.............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Remy C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: endsecrecy list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [endsecrecy] Clinton's Insane Clown Posse Date: Friday, June 09, 2000 11:52 AM From: http://www.nypost.com/06082000/commentary/5563.htm NYPost, Thur June 8th 2000 CLINTON'S 'TALK' PALS DO HIS DIRTY WORK By ROD DREHER WE'VE long known that the White House employs private investigators to look for dirt in the private lives of people critical of Bill Clinton. But now we know that the Walt Disney Co.'s money pays for the same kind of work. Disney's Talk/Miramax book division contracted with New York writer John Connolly to do a book titled "Insane Clown Posse," a work-in-progress that dishes what purports to be the slimy secrets of a host of Clinton critics. Jonathan Burnham, president of Talk/Miramax Books, said yesterday that the manuscript hasn't been edited or vetted legally, and no decision to publish has been made. A company investigation into author Connolly's methods is ongoing. They'll have a lot to look into. Several people I spoke with yesterday who are reportedly in the book say Connolly approached their friends and associates asking for sleazy details of their private lives. One Connolly target, conservative commentator Ann Coulter, even received a fax from her old boyfriend Bob Guccione Jr. that had been sent to him from Nils B. Grevillius, a top Los Angeles private investigator. The PI - who brags on his Web site about working with Connolly on the book - wanted trash on Coulter, the fax shows. Coulter characterized the book's message as, "The entire right wing is gay except me, but that's because I was having an affair with Geraldo Rivera. It's absurd." But gay-sex allegations are only a small part of the book according to cyber-gossip Matt Drudge, who acquired a copy of the "Insane Clown Posse" manuscript. Drudge told me that Connolly's hit list includes Ken Starr and his deputies, literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, conservative commentator Laura Ingraham, GOP pollster Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, magazine editors R. Emmett Tyrrell and Christopher Buckley, and Wall Street Journal editorial writer John Fund. "Insane Clown Posse" even goes after non-ideological targets, such as Newsweek's Michael Isikoff (called "I-Suck-Off" in the manuscript, says Drudge) and ABC News' Jackie Judd - both mainstream journalists who broke Sexgate stories damaging to the president. "He seemed friendly," Isikoff said. "Then I learned he was going around asking friends of mine pretty straight-out for dirt on me. He never asked me any questions about myself." Other Connolly targets tell similar stories. Former congressional investigator Dave Bossie, for example, said Connolly contacted a number of his friends asking them if he was homosexual. Said another source: "I know Connolly went to people and said, 'Give me information and I'll protect you.'" Connolly didn't return messages seeking comment. Is Connolly a rogue reporter operating without supervision? Few of his targets believe that. "This guy has secretaries. He has a staff. He's been hiring private investigators. He's been flying around the country," fumed Coulter. "Who made the decision to fund this guy?" Coulter said that after an initial meeting with Connolly, he began calling her incessantly. Has it really come to this? Talk doyenne Tina Brown and Miramax honcho Harvey Weinstein have not hidden their affection for the Clintons. But how could they give a book contract to a writer conducting what appears to be scorched-earth recriminations against journalists and others? Some believe the book never was intended to see the light of day. They say it's a shot across the bow intended to frighten journalists from making too much over Al Gore's ethical problems in the coming election season. "There is a level of recklessness here that makes me believe it's not an actual book but an attempt to intimidate," said Fund. "It's the Clinton spin-meisters trying to destroy everybody so nobody will lift a finger against him or Al Gore in the future," said Bossie. Some conservatives are lying low, hoping "Insane Clown Posse" will die a quiet death in the Talk/Miramax morgue. Not Coulter. "What is the purpose of this, other than pure vengeance? Are these people going to follow us the rest of our lives? This is what the McCarthy era was supposed to be like," she said. Not exactly. In the McCarthy era, as in the Nixon years, liberals and all journalists raised hell about sleazy attempts to ruin lives and intimidate people despised by the powerful into silence. No more. 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