Posted on 10/21/2003 1:46:44 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
It's beginning to look as if the New York Times can't help being naughty it's somehow become part of its nature to commit outrageous offenses against fairness, decency and balance. This time it's a shameful conflict of interest caught by the New York Post: A book review trashing Nigel Hamilton's "Bill Clinton, An American Journey; Great Expectations" written by one Todd S. Purdom, whom the Times doesn't bother to tell its readers is the husband of Bill Clinton's onetime adoring press secretary Dee Dee Myers. The Post's must-read Page Six quotes one observer as noting: "It is the equivalent of allowing the wife of Ari Fleischer to review an anti-Bush book." The Post goes on to explain that Myers who it says is "known in some circles as 'the Joseph Goebbels of the first Clinton administration' married Purdum, who covered the Clinton White House for the Times, in 1997, well after she had resigned as press secretary. "This is not up to the standards one would expect at the New York Times," author Nigel Hamilton complained. In the Times review, Purdum wrote that the Clinton book "offers only the faintest pretense of originality. It is almost completely a reheated buffet of previously published material from the already groaning steam table of Clinton scholarship, scandal-mongering and supposition." Purdum however, found a quote from Betsey Wright, Clinton's former chief of staff, who coined the term "bimbo eruptions," worth repeating. He reports that she said that Clinton's womanizing had "nothing to do with sex" and everything to do with "this inferiority complex . . . I think he's spent his entire life being scared that he was white trash." In retrospect, his fears were not unfounded.
Say it isn't so, Ethel!
Purdum however, found a quote from Betsey Wright, Clinton's former chief of staff, who coined the term "bimbo eruptions," worth repeating.
He reports that she said that Clinton's womanizing had "nothing to do with sex" and everything to do with "this inferiority complex . . . I think he's spent his entire life being scared that he was white trash."
Huh? And so, to prove he WASN'T white trash, he prowled the trailer parks? I don't believe it.
"He only does it to annoy / Because he knows it teases."
Schadenfreude |
Yeah. How is it that the same line that condemns rapists, somehow excuses him? Oh, I just remembered, he was our first black president.
Yes, but do you like him?
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