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Huffington Post Covered Up Bill Clinton Affair During 2008 Presidential Campaign
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | Kristinn

Posted on 01/12/2010 6:06:24 AM PST by kristinn

Huffington Post reporter Mayhill Fowler reveals today that she intentionally ignored reporting former President Bill Clinton's adulterous relationship with an unnamed mistress during his wife Hillary's campaign for the 2008 Democratic party presidential nomonation.

Fowler writes she knew the state of the Clintons' marriage had national security implications as she notes that Democratic voters were falsely comforted thinking the former two-term president would be by Hillary's side in bed at the White House when the "3 a.m." phone call came. But that was not enough for her to report the truth so the voters could decide for themselves. Huffington Post, the liberal, supposed alternative to the gatekeepers in the mainstream media became the same gatekeepers that they allegedly detested.

Fowler published the story today at the Huffington Post based on excerpts of her book, Notes from a Clueless Journalist: Media, Bias and the Great Election of 2008, available tomorrow as an E-Book on Amazon.

At the time I covered the rally in Victoria, I had decided not to follow up on another story about Bill Clinton that had come my way--one involving his longtime mistress. I mention the nature of the Clinton story with some specificity now only because months later, after the Democratic primaries, the National Enquirer wrote about the relationship. In Texas, staring this story in the face, immediately I turned aside. If I know all about this woman, then surely every national reporter does and is as wary of the story as I am. Nevertheless, I was careful never to mention anything to anybody at OffTheBus. I rationalized the refusal to follow through by telling myself that Clinton's private life was peripheral to the race. But then there came a moment in the Texas primary when the nature of the Clinton marriage suddenly appeared front and center.

A difference between Election 2008 and preceding presidential races is that only one political ad for TV had as much impact as any of half-a-dozen YouTube videos. The brilliant television ad was the "3 A.M. crisis phone call at the White House" that the Clinton Campaign ran in Texas before the primary. The Clinton team knew Texans--folks obsessed with all things big, including such big prospects as national security. So the red phone ad, as it was sometimes called, was powerful persuasion. If I heard a Texan say it once, I heard it a hundred times: thank goodness Hillary will have Bill next to her at 3 A.M. By late February, a piece that gave depth to this naïve view of the Clintons' relationship was suddenly something to think about. But in fact I never really considered it. Executing such a story could have had consequences for the mistress's children, who were still minors. There was no way I would write something that I knew in advance would mortify a high school student in front of his peers. My mother's outrage and pain at the political sex scandal that had blighted her adolescence was just too vivid a presence.

So I continued to rationalize. I told myself various truths: many different kinds of loving experiences make a good world; no one except partners themselves know what goes on behind the bedroom door. As a woman who has been married for thirty-six years, I appreciate the complicated and forgiving nature of long attachments. Nuance about the dynamic of a successful marriage had been one of the things lacking in the widely-criticized New York Times piece on John McCain's supposed infatuation with a lobbyist. Therefore, I told myself, the presence of a mistress really does not tell us all that much about the rich relationship between Bill and Hillary Clinton. But, in the end, I passed on the story for personal reasons. And I came to see that family history, which had always been a penumbra belonging to the dead, was shaping my own storytelling.

I'm calling BS (Barbra Streisand) on her rationalizations. She and the Huffington Post wanted to protect the Democrats and did not want to give conservatives the satisfaction of having been proved right yet again about the Clintons and the Democrat party.


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To: kristinn
kristinn (A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.)

Nice tagline.

121 posted on 01/12/2010 1:52:18 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: kristinn

ugh....the grifters... the gift that just keeps on giving...


122 posted on 01/12/2010 1:54:57 PM PST by gibsosa
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To: mquinn

Nah..she looks like the old very younger Hillary...someone got an old pic of Hillary to contrast?


123 posted on 01/12/2010 2:08:05 PM PST by caww
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To: kristinn
Nuance about the dynamic

Libs do love that word.

124 posted on 01/12/2010 3:59:17 PM PST by razorback-bert (Just call me mohhamed-bert when I am flying.)
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To: oldironsides

Monica Lewinsky just came out and said Slick Willy lied to the grand jury. Ya think? These people are exactly what we knew them to be long ago. Lying scumbags

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In the immortal words of Dennis Green, former NFL coach...
“They are who we thought they were!”


125 posted on 01/12/2010 4:35:13 PM PST by reaganbooster (The democrat party symbol should be the grim reaper instead of the donkey.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Huffington Post reporter Mayhill Fowler reveals today that she intentionally ignored reporting former President Bill Clinton's adulterous relationship with an unnamed mistress during his wife Hillary's campaign for the 2008 Democratic party presidential nomonation. Fowler writes she knew the state of the Clintons' marriage had national security implications as she notes that Democratic voters were falsely comforted thinking the former two-term president would be by Hillary's side in bed at the White House when the "3 a.m." phone call came. But that was not enough for her to report the truth so the voters could decide for themselves.
...but now that she stands to make a little cash, the story can be told. Thanks kristinn.
126 posted on 01/12/2010 7:46:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: Stosh
Unstated, but certain that she’s talking about Texas *Democrats*, because I’ve never had any contact with a Texan stupid enough to think that Hillary and Bill have been anywhere near the same bed for decades.

I don't think Bill and Hill have ever shared a bed (unless they were molesting some other girl together).

127 posted on 01/13/2010 12:21:47 PM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: TankerKC

This is the same woman pictured in post #43?


128 posted on 01/13/2010 6:41:56 PM PST by MHT
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To: MHT
This is the same woman pictured in post #43?

No, that is Canadian heiress Belinda Stronach, who is rumored to have been (or is?) Bill Clinton's squeeze.

129 posted on 01/13/2010 6:56:02 PM PST by TankerKC (But I used spell cheque.)
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To: Happyinmygarden

Interesting take on it, wow.


130 posted on 01/15/2010 7:47:54 PM PST by MonicaG (Thank you to our military & veterans, with love & gratitude. XOXOXO)
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