Posted on 06/23/2005 8:32:29 AM PDT by Fruit of the Spirit
Hannity Bucks Pressure on Hillary Book
Talk show host Sean Hannity broke the media censorship of the details of the new book by Edward Klein,"The Truth About Hillary."
But one of the nation's top conservative talkers said the book had ignited a "huge controversy" and that even he was under enormous pressure to cancel his planned interviews with Klein for his ABC syndicated radio program and Fox News TV show.
"I've had more political pressure than I've ever had in all my years in radio," Hannity said to Klein after a blockbuster 90-minute interview with the controversial author.
Hannity did not elaborate on the source of the pressure to cancel the planned appearance.
Nor did he apparently buckle to the pressure, explaining to his radio audience, "We deal in controversy - that's what we do here."
"I've got to tell you," Hannity told Klein midway through the interview. "Do you know the number of requests I've had to cancel you and not have you on this program? I think it was higher than any guest or controversial author we've had on this program."
"I've never in the history of this program had more demands to cancel the guest," Hannity reiterated.
But Klein quickly interjected to say that the Clinton public relations machine had successfully pressured other radio and TV outlets to cancel interviews with him.
"A number of people who have booked me on TV and radio have already canceled," Klein said. "And the reason they've canceled is because the publicity machine of the Clintons is hard at work."
On both his TV and radio shows, Hannity openly worried that the new book may backfire on conservatives since it deals with sensational personal and sexual allegations against the former first lady that he argued were not worthy of political debate.
Klein, a veteran journalist and author who has spent four decades in the media world, including major editing jobs at the New York Times and Newsweek, said he had set out to write a biography that captures Hillary's flawed character, not a political work about her.
Asked if the effort to silence him hasn't made him "afraid," Klein told Hannity: "If I weren't concerned, I'd be nuts."
"I'd be crazy," he said, adding, "Because the Clintons have a well-established career reputation of smearing other people. And I know they're out to get me and I know they're going to do everything in their power to get me."
Klein vowed, however: "They're not going to be successful."
I suppose that the lesbians she met in college don't keep in touch. And I am sure that they exert no political pressure in our society today. And I'm certain that the Clintons or Dims would never, ever try to impugn someone else's sexuality - ie, Mary Cheney, or the many 'nuts and sluts' that Hillary had to hire someone to deal with when it was Bill who was in power.
I think it is relevant, not just gossip.
Ed Klein's book and choice of photos seems so sloppy, I am beginning to think Hillary herself put him up to it.
I am not a big fan of Hannity because I am much farther to the right than he is, and I think he is too much in the hip pocket of the GOP. But I would have thought that by and large the FR crowd would like him for that reason. Why all the hostility to Hannity?
I am not a big fan of Hannity because I am much farther to the right than he is, and I think he is too much in the hip pocket of the GOP. But I would have thought that by and large the FR crowd would like him for that reason. Why all the hostility to Hannity?
I think the Bushbots like Hannity but there are alot of conservatives on FR that are fed up with Republicans. I am one of them.
there are alot of conservatives on FR that are fed up with Republicans. I am one of them.
LOL... great pic! ;-D
This comes as no surprise. Hill and her squad of flying monkeys eat their own. Ed Klein was an editor at the NYTimes, among other things. Respected by the MSM, invited to all the right soirees. Now he's toast.
I have heard similar types of stories, two or three times removed but from someone I trust.
I mentioned it once here in detail and then let it go.
What can I say? She's not a Republican running for the Senate in Illinois, so things like this will never be explored . . .
My money goes to the Constitution Party and so do my votes.
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