Ed Klien told Fox & Friends that Bill Clinton plotted to use his death to help Hillary become President. And because Fox & Friends hosts: Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Steve Doocy & Brian Kilmeade are stupid, they didn't even bother taking Klein to task on his absurd claim ... they just gobbled it up.
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Ed Klein sowed his BS in the feeble minds of Fox viewers and said that Bill Clinton smiled when he was diagnosed with a “progressive” heart condition because the term "sounded liberal." Then Klein went on to say that Bill told Hillary to use his death to get elected.
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ED KLEIN: “And he’s discussed with Hillary, according to people who were in the room with them when he did it, what would happen if he died. What should Hillary do? And what is said is, ‘Hillary, you should put on widow’s weeds, dress in black, and it would be worth a couple of million votes.”
DOOCY: (laughing) “I can hear him saying that."
HASSELBECK: “You almost can, for sure."
Ed Klein is a hack and in 2005, even the rightwingers debunked Ed Klein's fictional hit-piece, "The Truth About Hillary."
Here's what Rupert Murdoch's New York Post wrote in 2005 regarding Ed Kleins' garbage:
The New York Post's Title
"SMEAR FOR PROFIT
"This is one of the most sordid volumes I've ever waded through. Thirty pages into it, I wanted to take a shower. Sixty pages into it, I wanted to be decontaminated. And 200 pages into it, I wanted someone to drive stakes through my eyes so I wouldn't have to suffer through another word."
~ John Podhertz
Peggy Noonan
wrote in the Wall Street Journal:
[Ed Klein's] book is poorly written, poorly thought, poorly sourced and full of the kind of loaded language that is appropriate to a polemic but not an investigative work.
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Mr. Klein's problem is that he assumes the market is conservative and conservatives are stupid. They're not, actually. They want solid sourcing and new information that is true.
~Peggy Noonan on Ed Klein in 2005
Also in 2005, Joe Conason and Al Frankin interviewed Ed Klein where they point out Klein's blatant errors and Klein admits to his errors. Here is a 6 minute video (part 1 of a 3 part video).
In part 2 (an 8 minute videos) Klein was pissed that Joe Conason was on with Al Frankin and interviewing him. Conason and Frankin get Klein to admit he has many factual errors in his book.
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In part 3 (an 8 min. video) Klein admits he did not even bother to research the crap he spewed in his book:
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Those video interview are very well worth the time of watching. Joe Conason and Al Frankin rip Ed Klein for his blatant errors.
Back to 2014 and Ed Klein on Fox & Friends:
These same fools spent the first part of the interview letting Ed Klein spread garbage that Bill Clinton told Hillary to "resign" because President Obama was going to make Hillary say a "video" caused the Benghazi attacks.
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HASSELBECK: There's a reactionary story that Bill Clinton has when Hillary came to him and said the President wanted to put out a different narrative than she initially
DOOCY: "It's that durn video!"
HASSELBECK :"yeah it's a video' and he actually said this, this is Bill Clinton excerpt from the book:
That story won't hold up," Bill said. "I know," Hillary said. "I told the president that." "It's an impossible story," Bill said. "I can't believe the president is claiming it wasn't terrorism. Then again, maybe I can. It looks like Obama isn't going to allow anyone to say that terrorism has occurred on his watch."
KLEIN: But Bill also went on to say then to Hillary "Let's discuss the question of whether you should resign rather than go along with this cockamamie story about a video and ah -- internet and all that sort of stuff which we know is not true.
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DOOCY: Now the story is out.
KLEIN: Now the story is out and we're waiting for the blow-back from the Clintons which I'm sure is coming.
Throughout his current fictional tale, Ed Klein used "unnamed sources" and it is those "unnamed sources that Doocy said are 'impeccable.'
DOOCY: So your sources are impeccable. It's right down to the level where you talk to the house-hold help.
KLEIN: Yes.
LMFAO at the ignorance of Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Doocy & Kilmeade ... seems they haven't heard - or read - the
New York Times article that describes the mastermind of the Benghazi attacks told his fellow fighters that the video is what caused the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi.
"As the attack in Benghazi was unfolding a few hours later, Mr. Abu Khattala told fellow Islamist fighters and others that the assault was retaliation for the same insulting video, according to people who heard him."
~ New York Times reporter David Kirkpatrick
It's sad to think that the only group of people dumber than Fox hosts are their viewers.