From Joe Queenan's review of The Truth About Hillary:
What I am saying is that if Klein purposely set out to write thesleaziest, most derivative, most despicable political biography ever,he has failed both himself and his readers miserably. ''The Truth AboutHillary'' is only about the 16th sleaziest book I have ever read.Though, in fairness to the author, reading creepy, cut-and-paste booksis my hobby.
Which isn't to say there's nothing of note in there. Ed Klein, you should know, has found himself a new angle:
to my knowledge, Klein is the only journalist who has shedmeaningful light on the extent to which her career has been shaped byfriends, roommates, short-haired colleagues or rivals with weightproblems.
Monica Lewinsky is fat. Bill Clinton has long been a member of theclean-plate society. Evelyn Lieberman, the former White House deputychief of staff, is reputed to be ''a little overweight.'' Mrs. Clintonherself has long battled a tendency to beef up, but in perhaps the mostastonishing revelation in the book, ''several of her Wellesley Collegeclassmates, who played sports with Hillary, described how she looked ina T-shirt and shorts,'' and according to them, ''she had a tiny waist,slim legs and ankles, and small buttocks.''...the implication is clear. Hillary Clinton does not merelyview the world through the asexual, unmaternal, left-leaning eyes of apoorly groomed woman who was surrounded in her youth by manipulativepinkos who were playing for the other team. At some level, HillaryClinton feels most comfortable in the company of fat people.
The obvious conclusion is that Hillary Clinton, in a ploy ofMachiavellian subtlety, deliberately overcame her small buttocks andthin ankles and put on a few pounds in a cunning attempt to curry favorwith fat voters. And in a nation that is looking increasingly chunky,this alone could insure her victory in the 2008 presidential elections.
Now that's journalism.
