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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-07-07 10:23 AM
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1. He can "profess" whatever he wants. That does not make it true.
This is the guy that wrote "Primary Colors"
from Wikipedia....

In January 1996, Klein anonymously published the novel Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics, based on the 1992 Democratic presidential primary. The book spent 9 weeks as number one on the New York Times bestseller list, with its author listed as "Anonymous". When professor Donald Foster correctly identified Klein as the novel's author, based on a literary analysis of the book and Klein's previous writing, Klein lied and publicly attacked Foster for publishing untrue and irresponsible speculation -- even going so far as to mislead readers of Newsweek with speculation that another writer wrote it. Washington Post Style editor David von Drehle, in an interview, asked Klein if he was willing to stake his journalistic credibility on his denial, to which Klein agreed.<2> He later admitted that the speculation was correct. (The novel's first paragraph contains a sentence spoken by the not-yet-named narrator, "I am small and not so dark", speculated to be a reference to klein, the German word for "small".)


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