Former White House counselor Sidney Blumenthal's long-awaited [really??] memoir, "The Clinton Wars," is said to be picking up favorable reviews in coming weeks. It's what they call, in the P.R. biz, "an intimate portrait" of Blumenthal's key role in shaping the Clinton presidency. You can tell that just from the pictures. There are photographs of President Bill Clinton and Blumenthal on the front and back of the dust jacket.
In all, the book has 25 photos of people, and Blumenthal is in 18 of them, often dispensing wisdom to an attentive Clinton. (Clinton is seen without Blumenthal in a few photos, such as while giving the State of the Union address.) There's one picture of Blumenthal's empty White House office, which displays on the wall The Washington Post's front-page headline "Clinton Acquitted," and then, "above the picture, the President wrote: 'To Sid, Thanks, Bill Clinton.'"
The Liars' ClubAt least, Baghdad Bob was entertaining. The Squid was all slime.Now Blumenthal's book, you can be sure, will be full of lies and related deceptions. I have read some of it on the Web and can tell you that it reads like the kind of thing Baghdad Bob might write. Baghdad Bob had to cover for the misbehavior of his boss Saddam Hussein, and Blumenthal has to cover for the Clintons, but one might wonder why?The Clintons are recognized liars. Most of the Clinton scandals Bill Clinton brought on himself. He committed the misbehavior and then he lied about it. No one made him lie before grand juries. But then no one made Blumenthal lie in public about his grand jury appearances. Lying is a way of life with these people. Lying was a way of life with Glass and the plagiarist at the New York Times. There appears not to be much shame attached to lying in the Great Republic. It is a minor transgression, on the order of bearing false witness against one's neighbor -- another of Blumenthal's transgressions.
The Clinton Presidency being what is was isn't much to be proud of. Can what Sid dispensed to BJ be even laughingly referred to as wisdom?
May the highlight of Sid's career be that his photo with the disgraced one is used to keep dirt and filth from the covers of his sickening writing. (The rest of the dirt and filth are between the front and back covers I'm sure. There isn't a dust jacket large enough to address that problem.)
Does anyone want to volunteer to read this one?