TEAM HILLARY’S LATEST SALVO




The Hillary War Machine has run a coordinated attack campaign against Ed Klein and his book, THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY, beginning before the book was even published or available for advance readings.

Team Hillary’s major ally in this anti-Klein effort?

The so-called Mainstream Media (MSM) - comprised of mostly East Coast elitist media institutions, i.e. CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, NEWSWEEK and TIME MAGAZINE - are staffed with pro-Hillary zealots and acolytes who practice what is now known as ‘advocacy journalism.’ In other words, they use their media outposts to preach a leftist political agenda - in this case, defending their latest heroine, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

1) Beginning in April - two full months before the book’s June 21 publication date - the Hillary War Machine, using cut-outs, began faxing New York State radio shows anti-Klein diatribes. I know this because one such radio host, Kevin Doran up in Hornell, New York, interviewed me and told me, “I started receiving these faxes from some PR firm about a book I had never even heard of!”

2) Then, when the first excerpt of the book appeared on June 8 in VANITY FAIR, a pro-Hillary front group, ‘Media Matters,’ began rebutting and distorting things in the book.

3) As the book hit the book stores on June 21, Ed Klein suddenly found himself ‘canceled’ from a number of TV shows that has already booked him or indicated they were “strongly leaning’ toward booking him, including Good Morning America, Paula Zahn and Aaron Brown.

CNN and Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz reported that Team Hillary was telling these MSM TV shows and networks not to book Klein - or else face the consequences of unfriendly relations with Hillary from then on.

MSNBC’s head, Rick Kaplan, a Clinton pal who overnighted in the Lincoln Bedroom, has banned Klein from appearing on any MSNBC shows.

(Team Hillary is also rounding up people to submit negative book reviews to Amazon - even if they have not read the book.)

4) Now comes the latest salvo from the Hillary War Machine: a new spin that the book - which has now been in the top ten on the New York Times bestseller list for 3 straight weeks - is actually “not doing well.”

Friday afternoon, I was contacted by a NEWSWEEK writer who told me, “I am surprised how badly the book is doing. It has fallen off quickly.”

When I replied that Klein’s book was doing very well given that Klein had been blackballed off of network TV (except for Hannity & Colmes, Lou Dobbs and John Gibson), she replied, “Oh, he’s had plenty of publicity. And the book isn’t doing as well as UNFIT FOR COMMAND (the Swift Boat vets book of last year). It is sinking quickly.”

Again I countered, “Yeah, but that book had $100 million worth of TV ads supporting it!”

Not coincidentally - and almost at the same time - Ed Klein was contacted by the NEW YORK TIMES for a piece in Sunday’s Week in Review section. Within minutes of beginning this conversation, Klein knew the theme of the story: the book is not doing well.

The reporter, Edward Wyatt, repeated virtually everything the NEWSWEEK reporter had said to me: the book’s sales were poor and “falling quickly” and not as good as UNFIT FOR COMMAND.

When Ed Klein countered that the book was now on the NY TIMES list for 3 straight weeks, Wyatt blew that off and kept the focus on his Team Hillary-directed spin: the book is not doing that well. He used the exact same words as the NEWSWEEK reporter: “drop-off,” “sinking,” and “fallen.”

Clearly Team Hillary distributed a new set of Talking Points to their media lap dogs in the MSM.

The fact is THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY is a smash success. It has sold very well; Newsmax reports it to be the single best selling book ever offered through the Newsmax online store.

The biggest story of the saga surrounding THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY is that it has exposed the fault lines in the media: the so-called MSM has shed any semblance of impartiality. The NEW YORK TIMES has shown itself to be the house organ of the Hillary for President campaign. And others follow suit just to curry favor with their latest leftist icon: Queen Hillary.

POLITICAL NOTES


1) Well, it now turns out that we have recovered the body of the fourth and final Navy Seal who died on the secret mission two weeks ago in the mountains of Afghanistan - perhaps closing in on Osama Bin Laden.

This body was not decapitated; this brave soul died in combat - not at the hands of Taliban rebels who had boasted of capturing him alive and then decapitating him.

But - and here is the rub - why is there even a ‘Taliban spokesman’ remaining?

Almost four years after the fall of the Taliban in the wake of our retaliation after 9/11, how can there still be a ‘Taliban government’ to even quote?

Four years after the fall of Nazi Germany, there was no ‘Nazi spokesman’ speaking to the media. None!

Could it be we didn’t sufficiently finish the job in Afghanistan because we were diverted to the imminent invasion of Iraq?


2) The Valerie Plame/CIA leaking case indeed has legs and won’t go away. The GW Bush-appointed special counsel, Fitzgerald, has sunk his teeth into this case. Every federal judge who has been involved - even those who want to protect reporters’ right to protect sources - have sided with forcing the truth to come out because there is something in the case that over-rides all other considerations. And we do not know what that ‘something’ is - but there are 8 redacted pages in the latest court case that must raise eyebrows.

An awful lot of energy spent if it is just mere payback to Joe Wilson for disagreeing with the Bush Administration over the State of the Union speech.

This case has surprises left. Watch it carefully.

3) Queen Hillary swept into Singapore last week to try to win the 2012 Olympics for New York. Lots of hype for her Highness.

She had absolutely no impact - or perhaps negative impact - as New York was eliminated on the second round.

Can you imagine the preening and boasting if New York had won this bid? Hillary - having just come sweeping in at the last moment to piggyback on the years of hard work done by many others - would be positively claiming - through her ‘friends’ - that it was her last minute intervention that made the difference.

Hillary - through her pals in the so-called mainstream media - has become a 900 pound political gorilla who sucks the oxygen away from everyone around her.

She is going to be a major problem in 2008 - both for the Republicans and the Democrats.

4) Ed Klein’s book - THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY - has legs, too! Despite an almost total TV boycott by pro-Hillary TV executives and producers, the book will remain at the top of the bookseller lists. Yesterday the book was #2 on the New York Times bestseller list; next week it will be #4 - not bad for a book that is only getting exposure on the Internet and talk radio.

It is almost criminal what these TV execs have tried to do with this book - simply because they like Hillary and thus don’t want anything negative said about her. What phonies these people are! These libs talk about ‘diversity’ and ‘choice’ but then censor an opinion with which they disagree. What hypocrites!

But success is the best revenge and THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY is still selling - and a few new surprises await this week. Stay tuned!

5) Illegal immigration still remains the number one political issue in this country - and yet both parties are totally afraid of even talking about it.

It may be the key issue in 2008 - just the way the backlash over gay marriage was the sleeper issue in 2004.

6) The coming Supreme Court appointments/confirmations will be very ugly. The Democrats - as they always do - will overplay their hand and come out looking bad. But so, too, the GOP and President Bush may run the risk of a long, ugly stalemate. And then the problem becomes both parties and the entire Political Establishment looks even more out of touch with the concerns of the American people.

Immigration, rising gas prices, health care costs exploding and job losses all are what most voters care passionately about. If the Supreme Court fight goes down the path of a Clarence Thomas-type fight - or the invocation of the nuclear option - then there will be severe political consequences for both parties.

And this may help pave the way for a strong Third Party candidate - ala a Perot-type - who runs against both parties in 2008.

We have a wild summer ahead of us!

KLEIN BOOK VICTORY



The stunning news that Ed Klein’s book, THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY, has reached the coveted number 2 spot on the prestigious New York Times bestseller list for July 10 is a huge victory for some - and a shattering defeat for others.

Let us examine:

Winners:

1) Ed Klein, the author, who has been relentlessly trashed by the Clinton Spin Machine, has now been vindicated by the smashing success of his book. A completely honorable man and a credible journalist, the pro-Hillary camp had tried to discredit him and his book. And even some prominent conservatives - with their own selfish agendas - aided this trashing. But getting to number 2 on the Times’ list has vindicated Ed Klein.

2) Newsmax.com, the only news organization to give THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY an honest shot. Newsmax has been supportive - and fair - about the book. Using its online site and emailing updates, Newsmax.com has proven the truly revolutionary power of the Internet.

3) Talk Radio: working in conjunction with the Internet - specifically Newsmax - hundreds of talk radio hosts - led by Sean Hannity (who had the first interview with Ed Klein) and Rush Limbaugh, who correctly analyzed the Clinton Game Plan on his show - have driven Klein’s book up the charts.

The Clinton Spin Machine has been able to keep Klein off the so-called Mainstream Media but the ‘new media’ - i.e. the Internet and talk radio - has now proven something revolutionary in marketing and politics: this Internet/radio combo is as powerful - if not more so - than the traditional broadcast and cable TV networks.

4) Sean Hannity & Lou Dobbs, the only two TV hosts with the guts to let Klein appear on their cable TV shows.


The Losers:

1) The Clinton Spin Machine: they wanted to suppress this book. Instead, their efforts only fueled interest - and sales. They would have been better off just ignoring the book.

2) The mainstream media - CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC and CBS - all have lost heavily here. Because while they froze Klein off the air, the book zoomed up the charts anyway. The lesson? Future authors - and other products, too - will now see they can ‘end run’ these TV networks and reach the people anyway. Make no mistake about it: this is a revolution in the business/marketing/book-selling world.

3) Those so-called conservatives who blasted the Klein book in order to suck-up to the Left. These turncoats aren’t worth a damn; they have their own agendas, some even have their own Hillary books coming out soon and were jealous of Ed Klein’s success. They have chosen the losing side here.

4) Hillary Clinton. She is a loser because she tried everything - including an appearance with the Reverend Billy Graham - to counter the Klein book. Instead, the book now has ‘legs’ and a life of its own. Why? Partly because her failed suppression effort - confirmed last Sunday by CNN’s Howard Kurtz - and mostly because Red State book readers outnumber Blue State censors.

Conclusion:

THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY was the first primary of the 2008 presidential campaign.

The results?

Ed Klein creamed Hillary Clinton.

RIGHT VS. RIGHT



In the midst of the media firestorm over Ed Klein’s blockbuster book, “THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY,” we can see the moral cowardice and equivocation that can destroy our nation from within.

Yes, the very effective Clinton Spin Machine has worked with their allies in the so-called Mainstream Media to censor Klein and keep him off the TV airwaves.

But that was to be expected.

NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC and CNN are all predictable. They are all left-leaning - and they all succumbed to pro-Hillary pressure.

Like all liberals they talk one game and live another. ‘Diversity’ and ‘freedom of choice’ only apply to them when it helps their cause. But allowing someone with a different point of view to share air time is a Big No-No.

So we could have predicted the obvious censorship surrounding “THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY.”

But what we could not have predicted was so many craven so-called ‘conservatives’ who bailed out on the Klein book in an obvious attempt to curry favor with the chablis and brie cocktail party set.

Peggy Noonan, John Podhoretz, Dick Morris, Bill O’Reilly and Craig Shirley are some of the ‘conservatives’ who trashed the Klein book - without even reading it!

Podhoretz, of the normally sane New York Post, lied about the book in claiming that Ed Klein wrote that “Hillary is a lesbian.” Precisely the opposite is the case: Ed Klein has repeatedly said and written, “I do not know” her sexual preference.

Shirley, a GOP strategist, said he “wanted to take a shower” after reading the book. He obviously did not read a page of it because, if anything, the book repeats much of what has previously been published elsewhere. Klein uses sourced material to paint a comprehensive picture of Hillary the political candidate.

Dick Morris, the former Clinton aide, also attacked Klein and said his book could create a “sympathetic backlash” for Hillary. What nonsense! Morris - and Podhoretz - are jealous of all the controversy over Klein’s book because both of them have upcoming books about Hillary!

Bill O’Reilly - who is not a conservative but is the number one ranked host on the right-leaning Fox News Channel - had the temerity to trash the Klein book - even before he obtained a copy of it - in order to burnish his ‘independent’ credentials. But the real truth is that he is dying to interview Hillary! He has been angling for that interview for months.

Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal also trashed the book - and thusly defended Hillary. She is always campaigning to be part of the fancy Park Avenue set in New York - and defending Hillary is a sure-fire ticket to those snobby and stuck-up dinner parties.

These members of the Right played right into the Clintons’ hands. By dividing the conservatives they helped Hillary. Rich Galen, another so-called ‘GOP strategist’, lambasted the book - without reading it - saying “we have to learn that making Hillary a victim only helps her.” What nonsense! Not attacking the Clintons is the biggest mistake the Republicans can make.

1992, 1996 and Hillary in 2000 were all the same: the Rich Galen strategy of “not attacking” caused Clinton victories.


There are also some very courageous conservatives who have had the guts to stand behind the Ed Klein book. Among them:

• Rush Limbaugh, the very first radio host to see that the Hillary Spin Machine was censoring Ed Klein and his book. Rush is a genius at analyzing the motives of the Left.

• Sean Hannity, who had the guts to withstand pressure and put Ed on both his radio show and Fox’s Hannity & Colmes.

• Radio host Mike Gallagher who also withstood tremendous pressure.

• The Washington Times’ Editorial Page Editor Tony Blankley - who actually read the book - and wrote a fair and honest review.

• Laura Ingraham who interviewed Ed Klein and was very supportive.


Thank goodness some people have the intellectual honesty to read a book before commenting on it!

Those on the Right who attacked “The Truth About Hillary” ought to be ashamed of themselves. They are intellectually dishonest with a separate - and selfish - agenda.

This book is exposing the fault lines in American politics. You are either on one side or the other.

As was once said, “All that is required for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” By doing “nothing” to take on Hillary, these so-called conservatives are helping the Clintons return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

For the sake of this nation’s future, we cannot allow this to happen.

We must have the courage to fight.