John Hawkins of Right Wing News gives Ed Klein a fluff job interview about the smear book on Sen. Clinton, please note the laughable section in which Hawkins tries to buck up Klein by comparing him to other right-wing smear artists like Gary Aldrich (the bitter ex-Secret Service guy who trafficked in untrue and unsourced gossip like Klein does).
Ah, your misogyny is showing guys. Again.
To the credit of conservative bloggers, Hawkins is one of the very few who’s willing to slither like that.
Rightwingers who care about Hillary’s sex life need some serious therapy.
Not to mention the whole gay angle that they get hung up on…
I saw Klein on Lou Snobs’ show last night. Lou seemed somewhat skeptical of Klein’s work and referred to it as a purely political partisan attack.
Right wingers are too obsessed about sex. They view it as abnormal and are thus prone to mad outbursts of bizarre sexuality. Why else would they want to control women’s sex drives and be so concerned about Bill Clinton’s semen on a dress?
In the long term, books like Klein’s will probably turn off the remaining thinking citizens and leave only the lunatic fringe of each party to scream at each other. You hear every day during the campaigns that people are sick of poltics as usual. Even college students think its a joke that adults yell at each other like drunken adolescents. How can the next generation participate in democracy if politics is nothing but crap? Maybe it is a clever ploy to shrink the electorate and make campaigning cheaper.
The worst part is that some Democrats think they should play by the old rules. The more radical Republicans will always win those battles because they understand that pure, unadulterated hatred mixed with blood pressure raising lies motivates their electorate very nicely.
The Beatles were wrong…all you need is Hate. Really. It works. Just ask Karl Rove and Novak and Lee Atwater…oops, he apologized but he did set the stage.
The only people that appear hung up on this book seem to be those on the left. I have heard this soundly denounced by many Republicans/conservatives, yet OW would have you believe that is some smokescreen. The fact is that when Kitty Kelly writes the equivalent, she is on the Today show for three days running, and every other free media outlet that they can put her on. When a liberal writes a proufoundly unfair book about the Jr. Senator from NY, both sides cast aspersions on him.
The goal is to shrink the electorate and reduce the public debate to the lowest common denominator.
This is why you hear Bush voters saying “I voted for him because he’d be fun to drink a beer with”. Of course, with gas prices up you better hope he picks up the check, and since his administration has borrowed with reckless abandon…
An informed electorate is hard to manipulate. Better to talk about “smoking them out of their holes” and “culture of (white) life” then actually talk about issues that effect American families.
And judging by the last two elections, it was the right strategy. Gore and Kerry actually made the mistake that people wanted better jobs, better healthcare, and better retirements. I hope Hillary doesn’t make that same mistake in 2008.