Anatomy Of A Negative Book Burial
Here's how you kill a book:
First, see to it that it emerges into the public eye on the Friday of a holiday weekend.
Then, express ostentatious boredom at its contents.
Then, attack.
Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson declined to comment on the question of whether the campaign leaked to The Washington Post a copy of one of two forthcoming biographies of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). And though there's no confirmation that the Clinton campaign leaked either book, there is at least some circumstantial evidence that points that way.
"The only people who have an interest in putting it out on a Friday before Memorial Day are the Clinton folks," said Chris Lehane, a veteran of Clinton White House damage control.
Politico | Ben Smith | May 27, 2007 11:54 AM