Posted 10:03 AM by Scoobie Davis

OUTRAGE!!!!!
I haven't had the chance to buy David Brock's just-released book about the right's smear machine, Blinded By The Right. But there's a good story about it in the New Yorker (click here). What outraged me particularly in the article was the conduct of current Solicitor General Ted Olson regarding the question of publishing an article in the American Spectator about the death of Clinton deputy White House counsel Vince Foster that Olson knew to be reckless and untrue:

Brock faxed [Olson] the piece. Olson's response was evidently not what he was expecting. Olson, Brock writes, "told me bluntly, in a tone of voice that I had never heard him use before, that while he believed, as [Kenneth] Starr apparently did, that Foster had committed suicide, raising questions about the death was a way of turning up the heat on the [Clinton] administration until another scandal was shaken loose, which was the Spectator's mission. The statement stunned me. Though I was all for harassing the administration, I was not ready to accept the reality that the Spectator was a propaganda organ.

I kind of felt bad about being the one who uncovered and exposed the urban legend in Olson's deceased wife Barbara's laughable last book on the Clintons, but no more.