Bill Clinton Sends Letter to NYT's Frank Rich Defending Hillary

Published: December 23, 2007, 11:33 am

Tags: 2008 presidential, campaigns amp amp elections, bill clinton, frank rich, hillary clinton, new york times

Just how much is former President Bill Clinton throwing his weight around in pressrooms across the country to ensure favorable coverage of his wife and her campaign? As NewsBusters reported in September, Clinton killed a negative article about Hillary that was about to be published by GQ apparently by threatening the magazine with not having access to him in the future. On Sunday, the New York Times' Frank Rich admitted that after he wrote a column in November that included some criticism of the junior senator from New York, her husband sent him a letter valiantly coming to her defense (emphasis added throughout): In a two-page handwritten letter in response to a recent column of mine criticizing Mrs. Clinton's Senate votes on Iraq and Iran, Bill Clinton made a serious and impassioned defense of her foreign-policy record. On the subject of her support for the so-called Kyl-Lieberman amendment on Iran this fall, Mr. Clinton wrote: "If Senator Obama, for example, had really

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