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...GARY ALDRICH Despite rapid-response attacks from WH, his Unlimited Access becomes No. 1 best seller...
...only words in the book anyone could be sure were true were a, and and the, Brinkley's producers proceeded on the ground of not wanting to give in to White House pressure (even if it was the right thing to do) and claimed they wanted to discuss Aldrich's expertise in security. Of course, scarcely a minute was taken up by that subject; the other nine were consumed by his scurrilous accusations. Washington Post press critic Howard Kurtz says the overall coverage of Aldrich marks the collapse of journalistic standards as we know them: "We've gone from needing...
Other shows refused to put Aldrich on after they read the book, finding its Liz-Marries-Space-Alien tenor beneath credibility. For example, Aldrich goes on for five pages about the December day in 1994 when he helped decorate the White House Christmas tree with an anatomically correct gingerbread man, lords doing a lot more than leaping and other "sex toys and self-mutilation devices" approved by Hillary Clinton. This is ludicrous. First, the entire press corps sees the tree and would notice three hens fornicating. Second, all the decorations sent in from artists are screened for appropriateness (two were...
Pornographic paraphernalia in the Blue Room has the ring of one of those preschooler fantasies elicited by overeager therapists in the McMartin child-sex-abuse case. Even David Brock, a fellow Clinton hater, had to cut Aldrich loose. An American Spectator writer in his early 30s who has purchased more than $1 million worth of real estate since penning poisonous attacks on Anita Hill and the First Family, Brock revealed that he was inadvertently the source for Aldrich's most sensational charge: that the President slipped out for assignations under a blanket in the back seat of a car, reminiscent...
There was a time when by common agreement a book like Aldrich's would die for lack of oxygen. Now the mainstream media strive to get every sensational rumor "in play" without being held responsible. The classic gambit is to print a rumor by way of criticizing the tabloids for running it. The new laundering device is hardcovers. Then, no matter how outlandish the content or how biased the publisher, you can cower behind "I read it in a book...