Merely from the whines and howls of his numerous enemies on the
right, you can tell that Sid Blumenthal has drawn blood in his book, "The
Clinton Wars," within which many pages are spent detailing what his pal
Hillary Clinton famously referred to as "a vast right-wing conspiracy." The
only word I'd quarrel with here is "vast," since the prime players seem to
have numbered under 20. And, of course, these days, Senator HRC rather
strongly resembles a largish right-wing conspiracy herself.
Blumenthal's is an awfully long book, but the chapters that I
have thus far worked my way through do make a pretty good case in
buttressing HRC's claim. Blumenthal's chapter on the Hitchens affair is
vivid, too, on the latter's disgusting behavior.
Prime among the whiners and howlers is the right-wing agitator
(and, long ago, former leftist) David Horowitz, who lashes out at "Sid
Vicious." I have to say that the endless claims on the right that Sid
Blumenthal is some sort of heavy, or thug, have always made me laugh. I
don't know him that well, but Sid has always reminded me more of Bernie
Wooster's descriptions of Gussie Fink-Nottle.
