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"Take, for example, page 155.
"It is there that he recounts an exchange between Clinton and Harold Ickes that took place in early 1999. It was a Sunday, and the two had both just watched (from separate locations) a Meet the Press episode in which her putative Senate candidacy was discussed. The first lady phoned the operative when the show ended and asked his opinion.
"'Well, Hillary,' Klein quotes Ickes as having said, 'if you don't want to do this, don't [screw] around with it. Issue a Shermanesque statement, and that'll be the end of it.' ( Note: I'm cleaning it up here .)
"'Well,' Hillary said, 'that's not where I am with this.'
"I recognized the quote, or most of it, as having come from my own reporting, in my book Hillary's Turn. I interviewed Ickes while working on the book (Clinton didn't cooperate), and he recounted the exchange to me. I was the original source for the quote.
"Sure enough, the footnotes say that the exchange is taken from page 19 of my book. But then I turned to page 19 of my book, which quotes Ickes as saying, 'If you don't want to do this, don't mouse around with it.'
"So, from Tomasky to Klein, 'mouse' somehow became ['screw']. Undoubtedly, it's a better word . . . it would certainly have made for a better quote. And no, I did not bowdlerize it. Unfortunately, I felt bound by the usual workaday rule of reporting what the person actually said."
How old-fashioned can you get!
Ed Klein is lashing back at his ex-boss Tina Brown for this dissing of his book, reports the New York Post:
"Hillary Clinton-bashing Ed Klein has lashed back at Tina Brown for calling him 'Ed Slime' and trashing his new book, 'The Truth About Hillary,' as 'bio-porn.'
"'Tina Brown is a has-been,' Klein told PAGE SIX. 'Over the past dozen years, she has had a failed magazine and a failed TV show, and she is now reduced to writing a column for her few remaining friends. Over the same past 12 years, I've had five best-sellers.'"
In the New Republic, Keelin McDonell analyzes the right's reaction:
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