Shocking: Clinton's Editor Questions Memoir's Credibility: "Did you make half of that stuff up?"

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An editor working on ex-President Bill Clinton's memoirs has raised questions about the veracity of his account after reading the book's first draft.

"Did you make half of that stuff up?" the editor asked, according to Clinton's own admission during a ceremony at his Little Rock presidential library on Friday.

In little-noticed comments covered by the Associated Press, the ex-president revealed the unnamed editor's skepticism, saying, "When I first showed my editor the drafts of my memoirs, he said, 'Boy you've got a lot in here about Arkansas.'

"And I said, 'Well read it before you cut it out.'"

Then Clinton revealed, "He read it and said he laughed and cried and hooted and hollered and he said, 'Did you make half of that stuff up.'

"And I said, 'No it really happened that way.' "

In 2001, Knopf Books won the bidding war for Clinton's memoirs with a reported $12 million advance.

The ex-president's editor isn't the first to doubt his truthfulness. In 1999 Clinton was fined $90,000 and held in civil contempt for providing false and misleading answers to U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright, who presided over Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit.

A year before, Clinton became the first elected president in U.S. history to be impeached after he gave false testimony to a federal grand jury probing his attempts to obstruct justice in the Jones case.

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Clinton Reflects

[Pylot]

If you have ever read Errol Flynn's book "My Wicked Wicked Ways" you can about imagine how Bill's book will read.

[Slyfox]

It's stuff like this that gives bull crap a bad name.

I would like to extend my sincere apologies to Bull Crap everywhere.

[Jeff Chandler]

Make the bad man go away!

[F16Fighter]

An editor working on ex-President Bill Clinton's memoirs has raised questions about the veracity of his account...

The editor sould consult Lanny Davis and Sydney Blumenthal for credibility back-up.

As neutral observers, they ought to settle this crazy notion and unfounded rumors that Bill Clinton would ever distort the truth.

For heaven's sake -- the man's record is clear on this...Isn't it??

[jagrmeister]

>Did you make that up?

One day: "No, that's the way it happened."

Next day: "Yes, I did."

[Old Professer]

Penthouse, yeah, the guys with the elastic rulers.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Barf Bag Alert

[SuziQ]

So is he trying to drum up sales for his work of fiction?
I, for one, won't be reading it!

[Mark]

In 2001, Knopf Books won the bidding war for Clinton's memoirs with a reported $12 million advance.

And just how many hungry chilrun coud have been fed with that amount of money?

[Young Werther]

Speaking of which, How many copies has the Hildybeast sold so far?

[LibertarianInExile]

Well, you know that he probably donated all of it to a worthy charity...and made sure that he and his family were taken care for, gotta do that...and racked up a bit of a bill on Buddy and Socks after they wandered into traffic...and paid off those hit squads in Mena...OOPSIE, DID I SAY THAT? I MEANT, paid off those hit squads in Haiti, I MEAN, er, that is...HE NEVER HAD SEX WITH THAT WOMAN! Yeah, that's the ticket!

[UpNAtEm]

Agreed. The only time I'll believe what the Klingon says is when he says, "Guilty, your honor."

[Stefan Stackhouse]

Well, the bits about parting the Red Sea to lead Israel into the promised land and leading the French Army in the march to Moscow WERE a little over the top.

[cinFLA]

Oxford Scholars: (definition:) bright guys whose principal talent is being able to con people.

[r9etb]

NewsMax -- now there's a credible source....

[Mo1]

Then Clinton revealed, "He read it and said he laughed and cried and hooted and hollered and he said, 'Did you make half of that stuff up.'

Since The POS said this .. I'm thinking it's a ploy to get people to buy his stupid book

[Pikachu_Dad]

BINGO. You figured it out.

A week before it comes out. Spew some mis-infomration. Get us salivating over it. Bring it out. Show that it is not quite as bad as we made it out to be ...

[Brad’s Gramma]

Hope he has the same sales as Algore's book.

Last week, Hugh Hewitt said it was in the 70,000ish (I wrote it down, don't ask where) mark on Amazon.

Yep.

Sell away to the wenches on DU.

[ALS]