[CHARLITE]

"The paper's vitriol against Klein contrasts with its first-class treatment of Kitty Kelley's works, including her recent hit book on the Bush family. Kelley's book on Nancy Reagan - in which Kelley alleged that Ronald Reagan engaged in date rape, among numerous other scurrilous allegations - made Page One coverage in the Times.

"Shall we call that liberal "pathocoverage"?"

[satchmodog9]

More proof of bias, but who reads Newsmax. When this is the header on CBS or ABC I will be impressed.

[CHARLITE]

Hillary ping!

Char :)

[benjaminjjones]

Listening to our local Boston talk radio guy, Howie Carr, interviewing Ed Klein right now.

[popdonnelly]

The liberal World view: liberals are good, conservatives are bad. Hillary Clinton is good, Ronald Reagan is bad. Kitty Kelley is good, Ed Klein is bad.

[rockrr]

I have no personal interest in this sort of book, just like I had no interest in KK's crap, but what tickles me endlessly is, despite the media blitz to quash this book, it is sitting at #2!

A serious blow to the "hearts & minds" crowd ;'}

[Ambrianna]

I bought and read the book. Unfortunately, it really is mostly crap. It was short on detail and long on opinions and descriptions. It didn't supply any more concrete info about some of the more mysterious and controversial parts of her past, just spent time reinforcing the image of her as cold and calculating, and covered mostly the Monica scandal and her college days. I am sure much better is out there.

[rod1]

Is it common practice they don't bother to review "their" best sellers? It would seem that if they don't review the most popular books they might as well eliminate publishing any reviews.

[Seaplaner]

I'm about halfway through Klein's book. It's a fairly good read (Peggy Noonan called it poorly written, I think it has some well written parts.)

Author Klein makes some interesting characterizations of Hillary, and none are flattering. He does a good job of demonstrating the chronic and reflexive mendacity and duplicity of Hillary and what's his name. It adequately portrays Hillary as socially uninterested and politically obsessed.

Yes, I know others have done a superb job of this as well. However, I can see why Hillary Rodham is leaning on the nets to avoid coverage of Klein's book. It definitely has the potential to scuttle Hillary's upcoming senate campaign.

Some here fear that the book could be a sucker punch, meaning that there might be some neatly planted source conflict mines that when conveniently "discovered" might be used to poison the wells of negative history that tenaciously "stain" the Senator.

I can't rule that out, given Klein's non-conservative pedigree and the Clintons' proclivity to produce P.R. ruses.

The other possibility (and I expect this to happen more and more within MSM) is that Mr. Klein followed his research, and revised his own opinions accordingly.

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[Lancey Howard]

It sounds like Edward Klein can be added to the growing list of former minions of the dying socialist "mainstream" news media who have simply become so disgusted that they can't take it anymore. Bernard Goldberg (author of Bias and other terrific exposes) is another standout member of that club.