"The Truth About Hillary," One Year Later

Front Page Magazine ^ | June 27, 2006 | Bill Steigerwald

[V.Foster]

Veteran journalist Ed Klein, a former editor of the New York Times Sunday Magazine, caught a lot of mainstream media grief last summer when he unleashed The Truth About Hillary, his blunt and deliberately one-sided trashing of the politics and personality of Hillary Clinton. Despite the bad press it got from the liberal media -- including 13 stories on Klein in the New York Times -- the book sold more than 250,000 copies. Klein says he wasn't sued by anyone and stands by everything he wrote. Now out in paperback, the book contains a new introduction that explains how conservative talk shows, bloggers and places like Newsmax.com made him a bestseller. I talked to Klein June 20 by phone from his office in New York City.

Q: What have you learned about Hillary Clinton since your book came out?

A: That she remains consistent and has been consistent since she was 8-years-old. She developed a grandiose idea of her own self-importance and has never been shaken in that conviction throughout her years in politics.

Q: What have you learned about the mainstream media since your book came out?

A: The mainstream media, in the year since my hardcover edition came out, has fallen slightly out of love with Hillary because of her backing of the war in Iraq. And the vehemence with which they once supported her is no longer as evident. It would be no exaggeration to say that the mainstream media and the base of the Democratic Party is now actively looking for another candidate to back in 2008.

Q: So you are predicting Hillary won’t be the automatic nominee we been thinking she’ll be?

A: I think Hillary ...

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[khnyny]

[I have always wondered if it is just a poorly-written paper and perhaps plagiarized.]

I hadn't thought of that...especially considering it's from "the smartest woman in the world", lol.