Whitewash: What the Media Won't Tell You About Hillary Clinton, but Conservatives Will

by L. Brent Bozell III, Tim Graham

“The overriding question is: Why Hillary? Here we come to 2008 and she is the de facto nominee. . . . But what has she done?”
—Rush Limbaugh, in an exclusive interview for Whitewash

Amid all the discussion of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential prospects, the most important question is ignored: Why Hillary? How did the First Lady to a disgraced, impeached president become a presidential front-runner despite never having held elective office before 2001; her staggering number of personal, political, and financial scandals; and her leftist political agenda?

The answer is that for two decades she has had the most powerful weapon in politics—the national “news” media—shamelessly promoting her presidential aspirations.

In Whitewash, L. Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham of the Media Research Center, America’s preeminent media watchdog organization, expose the unprecedented media favoritism that is the real key to Hillary’s political career. Marshalling stunning evidence compiled exclusively by the Media Research Center, the authors show how the media have relentlessly promoted Hillary from the moment Time magazine introduced her to the country as an “amalgam of Betty Crocker, Mother Teresa, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.”

To expose the truth about Hillary that the supposedly objective media have buried, Bozell and Graham have interviewed dozens of leading conservatives who are fighting to let Americans hear the whole story: Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, Mary Matalin, Laura Ingraham, Cal Thomas, and many others.

Whitewash reveals:

• How the frequent claim that no one has been more investigated than Hillary Clinton is not just incorrect, but utterly absurd
• How prominent female reporters admit that they’re “rooting” for Mrs. Clinton, their “mascot”
• The surprising ways Hillary’s media allies have tried to fend off Barack Obama’s challenge
• How the national media continue to promote Mrs. Clinton’s socialist health care takeover as “ahead of its time”
• The network news anchor to whom Hillary gushed, “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
• The Republican congressman who tells how the Clintons “went after” him “mercilessly” for daring to investigate Hillary scandals
• How the press ruthlessly attacks anyone in the alternative media who dares challenge Hillary

Mrs. Clinton’s media flacks deride every negative charge against her as “old news,” but Whitewash shows that Hillary’s pattern of deception, corruption, and overreaching political schemes has been repeated again and again precisely because the media ignore the scandalous behavior. And the pattern will be repeated in 2008 and beyond if Americans aren’t exposed at last to the truth that the servile national media have obscured.

258 pages, Hardcover

First published November 13, 2007

About the author

American conservative writer and activist. He is the son of L. Brent Bozell Jr.

Bozell is the founder and president of the Media Research Center, the Conservative Communications Center, and the Cybercast News Service.

Bozell served as president of the Parents Television Council from 1995 to 2006, after which he was succeeded by Timothy F. Winter.

In addition, currently, Bozell serves on the board for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and has served on the board of directors in the American Conservative Union.

Reviews

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bozelle and Graham don’t say it in so many words, but, it’s apparent that their 2007 expose was meant to be a speed bump in then U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton’s road to the White House. You would expect that the authors were hoping their documentary on all things Hillary would’ve slowed her presidential campaign down, at the very least, if not stop it in its tracks.

In 258 pages, Bozelle and Graham brought “fifteen years of uncomfortable facts to the table on just how dramatically the media favor Hillary Clinton.” The authors pull no punches in labeling CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press and others as Hillary’s cheerleaders. Perhaps the Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity summed it up best: Hillary “gets a pass (from the mainstream media) on just about everything she does.”

Historical, political events subsequent to the publishing of “Whitewash,” proved, of course, that Bozelle and Graham needn’t have worried in 2007. A funny thing happened on the way to the Oval Office in 2008. Rush Limbaugh’s “drive-by media” discovered another liberal candidate to champion, and as we all know, he’s the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

In minute detail, Bozelle and Graham catalog the political and criminal scandals that should’ve prevented both Bill and Hillary from ever occupying that address in the first place. The fact that the Clinton’s did live there once and still remain media-proof to this day just proves that books like this have absolutely no effect on the political landscape.

[Mary Mason · Rating 3 out of 5]

With the tremendous push to elect Hillary as our next president, I wanted more information. Written from a decidedly antagonistic pov. That said, it was not about Hillary so much as the semi-worship that the Mainstream Media has for both her and Bill. Well, it did. It seems to have diverted its gaze to Obama these days--after a brief enough flirtation with McCain to get him moved into a better position to gain the Republican nomination; now of course, the MSM maven, the NY Times has reverted to type and is back to drawing all conservative blood.

My views on the MSM are obvious, but I don't hold them based on nothing. Whitewash, while it uses Hillary as its focal point, is really about the factual and carefully supported details which demonstrate the MSM's bias toward liberals and their causes.

If you care to see what I mean, read this carefully documented book.