The Truth About Anti-Hillary Books

If you couldn't get through to those links to the Al Franken Show interview of Ed Klein, here's a better link. And if you don't want to listen, here's a transcript. I found it fascinating, and not because I'm that wild about Hillary Clinton — I'm still hoping she isn't the candidate — but because I think most political/polemic books are full of sloppy, blind research and it's so rare that the authors get nailed. The interview shows are either too nice to them or, more often, the interviewers lack sufficient knowledge to call people on their fibs and distortions. Nice to see an exception that reminds us what a news-oriented interview should be like.

(And yes, I know that an hour long version of The Al Franken Show airs the following weekday on the Sundance Channel. I'm guessing Monday's show will have the Klein interview but since Klein wasn't in the studio with Franken and Conason, the audio version is probably just as good.)

[UPDATE, a little later: I'm told the Klein interview made it into last night's Sundance Channel edition. The next airing of that one will be early Monday morning.]