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As the Biden-Clinton chatter swirls, best-selling author Edward Klein says the White House has “put out feelers” to the Clinton camp about the veep spot. Here’s the transcript from CNBC’s The Kudlow Report: KLEIN: Larry, just before we went on the air tonight, I checked with my sources in the Clinton camp and I took notes because I want to be careful. And here is what they told me: Up until just a couple of weeks ago, the White House was putting out feelers to see if Hillary would accept the vice-presidential nod and replace Joe Biden. Bill Clinton was,...

MAY 30, 2012 The Chicago Way Obama’s coterie of insiders is worth a closer look this time around. By John Fund Every president comes to Washington with a coterie of outside advisers, friends, and fixers they’ve picked up during the course of a career. Eventually one or more of them becomes controversial. Richard Nixon had Bebe Rebozo. Jimmy Carter had his brother Billy and Bert Lance. Ronald Reagan had Mike Deaver. Bill Clinton had many trailing after him — they became the menagerie implicated in Whitewater and Monicagate. But Barack Obama’s inner circle has almost completely escaped close scrutiny since...

On an appearance on Sean Hannity’s radio show on Monday, “The Amateur” author Edward Klein revealed the name of a close ally of President Barack Obama that his book alleges offered a $150,000 bribe to Rev. Jeremiah Wright to be quiet until after the 2008 election. “Well, what happened is that after ABC’s Brian Ross broadcast the video tapes of the Rev. Wright ‘God damning America’ and slamming whites and slamming Jews and America, he was contacted by one of Obama’s closest personal friends — a guy who travels on Obama’s plane, who plays basketball with him, who goes on...

Hillary Rodham Clinton is frigid. No, she's a lesbian. No, wait: She had a torrid affair with her husband's deputy counsel, Vince Foster, who committed suicide after realizing the first lady could no longer be his ''intimate friend." There's a danger when you throw together rumor, innuendo, mind reading, and unsubstantiated blind quotes from sources who overtly hate your subject. And it's not just the risk of looking (as Edward Klein does) like an author devoid of credibility. Klein's attempt at a breathy tell-all about the former first lady and current New York senator, ''The Truth About Hillary," leaves a...

Numerous media reports claim that both conservatives and liberals are shying away from the controversial new biography "The Truth About Hillary" by Edward Klein. But if Klein's reception in Washington is any barometer, conservatives are embracing both the book and the one-time liberal editor who has defected with a tell-all about the former first lady. Last Wednesday Klein was the VIP guest speaker at the two most important weekly conservative strategy sessions: one hosted by Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, and the other by Paul Weyrich, long-time head of the Free Congress Foundation. Both groups draw top...

Edward Klein's new book, ''The Truth About Hillary,'' is not a biography, to be evaluated in terms of how well or poorly it relates to real events or a real person; it is something much more revealing -- a kind of cultural dreamwork, like that in 18th-century penny ballads that linked real political figures to folklore, giving them supernatural traits. In the stories that Klein tells, we can clearly see the collective unconscious of our culture at work, throwing up vivid, even lurid fantasies that emerge out of the shifting balance of power between women and men.

The New York Times has egg on its face over its manipulative coverage about the success of Edward Klein's new book, "The Truth About Hillary." But don't expect it to admit to its bias anytime soon. Last Sunday the New York Times "Week in Review" reported that sales for Ed Klein's book, "The Truth About Hillary," were dropping dramatically. "After a strong start, it's sinking," Times reporter Edward Wyatt claimed. Wyatt then added, "Maybe the truth about Hillary Clinton is not that interesting after all." Wyatt made the claim though the book immediately hit his paper's best-seller list the first...

Just a year out of law school, Hillary Clinton got an expert education in the political art of damage control, working for the House Watergate Committee where her job was to keep President Nixon's lawyers from introducing even worse abuses of power committed by President Kennedy. So says Edward Klein, author of the runaway bestseller, "The Truth About Hillary." Just a year out of law school, Hillary Clinton got an expert education in the political art of damage control, working for the House Watergate Committee where her job was to keep President Nixon's lawyers from introducing even worse abuses of...

Mike Rosen will be interviewing 'Truth About Hillary' author Edward Klein in the 10 o'clock hour on his radio show here in Denver on 850am KOA. (That's 10pm mountain, noon ET) You can listen live at http://www.850koa.com(no registration required, just click Listen Live on the left side of the page)

Despite the enormous hype surrounding Edward Klein's scathing and hearsay-filled book about Hillary Rodham Clinton, the author has been ignored by all but two television talk shows. This collective cold shoulder hasn't stopped "The Truth About Hillary" from hitting No. 2 yesterday on the coveted New York Times list. "It's the biggest example to date of how major media censorship doesn't stop a book anymore from being a bestseller," Klein declares. .... "It's just been a total blackout," says Klein, adding that talk radio and some Web sites, including the Drudge Report, have driven sales of the book. "I definitely...

Edward Klein's book "The Truth About Hillary" has made the New York Times best-seller list for the second week in a row - a development that has the Times book review spitting mad. As NewsMax reported over a week ago, Klein debuted on the Times list this week in the No. 2 slot. Despite an orchestrated campaign to keep Klein off major TV talk shows, NewsMax has learned that the best-selling author will be on the Times list next week as well, in the No. 4 position. The liberal Gray Lady apparently doesn't like the fact that one of its...

Edward Klein's book "The Truth About Hillary" has made the New York Times best-seller list for the second week in a row - a development that has the Times book review spitting mad. As NewsMax reported over a week ago, Klein debuted on the Times list this week in the No. 2 slot. Despite an orchestrated campaign to keep Klein off major TV talk shows, NewsMax has learned that the best-selling author will be on the Times list next week as well, in the No. 4 position. The liberal Gray Lady apparently doesn't like the fact that one of its...

Klein says he was booked on a number of television shows and, with the exception of Lou Dobbs of CNN and Sean Hannity of Fox News, he has been cancelled everywhere else. Klein’s critics point to his use of anonymous sources throughout the piece. HE: What do you think about the people who say, “It’s a great book, but he used people who weren’t willing to go on the record and so that discredits his book”? Klein: “Well, they don’t say that about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein about Watergate do they? …If you’re writing about someone who is extremely...

HILLARY'S SECRET WAR Hillary's plan to silence Internet journalists Posted: July 6, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: The following is an eye-opening sneak preview of New York Times best-selling author Richard Poe's revealing book, "Hillary's Secret War." Whereas Edward Klein's book on the New York senator reveals previously unknown aspects of her personal life, Poe's expose focuses on how Hillary Clinton and the left's "shadow government" have labored to put her and her far-left agenda in the White House by controlling the still-uncensored flow of real news to Americans – via the Internet. If that sounds too fantastic...

Below is Richard Poe's review of Edward Klein's The Truth About Hillary. To see his exclusive interview with Edward Klein, click here. The Truth About Hillary What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She’ll Go To Become President By Edward Klein (Sentinel, 2005) Can Hillary win the presidency in 2008? Yes, warns Edward Klein. In his new book, The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She’ll Go to Become President, Klein makes the case that, unless Republicans wake from their slumber, 2008 could well see a restoration of the Clinton...

FrontPage Interviews Edward Klein By Richard Poe FrontPageMagazine.com | July 5, 2005 Below is Richard Poe's exclusive interview with author Edward Klein. To read his review of Klein's book The Truth About Hillary, click here. They say it takes a thief to catch a thief. After all these years, it may turn out to be Edward Klein — a pillar of the Old Media establishment — who finally succeeds in getting the truth out about Hillary. Legions of conservative writers (your faithful correspondent included) have written books exposing Hillary’s radical agenda and dictatorial methods. But our efforts have faired poorly...

Below is Richard Poe's review of Edward Klein's The Truth About Hillary. To see his exclusive interview with Edward Klein, click here.Can Hillary win the presidency in 2008?  Yes, warns Edward Klein.  In his new book, The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She’ll Go to Become President, Klein makes the case that, unless Republicans wake from their slumber, 2008 could well see a restoration of the Clinton co-presidency.  Hillary would then have a shot at "sixteen years in the White House — the longest incumbency since Franklin Delano Roosevelt."

Interestingly, the newly released book by Edward Klein, "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President," leaves no one on the fence. Liberal editorials rant about how the former editor of the New York Times' Sunday Magazine, former Newsweek staffer and contributor to Vanity Fair has now shed his Dem credentials and joined the "vast right-wing conspiracy." For example, Tina Brown christened Klein "Ed Slime" and referred to the book as "bio-porn." (As an aside, Klein responded to the New York Post by labeling Brown a "has-been.") Negative comments...

In what may be an unprecedented act of media censorship, several major TV and cable networks – including NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, Fox and CNN - have cancelled planned appearances of the author of the new, red hot book on Hillary Clinton. Edward Klein's sizzling new biography "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It and How Far She'll Go to Become President" has caused a storm of controversy after Sen. Clinton lashed out at it. Her aide called the book "full of blatant and vicious fabrications contrived by someone who writes trash for cash." [Editor's Note:...

On Sunday, June 26 at 11:00 am and at 11:00 pm The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President Edward Klein Description: Author Edward Klein appears on the Jim Bohannon Show, a live radio call-in show, to discuss the life and political prospects of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY). Mr. Klein is the author of "The Truth about Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President." Author Bio: Edward Klein is the former foreign editor of Newsweek and former editor-in-chief of The...

About once a year I review a book in this column that ought to be required reading for people who care about politics. Edward Klein's "The Truth About Hillary" is such a book. The pre-publication leak about the book — that Bill Clinton had allegedly talked about raping his wife — was off-putting for me. I don't usually waste my time reading salacious scandal books from the left or the right. But I was advised to take a look at this book, which I read last weekend. It was worth my time. This is not a scandal book intended merely...

In what may be an unprecedented act of media censorship, several major TV and cable networks – including NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, Fox and CNN -- have cancelled planned appearances of the author of the new, red hot book on Hillary Clinton. Edward Klein's sizzling new biography "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It and How Far She'll Go to Become President" has caused a storm of controversy after Sen. Clinton lashed out at it. Her aide called the book "full of blatant and vicious fabrications contrived by someone who writes trash for cash." [Editor's Note:...

"THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY" AUTHOR, Edward Klein, to be interviewed by John Gibson TODAY, 5PM ET ON FOX

How nasty is The Truth About Hillary, Edward Klein's new biography of the former first lady? Let's just say that Monica Lewinsky appears on Page 1, groping Bill Clinton's crotch at the rope line outside a cocktail reception for his 50th birthday. Klein, who used to edit the New York Times Magazine and now churns out books on the Kennedys, includes tawdry Hillary tidbits that he gathered in interviews with mostly anonymous sources ranging from Hillary's first boyfriend to high-ranking White House staffers. Clinton's spokesman, Philippe Reines, told Reuters, "This is a book full of blatant and vicious fabrications contrived...

The author of a book aimed at hurting a potential White House run by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Tuesday she would be a "dangerous" president as critics slammed his reporting as flawed muckraking. Edward Klein's "The Truth About Hillary," published on Tuesday by Penguin's conservative Sentinel imprint, portrays Clinton as a ruthless and ambitious woman who will stop at nothing to become president like her husband. "I didn't go into this book ... with an agenda," Klein said, citing his 40 years as an "independent" journalist at places such as The New York Times' magazine and Newsweek. Nevertheless,...

RUSH: It's kind of like what's happening here with this Ed Klein book. Exactly what I predicted is happening. The media is creating a backlash about this book before the book even comes out. The book came out yesterday. This Klein guy is having a tough time getting on TV for any interviews. The press is not curious about what he's saying. They're circling the wagons trying to defend Hillary, but in addition to that -- and this is where the similarity to the Durbin business came in. In addition to that a whole bunch of conservative pundits are out...

Hillary hit by sex smears in best-seller By Francis Harris in Washington (Filed: 22/06/2005) A muck-raking account of Senator Hillary Clinton's life soared into the American best-seller lists within hours of its release yesterday. But the book, The Truth About Hillary by a former New York Times journalist, Edward Klein, divided America's Clinton-hating Right. Some prominent figures branded it nasty and counter-productive. Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton Right-wing websites had claimed the book would torpedo Mrs Clinton's widely anticipated candidacy for the presidency in 2008 and it hit number two on the Amazon.com non-fiction list. Publishers have printed 350,000 copies. The...

Talk show host Sean Hannity broke the media censorship of the details of the new book by Edward Klein, "The Truth About Hillary. But one of the nations top conservative talker said the book had ingited a "huge controversy and that even he was under enormous pressure to cancel his planned interviews with Klein for his ABC syndicated radio program and Fox News TV show. "I've had more political pressure than I've ever had in all my years in radio, Hannity said to Klein after a blockbuster 90-minute interview with the controversial author. Hannity did not elaborate the source of...

Okay, here we go. Let's see what Ed Klein has to say.

June 21, 2005 | "I'm not being used by anybody," said Edward Klein, author of the book "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President," published today by Sentinel, a conservative imprint of publishing behemoth Penguin Group. Klein was responding to a question about whether the right wing was using his past work at supposedly liberal institutions like the New York Times and Newsweek to lend authority to his book's assertions about Hillary Clinton, which many are calling shoddily reported and nastily personal. "I worked for the organizations that...

Edward Klein, the veteran editor who authored the new book "The Truth About Hillary" has vigorously defended his work – and says he does not allege that Bill Clinton "raped” his wife. And, in a new round of shrill denunciations, Sen. Clinton’s office blasted Klein in a desperate bid to quash interest in the book as it was officially released Tuesday. "Let's set the record straight here," Klein told the National Review Online. "I don't make [the rape] claim in the book. I included the story about their 1979 trip to Bermuda because Hillary herself brings it up and spins...

New book claims the NY Senator is a Lesbian A new book by Edward Klein, The Truth About Hillary is said to make some claims about Hillary Clinton having lesbian relationships. Is Hillary Clinton a lesbian? At least one woman who is named as one of her lesbian lovers says, "No!" Nancy Pietrafesa attended college with Hillary Clinton and the two were close friends. Rumors have circulated about their relationship, some claiming they were lesbian lovers. Pietrafesa, who has been married to her husband for 35 years and has three children says this is absolutely not true. Pietrafesa was quoted...

Conservative groups are promoting a Hillary Rodham Clinton (search) biography that hits bookstores Tuesday as a work so damning it could destroy any possible bid for the presidency in 2008. The 305-page book, "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President," by Edward Klein, portrays the New York senator as a ruthless and ambitious woman who would stop at nothing to protect her husband's presidency and promote a Clinton II administration headed by her. While promotional material from Sentinel books, a conservative imprint launched by the Penguin Group, promises...

TThe Clintons will always make headlines — for both their larger-than-life aspects and the simple facts of presidential history (and future presidential history?). The prospect of the former First Lady and current junior-but-star senator Hillary Clinton running for and (sit down) possibly becoming president has in part meant a little bit of a publishing bonanza of Hillary books. Among the most talked about — if not the most talked about — is one coming out this Tuesday: The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Got to Become President by Edward Klein, published...

The Clintons will always make headlines — for both their larger-than-life aspects and the simple facts of presidential history (and future presidential history?). The prospect of the former First Lady and current junior-but-star senator Hillary Clinton running for and (sit down) possibly becoming president has in part meant a little bit of a publishing bonanza of Hillary books. Among the most talked about — if not the most talked about — is one coming out this Tuesday: The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Got to Become President by Edward Klein, published...

NewsMax has learned that Edward Klein, the author of the controversial new book about Hillary Clinton will break his silence this Tuesday in exclusive interviews with Sean Hannity. The highly anticipated book that has outraged Hillary Clinton and her closest friends will be officially released that day. Klein's first interview will be on Hannity's nationally syndicated ABC Radio Network show - heard over 400 stations. Later Tuesday night, Klein will again be interviewed by Hannity on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" program. Expect fireworks from Hillary friend and Hannity co-host Alan Colmes. The book is so hot it has...

NewsMax got serious notice Friday in the New York Times for its coverage and promotion of the new, controversial biography of Hillary Clinton. But the Times has bought into the spin liberals have tried to put on "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President" by Edward Klein. The newspaper quotes a journalist who says the book "has the feel of a ginned-up right-wing effort to smear anybody who is seen by the right as politically threatening." What the Times doesn't mention is that Klein is anything but a...

Clinton-Reviled Author Ed Klein Becomes An Issue by Sheelah Kolhatkar This week Edward Klein, brandishing his credentials as the former editor of The New York Times Magazine and the former assistant managing editor at Newsweek, became the pariah of the world that made him—in an era when media villains aren’t hard to find. There were still only hints on the eve of the book’s release at the sort of reading experience one can expect from The Truth About Hillary, scheduled to hit bookstores on June 21. A carefully managed series of leaks about Mr. Klein’s forthcoming book about Hillary Clinton...

Hillary Clinton has recast her image in U.S. Senate as a moderate Democrat, but some of her political alliances may still haunt her. According to Ed Klein's new book "The Truth About Hillary" – set to be released in just days --Mrs. Clinton's chief political guru throughout the White House years and during her first campaign for the Senate was none other than Susan Thomases. "Thomases was a bred-in-the-bone leftist," Klein says, in excerpts published in Vanity Fair. She was also "a screamer of obscenities," Klein says of the tough talking feminist. Klein says Thomases, who played a key role...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most polarizing figure in American politics. The former First Lady turned senator is almost certainly going to run for president in 2008. Despite more than a dozen years in the national spotlight and more than a dozen unauthorized books about her, she has managed to keep many secrets from the public -- especially about her turbulent marriage and its impact on her career. There have been plenty of rumors about what Hillary and Bill Clinton did behind closed doors, but never a definitive book that exposes the truth. Bestselling author Edward Klein draws on rare...

Hello, everyone! Ordinarily I wouldn't dream of reading Vanity Fair but supposedly the July 2005 issue will contain the story about Mark Felt AND the excerpt from the new Klein book about Madame Hillary. Ought to be some interesting reading. Does anybody know when that issue will hit newsstands? Before anybody gets on my case about Vanity Fair, just remember it's always good to know what your adversary is thinking...

The conservative buzz about Edward Klein's forthcoming book on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton began two months ago, when Internet gossip Matt Drudge quoted "a source close to Klein" as warning that the book's revelations "should sink her candidacy." "The sources say the revelations inside could torpedo Hillary Clinton's chances at a run at the White House," said MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman. The book "could prove a roadblock" to the New York senator's White House ambitions, said the Washington Times. Well, maybe. But an excerpt from July's Vanity Fair is less than devastating. Klein reports that then-Sen. Daniel...

NEW YORK (CBS) A spokesman for Sen. Hillary Clinton is branding a new book about the New York Democrat as being "full of blatant fabrications." Edward Klein, in his book "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President," says Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan - who publicly championed her 2000 race for the Senate - was privately less enthused about the former First Lady. According to an excerpt in July's Vanity Fair magazine, both Moynihan and his wife, Liz, felt disdain for the aspiring senator and didn't trust them when...

Moynihan with Clinton in 1999. Photo: Alan Solomon ....Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his wife despised a "duplicitous" and ruthless Hillary Rodham Clinton, who they believed would do anything to advance herself, according to a bombshell new book. "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Be come President," by Edward Klein, is excerpted in Vanity Fair and slated to roll off the presses later this month. Sen. Moynihan's wife, Liz, griped to a friend that a "duplicitous" Clinton "would say or do anything that would forward her ambitions"........."She can...

Q: Before the election, Alec Baldwin; Rosie O'Donnell Janeane Garafalo, Whoopi Goldberg; Al Franken; Cher; Phil Donahue; Rob Reiner, Barbra Streisand; and Jan Fonda all promised to move from the U.S, if President Bush were re-elected. Who left, and where are they now?? - Stuart Posselt, Minden, Nev. All still live in the good old USA. None seriously considered moving, and our research turned up no public "promises." That list was spread on the web and in print,perhaps to impugn the patriotism of these outspoken liberals (Bold added)

Explosive Book's Publishing Date Pushed Up

NewsMax has learned that a new book about Hillary Clinton is being rushed into print months ahead of schedule and Vanity Fair magazine will soon publish an excerpt of the work. Publishing insiders say the book and its revelations could destroy her bid to run for the presidency in 2008. The tell-all book by Edward Klein, "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President," was originally slated for publication in September. But the publisher, the Sentinel imprint of the Penguin Group, has moved up the publication date to June...

Borrowing a page from President Bush, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton told a Boston audience this week that prayer has always played a meaningful role in her life - though accounts from her days as a student radical suggest that's probably not true. "I've always been a praying person," Clinton told a crowd of more than 500, including many religious leaders, at Boston's Fairmont Copley Plaza. According to the Boston Globe, the newly religious former first lady "invoked God more than half a dozen times" as she urged society to accommodate religious people who "live out their faith in the...

You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends tell us that the two are cheering Sis on and say she's making all the moves to get ready for the race--presuming she is re-elected by New Yorkers in 2006.