The professional haters 2016 reunion tour
by digby
Media Matters has helpfully compiled a list of 1990s right wing Clinton haters for all you kids so you'[ll know who you’re dealing with when they start turning up in the media once the 2016 campaign kicks in. It’s already started on Fox, but I fully expect to see some of these people appearing elsewhere as well:
Fox News hosted the “professional dirty trickster” who founded an anti-Hillary Clinton group with the acronym “C.U.N.T.” The day before, it was the attorney who pushed fabricated anti-Clinton stories in the 90s. Last month, it was the woman who has suggested the Clintons may have had her husband killed.
Fox has never had particularly high standards for who they put on air, and it appears there’s no source too incredible for Fox to host as long as they are willing to smear the Clintons. And that list is long.
As Joe Conason and Gene Lyons detailed in their book The Hunting of the President, in the 1990s, an array of conservative operatives, right-wing journalists, and opportunists sought to drive the Clintons from the White House. Their backgrounds were often shady, their methods deceitful, and their claims fraudulent.
So who might be the next guest for a network with no standards and an urge to stop a potential Hillary Clinton presidential run? Some of these figures have gone on to extensive careers in the conservative media, while others haven’t been in the public eye for decades.
But all have literally unbelievable stories to tell.
Read on for the whole list. I was getting nervous they had left off Toensing and diGenova but I see they sved them for last.
I would also expect the gaggle of blond “former prosecutors” to be back as well. (They were the precursors to the FOX anchor archetype.)They are always good TV.
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