Klein's book hits NY Times best-seller lists again, and the libs are not happy

Joseph_Botwinick · Jul 11, 2005

Edward Klein's book "The Truth About Hillary" has made the New York Times best-seller list for the second week in a row - a development that has the Times book review spitting mad.

As NewsMax reported over a week ago, Klein debuted on the Times list this week in the No. 2 slot.

Despite an orchestrated campaign to keep Klein off major TV talk shows, NewsMax has learned that the best-selling author will be on the Times list next week as well, in the No. 4 position. [Make sure you get a copy of this sensational book - check out our FREE offer -- Go Here Now.]

The liberal Gray Lady apparently doesn't like the fact that one of its own - Klein is former editor of the New York Times Magazine - penned a biting biography of one of the paper's icons, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The Times has yet to review the book, but took the unusual step in Sunday's book section to publish a disclaimer attacking the book from pillar to post in a sidebar column adjacent to the best-seller list.

"'The Truth About Hillary' has united [no easy task] literary critics," Timesman Dwight Garner fumed, adding "it is easily this year's most vilified book."

Then Garner promptly joined in the vilification:

"Writing in the Book Review in 1988, Joyce Carol Oates coined the term 'pathography' to describe hatchet jobs like Klein's. Reading Oates's taxonomy of that genre today, it sounds as if she somehow had an advance copy of Klein's book rotting at her elbow."

Rotting?

Still - in what must have been a gut-wrenching admission for the paper - Garner lamented, "That hasn't stopped Klein's book from landing on beach blankets; it makes its debut at No. 2 on this week's hardcover nonfiction list."

The paper's vitriol against Klein contrasts with its first-class treatment of Kitty Kelley's works, including her recent hit book on the Bush family. Kelley's book on Nancy Reagan - in which Kelley alleged that Ronald Reagan engaged in date rape, among numerous other scurrilous allegations - made Page One coverage in the Times.

Shall we call that liberal "pathocoverage"?

Klein, a veteran journalist and editor with credentials well beyond anything Kelley has to offer, said he isn't bothered by the elite media's disdain for his book.

"My book's staying power on The Times list is testimony to the power of the Internet and conservative talk radio," he told NewsMax on Saturday. "The mainstream liberal media no longer have a monopoly on what's news and what isn't, and that's a healthy thing for America."

More healthy still, "The Truth About Hillary's" best-seller status shows that readers were willing to defy the media blockade orchestrated by the Clintons.
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Klein's 'Truth About Hillary' Hits N.Y. Times Again; Paper Lashes Out

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carpro · Jul 11, 2005

The corrupt old media (especially the NYT)pulled the same act with "Unfit for Command".

After it was on their best seller list for several weeks, they finally launched an attack on John O'Neill without ever reviewing the book.

Before that that refused to acknowledge the book even existed.

Joseph_Botwinick · Jul 11, 2005

It looks like the Old Media has lost a lot of credibility and is not the final word in news, ideas, or entertainment these days. And I say, it's about time.

Plain Old Bill · Jul 12, 2005

Right on Joseph. Is that a heartbreaker or what?

Joseph_Botwinick · Jul 14, 2005

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