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The route she used was through [her PR rep Judy] Smith, who was black, to a black actress in Hollywood, to a black member of the White House staff, who contacted me - an underground railroad eluding Lewinsky's attorneys.

Geez, isn't that politically incorrect? Doesn't this deprecate the memory of all the freedom fighters who supported the REAL underground railroad? Where's the outrage?????

Oh, this is a Clintonoid. I forgot...they get a pass.

You're right, the phrase "underground railroad" is a bit overblown, under the circumstances (unless he means that Lewinsky's attorneys - the ones they were trying to avoid - were carrying shotguns and had packs of dogs in hot pursuit). Whoopi certainly is a good guess. I wonder if we'll ever know. Maybe the black actress in question was some friend of Vernon Jordan's.

From the WashPost:

Former White House counselor Sidney Blumenthal's long-awaited [really??] memoir, "The Clinton Wars," is said to be picking up favorable reviews in coming weeks. It's what they call, in the P.R. biz, "an intimate portrait" of Blumenthal's key role in shaping the Clinton presidency. You can tell that just from the pictures. There are photographs of President Bill Clinton and Blumenthal on the front and back of the dust jacket.

In all, the book has 25 photos of people, and Blumenthal is in 18 of them, often dispensing wisdom to an attentive Clinton. (Clinton is seen without Blumenthal in a few photos, such as while giving the State of the Union address.) There's one picture of Blumenthal's empty White House office, which displays on the wall The Washington Post's front-page headline "Clinton Acquitted," and then, "above the picture, the President wrote: 'To Sid, Thanks, Bill Clinton.'"