get calls all the time."

In describing Bossie as having "worked tirelessly" on "wide-ranging investigations of Whitewater and campaign finance," Newsweek made no mention that Bossie was fired from his position on the Government Reform Committee in 1998 for his alleged role in releasing selectively edited transcripts of former Clinton administration official Webster Hubbell's prison conversations. At the time the allegations surfaced regarding the transcripts, Bossie drew sharp criticism from members of his own party, as Media Matters for America noted. According to a May 7, 1998, Washington Post article, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) told Burton, "I'm embarrassed for you, I'm embarrassed for myself, and I'm embarrassed for the (House Republican) conference at the circus that went on at your committee."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200706110005?f=h_latest

[Catherine Vincent]

1. I think this clown has no other reason to live. n/t

[flpoljunkie]

2. Shame on Newsweek! Bossie is a disgusting Rethug political operative--with a record!

[rinsd]

3. Dan Burton's toadie?

Did he set up the watermelon?

[Sapere aude]

4. Bill and Hillary give conservatives meaning to their lives it seems.

When Bush is gone I doubt we will bring him up over and over like the wing nuts do the Clintons. It is now sop for wingnuts to trash our candidates with lies and innuendo as part of their political campaigns.