Guess Who Ed KLEIN Is?---------"Walter SCOTT" (Gossiper, Parade Magazine)

[UTUSN]

Just when I thought the final nail in his coffin was Tina BROWN's delicious sliciing and dicing of him ("Ed SLIME"), comes this:


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http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0526,schanberg,65362,6.html

Extinguished Journalist
The story behind Ed Klein, author of the latest Hillary-bashing tome

by Sydney H. Schanberg


.... The dust jacket of the book describes Klein as a "distinguished journalist." It notes that he was once the foreign editor at Newsweek and the editor of The New York Times Magazine. It does not describe the job he has held for the last 14 years: gossip columnist for Parade, under a pseudonym—Walter Scott. ....

All right, now for the serious entries in Ed's curriculum vitae. He became foreign editor at Newsweek and later assistant managing editor. In 1977, he went over to The New York Times as editor of its Sunday magazine. That job ended a decade later, not by his choice. Since then, he has written celebrity profiles for Vanity Fair, morphed into Walter Scott at Parade, and produced four gossipy, thinly sourced, and financially successful books about the Kennedy family.

I know little about Klein's time at Newsweek, except that he was a controversial figure there. While I was reporting from Cambodia in 1973, Klein as foreign editor sent a telex to Newsweek correspondent Tony Clifton in Phnom Penh at the height of the American-backed war with the Khmer Rouge guerrilla army. The wire gave Clifton an urgent assignment. He was to take a photographer and interpreter and immediately head into the bush to make contact with the guerrillas and write a major piece for Newsweek about life on the enemy side. Any editor anywhere who had been following the Cambodia story should have known that the Khmer Rouge had a take-no-prisoners reputation and, more importantly, that a Japanese reporter who had recently gone on such a suicide mission had not returned and his body was never found. Clifton swore at Klein's cable, sent a sardonic reply, and did nothing about the ridiculous assignment. ....

Klein was also controversial at the Times, where I was then metropolitan editor and later an op-ed columnist. Questions were raised internally about his ethics. My contacts with him were infrequent. On one occasion, though, he lobbied the newsroom to do a story about a dispute that a woman friend of his was having with a contractor and local officials in the Woodstock area over some renovations on her house there. Executive Editor Abe Rosenthal asked me as metro editor to have someone look into it. Two reporters spent a couple of days interviewing and going over records and came up with a dry hole. Klein had presented the situation as a broad town-gown social story about locals swindling and stonewalling a newcomer. The reporters concluded it was just a garden-variety dispute with a contractor. It appeared to them that Klein was simply trying to impress the woman with his influence at the Times. No story was written. ....

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[CBGLuthier]

1. That SOB!!!

I stopped reading that POS rag because of his obvious partisianship. In a gossip column no less.

[UTUSN]

2. Saw Him on C-SPAN - He's a Dessicated Mummy

And his main concern was whether or not there is "passionate sex" in the CLINTON marriage. He seriously doubts it. This from a creep who, I'll wager, has never experienced PASSIONATE SEX in his life.

This was after he recanted all of the salacious junk in his book. He said that DRUDGE's running the "rape" headline was wrong, then said, "Do you believe everything you read?" He also recanted the "Lesbian" angle about Hillary, saying her interest was only in politics.

[Lucille]

6. I don't know. I have the impression that he has had passionate sex

on numerous occassions...with Rosie Palm and her five daughters. A gossip columnist, huh. So now we know what...how do you say?...floats his hoover-craft. He likes to watch.

[AllyCat]

3. Par for the course for this Admin and its supporters

Always a shady deal in the background somewhere. False identities, phony credentials. Much like the rest of the party.

[gratuitous]

4. A fake journalist peddling a fake book

No surprises there. But I'll bet he makes more a year than you and me put together from various sinecures, appearances and "speaking" fees.

[KharmaTrain]

5. My Wife's Dumfounded

She loves reading cheap trashy celeb stuff like the Walter Scott crap. I have to admit at one time I found it amusing.

Last night I asked her if she had heard about Klein and the hit job on Hilary. She had and started going off on the Hillary was raped to have Chelsea lie and how disgusting that was. I said "guess what, hun...that Klein guy is Walter Scott". At first she it didn't register. I said, "Walter Scott, Personality Parade". It was like a ton of bricks hit her. I left it there.

It'll be interesting if we have a Sunday Tribune this weekend.

[JerseygirlCT]

7. Oh that's TOO good!

Perfect. I've despised the "Walter Scott" character for years.

Very interesting. How far he's fallen from Newsweek, huh?

[Rockholm]

8. I always thought that he was a shill.

Personality Parade? What crap. I now will not read that POS any more.

[UTUSN]

9. A Look Back: Tina BROWN's Slam at Him, Then His Pathetic Reply

Tina's delicious slicing and dicing of Ed SLIME:

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

Hillary Clinton Attacked by Man From Mars

By Tina Brown
Maybe it's a secret fantasy of girl-on-girl action that makes Ed Klein obsess about Sen. Hillary Clinton's supposed lesbian ethos in his new book "The Truth About Hillary." It's hard to know what else he has to draw on. Yelling "lesbian" at powerful heterosexual women has always been the pathetic projection of the menaced male, but it's especially baffling in Klein's case. As the former editor of the New York Times Magazine, with some bestsellers behind him, Klein used to be a workmanlike scribe with glamour aspirations when he was flat-footing around in the Jackie O crypto-sphere. He's not the usual sniper in the Republican stage army, which is perhaps why such paid-up members as the New York Post's John Podhoretz have elected to play smart and trash the book, too. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that misogyny is a sure boomerang.
In New York, "The Truth About Hillary" is having the unintended result of inspiring female solidarity. At a fancy all-girls lunch party on Fifth Avenue on Tuesday for, in Kleinspeak, the Powerful Network of Women who control the dinner access in Manhattan, "Ed Slime" was a withering topic of conversation, which seems to have been good news for his Amazon listing.

Every time Klein describes anyone female in Hillary Clinton's circle, you hear the clump clump clump of stereotype-lesbian footwear. ....

...but this doesn't seem in character for Klein. In my experience when he wrote for me at Vanity Fair, he was motivated only by success. In those days I appreciated his zesty pursuit of headline stories, even when he was totally unqualified to write them. A Klein hazard, however, was a Clouseau-like imperviousness to social temperature. I am afraid it was I who first assigned him to write a cover story about Jackie O in 1989 on the strength of his avowed friendship with the former first lady. Given her closely guarded privacy, it surprised me when Klein reported that Mrs. Onassis was "perfectly amenable" to his writing the piece. "What did she say when you called her?" I asked. "She said, 'Oh Ed, give me a break,' " he replied.

At the Fifth Avenue girls' lunch, the question most asked was: At what point is a successful woman permitted to move on? If George W. Bush can be born again and be absolved for his dopey frat-boy past and eat his National Guard records, when does Hillary get to slough off the ancient scaly legends of her relationship with Bill and the hoary old hide-and-seek of her Rose Law Firm files? Is there a statute of limitations on how long we can go on pondering if the Clintons do or don't have a "real marriage," whatever that may be? Now that Hillary has proved such a creditable senator in her own right, will there ever come a time when she doesn't have to prove that her pain over her husband's infidelities was "authentic"?

There is something so passe about bio-porn, even in the service of political gut-shooting.

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And SLIMEbag's pathetic reply:


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http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix_u.htm

'ED SLIME' FIRES BACK AT TINA

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." ....

"I was shocked that Tina, who called to compliment me about my excerpt in Vanity Fair (last week), then begged me to give her an early copy of my book and promised to 'shout out' my praises, would turn around and write the very trash she accuses me of writing," Klein fumed.

"She has a right to disagree with my book, but she is not credible when she disses my career that she herself helped to build at Vanity Fair. She always heaped praise on the stories I wrote for her. By calling me names, she has sunk lower than I have ever sunk in my writing." ....

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[UTUSN]

10. Kick for "Walter Scott" the Author of IVANHOE n/t

[Jade Fox]

12. Dang, he's fallen low! ;-)

[thebigidea]

11. "Newsweek correspondent Tony Clifton"

"He's just using my name to get places! I don't know no Andy Kaufman... if you ever come to Las Vegas again, they're not gonna let you in!"