Ed Klein, king of hacks: A deluded conservative’s return to infamy

[DonViejo]

The conservative author purports to have all the hottest dirt on the Clintons. Does anyone believe a word of it?

JIM NEWELL

There is nothing more entertaining in the world of writing these days than any arbitrarily chosen piece of dialogue by conservative author Ed Klein. Whether in one of his News Corp. columns or in his new book, “Blood Feud,” which the columns are intended to promote, Klein’s dialogue reads worse than the fanfic you wrote in 8th grade or even any line in “Attack of the Clones.” It’s amazing — #disruptive, really — that these sentences penned by Klein are printed in news outlets and mass produced by any publishing house with quotation marks connoting verbatim accuracy and coveted nonfiction genre status.

Consider a Klein EXCLUSIVE from last week about Hillary Clinton’s rough media tour and relatively poor book sales, “Hillary down in the dumps: Is Clinton about to drop out of 2016 race?” Klein presents a scene in which Hillary and Bill Clinton are having a chat in their Chappaqua home. Also in attendance, according to Klein, was a “family friend,” who presumably recorded the whole conversation and presented the tape directly to Ed Klein without getting caught? Or maybe it’s just made up. We’re going to guess “probably just made up,” because this is not how people — even ones as purportedly devious and plotting as the Clintons — talk to each other:

While Hillary was nursing her headache, Bill Clinton and a family friend came into the kitchen. Bill poured Hillary a glass of green tea, and massaged her shoulders.

“The media have me in their cross-hairs,” Hillary complained, according to the friend.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/07/07/ed_klein_king_of_hacks_a_deluded_conservatives_return_to_infamy/

[COLGATE4]

1. The only thing missing in the excerpt quoted

is that it should have begun "It was a dark and stormy night..."