Am Up to pp. 471-2 (of 802) of BLUMENTHAL

Whew. Frankly, it's been a bit dry-going. But it's worth it for the loyalty and most of all for the reminder and the names of the wingnut villains. Somebody posted that she uses BROCK's book for looking up names as they participate in Shrub's court.

And this is dedicated to our very own revisionist historians (to quote Shrub), who try to tell us DRUDGE (and by extension, Tweety) is NOT THAT BAD.

Just this one paragraph on the cited pages is CHOCK FULL of villains:

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When I'd first met David Brock in August 1997, he had told me about his ongoing conversations with Drudge about the libel against me. 'Drudge said,' according to Brock, 'that he doesn't care if his reputation is lowered. He said, "I'll be the brightest star in the sky and Sidney Blumenthal will be nobody." ' And Drudge confided in Brock that he had been put up to libeling me by several Republican sources. One of them, he said, was Richard Carlson, ambassador to the Seychelles during the first Bush administration and a close associate of Richard Mellon Scaife. Drudge also said he had relied for advice upon Michael and Barbara Ledeen; Michael was a figure involved in the early stages of the Iran-Contra scandal who became a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, while his wife worked for the Independent Women's Forum. Drudge suggested that another source was John Fund, an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal who had been a ghostwriter for Rush Limbaugh and was close to Newt Gingrich. Brock told me that Tucker Carlson, Richard Carlson's son, then a writer for The Weekly Standard, had informed him that he had written an article in 1997 that would have exposed Fund as Drudge's source but that the editors had spiked it. Afte Jennet Conant wrote an article about Drudge published in Vanity Fair, I called her. 'Fund spread the story,' she told me. 'He told the world. He told everyone in conservative circles. As soon as your appointment was announced, he started. I couldn't find anyone who didn't hear it from Fund.'

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Steno Sue SCHMIDT, the transmitter of STARR's leaking, who later was one of the Spice Girls gore-ing GORE on the campaign trail. And ISIKOFF trying to keep control of TRIPP and GOLDBERG.

But other gems: Dick MORRIS is Roy COHN's *cousin*. And GINGRICH had the delusion of impeaching GORE, too, since GINGRICH was 3rd in line. Haha.

Yet these scumbags are STILL in power, moreso. Outrageous.

It will make your blood boil all over again. :mad:

I read that he might become editor-in-chief of the American version of The Guardian.

It was wrenching where he wrote that he and his wife had no savings when the legal bills mounted up, that they had spent what they had on college for their kids. I hope he made a bundle with this book. And f***ing STARR and DRUDGE should have had to pay all his danged bills, and everybody else's.

This book and TOOBIN's portray STARR as an inexperienced, incompetent boob. How can he be received on C-Span and at speeches as a hero!!!!!

"This book and TOOBIN's portray STARR as an inexperienced, incompetent boob. How can he be received on C-Span and at speeches as a hero!!!!!"

She slammed him, too, and rightfully so. A lawyer with no prosecutorial experience assigned as a special prosecutor?????

:wtf:

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http://www.mediawhoresonline.com/
THE TRUTH!
Blumenthal's Clinton Wars Has Goods On Iraq, FBI, 9/11
And Does Anybody Notice?

When the media tried lamely to defend itself against Sidney Blumenthal's The Clinton Wars and its exposure of their corruption, something went unnoticed.

Plain as day, on pages 661 through 663, there is another indictment -- of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its former director, Louis Freeh, for primary responsibility in leaving the nation vulnerable to attack by al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001.

Freeh, as Blumenthal recounts, actively undermined the Clinton
Administration's anti-terrorism initiatives, and in particular its moves against Osama bin Laden. "The Federal Bureau of Investigation was," Blumenthal writes, "the most dysfunctional agency of the government and the one most resistant to cooperation with the National Security Council on al-Qaeda." Freeh, in reaction to scandals involving FBI misconduct,
allied himself with the right-wing Republican Congress in 1996.
Thereafter, he let the Bureau become a nest of favoritism and dragged it into unending bogus investigations of the Clintons. ....
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he is involved with every dirty dealing that the CIA loyalists to the BFEE pulled in Central America. He sets up incidents, writes and plants disruptive stories in every nation Poppy targets to cause unrest. The US press is child's play to Ledeen. He is a close ally to Richard Perle, too.

I've read Toobin, Brock and Conason & Lyons, and Blumenthal mentions much of the same stuff, but this time from a true insider's point of view about the machinations going on around the impeachment. Just incredible stuff, about what it's like to see your name and reputation dragged through the mud, and what a bunch of slimeballs Ken Starr, his staff, and the House Impeachment Managers really were. Also quite instructive (to me) were the reactions of some of the House Republicans that right after grilling Blumenthal, a couple of them shook his hand as if to say, "Just business, nothing personal."

was almost as long as GIBBON's on Christianity. The episode with HITCHENS (p. SIX HUNDRED) has a whole other book and movie on "friendship" in it. And there, on p. 625, is the Tweety-WILLEY-BUCHANAN jogger-gun incident that I have repeated endlessly in my ad hominem, jeremiads against Tweety.

This book is something else: I have complained to myself at the hundreds of names and incidents coupled with a LACK of novelistic or cinematic depth of detail, with FEELING only as throwaway or HINTED at. But the scope and meticulous detail are overwhelming.

Again as in TOOBIN, the House Managers come off as clowns, particularly HYDE, but Asa (Laura INGRAHAM, listening?), and MAJOR FLAKE Lindsay GRAHAM. The vileness that is Tom "DePlane-DePlane" DeLAY.

and look how well they were rewarded. Look at Olson, Hutchinson and Graham's advancements. Not to mention the cabal of wingnut attorneys who are being promoted by Bush, as well.

I've been plugging away at it, too. It's dense (as in stuffed w/ info.)

I read Brock's book first, then Hillary's, now I'm reading Blumenthal's. I would suggest that this is a good order, because the first 2 are easier reads and give you an overall outline of what went on.

Blumenthal goes into much greater detail, and for the history books, that's a good thing. I think it's analogous to "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." A monolith of a book, but written soon after the WWII and with great detail.

And I agree about its historic implication.