[thegreatbeast]

"More seriously, he charges Graham with publicizing an allegation he knew had no basis in fact: that Blumenthal orchestrated a campaign to discredit Lewinsky."
This is exactly what catapaulted Christopher Hitchens to "out" Blumenthal. Blummie was pushing the party line on Lewinski to Hitchens over lunch.
Blumenthal and SDS? Are you sure? He looks a bit young to have been involved with them.

[miss marmelstein]

I recommend that everyone go to Christopher Hitchen's website. His July Atlantic Monthly review of Blumenthal's book is posted. It has the most detailed account of the infamous lunch where Blumie talked to Hitchens about Kathleen Willy's poll numbers (and how they were about to drop).