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| Edward Klein: Dead Man Walking? |
| 2005-06-22 |
| 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 nation’s top conservative talkers 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 on the source of the pressure to cancel the planned appearance. Nor did he apparently buckle to the pressure, explaining to his radio audience, "We deal in controversy - that's what we do here." "I've got to tell you," Hannity told Klein midway through the interview. "Do you know the number of requests I've had to cancel you and not have you on this program? I think it was higher than any guest or controversial author we've had on this program." "I've never in the history of this program had more demands to cancel the guest," Hannity reiterated. But Klein quickly interjected to say that the Clinton public relations machine had successfully pressured other radio and TV outlets to cancel interviews with him. "A number of people who have booked me on TV and radio have already canceled," Klein said. "And the reason they've canceled is because the publicity machine of the Clintons is hard at work." On both his TV and radio shows, Hannity openly worried that the new book may backfire on conservatives since it deals with sensational personal and sexual allegations against the former first lady that he argued were not worthy of political debate. Klein, a veteran journalist and author who has spent four decades in the media world, including major editing jobs at the New York Times and Newsweek, said he had set out to write a biography that captures Hillary’s flawed character, not a political work about her. Asked if the effort to silence him hasn't made him "afraid," Klein told Hannity: "If I weren't concerned, I'd be nuts." "I'd be crazy," he said, adding, "Because the Clintons have a well-established career reputation of smearing other people. And I know they're out to get me and I know they're going to do everything in their power to get me." Klein vowed, however: "They're not going to be successful." |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #3 Noooooo. Hey you Rantburgers, just drop this stuff! Don't take the bait! Klein is a slefish, greedy hack and Hannity is a witless dupe for indulging him. Since when have Conservatives respected the credentials of a journalist who worked at the Times and Newsweek?! Klein is playing conservatives for fools, pumping his booksales with salacious rumors designed to get conservatives all worked up - much the same way CBS tried to get the Bush haters all excited with TANG memos. For us conservatives, Clinton hatred is our blind-spot, our achilles heel. Politically it's a loser, but many can't seem to stop themselves from leaping at a new,credulous rumor of sexual misconduct from 25 years ago, like moths to a flame. And the story about Hillary's rape/pregnancy is as bogus as a Dan Rather scoop and just as likely to blow up in our faces - except Klein won't care about loss of credibility as long as he's got his book sales. The rest of us will have to live with the consequences of these stupid, misguided and counterproductive attacks on Hillary. What we need are effective attacks. We'll only have ourselves and Sean Hannity to blame for Hillary's success. |
| Posted by: John in Tokyo 2005-06-22 21:56 |
| #2 LOL! |
| Posted by: .com 2005-06-22 10:12 |
| #1 Watch out, man. She can be one cranky bitch. |
| Posted by: The Ghost of Vince Foster 2005-06-22 10:10 |