"Gerth's writings about the Whitewater land deal in Arkansas spawned a highly politicized, $73 million federal investigation, which, as Joe Conason wrote on Salon.com, "found that Bill and Hillary Clinton had done nothing that could be prosecuted as a crime."
Writer Gene Lyons made a detailed criticism of Gerth's work in his book Fools for Scandal, and Alexander Cockburn said reading his writings "is like bicycling through wet sand.""
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
More Fools for Whitewater
Seems the NYTIMES Whitewater smear artist, Jeff Gerth, is up to his old tricks again. He's writing a book on Senator Clinton entitled "Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Clinton, due to be released, you guessed it, just 6 months before the 2008 election. You may recall that it was Gerth's mis-reporting on the bogus Whitewater scandal that resulted in the several years long witch-hunt against the Clintons and their friends back in the 90s. Let's see what others are saying about Gerth's work:
