"Mrs. Clinton herself has long battled a tendency to beef up, but in perhaps the most astonishing revelation in the book, ''several of her Wellesley College classmates, who played sports with Hillary, described how she looked in a T-shirt and shorts,'' and according to them, ''she had a tiny waist, slim legs and ankles, and small buttocks.'' "
The reviewer writes a patently dishonest review taking things out of their context to attempt to make Klein's book look ludicrious. While Klein's book may not be the greatest piece of prose ever written and indeed has certain sleazy aspects to it, there are many aspects of the book that make it an interesting read--and an important cautionary tale about a terribly damaged and an emotionally unhealthy person who wants to become president.
However the hatchet job done by this New York Slimes review doesn't even attempt to deal with the book on its merits or in anything but a smarmy and sarcastic fashion. I could take that if it wasn't for the deliberate dishonesty and misrepresentation of the contents by the reviewer. The above situation about observations regarding Hillary's figure while at Wellsley is but one example. Klein makes mention of the above not to say as this New York Slimes reviewer claims that Hillary is pandering to fat people. Klein never intimates any such thing. And if this Slimes reviewer honestly came away with that interpretation, then he's a terribly intellectually-stunted person.
Klein mentions the above about Hillary's college physique in discussing that she may be suffering from a disease that has caused her to gain weight in her lower extremities, the exact name of which escapes me at the moment. This is not a central focus of Klein's book nor a foremost revelation in it. Indeed it consumes one short paragraph.
That this idiot Clinton shill reviewer chooses to focus on that to the exclusion of more pertinent and damaging revelations, and does so out of context, shows his intellectual dishonesty. I notice he ignores the more weighty charges against Hillary in this book to focus on what he can make look the most petty and irrelevent, even if it happens to take up less than a paragraph of the book.
I wonder if this same Slimes reviewer showed so much incredulity about Kitty Kelly's slander piece on the Bush family. I'm guessing not.
Now thats a fair and honest review....Thanks MikeA
Agreed, but if any sleeze is attributable to Klein's treatment, rather than that which is inherent to discussing Senator Clinton, I didn't catch it.
Klein mentions the above about Hillary's college physique in discussing that she may be suffering from a disease that has caused her to gain weight in her lower extremities, the exact name of which escapes me at the moment.
Chronic Lymph-edema.
"... a terribly damaged and an emotionally unhealthy person who wants to become president."
I believe this is why they are circling the wagons to protect Hillary, and trying to destroy Klein in the process.
Very good. You should send this to the Slimes