April 15^th

Cal Thomas has decided to join the right wing attacks on Hillary Clinton. His title concerns Hillary reinventing herself. That’s a bit over-the-top, perhaps changing her emphasis night be more accurate. Actually, so have most of the right wing candidates and potential candidates. They’re now voicing some mild outrage about income inequality; isn’t that amazing? This is from right wingers no less. But on specific issues like raising the minimum wage, there is not one of them who thinks that would be a good idea.

Cal has some trouble coming up with much evidence about Hillary’s “reinvention” so he spends considerable column inches writing about Nixon whom he claims tried to reinvent himself. Cal’s column actually occupies about 24 column inches of newsprint in the morning paper and about half of that is spent discussing “The New Nixon.” Yes, I measured it!

Cal finally gets around to trashing Hillary but it is a second hand job. He cites one Jerry Zeifman who has a book about Hillary and her awfulness. Zeifman was an attorney employed to investigate the Watergate events along with a host of other lawyers, one of whom was Hillary Rodham. This was 36 years ago and before she was married to Bill Clinton. Zeifman really despises Hillary; he despises her so much that he has written a whole book, well a small whole book, describing his distaste for her. This book is quoted extensively by Cal and of course Zeifman is a welcome guest on Fox News where his opinions are accepted without question. The book is self-published by Zeifman and has, at this writing, a grand total of nine reviews.

Zeifman in the past has claimed he fired Hillary; he did no such thing and recently he changed his tune a bit when Snopes caught him in this lie. He now says he would have fired her if he could. It happens that there were two sets of attorneys investigating Watergate. One set, headed by Zeifman, was employed by the judicial committee, the other bunch of attorneys was headed by John Doar and they were employed to investigate impeachment proceedings. It was Doar’s group of attorneys which employed Hillary. Zeifman was not Hillary’s superior and could not have fired her no matter how much he despised her. All of this information is provided by Snopes who did a thorough investigation of these matters; too bad Cal, better luck next time.