ALTERMAN: CAN'T LOSE WITH EVIDENCE - Media To Clinton: You Still Stink

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Our man Eric Boehlert at Salon wonders why the New York Times is still making stuff up about Clinton and Whitewater.  I saw Clinton at his book party at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  He had a few gracious things to say about What Liberal Media? and then went into his regular rap these days that goes something like this: “Evidence, evidence, evidence.  When we get people to pay attention to the evidence, we can’t lose.”  I agree with that.

The party was not as star-studded as one might expect.  Not too many movie stars or a-list fiction writers, save Toni Morrison.  (I see from Page Six that I did not notice Lauren Bacall, or Natalie Portman, shame on me in both cases.)  I had a nice conversation with Judy Collins, whom I had met once before at a party celebrating the inauguration twelve years earlier thrown by Carville and Begala.  (She had wanted to know weather alligator sausage was high in cholesterol.)  She recently turned 65—can you believe that?—and wanted to talk about Social Security.  I also got to hassle MSNBC-TV President Rick Kaplan about giving me half of Scarborough’s show among other potential improvements he could make on that beleaguered network.  He seemed about as eager to implement my suggestions as most people are.

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