Rush Limbaugh: Media Driving Backlash Against Hillary Book

Predictions that Ed Klein's new book, "The Truth About Hillary," will backfire and actually increase Sen. Clinton's popularity are coming from reporters who are trying to quash interest in Klein's revelations, top media conservative Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday.

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"I think this backlash is being created by the press," Limbaugh told his radio audience, adding, "Do you not find it curious that the press is not curious about [Klein's] allegations?"

"If it causes a backlash, it's because of what the press is going to say about who's pushing this book," he predicted, "not because of anybody who's read the book and what they're saying about it."

Limbaugh called press reaction to Klein's "Truth" "a classic illustration of how the media is circling the wagons to protect Mrs. Clinton."

"There may well be a backlash," he said, but noted, "I think the press is trying to create that very backlash before it even happens."

"I think there's a mythical backlash going on right now," Limbaugh charged, noting, "You haven't heard any outrage from the American people" because the book was just released today.

Limbaugh said that if a genuine backlash against the Klein book does emerge, "It's one that's being set up by the press."

"It's very rare that you see the media circle the wagons to defend a politician," he noted. "You just don't see it, other than with the Clintons."

GOP Congressman Calls Democrats Anti-Christian

Remarks in Floor Debate Stir Protest

By Mike Allen

Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 21, 2005; Page A04

Business on the floor of the House was halted for 45 minutes yesterday after Rep. John N. Hostettler (R-Ind.) accused Democrats of "denigrating and demonizing Christians," prompting a furious protest from across the aisle.

The House was debating a Democratic amendment to the annual defense appropriations bill that would have required the Air Force Academy to develop a plan for preventing "coercive and abusive religious proselytizing."

Hostettler, speaking against the amendment, asserted that "the long war on Christianity in America continues today on the floor of the House of Representatives" and "continues unabated with aid and comfort to those who would eradicate any vestige of our Christian heritage being supplied by the usual suspects, the Democrats."