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Veteran journalist Ed Klein, a former editor of the New York Times Sunday Magazine, caught a lot of mainstream media grief last summer when he unleashed The Truth About Hillary, his blunt and deliberately one-sided trashing of the politics and personality of Hillary Clinton. Despite the bad press it got from the liberal media -- including 13 stories on Klein in the New York Times -- the book sold more than 250,000 copies. Klein says he wasn't sued by anyone and stands by everything he wrote. Now out in paperback, the book contains a new introduction that explains how conservative...

The Truth About Hillary : What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President Everyone knows that Bill Clinton wanted to be President of the United States ever since he was a boy. What almost no one knows is that his wife Hillary harbored the same ambition since she was a girl -- and that her plan from the very start of their marriage was to succeed him in the Oval Office. Now, as Hillary gears up to run for President in 2008, distinguished journalist Edward Klein has produced an expose of her darkest...

hillary's burqa by Mia T, 10.6.05 $595 pantsuit and sweater, Margaret O'Leary, San Francisco. Edward Klein The Truth about Hillary:What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President "What Klein doesn't understand is that Hillary's success today depends not on an ability to be aggressively masculine, but on the exact opposite. That black pantsuit is the power woman's burqa -- a disguise for screening out, not extinguishing, distracting gender" Tina Brown pontificating on the nuances of haute couture jla unny. My Margaret-O'Leary ensemble doesn't seem to "screen out" my gender.... Tina Brown is onto...

Clicking through the radio dial on a drive through Virginia the other day, I had the occasion to listen to Bill O'Reilly posturing as a political independent who takes on the left and right. He said he had come under attack by a "right-wing" website because he wouldn't interview Ed Klein, the author of The Truth About Hillary. I presume he's referring to Accuracy in Media. We have done extensive reporting on the coverage of the Klein book and have found it strange that O'Reilly has joined with the liberal media in suppressing discussion of the serious charges in the...

Little is more annoying and transparent than conservative pundits putting on an air of elitist dignity and taking the high-minded road, adopting the posture of their "objective" liberal counterparts—at the expense of someone or something that deserves better, in this case Ed Klein's book "The Truth About Hillary." This invaluable contribution to the national dialogue in prelude to the scariest presidential race in history has been used by conservatives from Joe Scarborough and Sean Hannity to Peggy Noonan and John Podhoretz as a point of fleeting, brown-nosey, cushy convergence with their ideological adversaries, whom they mimic in shunning the book....

Longtime Hillary Clinton attack dog Sidney Blumenthal "led the charge" in the campaign to suppress the bestselling biography "The Truth About Hillary," author Ed Klein charged on Tuesday. "I've been totally 'blackouted' by the mainstream broadcast media, ABC, CBS and NBC," Klein said on a national radio show yesterday. "They all scheduled me on their shows and then, when Mrs. Clinton and her attack dogs got wind of it, they called up these TV networks and, in essence, threatened them that if they had me on, she would become less available to them." Asked if he "knew for sure that...

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...

Ed Klein was the a guest today on Sean Hannity's radio show to discuss THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY. It has been on the NY TIMES best-seller list for five weeks, much to the chagrin of Hillary and her band of thugs. One such thug is Sidney Blumenthal. Yep, Sid the Snake. In no uncertain terms, Klein told Hannity that Blumenthal has been behind the effort to keep him off mainstream shows. Klein is getting play almost exclusively on talk radio on our side of the political spectrum. His message is clear -- Hillary will do absolutely anything for political power.

TEN years ago, Kevin Costner's career took a turn for the worse when he made a hugely expensive film called ''Waterworld.'' Since then, the film has become synonymous with megalomania, hubris and all the other fancy words that journalists like to use when things fall apart and the center will not hold. But unlike his other movies ''Wyatt Earp'' and ''The Postman,'' which are really bad, ''Waterworld'' is simply a dumb, expensive dud, not an epic, studio-imploding disaster on the order of ''Heaven's Gate'' or ''Battlefield Earth.'' If you are in the market for a truly horrendous movie, one of...

Although the next presidential race is three years away, Americans are constantly being asked whom they want to see in the White House next time. A few weeks ago came a startling new development: for the first time a majority of those polled said they were likely to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton. The most optimistic observers now talk of a contest between the two most charismatic people in US politics, Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice. Dick Morris, a former adviser to Clinton, will bring out a book this October called Condi v Hillary: the Next Great Presidential Race. Such...

'The Truth About Hillary': Many a Dubious Revelation Printer-Friendly By JOE QUEENAN Published: July 31, 2005 TEN years ago, Kevin Costner's career took a turn for the worse when he made a hugely expensive film called ''Waterworld.'' Since then, the film has become synonymous with megalomania, hubris and all the other fancy words that journalists like to use when things fall apart and the center will not hold. But unlike his other movies ''Wyatt Earp'' and ''The Postman,'' which are really bad, ''Waterworld'' is simply a dumb, expensive dud, not an epic, studio-imploding disaster on the order of ''Heaven's Gate''...

1 - Clinton Administration's Bradford DeLong Says No to Hillary 2- Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him; plus, Jesse blows it 3 - Military Uniforms in the White House ======================================================================= In the Spring of 1978, during Attorney General Bill Clinton's campaign for governor, he and Hillary scheduled a joint appearance at a fund-raiser in Van Buren, a small town nestled in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Crawford County. The chairman of the Crawford County committee for the Election of Bill Clinton was an attractive thirty-five-year-old nursing home owner by the name of Juanita...

1 - Clinton Administration's Bradford DeLong Says No to Hillary 2- Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him; plus, Jesse blows it ================================================================== "Well, Brian," Hillary said after the show returned to the air, "I have been always trying to fiugre out where that [story about banning military uniforms in the White House] got started. And, again, I can't speak for the hundreds and hundreds of people who worked in the White House, and perhaps someone, in a moment of what I would consider a terrible lapse of judgment, said something or did something that then...

1 - Clinton Administration's Bradford DeLong Says No to Hillary ==================================================== Nobody had to tell Hillary what that meant. As part of Monica's immunity deal, she had given Starr's office a "GAP dress, size 12, dark blue," as the FBI report described it, and a test revealed the presence of semem. The Feds wanted to see if the DNA in the President's blood marched the DNA in the semen. "I had some conversations with people in Ken Starr's office," said a source close to the Whitewater prosecutor. "When the stain proved to be Bill's semen, I said to one...

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...

From Ed Klein's THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY -- "My two cents' worth--and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994--is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away frm the White House for the rest of her life," writes Bradford DeLong, deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury during the first Clinton administration. "Heading up health-care reform was the only major adminstrative job she ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance,...

MSNBC boss and pal of the Clintons, Rick Kaplan, has issued an order to his producers barring them from booking author Ed Klein on any of the network's shows, a source told The Post. Klein is the author of the recent scathing biography of Hillary Clinton, which de buted at No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list after it was pub lished in June despite a virtual media blackout. In addition to Kaplan's black balling, several shows, including "Good Morning America" and CNN's Paula Zahn, extended invites to Klein to appear and then later pulled the plug.

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.

Ed Klein spent an hour with Al Rantel tonight on KABC in Los Angeles. Ed is the best-selling author who has really upset Hillary and her gang of thugs with his blockbuster -- THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARYWARNING: Put garlic around your neck or hold a Crucifix I miraculously managed to get through on the telephone (what are the odds of that?). I asked Ed to comment on the Soros organization called Center for American Progesss, run by John Podesta, and its offshoot Media Matters. Media Matters is responsible for attacking Ed in the press and warning people across the nation...

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...