The tip-off came when he denied being an anti-Semite in an interview with Diane Sawyer in the publicity run-up to "The Passion." This is known as the Richard Nixon "I am not a crook" principle: When you get to the point you have to declare your innocence on network television, you are probably guilty.
Why didn't the author call this the Bubba "I didn't have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky" principle? I might have bought his analogy.