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“The new status made her a special government employee, which was tantamount to being a consultant,” according to the source, whose information was confirmed by two other staffers familiar with the matter. “Multiple sources told
Politico
Abedin did work for other clients, which a friend of Abedin said totaled four, including the State Department, Hillary Clinton, the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation and Teneo, the firm cofounded by former Bill Clinton counselor Doug Band,”
Politico
would report.
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Around the same time, Weiner was hoping to hop back into politics with a run for mayor of New York City. It’s a coveted slot: the head of the largest American city. And one that Weiner had his eyes on for at least a decade.

It was a brilliant move. “If he runs, and even if he loses, he comes in a respectable second—if he makes a run at it and comes in second in a race of like how many people? And then he’s not the guy who everyone remembers as taking creepy dick pics and tweeting them to people. Then it will be, ‘Oh, he ran for mayor and came in second,’ ” a former aide told me. “That’s why it’s brilliant that he’s running.”

But something happened that caught ClintonWorld and Abedin completely off-guard. Weiner hadn’t given up sending lewd pictures via text message to women around the country. And one of the recipients in particular decided to use the dirt she had on Weiner to try to parlay that into her fifteen minutes of fame. Which she did—to really remarkable success.

Weiner’s run was over. His life was a joke. And Abedin looked to be the second part of that joke, especially when she joined Weiner at a press conference, where she looked hurt, confused—and loyal to her man.

The Clintons wanted nothing to do with Weiner, with whom they were furious . . . mainly because the scandal looked in some ways like another scandal the Clintons had for years been trying to get over: the Monica Lewinsky affair.

“They don’t want anything to do with him [Anthony Weiner]. They don’t want to be around him. I mean, she and her job needs to be the priority,” said a Clinton aide who had worked closely with Hillary, Abedin, and Weiner.

“She’ll divorce him,” the aide speculated last year.

The Clintons were petrified the entire time that it would be brought up. “I think that it’s just too close to home. Like if they were close to him, everyone would be talking about it like, ‘Oh, the Clintons had their own problems.’ Lewinsky would be in every single article. . . . You look at it now, it’s never mentioned,” said the aide
before
Weiner got caught in the second, and most detrimental, sexting scandal.

That’s when, as the aide suspected, Lewinsky’s name began to be brought up and people would compare Abedin to her mentor, Hillary Clinton. Just like Hillary she had stood by her man during a sex scandal. Now they had even more in common than before—public humiliation.

In reality, Abedin’s been able to avoid divorce—at least for now. Weiner slipped away from public view. And Abedin did, too, when her boss Hillary took some time off after the State Department and before her own book launch in the summer of 2014.

The one major consequence for Abedin has been that she wasn’t able to break away from ClintonWorld to start her own career in the way Doug Band was. Without someone directly pushing her out and without Weiner in view, it was hard to make a clean break—and she’d be damaged goods on the consulting market if
some
sort of relationship with Hillary were not in place.

Instead, she’d be forced into rehabilitation, to be at Hillary’s side for at least another couple of years, and maybe even during a presidential run in 2016.

If there’s one serious threat to Hillary Clinton’s presidential primary campaign in 2016, it’s the left wing of her party. They are the ones who abandoned her in 2008 for Barack Obama. They are the ones she overlooked when she voted for the Iraq War and started trying to broaden her appeal to general election voters.

She is determined not to take them for granted again. That’s why, on January 1, 2014, H. Clinton and B. Clinton, as the name cards labeled the former president and (perhaps) future president, sat atop a stage for the swearing in of the new mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio.

De Blasio was elected mayor in what many considered a progressive wave of strident liberalism returning to the Democratic Party. He unabashedly tapped into the spirit of the Occupy Wall Street protesters who pitted the 99 percent against the rich, elite 1 percent of the U.S. population.

Dressed in a long, shapeless dark overcoat, Bill Clinton had been asked to administer the oath of office to his former regional director at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager for her statewide run for the U.S. Senate more than a dozen years before. Even Huma Abedin was on hand, though her husband, who had humiliated himself and his family in his primary run against de Blasio and others for the coveted office, was not.

David Axelrod, one of Obama’s closest political advisors, took notice and said that President Clinton’s “role” in the ceremonial inauguration “may reassure the Left” in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election. Axelrod would also try to draw another lesson and suggest that Clinton’s very presence was a “signal to the elite that new Mayor’s agenda is not ‘radical.’ ”

It would also be another sign (following Bill Clinton’s boffo 2012 Democratic National Convention speech) that the Clintons were the most revered political guests to have on hand at top events. (By contrast, President Obama was on the other side of the nation that day, vacationing in Hawaii. His presence did not appear to be missed.)

In having Clinton officiate the ceremony, there of course was a glaring irony: The first modern president to be impeached after he lied to investigators looking into allegations of sexual harassment, Bill Clinton was there to administer Bill de Blasio’s oath that he would faithfully uphold the U.S. Constitution and the laws of the United States and New York. Journalist Matt Drudge would take to Twitter to note, “Rehabilitation of Clinton crosses into Looney Tunes. Contempt of court, law license suspended 5 years, impeached! Now swearing in NYC mayor?”

But in fact it was a sign that the Clintons had successfully graduated from rehab. They were back.

Clinton, in a perfectly Clintonian manner, would be one of the only speakers to go out of his way to praise de Blasio’s predecessor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whom he would credit with leaving New York City in better condition than when he arrived a dozen years before. “He made the city stronger and healthier than he found it,” Clinton said of the mayor.
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The line stood out, as all the other speakers before him had avoided directly mentioning Bloomberg—they would only criticize the state of the city and say that better days, under de Blasio, were ahead.

But the soft touch by Clinton would suggest something else: The Clintons would work to bridge the gap from the radical left (de Blasio) to the middle (Bloomberg). It wasn’t just something they’d work toward in the future; it was something they claimed to have done since entering public service more than three decades before.

Bloomberg, once a nominal Republican, appeared genuinely to appreciate the praise (as would his longtime communications director, Howard Wolfson). As for Hillary, she remained a silent presence throughout the appearance, though she joined her husband and dutifully stood for photo ops with the newly sworn-in officials.

But Clinton would use the moment to appeal to the left, too. “I strongly endorse Bill de Blasio’s core campaign commitment that we have to have a city of shared opportunities, shared prosperity, shared responsibilities,” said Clinton, who lives outside the city limits. Some speculated that it was the most Clinton had talked about income inequality in years.

Clinton would also applaud de Blasio’s diverse family. “He represents with his family the future of our city and the future of our country,” Clinton said. “You know, with all respect to the television show, they’re our real modern family.”

It was a big moment for de Blasio. “Thank you, President Clinton, for your kind and generous words. It was an honor to serve in your administration, and we’re all honored by your presence here today. And I have to note that, over twenty years ago, when a conservative philosophy seemed dominant in our nation, you broke through—and told us to still believe in a place called Hope,” de Blasio began his inaugural address, turning back to face President Clinton, who quickly realized that with the mayor’s glance the cameras would pan to him, seated between Hillary and Governor Andrew Cuomo. The former president reached across his wife’s back and eased his hand on her shoulder, pulling her tight, as the crowd (and Mrs. Clinton) applauded him.
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“Thank you, Secretary Clinton. I was so inspired by the time I spent on your first campaign. Your groundbreaking commitment to nurturing our children and families manifested itself in a phrase that is now a part of our American culture—and something we believe in deeply in this city: ‘It Takes a Village.’ Thank you, Secretary.”

Hillary’s book
It Takes a Village
preaches the power of the community—and how important it is to work together toward a good cause.

And with the newly inaugurated mayor, there was a clear sign that through hard work, determination, skillful politics, and brute force, Bill and Hillary Clinton have themselves built a community of friends and allies, new and old, across the political spectrum, and even in the financial capital of the world.

That is how the impeached President Clinton was invited to New York City on that cold Wednesday last January to administer the oath, even though he himself had failed to adhere to his own oath of office after being sworn in as president of the United States. And it is how Mrs. Clinton will be able to use the village—her village—to help make her the next president of the United States.

As they sat before New York’s first Democratic mayor in two decades, Bill and Hillary Clinton were happy. They were right where they wanted to be—at the center of the world’s attention. The comeback was almost complete.

Acknowledgments

Matt Latimer and Keith Urbahn—and the great team they’ve assembled at Javelin—made this possible. From start to finish,
like shepherds living with the smell of sheep
, they provided the idea behind this book, outstanding representation, and tremendous assistance in every possible way.

I’m grateful to Adam Bellow and HarperCollins for having faith in this project. Adam’s perceptive ideas and sharp edits vastly improved the idea of this book and, ultimately, the final copy. I’d also like to thank Eric Meyers for helping throughout the editing process.

Everyone I work with at the
Weekly Standard
was helpful and supportive. In particular, I’m especially thankful to Bill Kristol, the boss, for giving me a job—and for offering advice and allowing me to take the time I needed from work to make this book possible. Mike Warren, John McCormack, Ethan Epstein, Jim Swift, Geoffrey Norman, Maria Santos, and Jeryl Bier made my life much easier by covering for me at work. Additionally, Fred Barnes, Richard Starr, Andrew Ferguson, Matt Labash, Steve Hayes, Vic Matus, Terry Eastland, Nick Swezey, Grace Terzian, Catherine Lowe, and Claudia Anderson gave me wise counsel and went out of their way to be helpful. And thanks to Lou Ann Sabatier.

They say that reporters are only as good as their sources, so I’m especially thankful to the many, many people who went out of their way to sit for interviews, chat on the phone, respond to my emails, and otherwise point me in the right direction. Many sources requested anonymity, so I’ll stop short of naming most of them. But Ambassador Richard Carlson was outstanding—and a riveting storyteller. Thanks also to Lanny Davis, Jerome Marcus, Michael Medved, David Shuster, John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and Jason Chaffetz.

Much of the reporting for this is book built upon previous reporting by many stellar reporters and authors. Though most of these writers I’ve never met, I’d like to thank Maggie Haberman, Alec MacGillis
,
Carol Felsenthal, Amy Chozick, Vali Nasr, Sally Bedell Smith, Michael Tomasky, John Harris, Carl Bernstein, George Stephanopoulos, Mark Halperin, John Heilemann, and many others cited throughout this book.

A big thanks, also, to Ryan Lovelace (and Ben Silver) for help transcribing interviews, and Andrew Evans for fact-checking.

Reporting and writing a book takes a lot of time, of course. And I’m very appreciative of my family for their support throughout. My in-laws, Karen and Steve, provided help and support along the way. As did my sister in-law, Kimberly, and my brothers, Yehuda and Aaron, and their spouses, Sara and Mary, who rooted for the success of this project from the start. My parents have always supported in me in whatever I’ve wanted to do—and this project was no exception.

And of course to my wife, Lauren, who makes everything possible and worthwhile. To her—and for her—I’m eternally grateful.

Notes

Introduction: Brand Management

  
1
. Robert M. Gates,
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
(New York: Knopf, 2014).

  
2
. “Clinton Cancels Middle East Trip Because of Ill Health,” Reuters, December 10, 2012, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-12-10/news/sns-rt-us-syria-usa-clintonbre8ba04g-20121210_1_ill-health-syrian-opposition-coalition-president-bashar-al-assad.

  
3
. “Hillary Clinton Recovering from Fall, Working from Home,” Associated Press, December 16, 2012, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/1216/Hillary-Clinton-recovering-from-fall-working-from-home.

  
4
. Elise Labott, “Hillary Clinton Treated for Blood Clot in Her Head,” CNN, January 1, 2013, http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/31/politics/hillary-clinton-hospitalized/.

  
5
. “Hillary Clinton Faints During Speech in Buffalo,” NBC, February 1, 2005, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6890519/ns/politics/t/hillary-clinton-faints-during-speech-buffalo/#.UwuqRBZZ4Rk.

  
6
. Kevin Robillard, “NBC Reporter Raises Hillary Clinton Questions,”
Politico
, December 31, 2012, http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/nbc-reporter-raises-hillary-questions-85611.html.

  
7
. Selim Algar, “Big Donor Claims Bill Clinton Told Him Hillary’s Running for Prez in 2016,”
New York Post
, February 14, 2013, http://nypost.com/2013/02/14/big-donor-claims-bill-clinton-told-him-hillarys-running-for-prez-in-2016/.

  
8
. “Richard Nixon’s Quiet Foreign Policy Advice to Bill Clinton Revealed in Newly Declassified Documents,” Associated Press, February 14, 2013.

  
9
. Christopher Hitchens,
No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family
(London and New York: Verso, 1999).

10
. George Stephanopoulos,
All Too Human: A Political Education
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1999).

11
. Bill Richardson,
How to Sweet-Talk a Shark: Strategies and Stories from a Master Negotiator
(Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books, 2013).

12
. Todd S. Purdum, “The Comeback Id,”
Vanity Fair
, July 2008, http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/07/clinton200807.

13
. Kim Masters, “Bill Clinton’s $20 Million Breakup,”
Daily Beast
, March 29, 2010, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/03/29/bill-clintons-20-million-breakup.html.

14
. Amy Chozick and Nicholas Confessore, “Unease at Clinton Foundation Over Finances and Ambitions,”
New York Times
, August 13, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/us/politics/unease-at-clinton-foundation-over-finances-and-ambitions.html.

15
. Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes,
HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
(New York: Crown, 2014).

1: Hillary’s Redemption

  
1
. Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Living History
(New York: Scribner, 2004), p. 506.

  
2
. Christopher Anderson,
Bill and Hillary: The Marriage
(New York: William Morrow, 1999).

  
3
. Sally Bedell Smith,
For Love of Politics
(New York: Random House, 2007).

  
4
. Gail Sheehy,
Hillary’s
Choice
(New York: Random House, 1999).

  
5
. James Bennet, “The Next Clinton,”
New York Times Magazin
e, May 30, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/30/magazine/the-next-clinton.html.

  
6
. Hillary Clinton,
Living History
(New York: Scribner, 2004), p. 292.

  
7
. Naftali Bendavid, “Hillary-Eleanor Comparison Riles Some Fans of the Latter,”
Chicago Tribune
, December 8, 1999 http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-12-08/news/9912080093_1_mrs-roosevelt-franklin-d-roosevelt-memorial-mrs-clinton.

  
8
. William Safire, “Blizzard of Lies,”
New York Times
, January 8, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/08/opinion/essay-blizzard-of-lies.html.

  
9
. Alana Goodman, “The Hillary Papers,”
Washington Free Beacon
, February 9, 2014, http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-hillary-papers/.

 
10
. Bennet, “The Next Clinton.”

 
11
. “Clinton’s Trip to Martha’s Vineyard Was Hardly a Vacation from Politics,”
Los Angeles Times
, August 30, 1998, http://articles.latimes.com/1998/aug/30/news/mn-18034.

 
12
. See, e.g., “How Bill Clinton Neutered the Feminist Movement,”
Independent
, April 4, 1998, http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/how-bill-clinton-neutered-the-feminist-movement-1154350.html.

 
13
. “Secretary Clinton ’73 Receives Award of Merit at the Yale Law School Alumni Weekend,” Yale Law School, October 5, 2013, http://www.law.yale.edu/news/17521.htm.

 
14
. Taylor Branch,
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 496.

 
15
. Goodman, “The Hillary Papers.”

 
16
. Nancy Traver, “Choice Moments: Gail Sheehy on How Hillary Clinton Chose to Live Her Life,”
Chicago Tribune,
January 26, 2000.

 
17
. Jerry Oppenheimer,
State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton
(New York: HarperCollins, 2000).

 
18
. Gregg Birnbaum, “GOP Introduces Anti-Hill Bill to Nix Senate Bid,”
New York Post
, March 9, 1999, http://nypost.com/1999/03/09/gop-introduces-anti-hill-bill-to-nix-senate-bid/.

 
19
. Richard Perez-Pena, “Giuliani Aims Gibes at Hillary Clinton at an Upstate Dinner,”
New York Times
, May 4, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/04/nyregion/giuliani-aims-gibes-at-hillary-clinton-at-an-upstate-dinner.html.

 
20
. Adam Nagourney, “In a Kennedy’s Legacy, Lessons and Pitfalls for Hillary Clinton; Carpetbagger Issue Has Echoes of ’64, but Differences Could Prove Crucial,”
New York Times
, September 10, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/10/nyregion/kennedy-s-legacy-lessons-pitfalls-for-hillary-clinton-carpetbagger-issue-has.html.

 
21
. Ibid.

 
22
. Bennet, “The Next Clinton.”

 
23
. “Home Financing for the Clintons,” editorial,
New York Times
, September 28, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/28/opinion/home-financing-for-the-clintons.html.

 
24
. Michael Crowley, “Bunker Hillary,”
New Republic
, November 12, 2007, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/bunker-hillary.

 
25
. Susan Dominus, “Hillary Clinton’s Biggest Backer,”
New York Times Magazine
, September 17, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/17/magazine/hillary-clinton-s-biggest-backer.html.

 
26
. Maggie Haberman, “Chuck Schumer Hatched Secret Plan to Get Obama to Run,”
New York Post
, January 10, 2010, http://nypost.com/2010/01/10/chuck-schumer-hatched-secret-plan-to-get-obama-to-run/.

 
27
. Ibid.

 
28
. Jura Koncius, “The Woman Behind the Room Behind Hillary Clinton,”
Washington Post
, February 1, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013100469.html.

 
29
. Ibid.

 
30
. Louis J. Freeh, “Khobar Towers,”
Wall Street Journal
, June 23, 2006, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB115102702568788331.

 
31
. John Solomon and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, “Clinton Library Got Funds from Abroad,”
Washington Post
, December 15, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121402124.html.

 
32
. Ibid.

 
33
. Ibid.

 
34
. Terry Lenzner,
The Investigator: Fifty Years of Uncovering the Truth
(New York: Blue Rider Press, 2013), p. 296.

 
35
. U.S. Government Printing Office transcript of President Clinton’s remarks, available at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/WCPD-2001-01-15/html/WCPD-2001-01-15-Pg57.htm.

 
36
. John Riley, “Holder as AG: Why Marc Rich Matters,”
Newsday
, November 19, 2008, http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/spin-cycle-1.812042/holder-as-ag-why-marc-rich-matters-1.862368.

 
37
. Ibid.

 
38
. Jake Tapper, “Pardon Me?” ABC News, November 15, 2007, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=3866786&page=1&singlePage=true.

 
39
. Chris Matthews,
Hardball
, CNBC, January 25, 2001.

 
40
. Maureen Dowd, “Liberties; Cats, Dogs and Grifters,”
New York Times
, January 24, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/24/opinion/liberties-cats-dogs-and-grifters.html.

 
41
. “Sorting Out the Pardon Mess,” editorial,
New York Times
, February 23, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/23/opinion/sorting-out-the-pardon-mess.html.

 
42
. Haynes Johnson,
The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years
(New York: Harcourt, 2001), p. 546.

 
43
. “Carter Calls Pardon of Rich ‘Disgraceful,’ ”
Los Angeles Times
, February 21, 2001, http://articles.latimes.com/2001/feb/21/news/mn-28265.

 
44
. Peter Slevin, “A Rush to Judgment,”
Washington Post
, March 1, 2001, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061101245.html.

2: On Their Own

  
1
. Gallup polling, available at http://www.gallup.com/poll/116584/presidential-approval-ratings-bill-clinton.aspx.

  
2
. Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct, filed February 21, 2001, bar number 73019, https://courts.arkansas.gov/content/200000013-suspended.

  
3
. Ibid.

  
4
. William Jefferson Clinton, “My Reasons for the Pardons,”
New York Times
, February 18, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/18/opinion/my-reasons-for-the-pardons.html.

  
5
. “Editors’ Note,”
New York Times
, February 19, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/19/opinion/editors-note-985392.html.

  
6
. Taylor Branch,
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009).

  
7
. Dianne Feinstein, “Hope for a Transformative President,”
Politico
, December 12, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/women-rule-dianne-feinstein-hillary-clinton-hopes-for-a-transformative-president-101037.html.

  
8
. Rebecca Johnson, “Hillary’s Secret Weapon: Huma Abedin,”
Vogue
, August 2007, http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/hillarys-secret-weapon-huma-abedin/#1.

  
9
. Andrew C. McCarthy, “The Huma Unmentionables,”
National Review Online
, July 24, 2013, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/354351/huma-unmentionables-andrew-c-mccarthy.

 
10
. Ibid.

 
11
. Brianna Gurciullo, “FBI Tailed Terrorist Anwar Al-Awlaki as He Ordered Pizza, Took Classes at GW,”
GW Hatchet
, July 3, 2013, http://blogs.gwhatchet.com/newsroom/2013/07/03/fbi-tailed-terrorist-anwar-al-awlaki-as-he-ordered-pizza-took-classes-at-gw/.

 
12
. Johnson, “Hillary’s Secret Weapon.”

 
13
. “Hillary Clinton Aide Tells Reporter to ‘Fuck Off’ and ‘Have a Good Life,’ ”
Buzz
Feed
, September 24, 2012, http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/hillary-clinton-aide-tells-reporter-to-fuck-off.

 
14
. Jason Horowitz, “Longtime Keeper of Hillary Clinton’s Image Has Forged a Loyal Badge of His Own,”
Washington Post
, June 12, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/longtime-keeper-of-hillary-clintons-image-has-forged-a-loyal-badge-of-his-own/2011/05/31/AGLAu9RH_story.html.

 
15
. Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr.,
Her Way: The Hope and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton
(Boston: Little, Brown, 2007).

 
16
. Janet Maslin, “Books of the Times: Clintons’ ‘Good Soldier’ Explains All Those Messes,”
New York Times
, May 15, 2003, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/15/books/books-of-the-times-clintons-good-soldier-explains-all-those-messes.html.

 
17
. David Maraniss, “First Lady Launches Counterattack,”
Washington Post
, January 28, 1998, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/hillary012898.htm.

 
18
. Matt Bai, “Notion Building,”
New York Times Magazine
, October 12, 2003.

 
19
. Neera Tanden, email to supporters, December 27, 2013.

 
20
. Robert Dreyfuss, “An Idea Factory for the Democrats,”
Nation
, March 1, 2004, p. 18.

 
21
. Media Matters website: http://mediamatters.org/about.

 
22
. David Brock, “His Cheatin’ Heart: Living with the Clintons: Bill’s Arkansas Bodyguards Tell the Story the Press Missed,”
American Spectator
, January 1994, http://spectator.org/print/49976.

 
23
. Noel Sheppard, “Hillary Clinton Told YearlyKos Convention She Helped Start Media Matters,” Newsbusters.org, October 1, 2007, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/01/hillary-clinton-told-yearlykos-convention-she-helped-start-media-matt.