Posted on 06/22/2005 3:24:12 PM PDT by ambrose
Hillary branded liar and a lesbian
Roland Watson, Washington
June 23, 2005
HILLARY Clinton has denounced a lurid new book that brands her a serial liar and which Republicans hope will derail her White House ambitions.
The book directly challenges Senator Clinton's account of the Monica Lewinsky affair and is littered with claims about the former first lady's relationship with her husband, her sexuality and her ruthless quest for the Oval Office. Senator Clinton's officials said the book, published yesterday, was "full of blatant and vicious fabrications, contrived by someone who writes trash for cash".
The book is by Edward Klein, formerly a senior journalist with Newsweek and The New York Times, who makes no secret of his dislike for the Clintons.
It is already being embraced by conservatives mobilising against the New York senator's seemingly inevitable run for the presidency in 2008.
The provocatively titled book - The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It and How Far She'll Go to Become President - provides Democrats with a foretaste of the scrutiny, muck-raking or otherwise, to which Senator Clinton will be subjected if she wins the party's nomination.
Klein asserts that she knew for two years that her husband was having an affair with Ms Lewinsky, the intern whose liaisons with Mr Clinton led to his impeachment.
Senator Clinton has insisted that her husband told her shortly before he confessed to the Starr investigation.
"I could hardly breathe," she wrote in her autobiography. "Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him."
Her version is not credible, writes Klein. Senator Clinton had deployed a legion of loyal aides in the White House "to keep an eye on her sex-addicted husband", according to the author. He quotes a former White House aide as saying that "everyone", including the Secret Service and Senator Clinton, knew about Ms Lewinsky.
At the time, she described the pursuit of her husband and his eventual impeachment over the affair as the result of a "vast right-wing conspiracy".
Klein's unsubstantiated theory is that an admission by Senator Clinton that she knew of her husband's escapades would have confirmed the worst suspicions "that her marriage was a political arrangement rather than a true love match".
More salacious claims rest on flimsier foundations. Klein uses an anonymous source to claim that the Clintons' daughter, Chelsea, was conceived shortly after Mr Clinton told a late-night group of fellow holidaymakers in Bermuda that he was going to "rape" his wife.
The book alleges that Mr Clinton, flush with millions from his blockbuster biography last year, conducted an affair with a "stunning" divorcee in her early 40s who lived near the Clintons in New York.
Klein also resurrects ancient rumours about Senator Clinton's sexuality. Without substantiation, he relates suspicions in Arkansas that she was a lesbian or "asexual".
A broader theme, certain to crop up repeatedly, is that Senator Clinton is changing her formerly left-wing spots to try to occupy the centre ground.
Klein calls himself an independent with no political axe to grind. "I didn't go into this book ... with an agenda, " he says, but also states: "As far as I'm concerned, we've already had the Clinton presidency for its full constitutional eight years.
"I do not want to see her become president of the United States. I think that would be a dangerous thing; to have another darkly paranoid president like Richard Nixon, who has an enemies list and is inclined to do illegal things."
I didn't know that Bill wrote the book.
Hmmm. I wonder what that says about everyone who would vote for her.
Monica wrote an autobiography?
They would vote for her if she admitted that everything in the book is true.
I couldn't care less about Hillary's sex life.
What'd I'd like to know is what happened to her Rose Law Firm files, how the billing records suddenly appeared, how she pulled off that 100 grand profit on a $1000 cattle futures investment, etc., etc.,
and did she order Craig Livingstone to go through the FBI files... and did she hire him?
Well, we already KNOW she's a serial liar.....
That's where this book makes its "mistake." It comes across as a hardcover National Enquirer.
Yep.
Yep, must be that Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
I cannot think of anyone I'd rather see raked in the muck (she created) than HRC.
I'd like to know who killed Vince, where and why?
Research time........Anyone check to see what party the author has registered or donated to.....Any bets on what we'll find.
What'd I'd like to know is what happened to her Rose Law Firm files, how the billing records suddenly appeared, how she pulled off that 100 grand profit on a $1000 cattle futures investment, etc., etc.,
To the religiocons, sex is the root of all evil. to the restofuscons, POWER and Money, aka 'mammon' is the root of all evil. I think to focus on sex when treason and felony theft is at the root of her lifetime of power grabs, is in a word very very foolish and shortsighted.
Ambrose, thanks for getting to the root of her corruption and foundation of power issues.
Is there anything of substance in this book? If not, I have my suspicions.
I'm assuming Edward Klein will get as many TV spots as Kitty Kelly had.
< /sarcasm>
Money is the root of all evil?
Not in my Bible.
The first thing she did was to label it a Republican smear campaign. I think something is afoot.
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