>>Actually, Brock didn't say that "what the troopers told him was true"
No, he actually said that their story "wasn't false":
......Brock wrote in Esquire, "The
troopers were greedy and had
slimy motives."
In Tuesday's interview,
however, Brock said he could
not say specifically what
information from the troopers
may have been false. "I'm
saying that story was bad
journalism, that I don't stand
by the story any more," Brock said. "I can't point to
anything specific ... [that] might be wrong."
He said he came to realize the troopers were upset with
Clinton for having failed to share with them the spoils of his
electoral victory. They also expected money in exchange for
their story.
"I think what's changed is that the troopers have made ...
several public statements that are on their face, I think,
incredible and don't have a lot of merit. And so that's given
me cause for concern for their original credibility in what
they told me."
Brock said in the letter he was as sure of the story when he
wrote it as any journalist can be, but in the years since then,
the troopers greatly damaged their credibility.
'Sex is your Achilles' heel'
Brock's letter is the latest in his political about-face. Once
one of the president's harshest critics, Brock shocked his
conservative allies when he wrote a remarkably positive
book on first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. He reveled in
the role of conservative heretic.
Brock doesn't say his old article was inaccurate. "After all,"
he wrote to the president, "sex is your Achilles' heel." ....
The White House welcomed Brock's apology as "an
interesting correction of the record."
(That's an amazing misstatement calculated to mislead since nothing about the record was corrected, in fact, Brock confirms his original story!).
Brock's political transformation may also help his career.
Once dismissed as a fringe writer with a right-wing agenda,
he is working hard to win newfound respectability as a
mainstream journalist.
allpolitics.com
That last statement is the most telling of all:
tell the truth and you are "fringe";
coverup and make excuses for illegal acts by a liberal president and you are "working hard to win newfound respectability as a mainstream journalist".
I could not have made that up and have been believable, but it's true. Brock has clearly exposed himelf as the one who has "greedy" and "slimy motives". |
