Clinton Camp Pounces On Vanity Fair Article: "Tawdry," "Attack Piece"

Politico.com:

The Clinton camp responded today to Vanity Fair's long article on Bill with its own 2,244-word memo, which includes attacks on the magazine's "penchant for libel," on editor Graydon Carter, and on writer Todd Purdum and his wife, former Clinton aide Dee Dee Myers.

The memo (after the jump) calls the piece "journalism of personal destruction at its worst" and singles out, among other things, Purdum's suggestion that Clinton's heart surgery changed his personality.

Purdum "is not an MD" the memo points.

The memo, provided by Clinton aide Jay Carson, also singles out Myers for this unexplained criticism:

Purdum's disclosure of [his marriage] in the piece does not, as Vanity Fair apparently concluded, remove the obvious conflict of interest. It's a conflict that would likely not be contemplated at more reputable publications, especially considering that, as a result of this relationship, at least one source's anonymity was revealed to others.

The memo also lists Bill Clinton's post-presidential accomplishments.

"Most revealing is one simple fact: President Clinton has helped save the lives of 1,300,000 people in his post-presidency, and Vanity Fair couldn't find time to talk to even one of them for comment," it says.

Full memo after the jump.

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Comments

[PKSSK]

Karma is finally coming home to roost on the Clinton's.

[dadw5boys]

Ring of truth???

Even when the author of the story came on the Today show and said " THERE IS NO PROOF ANYTHING IN THE STORY IS TRUE".
" I WROTE THE STORY TO AS A WARNING OF WHAT PEOPLE IN WASHINTON ARE TALKING ABOUT".

What people? Republicans maybe?
This is ETHICS IN JOURNALISM in action right!!!!!!!!!

[Americanium]

Pay back is a bitch!

[Americanium]

Can you imagine what the Republicans got on SLick Willy should Hillary become the nominee? This election would be about Bill CLinton and his shady deals.

Republicans were looking forward to Hillary as candidate but too bad she messed up.

So what if Bill is eating full course meals on the road? If the home cooking ain't palatable why not?

[SMP]

This primary was about Bill Clinton and how long Hillary could ride on his coattails.

[nectanebus]

Decades,-- generations of feminism, --and this is their best yet? Riding the coattails of an inveterate philanderer who thinks nothing of humiliating his wife and daughter for his personal gratification?

[thirteen13]

That's what I have been saying, no one really wants a third Clinton admininstation. You cannot take Bill out of the equation.

[McFlipFlop]

I don't see mention of Bill's excellent work to support CAFTA (against US workers' interests), Dubai (against US security interest), or Kazakhstan's Dictator (for a human rights post, in exchange for money given to his foundation.)

I wonder what else Bill has been up to...

[thirteen13]

That 100 plus million dollars didn't grow on trees.

[IndependentMynd]

I'm sure that it's all Barack Obama's fault anyway. He's responsible for all of the bad things that happen to the Clintons. It's a vast Obama conspiracy.

*rolling eyes*

[OrangeCrateArt]

"In his role as spouse/surrogate, Bill Clinton is still the gold standard":

Only someone with a serious irony-deficiency could write such a sentence.

[adzeman]

Poor pitiful Clintons. Just cant catch a break. Everybody is out to ruin the innocent saintly duo just trying to mind their own business. Nothing in their universe is in their control. They're just swept along by evil forces trying to dump them in the ditch. Saddest thing I've ever seen.

[berensma]

What, the Clintons can't bully journalists anymore? How unfair! It's the end of Western Civilization.

[KarateKid]

Wow, are they defensive or what??

But they did their usual spin doctoring that they are famous for, and conveniently didn't answer some of the allegations raised in the original article in VF. For instance, where did Clinton get the funding for his library from, and from whom? Why won't he reveal the donor list? What is he hiding?

Then, they have the temerity to wonder why people are so distrustful of he and his wife.

The Bill Clinton spin machine is still alive and well. They have raised it to an art form.

[TrueBlueMajority]

fascinating article.

the Clintonista response to it will be as revealing as the article itself.

[PuppaX]

Why would they even bother responding? How silly.