Hillary Flexing Her Muscles

The difference between Democrats and Republicans, and the media's treatment of both, can be viewed once again through the prism of Edward Klein's new book on Hillary Clinton. Personally, I suspect the book is mostly trash, something akin to the hatchet job Kitty Kelley did recently on Laura Bush, although the resumes of the authors clearly favors Klein.

I seem to recall that one of the assertion's in Kelley's book was that Laura Bush was a drug dealer in college. Like Kelley's book, Klein's is full of anonymous, and unsubstantiated sourcing.

Perhaps the difference between the two books is in the press coverage of each. While the White House made hardly a peep about the Kelley book, except to perhaps note that it was unworthy of the time needed to comment, Kelley appeared on essentially every major news and magazine show on the networks and cable, without objection from the White House.

Conversally, reports are surfacing that Hillary Clinton's machine is putting immense amounts of pressure on television and radio to not interview Klein. This, from Newsmax:

Hillary's top aides and supporters have also launched a major effort to stop any discussion of the book over the TV airwaves. So far, their censorship effort has been a huge success in stopping Klein from appearing on television.

Though the celebrated author was scheduled to appear on more than a half dozen major TV network shows, all have cancelled except one, Fox's "Hannity & Colmes."

Typical of liberal overkill, Hillary's attempts to censor television, though successful, will undoubtedly lend credibility to the book. It probably would have been better to simply ignore it.

On a side-note, can you imagine all of the leftist's screaming were it reported that the White House was pressuring television to censor Kitty Kelley? The sky would have fallen and the outcry of censorship and call for resignations would have been heard from across the country.

Not as surprising, is the fact that the networks and cable news have been more than happy to drop Klein. Chris Mathews called the book a "big piece of crap;" a description that no doubt applies to Kitty Kelley's hatchet piece as well, which Mathews was more than happy to publicize by interviewing Kelley on "Hardball" shortly after the book's release. In fact, Kelley appeared on all sorts of shows.

Kelley was given star billing on show's like NBC's "Today" show (with an unprecedented interview over three days); CNBC's "Capital Report;" CNN's "Newsnight" hosted by Aaron Brown; CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight;" CNN's "American Morning" with Paula Zahn; MSNBC's "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, among others.

Despite Klein's lack of access to these shows, the book has been ranked #1 on the Amazon bestseller list.

And now, a look at how local leftists are dealing with the news, from Les Enfants Terrible:

Early news reports indicate that a groundswell of civil libertarians on the left are rising up to demand Hillary call off the dogs and allow Klein to be interviewed, noting the unAmerican-ness of censoring an author simply because one disagrees with the sentiment contained within. Locally, leftists who were yesterday crying on the steps of the local herbal medicine store in response to new stem cell research have rehydrated and are uniting in righteous indignation at the actions of Hillary's oppresive public relations army.

As this story is being written, permanent markers and colorful posterboard are being married into angry signs depicting Hillary with a narrow black moustache, wearing a swastika on her shoulder, and in some cases, with her face caricatured to resemble that of a monkey.

Naaaa...I'm just kidding. They couldn't give two shits if Hillary censors Klein. I just made that up.

Also posting: The photo of Hillary at sisu is a must see.