Posted 6:38 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Michael Tomasky:

. . .My subject is not Hillary. My subject is history. The Klein book [The Truth About Hillary : What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President], like Morris's recent Rewriting History, is produced in the first instance to damage Hillary Clinton in the short term (well, actually, point No. 1 is to make money; hurting Clinton is a close second). But there is another reason these anti-Clinton tomes still appear with regularity, and liberals who criticize the Clintons from the left need to recognize it: The right knows that if its historical interpretation of Clintonism can prevail, then liberalism as a project can be killed for decades. That is: If they can persuade America over the next few crucial years (crucial because historical interpretations of Clintonism are just really beginning) that the Clinton era was not one of prosperity, peace, and a demonstration that government can deliver common goods, but was instead one of corruption, turpitude, and a fat and happy people discarding its moral values for the sake of higher mutual-fund values, they will have won an extremely important argument with serious long-term ramifications. . .

Thank goodness, they haven't yet managed to rewrite Watergate except in the pages of their own sheets. But they're rewriting the 1990s, and they're working overtime to ensure that they will control how the history of the current administration is written. Young people who don't care about Mark Felt should at least be moved, one hopes, to care that history remains history and is not subverted into propaganda. The future depends on it.

UPDATE: Today's Media Matters for America has a good read on Klein and his anti-Hillary book.