K-Lo, it’s true that you were rough on Ed Klein. At this point, when pretty much none of us has seen the book yet, just media and Matt Drudge reports, it’s hard to evaluate the whole book. But it’s vitally important in the debate over the Clintons for conservatives to make the public understand we’re not so full of “hate” that we don’t care about the canons of journalism, that we don’t care about anonymous sourcing, that we don’t care about thin evidence, that we’ll accept any innuendo. That’s where Morris can claim at this point that the Klein book is as bad as the Who The Clintons Had Murdered list. (Pardon me if I detect Mr. Morris saying “buy my books instead.”)

But it’s also vitally important to understand that the Clinton machine (which includes Media Matters for America) is out to malign any book that does not accept the gauzy myths they prefer as “trash for cash.” They said Paula Jones was “trash for cash,” and Clinton ended up paying her almost a million in a plea bargain. They said Linda Tripp was pedding “trash for cash,” but she had real evidence. Then they maligned everyone in any way associated with the obvious, damning evidence in the impeachment accounts. Their standard pose is to attack every negative story as “unsubstantiated,” and the danger is that the Clinton-loving liberal media too often makes no attempt to substantiate things.