- "Staff Chief Wields Power Freely" by Peter Baker and Jeff Zeleny N Y Times 8/16/09 -

WASHINGTON -As White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel was the one to bring the hammer down on Sidney Blumenthal.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wanted to hire Mr. Blumenthal, a loyal confidant who had HELPED HER PROMOTE "THE IDEA" (Are Baker & Zeleny trying to rewrite history? It was fact! Led by propagandist Rush Limbaugh, the Republican RightWing used a corrupt national radio spectrum to overthrow a legitimate Democratic House, that of William Jefferson Clinton and Spokane's Tom Foley. And when Jim Lehrer's Elizabeth Brackett revealed same on a later NewsHour, Lehrer dropped her from his program for several years. The world knows the actual truth, thanks to Sid Blumenthal's scrupulously documented eight hundred and twenty-two page true reality check - "The Clinton Wars". And it is remarkably predictive of today's challenge to the Obama presidency and to desperately needed health care reform! Note the preceding Russ Mitchell 8/23/09 exchange with former Chairman of the Democratic Party and Medical Doctor Howard Dean.)...of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” more than a decade ago. But President Obama’s campaign veterans still blamed him for spreading harsh attacks against their candidate in the primary showdown...with Mrs. Clinton last year (Rahm must have dictated this to Baker & Zeleny.).