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"The Truth About Hillary," One Year Later
Front Page Magazine ^ | June 27, 2006 | Bill Steigerwald

Posted on 06/27/2006 7:12:55 PM PDT by 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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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anniversary; bookreview; clintonbook; edklein; hildibeast; hillary; hillaryclinton; truthabouthillary
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1 posted on 06/27/2006 7:12:58 PM PDT by V.Foster
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To: V.Foster

The truth about Illary is she is a Lesbo who allows her Hubby to make a FOOL out of her daily!

Thank GOD for Dem Women, else you couldn't go out and get laid by someone worth getting laid with and not having to make excuses why you got long womanly hair on your shirt and lip stick on your collar.

I love LIEberalism!~}


2 posted on 06/27/2006 7:20:02 PM PDT by funkywbr
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To: V.Foster; Mia T
That will leave a mark!

"I think a lot of what I wrote about Hillary – that she is untrustworthy, that she is a liar, that she is a sham, all of those things for which I was attacked by so many people – have now become clearer, to everyone, even to some people left-of-center, who have realized that Hillary does not have any principles but she’s only got her career in mind; that she’ll say or do anything to get elected president. And her posing as a God-fearing moderate who is against flag burning and in favor of Mom and apple pie doesn’t fool many people any longer."

3 posted on 06/27/2006 7:20:58 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: V.Foster
Q: Your next book is going to be about Katie Couric.

Wow, spending years writing about HRC, and now Couric--I don't envy this guy's gig.

4 posted on 06/27/2006 7:23:57 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: V.Foster
A: There are some conservatives who appear to be conservatives in name only, and who are more interested in sipping Chablis with their liberal friends at New York cocktail parties and out in South Hampton and East Hampton than they are in the conservative cause. Among those who I would call Chablis conservatives are people like John Podhoretz of the New York Post and Peggy Noonan, who are more concerned with how they are treated by their liberal friends than they are with their adherence to conservative principles.

Ouch.

5 posted on 06/27/2006 7:29:09 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: pollyannaish

He's certainly unafraid of people who have printing presses right at their fingertips, huh...


6 posted on 06/27/2006 8:06:27 PM PDT by Zeppo
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To: Zeppo

He seems pretty fearless in general. I've got to say that he especially appears eager to do battle with sacred cows, which is very interesting.

I heard him in interviews last year and was very, very impressed.


7 posted on 06/27/2006 8:09:01 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: dynachrome
indeed. thanx. :)


KLEIN BOOK CAUSES HILLARY TO (oops!) CONFIRM "THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY"
CLINTON'S REACTION EXPOSES FASCISTIC MINDSET, TEXTBOOK CASE OF PARANOIA + MEGALOMANIA, AND A CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT IN BROADDRICK RAPE



STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: ED KLEIN AND SUSAN ESTRICH AGREE ABOUT HILLARY


the clinton-clinton-Broaddrick kind of rape, according to Susan Estrich


HEAR CHRIS MATTHEWS + MAUREEN DOWD DEVOUR HILLARY


THE DANGER OF RUNNING VICARIOUSLY
Bill O'Reilly chews up and spits out the hillary clinton candidacy
(clip included)


ESTRICH IMPEACHED BY HER OWN WORDS,
EXPOSES STOCK HILLARY PLOY: EXPLOIT WOMEN
my amazon.com review


HEAR SUSAN ESTRICH: hillary plays 'the victim' for votes


HILLARY FLUNKED D.C. BAR EXAM
"the smartest woman in the world" sought less competitive venue


CLINTONS' DOCUMENTED ABUSE OF WOMEN


hillary clinton is a "CONGENITAL LIAR"
("I am not a crook")


Alfred E. Neuman + the threat of terrorism, according to hillary


HILLARY IS NIXON-PLUS part 1
BEWARE THE SYNERGY

Nixonian paranoia and fascistic mindset combine with
clintonian megalomania, ineptitude and, most important,
easy betrayal of America
to make hillary clinton deadly dangerous for us all.


hillary's burqa


HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM
(see descriptor morphs)


HILLARY IN AVIARY


HILLARY!?? WHAT IS THIS MORIBUND LOSER DOING IN THE POLITICAL ARENA, ANYWAY? (bill's bud explains)



COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006


8 posted on 06/27/2006 8:10:57 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: V.Foster

"former editor of the New York Times Sunday Magazine"
Was he a liberal who saw the light? He certainly couldn't get his old job back now!


9 posted on 06/27/2006 8:11:27 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: dynachrome; pollyannaish; Zeppo
Ed wrote the book for Hillary.

Everything in it is gossip -- distractions from larger issues that would slaughter Hillary's chances if they ever come up during her candidacy.

10 posted on 06/27/2006 8:13:51 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: SteveMcKing
Ok, I'll bite.

What are the larger issues?
11 posted on 06/27/2006 8:15:43 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: pollyannaish
"What are the larger issues?"

If you must ask, then do consider voting for her.

12 posted on 06/27/2006 8:17:26 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: SteveMcKing

Heh. When he writes stuff like I quoted in #3, I don't think he is on her side.


13 posted on 06/27/2006 8:21:08 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: SteveMcKing

Huh. Never would. But I just wondered if there was something new. I disagree profoundly enough on her basic philosophy that I wouldn't vote for her if she was a saint.

That said, did you read the book, or hear any interviews? It seemed to me that certain things he brought up there profoundly effect her basic philosophy and world view.

In any case, no problem. I thought you had something specific you were hoping to share. I misread your intent.

Have a good evening.


14 posted on 06/27/2006 8:22:12 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: dynachrome

I agree. Those are character traits that go further than dispelling rumors about one's behavior.

I don't think Ed is on her side in any way, shape or form.


15 posted on 06/27/2006 8:23:36 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: V.Foster

This part of the article surprised me about Peggy Noonan:

"I would call Chablis conservatives are people like John Podhoretz of the New York Post and Peggy Noonan, who are more concerned with how they are treated by their liberal friends than they are with their adherence to conservative principles."

Anyone have a different take on Peggy Noonan?


16 posted on 06/27/2006 8:29:33 PM PDT by no dems ("Mr. President: Put up that wall.")
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To: Darkwolf377
Wow, spending years writing about HRC, and now Couric--I don't envy this guy's gig.

I think he's into "pain", if you get my meaning. If you get my drift....

17 posted on 06/27/2006 8:38:50 PM PDT by llevrok (The next "greatest generation" is now.)
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To: V.Foster
Who can stop Hillary from winning the nomination? She'll have plenty of money, and all the potential rivals who have emerged so far are either washed-up has-beens like Gore and Kerry, or lightweights like Edwards, or fringe candidates like Feingold. There may be one or two less-extreme possible new candidates like Warner, but Hillary can relegate them to the status of people hoping to do well enough to be considered seriously for the VP slot.

In the final analysis what matters is winning in 2008, and the party insiders will probably see her as the best bet. Particularly those who remember Vince Foster and Ron Brown.

18 posted on 06/27/2006 8:48:24 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: V.Foster

I read the book and it is good. One of the more interesting points IMHO, was that Wellesley College has never released any copies of Hillary's Thesis. What the heck is in that Thesis? It must be some radical left-wing rant that would totally blow the "image" she has tried to cultivate over the years.


19 posted on 06/27/2006 9:00:04 PM PDT by khnyny (Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.- Winston Churchill)
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To: khnyny
A far-left rant would be good for her considering her base.

I have always wondered if it is just a poorly-written paper and perhaps plagiarized.
20 posted on 06/28/2006 5:33:17 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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