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This allegation that the Democratic frontrunner had a recent affiar with a woman who worked for the Associted Press, is similar to an allegation peddled by allies of the Bush campaign about Bill Clinton during the 1992 campaign.
One, incidentally, that was 100% bullshit.
Pulitzer Prize-wininng, veteran AP political reporter, Walter Mears, relates the incident in this C-SPAN Booknotes transcript:
" LAMB: Former Congressman Guy Vanderjack (ph) did something you thought was a slanderous lie.
MEARS: In the final -- absolute final phase of the 1992 campaign when Bush was going down the tubes, he with -- with, I think some push from some of the people around the Bush operation, he was at the time -- he`d been defeated in his primary but he was still the chairman of the House Campaign Committee in him name, and using a statement that he put out at a press conference that he had. They accused Clinton of having an affair with a woman wire service reporter covering his campaign, which was not so. There was only one woman wire service reporter covering his campaign, a very hard working and very attractive and talented reporter. And I thought it was just slanderous.
LAMB: And working for AP?
MEARS: An AP reporter, and so I would have thought it was slanderous if she worked for UPI, but because I knew a good bit about this woman and her work, I thought demeaning her journalism that way just was totally unfair. And I seldom got angry at politicians, but I remember being very angry that time.
We'll see how this plays out. But, be very, very suspicious.
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