Or, "Swift Boat Veterans Waste Another Grove of Trees"
In the same spirit as the pre-election attacks on John Kerry, looks like the Republicans are getting an early start on Sen. Clinton:
Conservatives Tout Anti-Hillary Book
ALBANY, N.Y. - Conservative groups are promoting a Hillary Rodham Clinton biography that hits bookstores Tuesday as a work so damning it could destroy any possible bid for the presidency in 2008.
Well now.
The book, "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President," by Edward Klein, is being published by Sentinal Books, a conservative division of the Penguin Group. It promises "shocking new accounts" of Sen. Clinton's personal and political life. However, according to AP, the book relies heavily on past works, with 30 pages of end notes citing such.
"She's been written about so frequently that it's impossible not to cover some of the same ground," Klein told The Associated Press in an interview Monday. He said, however, that the book contains plenty of new material and insights.
The AP story goes on to further cite the author (who suggests he himself is a "balanced, fair-minded journalist":
To Klein, a former editor of The New York Times Sunday Magazine and author of "The Kennedy Curse," Clinton is a sort of latter-day Richard Nixon, constantly reinventing herself.
"The comparison between Hillary Clinton and Richard Nixon can be pushed only so far," Klein writes, however. "Whereas Nixon sought power in large part to overcome his low self-esteem, Hillary seeks power because she has unrealistically high self-esteem."
This book is being promoted by the Conservative Book Club, whose parent company published "Unfit For Command"... yeah, that one.
Apparently, an excerpt appears in the July Vanity Fair and Media Matters has already jumped all over Klein for his inaccuracies.
Now, I'm not a big Hillary fan - to me, she's too hawkish and too eager to do the centrist dance. But talk about your pre-emptive strikes... someone's mighty worried.