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KM : Were there benefits to having been
outed at this point?
D B : T h e main benefit was that it was a
crucial step to breaking with the conserva
tive movement. If 1 had not done that at
that tim e ...I don’t think I would later have
had the self-confidence to write T he Seduc-
non o f Hillary Rodham my own way, thinking
for myself and not the way conservatives
wanted me to.
In the process of writing the book, she
became— or at least the idea of her became— a
vehicle...for me to work out in print a lot of
the reservations I was having about the conser
vative movement.
KM : Do you think anyone will face politi
cal or legal consequences because of B lin ded
by th e R ig h t?
D B : Obviously, [Supreme Court Justice
Clarence] Thomas has life tenure, so he’s pretty
much untouchable. Theres probably a group of
people who may have been persuaded by my
first book [The Real Anita Hill] who now will
have to take into account this new informa
tion. That might change their minds back in
the other direction.
Ted Olson is somewhat different. His
involvement in the Arkansas Project came up
in his Senate confirmation last year for solicitor
general, even before the book had come out.
Forty-seven senators voted against his confir
mation, which is a lot for that position.
A committee was set to investigate him,
and I was contacted to testify, but the process
got short-circuited by [Vermont Sen. Jiml Jef
fords’ defection. Mass chaos ensued, and one
(5 0 3 ) 232-3600
day when the Republicans still had control
over the Senate, they basically rammed it
through... if he were to be nominated for the
Supreme Court, the whole thing could be
reopened again.
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KM : Overall, the right has been, as
Salon.com put it, “eloquently silent” regard
ing the revelations in your book.
D B : [Laughs] It says a lot. The logical con
clusion would be that they have no way of dis
puting it, and they’re embarrassed by the truth.
So it’s a little vindicating.
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KM : You did make an effort to humanize
th em ....
D B : I was aware while writing about some
of the characters...that I didn’t want to repeat
the mistakes I had made earlier in my career. I
didn’t want to paint them unfairly in terms of a
black-and-white situation, that they were good
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KM : So, do you still have a career in jour
nalism after all of this?
D B : I was concerned that I wasn’t doing my
career any good by writing this book. But if I
didn’t come clean on what I had done, I felt I
didn’t have the authority to criticize others....
I’m sure I’ll continue to be able to have a
career writing on politics. I’m always going to
be controversial. I’ll just have to live with
these questions about my credibility for some
time to come. j n
K evin M oore is a political cartoonist whose work
can be viewed at www.incontemptcomics.com.
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