DRUDGE: Publisher Fight Over 'Hillary In The Raw'

Drudge Report ^ | SUN APRIL 10, 2005 | Matt Drudge

[West Coast Conservative]

**Exclusive**

A book battle has broken out on Publisher's Row over the ultimate Hillary-attack!

The project being billed as "Hillary in the Raw", like you've never seen her before, is set to drop in September by liberal Ed Klein, former NYT MAGAZINE editor, VANITY FAIR, PARADE contributor and author of multiple works on the Kennedys.

"The revelations in it should sink her candidacy," a source close to Klein warns the DRUDGE REPORT.

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Last week, Clinton stalwart Ann Lewis fired off an email to supporters warning of the 'Swift Boat' tactics coming against the former first lady turned senator.

Now the coming sales pitch for ' THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She’ll Go to Become President' reads: 'Just as the swift boat veterans convinced millions of voters that John Kerry lacked the character to be president, Klein’s book will influence everyone who is sizing up the character of Hillary Clinton...

'Despite more than a dozen years in the national spotlight and more than a dozen unauthorized books about her, she has managed to keep many secrets from the public -- especially about her turbulent marriage and its impact on her career. There have been plenty of rumors about what Hillary and Bill Clinton did behind closed doors, but never a definitive book that exposes the truth. Bestselling author Edward Klein draws on rare access to inside sources to reveal what Hillary knew and when she knew it during her years as first lady. Klein’s book, embargoed until publication, will break news about the choices and calculations she has made over the years.'

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A fight has developed over the book inside the giant publishing house PENGUIN, sources tell DRUDGE.

A publishing source attending the PENGUIN sales conference last week in Connecticut describes high emotions surrounding the coming publication of 'THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY.'

There has been a bitter and hostile reaction to the book among top PENGUIN editors -- editors who last year published John Kerry's official campaign book.

One top Hillary source claims the book is nothing more than "sex and trash" from a desperate author.

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[FreeKeys]

I saw her in the raw ~ naked and puking under my apartment door.
It was hideous even 30+ years ago.

Did she look like THIS way back then (when she was "sober")?

[tet68]

The Queen of the Hill knows he's scratching around. The faithful have been told not to cooperate. She told me: "Look, some won't speak to him they will live but you got to figure some will and they will die. That's how it goes, I know that. I also know this is going to be a hit on me."

[Don Corleone]

Will it contain her Thesis?

[Rebelbase]

"One top Hillary source claims the book is nothing more than "sex and trash" from a desperate author."

I believe the trash part.

[diamond6]

I want one.

[gopwinsin04]

Hills has put the clamps down over this book. The gossip wags say wants no one she knows talking about it.

Sounds like it could have some good stuff!

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

"this is a hit piece? Smells here."
Agreed...

[fight_truth_decay]

Even conservative spokesmen are onboard the latest Kennedy family cover-up. This time the target is author, Edward Klein, who had the temerity to write an account of young John F. Kennedy, Jr., alleging that his marriage was troubled by a wife who fancied drugs and maybe even another man and suggesting that there is a common thread running through the so-called Kennedy curse.
One would think that Edward Klein is a right wing, extremist, Kennedy-hater to hear all the fuss that is being reigned down on him. Nice try, but no, he is a liberal Democrat and former editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazine. The “extremist” publication that broke his story is the snobbish Vanity Fair, not exactly a bastion of traditional values and good old, middle-American, virtue.

The first week, Kennedy friends and allies, including some television producers, scoured the guest lists looking for people who would denounce the new book.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/8/10/113521.shtml

Excerpt: deja vu

[Americanexpat]

You hit the nail on the head. The Clinton's have fallen in several vats of shit in their lives and they always come out smelling like a rose.

[mikrofon]

"It's raw, Larry .... RAW!"

[muawiyah]

I was introduced to Bill earlier that day and informed that someday he was going to be President.

Honest to gosh, back in 1992 when the Dems set up the Presidential campaign offices in an empty office building on South US 1 in Fairfax County, I ran into him at a local Jerry's. I was driving by headed North, and he was out in the parking lot hugging a local street walker ~ he saw me and waved like he recognized me!

There are other people with similar stories about his recognizing them after decades. You have to have that talent to be a politician.

[Seattle Conservative]

Don't forget to add 'and get back to doing work for the American people' or 'the American people think....'

Geez, she must have said one or the other a thousand times every time her mug and fingernails-on-the-chalkboard voice were on defending Bubba during the Lewinsky thing (which was a lot). She makes me cringe.

[GretchenM]

Too early in the election cycle for this book to do major damage.

I must say I am deeply suspicious of the timing of this.

[DoctorMichael]

To my knowledge she's STILL NEVER given a substantial interview outside of the usual incompetent, soft-balling clowns like Larry King, Katy Couric et al.

[pctech]

If this book is the expose that it claims to be, I for one will purchase it. We got the book about John Kerry, and this book will make for a matching bookend!

[AlGone2001]

There's nothing in this book to wipe her out.
If it's good enough now, it was good enough four years a go when she ran for US Senate.

[Lancey Howard]

I believe that there are a lot of Democrat politicians who would love to get Hillary out of the way. That would be one reason that Klein apparently got "insiders" to talk about Hillary Clinton in the first place.

I sure hope Klein doesn't get ambushed, though - - if one false story gets exposed, no matter how trite, the credibility of the whole book goes down the drain. I clearly remember how the dying socialist "mainstream" newsrooms treated Gary Aldrich. Anyways, it will be interesting to see Perky interview Klein (if Klein even gets invited to do Perky's show).

[pctech]

I thought the same thing, the thought of it almost made me vomit.

[Americanexpat]

Yes, it should be fun, since there is a common enemy--inlike recently, we won´t be attacking each other.

It did get pretty vicious didn´t it, stay away from the border issues.

[vox_freedom]

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