Posted on 04/10/2005 5:32:04 PM PDT by 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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Smells fishy to me....here we are, 3 years removed from another presidential election.
Hitlery (or her allies) could be trying to just "get the stink out" early--so that the odor is forgotten, or worse, acceptable to the electorate by the time nominating season is upon us.
The reason is .. dems are groupies .. repubs are individualists.
YUKKKK!! (Lmao)
--In reality, she has basically no people skills.--
--She doesn't need any. She's a celebrity.
She'll get all the Dem *and* Green votes in 2008. Not to mention a few million 'Oprah Moderates'.
It's going to take more than a book to stop that.--
Exactly. And it speaks volumes for the voters that make up those interest groups.
now I'll have to call in sick tomorrow....
AUTHOR DIGGING FOR NEW DIRT ON HILLARY
By CINDY ADAMS, Page Six
Tue Apr 05, 3:36 AM ET
ED KLEIN'S written a whole library just about the Kennedys. On Jackie alone, 3,000 books. Jackie as a baby, as a tot, as a teenager, before communion, after communion, Jackie engaged, Jackie married, Jackie dating, Jackie divorced, Jackie ill, Jackie gone. He nearly did one on Jackie in the next life — Shirley MacLaine would be his researcher — but he switched instead to Hillary.
As I've already reported, the man's trolling around, calling people, requesting interviews. Hillary Clinton, the rock star of the Democratic Party, has been vetted more often than Bernie Kerik so, no matter how big his shovel, I asked what new stuff could he possibly unearth.
He said: "My publisher is Sentinel, a Viking imprint. See, there'll be lots of books about her between now and 2008 when she's hot on the campaign trail, and that's why I'm coming out now. I've been at this well over a year, and my pub date's six months away. It's to be published in the fall and it's all fresh. Ninety percent of the information is absolutely new." OK.
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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 but you got to figure some will. That's how it goes, I know that. I also know this is going to be a hit on me."
http://tinyurl.com/4jtdu
Of course Democrats and limop-wristed Moderates are idiots. We know that.
But there are millions of them, and they are chomping at the bit to put Hillary on the throne.
Thank you for taking the time to post this info on Mr. Klein. Clearly a cut above Kitty:)
Yeah, I think I'll also write a book where I "confess" the worst things I've ever done.
Like I stole milk from a store for a baby that was starving, and I once picked some apples from a tree that wasn't mine.... terrible sins... right, Hillary?
Yep, and you and I never get to define what the need is and who and when gets it. Moreover, who gets to decide the "coommon good".
DING! DING! DING!
We have a winner!
I concur with your analysis; this has all the hallmarks of a puff-piece masquarading as an "in-depth" expose, even the timing. It will trot out a few minor "shocking details" (which Hillary will have 3 years to explain away), while declaring her innocent of all the serious charges that have been raised about her, thus allowing her campaign to say: "all of the Senator's 'skeletons' were shaken out of her closet in that attack book in 2005, and there's nothing more to be seen; let's move on to more important issues like national health care...."
His Bio..he is not easily swept under the rug. Post #69. He's not a nobody.
"There is also the likelihood that Klein is pulling a Dick Morris "
Wrong Klein as others have pointed out.
Regnery, WND
We're told he's a liberal who has worked for liberal publications, and has written extensively about the Kennedys, yet were to believe this is a hit piece? Smells here.
Wrong Klein. That was Joe Klein.
This author is Edward Klein.
Oops, yet we are to believe this is a hit piece? Smells here.
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