Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton

More Liberal Trash

This is another of the false liberal histories attempting to discredit the Right (more than one reason we are called the 'Right'). This book is trash and the authors have manufactured events to fit their feelings. The book is worthless!

Wouldn't it have been nice if we'd been told the truth and not fed lies?

This book is important for everyone to read because it affects us all. After a while, after listening to one smut story after another, I think the public wised up pretty much that we weren't getting the true story, but what was sad are the ones who didn't really care about the truth. After reading this book, you will never look at another news report and really believe you are being told the truth. This book lists names of poor losers, women who came out of the woodworks encouraged by political pimps who were out for a buck, lawyers, hypocritical christians, judges, the elite rich, and many others whose main goal was not the search for truth, but how they could make a buck or gain from spreading these lies. We've been lied to from the get go and for the most part, we'll probably have to wait and let God deal out their punishment. It is extremely horrifying that many of these people are the same ones making the decisions for our country and right now, our country is in a mess. If we want to straighten it out then we're going to have to go to the polls and vote for some decent candidates. Some that won't sell the people out. I have read several books and articles on this subject and they all came up with the same stories and I haven't heard of any lawsuits so that pretty much says it all. Read the book if you want the truth, even though I know the truth hurts sometimes. God says that 'Thou shall not lie' so the truth is what sets things right in the end. Some of the lies spread were by hypocritical christian preachers, not true christians. Legally, the only thing Clinton was guilty of was lying about an affair with Lewinsky, which was wrong, but it was wrong of them to go after him on that matter anyway, as having an affair is not illegal. Some of those same people that were trying to impeach him were guilty of the same and even more immoral affairs and you can bet they lied about it until they were caught, except they didn't in court, but, you know what? A lie is a lie no matter when you say it. What did Jesus say about casting the stone if they were without sin? Doesn't sound like they followed that thought. Basically, besides making us look like laughing stocks to other countries, what they did hampered our government and wasted 70 million dollars of our hard earned taxes.

they couldn't find any political reasons to fight Clinton, so they resorted to smut

This book is extremely important for everyone to read. What it has shown us is a whole bunch of people who were jealous, greedy, revengeful and those that just plain wanted to win at any cost even if they had to resort to gutter shenanigans. The people shown in this book, who tried to ruin Clinton are not the average decent citizen who really cares about the good of our nation, rather, they are selfish and mean and could care less about health care,maintaining our Social Security funds, peoples civil rights, good jobs and a healthy economy for everyone, and harmonious relations with other countries. Clinton did care and worked hard for all of us and the other side couldn't find anything to fault him with how he wanted to help our country so they had to attack him through the back door with smut. All the lies and schemes to discredit Clinton so that different individuals could benefit themselves, with absolutely no regard for their feelings or for the peoples right to be told the truth. We, all of us no matter what party we belong to, are now paying for these lies. Our country is in such a tumoil right now that I don't know if we'll ever recover. This book clearly shows how all the lies and perpetrations took place. We will never be able to watch the news again and be able to say, 'That's what they said on the news, so it must be the truth.' What a mockery some of the news people out there have made of their own business. Very sad. I am one of those who did not believe all the lies to begin with, not that I never believed Clinton ever strayed, but when you dig so low as to dig up smut, then you know the other side doesn't have much to stand on. These people actually damaged the image of the Republican party and the good people that belong to it. I say that as a person who has always voted for who I think will represent the people's best interest the best whether it be for a Republican or a Democrat. Read this book and then decide for yourself if this is what you want to see in the coming elections or do you want to see more about what each of the candidates views are and what they want to do for the people who elect them.

All of this is true.

The so-called Liberal press rode the Clintons just as hard as the extreme right. George W. had a cocaine, drinking and womanizing pattern for a very long time but he REFUSED to talk about it, so the press backed off. Unbelievable!!! The liberal press hasn't hounded Dick Cheney for his involvement in the energy price scam ie Haliburton, either. No one seems to care, but I predict that Dubya will be a one-term president, at best and should take the time to read Lyndon Johnson's memoirs, in his spare time. Thank goodness that someone has written a book to document the "right wing conspiracy". It's definitely OUT there.

Uncovering the dirty secret(s)

Conason & Lyons do a great service by providing research on how our so-called 'liberal' media promoted the big lie - that President Clinton's affair with an intern somehow subverted the Constitution The media went into a feeding frenzy that was fed by the right-wing interests (Baker, Cheney, Bushes I & II) that could not tolerate losing control of our government. What happened to Bill and Hillary Clinton was absolutely criminal. But the right-wingers are still using it as their defense of foisting their puppet president, George II on the rest of us. God, have mercy! The authors document the whole sorry episode by providing a behind the scenes look at what really happened and the subversion of the media. Unfortunately, Jay Leno continues to make the sleezy Clinton jokes the centerpiece of his humor because stupified viewers haven't a clue that their government has been stolen from them. The people have become irrelevant.

Total media corruption

As I listen to Fox TV news reporting and its network look-alikes (including Peter Jennings and his ilk) I am more and more appreciative of this book. Even the Enron scandal is tempered in the media by the 'fact' that Democrats also received payola (never mind that it was less than one quarter of what Republicans got, to make things look good). The rapid transition to military budget priming and tax lowering for the rich makes Sesptember 11 look like part of a seamless fascist takeover.

I Guess they had to write this

The biggest bunch of left wing dribble ever written! All of the democratic attack memos condensed into one reading! I did not want to read it but I felt I should give anyone the benefit of doubt. Which is more than a liberal would. History will eventually judge the Clintons and it will not be pretty.

All the more Brilliant for being True!

I am used to being lied to. It happens all day long, in every commercial, in every medium. I believe it is true that the truth cannot be percieved without the loss of the observer. However, this book is a breath of fresh air. You can really see the reptile minded, agenda driven, hateful status Quo protecting slime, emerge from the rocks to cavort through the human mind. The fact is that Clinton represented real change and a sense of fair play. Nothing drives the 'entrenched interests' so crazy as the sensation that the boat is rocking. Sadly, not all the facts, or the most painstaking research in the world will alter the minds of those who are controlled by the often faceless ones in the shadow. This is a well done book. You can't argue with it except at the certainty of your denial being exposed. If only Bill had done something about all those people in jail for drugs. This is where he really disappointed me.

Finally

Finally the entire story!!

-and the truth shall make you free.

Excellent writing of long over due facts. Should be required reading for every Rightwingnut.

Just the Facts

Finally, someone took the time to research the subject and document the FACTS - not the gossip, not the half-truths, no comments from 'unnamed sources.' I can't recommend it highly enough.

Connect the Dots

Conason and Lyons have built a mountain of evidence supporting the cooperation of right wingers trying to bring down the President. But since many names are not familiar, the reading becomes a dense forest, with each new name needing an easy guide to identification. Might I suggest some sort of 'family tree' connecting all of the characters and their relationships? Falwell could be a dying junk tree. Trent Lott might be labeled a 'stand' of kudzo. Or, if not a family tree, maybe the authors could include a fold-out, 'connect the dots gameboard,' so we could understand all the connections. Just a thought. The content was excellent otherwise.

Even The Starr Report Proved Lyons Right re Whitewater

And this book is an even bigger blockbuster. More facts are coming out about the Clintons lack of involvement in the Filegate and Whitewater 'scandals'. Lyons book 'How the Media Invented Whitewater' described how the New York Times made a mess of that story. Lyons and Conason's latest book expose the ignorance of the rest of the mainstream media (mistakenly pegged as 'liberal' by some). They prove that the mainstream media remains under the influence of big money (conservatives) and how easy it is for the media to manufacture public opinion against anyone who threatens to rock the boat of the ruling class.

An Important Document for Future Historians

This book will be a must read for future Historians. It has been trashed by the usual suspects who also trashed Gene Lyons Fools for Scandal. But when future Historians examine the facts they will conclude that Fools for Scandal was the definitive book on Whitewater.

This book documents facts, names names and connects the dots, most of it anyway. The writers did not have subpoena power so they did not conclusively connect the dots between the Jones lawyers, Starr's private law firm and the Office of Independent Counsel. But the stench of collusion is inescapable.

I don't expect the current mainstream media to tell the whole story, especially their own collusion with Starr's office, the quid pro quo relationship involving illegal leaks in exchange for cover up of questionable OIC tactics. I do expect future Historians to examine all the facts thoroughly. When they do, they will be referring to this book for many years to come.

Once the New York Times made an investment in Whitewater, they proceeded to hide all exculpatory evidence and hype allegations from 'unnamed sources', mostly the OIC staff. After 8 years of allegations we are still waiting for a shred of credible evidence showing wrongdoing by the Clintons in Whitewater.

Future Historians, not beholden to the current Establishment in Washington, will be delivering their own indictments. On top of the list will be an indictment of the New York Times and their reporting of Whitewater.

But They're Still Lawless and Amoral

The authors argue, and sometimes convincingly, that there are indeed a few 'Clinton-haters' who are low lifes and have tried everything to bring down the Clintons. However, the Clintons have proven themselves to be just as low or lower than these detractors. The Clintons and their defenders engage in vicious ad hominem attacks on ANYONE and EVERYONE who tries to bring attention to their lawless and amoral behaviour. That Bill & Hillary can still exist in the political arena speaks volumes about the state of the union. In defending the Clintons liberals have had to abandon principles and make excuses for every illegal excess Bill & Hillary have committed. I can't help but think that most liberals dislike the Clintons, but defend them merely because they're Democrats. I can no longer in good conscience do so. It's time to quit making excuses for them and their ilk. There are plenty of honorable and true liberals in our nation, but before they can be elected we must clean house and get rid of the current crop of extreme left-wing socialists. My biggest criticism of this book is that the authors spend too much time on the Clinton detractors and do not give enough attention to the deplorable and illegal actions of the Clinton-Gore Administration.

Anger

About two years ago at this time, I was cheering on Ken Starr¿s investigation. A major reason for this was because of The New York Times. Since high school (15 years ago), the Times had served as my major source of news. So when it came to the investigation of the Clintons, I had no reason to distrust the paper¿s portrayal of the them as devious criminals who needed to be prosecuted to the fullest extent at every opportunity and destroyed. Even the Washington Post was saying the same thing. How could they both be wrong? Then, the Starr report was released. Something seemed so horribly wrong with it that I felt I should search out new voices to help me understand the Clinton ¿Scandals.¿ I soon found the writings of Gene Lyons and Joe Conason (and others) at Salon and The Nation (and other places). Needless to say, I was shocked. There was another side to the Clinton ¿scandals¿ that had been 100% completely ignored by the Times (and others.) Worse, some of this reporting had been done over a several year period. I felt a tremendous amount of anger at a newspaper I trusted and began to doubt nearly all of its reporting on the Clintons. I felt that same feeling of anger while reading this book. While I had become familiar with the work of Conason and Lyons in varied sources, this book does a remarkable job of compiling in one place, ¿the other side of the story,¿ a full recounting of the craven partnership between the press and right-wing to bring down the Clintons. After reading this book, what truly stands out about the Clinton 'scandals' and the conventional wisdom attached to them is a body of ¿mainstream¿ journalistic reporting whose words, messages and slant have been shaped by a band of Southerners steeped in a dark, reactionary and racist sub-culture. If you take anything from this book, it should be the recognition that the national press, namely the Bill Rempels, Mike Isikoffs, Susan Schmidts, Jeff Gerths, served as mouthpieces for this element of society. That these reporters (or their editors) didn¿t have the dignity nor decency to harbor any skepticism about their sources (nor convey any hint of it to their readers) is a mark of shame these writers deserve to carry to their graves. What also stood out about the book was how little the Impeachment farce meant in the Press/right-wing campaign to destroy the Clintons. When I first heard that Lyons and Conason did not focus much on Lewinsky (only about 10% - 15% of the book), I was disappointed. What this book shows, however, is that the impeachment effort was an all too predictable endgame in the mission to ruin Bill Clinton; The effort by Starr and his cheerleaders in the press to destroy every element of humanity in Clinton had been going on for years. Only a few years later does the story become a little more clear. (For a better look at the Impeachment farce, Jeffrey Toobin¿s book serves as Part II to the Lyons/Conason work.) The examples of this hateful alliance are too numerous to name. Worse yet, the craven and duplicitous reporting on the Clinton Administration continues. From ¿Clinton Fatigue¿ to the misreporting on Al Gore, the press continues its freightening aversion to decency and care in reporting. About all you need to know about this long sordid history is whom the New York Times and Washington Post chose to review this book in its pages. The Times chose

Nixonian Democracy Lives

In 1974 Gerald Ford proclaimed that 'our national nightmare is over' with the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. The national GOP was in turmoil, and their prospects for regaining the highest executive office in the land were bleak in the aftermath of Ford's 1976 re-election failure. In 1980 Republicans around the nation rejoiced when they recaptured the White House; and over the next twelve years they proceeded to gleefully make the United States the largest debtor nation in the world, proclaiming it to be 'morning again in America.' Somewhere along the line they began to believe they had an inherited entitlement to the Presidency, and like Nixon, set out by hook or by crook to maintain control even if that meant undermining our system of democracy. This book tells the story of how persons at the highest levels of our government set out to systematically destroy the man they felt posed the largest threat to the failing international and domestic status quo. With meticulous source documentation and shocking detail, the irrefutable facts of this story have finally come to light. This book will be the historical context by which the Clinton Miracle and the astounding national recovery from twelve years of domestic mismanagement will ultimately be judged. A landmark work of non-fiction, a must read for anyone even mildly concerned with the state of American politics.

Legacy The Dirty Tricksters will Leave For History

The HUNTING of the PRESIDENT....is a great title and focuses on the underlying conspiracy rather than on the sexual tidbits.I found the book gave such a remarkable account about how such a host of dirty trick players were involved. This will be wonderful reference book for following the careers of the dirty tricksters to refer back to the legacy they leave for history.

Rehash Of Clinton Operative's Conspiracy Report!

The book is worthy reading but with the same musing quizzical suspicion it outlines. The authors refer to much of what was passed out by Clinton operatives who wrote a similar report about a Vast Media Conspiracy. What is puzzling to me are some non-refutable facts. For example, the media did not hire clumsy security chiefs whose bungling removed over 1200 FBI private citizens files. I accept that this was a mistake as the President eventually claimed but it did happen. If incompetence is not a conspiracy neither is reporting on it! Clinton's enemies did not force him to misrepresent his memory under oath in a sexual harassment case with a host of witnesses and victims. Clinton settled and no one, not even his lawyers knew what he was going to do or say but as president he was under the rule of law just like his enemies are too! Clinton made his choice and the media held back from the story for three weeks until it was broken elsewhere. No media or enemy of Clinton forced him to tango with a Intern on government time! No press agents caused Hillary to invest in Cattle futures? Hillary claimed, 'When A Turtle Ends Up On A Fence Post He Did Not Get There Alone,' but refused to talk about Whitewater records ending up in presidential private quarters publicly? Not one of Clinton¿s political enemies fired White House employees and then had one prosecuted to no avail and used tax dollars to pay those legal fees, the Clinton presidency did it all alone! Now I know Clinton has his enemies and he has overcome many slings and arrows in his life. At the same time, he handed such enemies enough material to cause himself trouble of his own making, not a worldwide targeting plot on his character. What the authors have done is show how stories grow on their own and did a fine job doing it. Nevertheless, this same mechanism is used against all occupants of the White House, both political parties and especially among media competitors. Every president and first family has been experiencing nothing but an explosion of uncontrolled journalism every year and it will continue. The book outlines how it is done, but Clinton was no more a victim than Reagan, Carter, Nixon and others. The Media as turned into Woody Wood Peckers who use to be known as Mudrakers in early times, they like hearing, reporting and causing trouble to all leaders of any field, profession and especially politics. Calling this book a new revelation is about as accurate as calling the bible a book written by paranoid schizophrenics who talked to G-d, that is a too unduly simplified and craven conclusion but one could argue it is accurate. This book claims such things based on such banal inferences. The authors are good men, great writers and respected journalists and the book is worth reading, and knowledgeable people will become more intelligent. The disappointment comes when the authors try to apply it only to the Clintons. When it applies to anyone in the presidency, thus if you believe them then you must also note that it is an annual conspiracy by many parties. These happen in democracies, always has been and always will where people can listen, read and decide for themselves. Happen to Themistocles who was exiled by popular with a campaign by his enemies after saving Athens from the Persians. The men who assassinated Caesar did so because they thought they were saving the Republic! Politics sometime makes good people of all professions do bad thing in saving G-d and country. The Clinton¿s were no more hunted than other leaders of our time, the only conspiracy was when the Clinton¿s proclaimed one, before it was just called politics! The authors wrote what most in politics, journalism and even religion already know, fame brings shame sooner or later it is reported, but it is not a conspiracy, just publication relations!

Thank God for Gene and Joe

After 14 months of lies, enduendos, and more lies, at last we get the truth. 'And ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free....' We already knew the truth, we just needed someone to put the pen to it. Gene and Joe have told it like it is, and this book will live in history!