Posted on 06/27/2005 12:54:11 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Senator Hillary Clinton's office is actively trying to discourage interviewers from giving TV time to Ed Klein, author of the controversial bestseller "The Truth About Hillary," Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz confirmed on Sunday.
"A spokesman for Senator Clinton told me that when news organizations call, they do make the argument, why give this guy airtime," Kurtz said, while hosting CNN's "Reliable Sources."
Kurtz's comment is the first by a mainstream journalist acknowledging that Sen. Clinton is actively trying to suppress Klein's book in a campaign first reported by NewsMax Monday morning. After being booked on numerous TV Shows, Klein has been hit with a tidal wave of cancellations, with only one show - Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" - bucking the pressure to ignore the book.
Cable TV network sources contacted by NewsMax on Friday, however, said they hadn't been pressured to drop Klein.
Buffalo News columnist Douglas Turner suggested last week, however, that Mrs. Clinton has much of the press under her thumb, saying she "totally controls" their agenda.
"Her media operation is tightly controlled and highly protective, and not always responsive," he wrote.
"Clinton has met with the New York press corps only a couple of times since 2000," Turner noted. "By contrast with [her predecessor, Sen. Pat Moynihan's] regimen, where the reporters had a share in the agenda, Clinton totally controls it."
We're doomed!
That said, the book is garbage.
There are legitimate issues with Hillary --- whether or not Billy raped her to conceive Chelsea is not one of them.
By paying attention to the book, it allows Hillary to brush off real criticism by pointing to this straw man.
Carolyn
so THAT'S why Katie and MAtt wont give him an interview...sarcasm.
Someone ping the DUmmies and let them know that this is what real censorship looks like.
Oh yeah, Hillary is going to look like Golda Meir or Madeleine Albright by election time.
Hillary Moonbat, eeek, eek
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! LOL! (It is amazing how these networks treat her with kit gloves.)
Could you please direct me to the uncensored 10% of television coverage your watching and does it require purchasing a HDTV?
I heard Ed Klein on Jim Bohanan's show on Westwood One radio this morning...
John Kerry did the same thing to swift vets, and others who tried to air shows.
Liberal's control the media, and it SHOULD be alarming!
Hillary is just doing what what they are so used to doing, controling everything you see and hear via liberal media
I just took a flying guess that before the book tour is overwith, Ed Klein might find nitches on 10% of TV stations across America. I was calculating in some conservative local stations.
Thanks for your question! "Flying guess" is the short reply to it!
Char :)
"Her media operation is tightly controlled and highly protective,"
Ruling the MSM, Hillary is desperate to muzzle the internet. Since the Democratic minority in Congress looks to be calling the shots, I expect there will be major legislative efforts toward censorship before the next general election.
Fear and loathing of the HBeast. Will it be, as Ann C. astutely points out, another one of those conservative "surprise" best sellers?
Current member of the NYT BS list: "Boys Will Put You On A Pedestel (So They Can Look Up Your Skirt) by Philip Van Munching. Sounds like it has a lot of gravitas.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/
(I couldn't make thshup)
Well, I suggest you read it first and then comment on it. I hear sooo many things about it and who knows the truth? Only those who read it.
Have you actually read the book, or are you basing your comments on the commentary from the media...you know, the guys who can't be trusted to tell the truth?
I remember when Gary Aldrich's book "Unlimited Access" was written - the media stories were all about the supposed consentration of Aldrich on Bill sneaking out of the Whitehouse to meet up with chicks. The book was widely criticised - often by folks who hadn't read it - for it's obsessive focus on Bill's sex life. Naturally, it was suppressed by the MSM and Aldrich could not get on any of the typical talk shows to discuss what the book actually said.
Well, I obtained a copy of said text, and found that Aldrich focused Almost Not At All on Bill - the book was actually far more concerned Hillary, who, it turned out, was actually running the Whitehouse. With all the bizarre stuff that Aldrich documented, it was almost spooky the way the Bill almost faded from the picture.
I have no idea if Klein's book is Great or Trash. I suspect that Klein - a reliably liberal democrat - is a supporter of the Kennedy faction of the democratic party and is therefore aligned against Hillary. Moreover, from the few interviews of him that I have read, he really seems to believe that Hillary! is a power mad sociopath, and he doesn't want someone with said severe personality disorders anywhere near real power.
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