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June 03, 2008
MSNBC: WJC really ticked off at Vanity Fair reporter.
"Scumbag" alert. Sorry. More politics. We can't help it. MSNBC "First Read" excerpt:
The same Huffington Post reporter who broke the Obama “bitter” story got a new scoop yesterday of Bill Clinton lashing out at Vanity Fair’s Todd Purdum and calling him “sleazy,” “dishonest” and “slimy” for his critical magazine article on Clinton. It’s worth noting that the HuffPo reporter didn’t identify herself as a reporter and said she disliked the article when asking for his reaction.
From the piece: “Tightly gripping this reporter's hand and refusing to let go, Clinton heatedly denounced the writer, who is currently married to his former White House Press Secretary, Dee Dee Myers. ‘[He's] sleazy,’ he said referring to Purdum. ‘He's a really dishonest reporter. And one of our guys talked to him… And I haven't read [the article]. There's just five or six blatant lies in there. But he's a real slimy guy,’ the former President said. When I reminded him that Purdum was married to his former press spokesperson Myers, Clinton was undeterred. ’That's all right-- he's still a scumbag,’ Clinton said. ‘Let me tell ya--he's one of the guys -- he's one of the guys that brought out all those lies about Whitewater to Kenneth Starr. He's just a dishonest guy--can't help it.’” [more]
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
No way to go out: Mel Weiss gets 30 months.
Both Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice and the WSJ's Law Blog alerted us to Weiss's sentencing. It's sad, and not an occasion to gloat, even if our clients and we are no lovers of the Rule 23 bar. The talented and accomplished Weiss is 72. Back in September, we reacted to the Mel Weiss indictment, and to the gulity plea of his former partner Bill Lerach a few days earlier that week.
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