RANT
OR RAVE
HUFFINGTON
09.09.12
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Maraniss with
Doris Kearns
Goodwin,
presidential,
historianon
on ‘Meet
the Press.’
Biden on the ticket with Hillary Clinton.
“That information is about as credible
as Mr. Klein’s book,” LaBolt said, during
an interview on Fox News. “You know,
[in] Mr. Klein’s latest book, he’s invented an entirely fictional dialogue that
President Clinton and Secretary Clinton
had in their home in Chappaqua where
he wasn’t present. Everyone [has] denied
the substance of that book.”
But Klein fashions himself as a truthteller, offering the real story about how the
elite media covers for its ideological allies
in the Obama administration.
While he suggested in an interview
that there’s a mainstream media conspiracy to not cover his book, he declined
to discuss it with Huffington. But to sell
a lot books Klein doesn’t have to speak to
this publication, or any other that won’t
simply reinforce his views.
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There’s plenty that will.
WRITING FOR HISTORY
Author David Maraniss doesn’t think
much of Klein’s book, which he describes as a “diatribe.” He acknowledges
that Klein did some original reporting,
but says the interviews were conducted
“with