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My Battle With the Clintons: I wrote a tough book on the Clinton family. Here's what happened next.
The Federalist ^ | 07/23/2014 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 07/23/2014 8:30:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

when I started to write Clinton, Inc: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine, I knew the reaction to expect. I was well aware that the former (and perhaps future) first family and its massive retinue of loyalty enforcers, professional defamers and assorted gadflies would rue my intent to examine the real Clintons—especially in my search for the real Chelsea Clinton, who until now has been a media-protected nonperson despite her aggressive public activities on her family’s behalf and despite raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars from her role as former first daughter.

MSNBC’s David Shuster learned this the hard way when he was suspended from the network for saying, “But doesn’t it seem like Chelsea’s sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?” in a live TV hit on how the former first daughter was being used by her mother’s 2008 campaign. The Clintons hit the roof over the single relatively banal comment, as I report in my book, and lobbied the head of parent company GE to get Shuster off the air.

I also had a feeling that some of the sources I spoke to, for and not-for attribution, including alleged Clinton mistresses who’ve stayed out of the press and remain loyal to Bill, would alert the Clintons to what I was doing and help them prepare a counterattack.

But even if I hadn’t known it, many, many people in Washington, on the left and right, popped up to warn me of what to expect from the Clinton PR team. Other authors—legitimate ones with serious pedigrees—who’d written about the Clintons said they were threatened and verbally attacked. Of course, nearly everyone in Washington has seen the much-vaunted Clinton PR machine in action. It’s very predictable. Here’s how it works:

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billclinton; clinton; clintoninc; clintons; danielhalper; hillary
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1 posted on 07/23/2014 8:30:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Just make sure you stay out of Fort Marcy Park.


2 posted on 07/23/2014 8:34:50 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: SeekAndFind

The only thing that didn’t ring true in this article was when the author described Hillary as “intensely likeable.”


3 posted on 07/23/2014 8:38:06 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: SeekAndFind
Halper is just promoting his book. It's old news.

/s

It actually comes across that way. It must be Bill's mind control.

4 posted on 07/23/2014 8:39:56 AM PDT by Praxeologue
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RE: The Clintons hit the roof over the single relatively banal comment, as I report in my book, and lobbied the head of parent company GE to get Shuster off the air.

Now we know that it isn’t a good thing to use the word “Pimp” and “Clinton” in the same sentence...


5 posted on 07/23/2014 8:45:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Like they say....”flak seems to get heaviest right over the target”.


6 posted on 07/23/2014 8:48:37 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m looking forward to a close up pix of “the Energizer.”


7 posted on 07/23/2014 8:48:44 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Consider yourself lucky if you live through this, Mr. Halper.


8 posted on 07/23/2014 8:50:56 AM PDT by shove_it (My real nickname is Otter)
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To: SeekAndFind
MSNBC’s David Shuster learned this the hard way when he was suspended from the network for saying, “But doesn’t it seem like Chelsea’s sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?” in a live TV hit on how the former first daughter was being used by her mother’s 2008 campaign. The Clintons hit the roof over the single relatively banal comment, as I report in my book, and lobbied the head of parent company GE to get Shuster off the air.

I despise the Clintons as much as the next guy but if I don't think that's a banal comment at all. If the networks left their slime buckets at home they might actually have to report on a Republican proposal or two sometimes.

9 posted on 07/23/2014 8:51:39 AM PDT by edwinland
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RE: Consider yourself lucky if you live through this, Mr. Halper.

Well.... Ed Klein is still alive.


10 posted on 07/23/2014 8:52:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To some nits they are the "Adorable Ones" to the more sane they remain "The Deplorable Ones" and now this family portrait.....
11 posted on 07/23/2014 8:54:19 AM PDT by yoe (.)
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Well.... Ed Klein is still alive.

... so far, it's early yet.

12 posted on 07/23/2014 8:56:38 AM PDT by shove_it (My real nickname is Otter)
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To: SeekAndFind

I predict that the new 1000 lb. gorilla will be Martin O’Malley. He will become the next Democrat nominee, IMO. Bob


13 posted on 07/23/2014 8:56:41 AM PDT by alstewartfan (Army trucks have hauled away the newly slain, Angry crowds retreat, but they'll be back again. Al S)
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Right. We’re still in the first quarter.


14 posted on 07/23/2014 8:57:41 AM PDT by alstewartfan (Army trucks have hauled away the newly slain, Angry crowds retreat, but they'll be back again. Al S)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is pure Stalinism. The Clintons learned their lessons well.


15 posted on 07/23/2014 8:59:31 AM PDT by IronJack
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RE: I predict that the new 1000 lb. gorilla will be Martin O’Malley.

This New Yorker predicts Andrew Cuomo for 2016...


16 posted on 07/23/2014 9:00:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

unbelievably my family has also had our lives personally impacted by the Clinton machine...when she was a senator.

thankfully we are now out of the situation that allowed Hllary to influence our family. Crazy stuff, but they take care of their own.


17 posted on 07/23/2014 9:03:38 AM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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>>While I was still reporting on my book, James Carville’s office called, seemingly out of the blue, to grill me on whom I’d already spoken to. I obviously refused to indulge the questioner.<<

That when he should have rep-lied with names such as Chuck Schumer, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, .................


18 posted on 07/23/2014 9:07:40 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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I talked to a retired Arkansas State Trooper and asked him about the Clinton murders. His exact words were “Everything you’ve ever heard about Bill Clinton is true.”


19 posted on 07/23/2014 9:12:26 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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Given his open war on guns, The only state west of NY and south of N.J. that Cuomo would carry is California.


20 posted on 07/23/2014 9:12:55 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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