Posted on 05/21/2002 11:24:27 PM PDT by stubernx98
Controversial author David Brock suffered a breakdown last summer and was committed to the psychiatric ward of Sibley Hospital in Northwest Washington, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
The breakdown came just months before Brock finalized production of his bestselling book BLINDED BY THE RIGHT -- a book that has been widely challenged on points of accuracy!
"He had delusions, he thought people were trying to kill him," reveals a source who befriended Brock last July at the hospital.
Brock told fellow patients that he did not feel safe -- even inside of the hospital's secure medical setting!
"He spent time in the ''The Quiet Room', there was just a mattress on the floor, and he had some books. He was so tired and stressed."
Reached by phone in Washington late Tuesday Brock strongly denied the hospitalization and breakdown in any way affected his ability to recall events depicted in BLINDED BY THE RIGHT. Brock strongly denied that any portion of the book was written at the hospital while he was under medical treatments, as is claimed by one source.
Publisher CROWN could not be reached late Tuesday.
Brock's book of personal observations and first-hand accounts involving various Clinton scandals and scandal players generated divided opinion.
Former President Clinton chatted up Brock's effort in Los Angeles last weekend.
"Clinton, who seems to have practically committed passages to memory, told his former aides that whenever they feel down, they should read Brock's book to illuminate anew what they were all fighting against for eight years, and as a reminder of what 'unhappy' people their counterparts on the right truly are," the LOS ANGELES TIMES reported.
But one source familiar with Brock's breakdown questioned: "With all of this, how can he be considered credible?"
Brock said by phone, "I am not going to comment on private medical matters."
Now, if you had said; "the fruit has gone bananas..." I would agree.
Or, you had said; "Brock has gone nuts but there is no evidence of him ever having any..."
Sorry, Kieth...I couldn't help myself ;-}
I don't agree. The "errors " belie a propensity to exagerate, prevaricate, distort, invent. Having read the Anita Hill book, I still think just about everything in there is true, and i have not heard anything from other sources that disproves his basic conclusions, despite your dismissal of them as "innuendo". Yet, I'm willing to toss all that in the toilet, given his obvious instability and difficulty with the truth as documented elsewhere.
Yet, we're supposed to all tell you what a wonderful truth teller this unfolder of the Right wing Conspiracy is. He's not a credible witness, despite youre shilling for him. He's a lying sack of sh!t who should stay out of the Public eye, for his own sanity, if nothing else.
You sound rather sure of yourself. Brock has lied about big things, little things, he has lied to himself, he has lied to others, many publishers on the left as well as the right distrust him. He has been an attack dog on both sides of the aisle , and then last summer he was institutionalized. If you were honest you'd just call it a draw and stop asking people to believe his pathetic therapeutic-like self-flaggelating burn-the-farm tell-all diary.
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