3. the same year Philip Weiss, “The Clinton Haters: Clinton Crazy,” New York Times, Feb. 23, 1997. See also Clinton Chronicles on YouTube (video), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLnZwwYlYP0.
4. had subpoenaed Hillary Clinton Alison Mitchell, “Hillary Clinton Is Subpoenaed to Testify Before a Grand Jury,” New York Times, Jan. 23, 1996.
5. “Why is this important?” Author interview with David Shuster.
6. the first lady Hillary Clinton was never indicted.
7. Two weeks after mailing Author interview with David Shuster.
8. “I remember Roger” Author interview with former Fox News producer Adam Sank.
9. It was The New York Times Jeff Gerth and Stephen Engelberg, “U.S. Investigating Clinton’s Links to Arkansas S. & L.,” New York Times, Nov. 2, 1993.
10. “Monica [Lewinsky] was a news” Kinney Littlefield, “Reliable Sources,” Orange County Register, May 9, 1999.
11. “I was having the time” Author interview with David Shuster.
12. One of the things Shuster Ibid.
13. many of the suburban precincts Alicia Mundy, “Washington: Is Anybody Out There?” Mediaweek, Feb. 3, 1997.
14. Moody had gone to Washington Collins, Crazy Like a Fox, 79.
15. When Defense Secretary David Bauder, “Fox News Channel Fuming Over Exclusion from Cohen Trip,” Associated Press, Feb. 27, 1997.
16. A few months later John Carmody, “The TV Column,” Washington Post, Sept. 8, 1997.
17. in the spring of 1997 Fox News v. Time Warner, 96-cv-4963, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn), judicial order, May 16, 1997. See also Time Warner v. Bloomberg L.P., 96-9515, 96-9517, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, judicial order, July 3, 1997.
18. But in mid-July Lawrie Mifflin, “In the Murdoch-Levin Dispute, Money Talked,” New York Times, July 28, 1997.
19. Ailes was triumphant Jon Lafayette, “New Pro: With New York Hurdle Crossed, Fox Hits Stride,” Electronic Media, Sept. 15, 1997.
20. once declared David Brock, “Confessions of a Right-Wing Hit Man,” Esquire, July 1997.
21. In a bid to get Author interview with David Brock.
22. “Three people in the world” Brock, “Roger Ailes Is Mad as Hell.”
23. His friend, gossip columnist Liz Smith, “Valentine’s Day Wedding,” Los Angeles Times Syndicate, published in Toledo Blade, Dec. 23, 1997.
24. On Sunday morning Author interview with a senior Fox News Channel executive.
25. Just past midnight Matt Drudge, “Newsweek Kills Story on White House Intern,” Drudge Report, Jan. 17, 1998, http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2002/01/17/20020117_175502_ml.htm.
26. “At the last minute” Ibid.
27. What should Fox put Author interview with a senior Fox News Channel executive.
28. In December, he met with Stephen Battaglio, “Net Columnist Drudge Uploads Fox News Deal,” BPI Entertainment News Wire, March 2, 1998.
29. The thirty-one-year-old See Matt Drudge, Drudge Manifesto (New York: New American Library, 2000).
30. He relished beating the press pack Todd S. Purdum, “It Was Something He Said,” New York Times, Aug. 17, 1997.
31. On August 11, 1997 Blumenthal v. Drudge, 992 F.Supp. 44 (D.C. Cir. 1998), complaint.
32. Though Drudge pulled down the story Ibid.
33. “I don’t give a damn” Bruce Haring, “Matt Drudge’s Maverick Journalism Jars Internet,” USA Today, Aug. 14, 1997.
34. “You better have multiple sources” Author interview with a source familiar with the matter.
35. Acting on Ailes’s directive Author interview with a senior Fox News Channel executive.
36. Snow’s co-anchor Tony Snow and Mara Liasson, Fox News Sunday, Fox News Channel, Jan. 18, 1998.
37. David Shuster was not surprised Most of the details involving David Shuster are derived from author interviews with Shuster.
38. The item revealed Matt Drudge, “Former White House Intern Called; New Background Details Emerge,” Drudge Report, Jan. 18, 1998, http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2002/01/17/20020117_175502_ml.htm.
39. At 6:00 p.m. Matt Drudge, “Former White House Intern Denied Sex with President in Sworn Affidavit,” Drudge Report, Jan. 19, 1998, http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2002/01/17/20020117_175502_ml.htm.
40. “They didn’t want to play” Author interview with a senior Fox producer.
41. Linda Tripp Josh Getlin and Marc Lacey, “ ‘Tell-All’ Book Called Goal of Linda Tripp,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 25, 1998.
42. “You ought to talk to Lucianne Goldberg” Jeffrey Toobin, A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President (New York: Touchstone, 1999), 100.
43. “We were all part of” Author interview with literary agent Lucianne Goldberg.
44. “His message was” Author interview with a participant on the call.
45. “TONIGHT ON THE DRUDGE REPORT” Matt Drudge, “Tonight on the Drudge Report: Controversy Swirls Around Tapes of Former White House Intern, as Starr Moves In,” Drudge Report, Jan. 20, 1998, http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2002/01/17/20020117_175502_ml.htm.
46. “CLINTON ACCUSED OF URGING AIDE TO LIE” Susan Schmidt, Peter Baker, and Toni Locy, “Clinton Accused of Urging Aide to Lie; Starr Probes Whether President Told Woman to Deny Alleged Affair to Jones’s Lawyers,” Washington Post, Jan. 21, 1998.
47. “WASH POST SCREAMS INTERN STORY!” Matt Drudge, “Wash Post Screams Intern Story,” Drudge Report, Jan. 20, 1998, http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2002/01/17/20020117_175502_ml.htm.
48. On Monday morning, January 26 President William J. Clinton, “Child Care,” C-Span, Jan. 26, 1998 (relevant portion begins at 24:30), http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ChildCare4.
49. For Ailes, who had watched Author interview with a Fox staffer who was present.
50. “Roger saw Clinton thumbing” Author interview with a friend of Ailes.
51. “Roger once said” Author interview with a former Fox producer.
52. “Roger thought it was amusing” Author interview with Lucianne Goldberg.
53. It was all eerily reminiscent E. J. Dionne Jr., “Gary Hart: The Elusive Front-Runner,” New York Times, May 3, 1987. See also Robin Toner, “Hart Drops Race for White House in a Defiant Mood,” New York Times, May 9, 1987; E. J. Dionne Jr., “Courting Danger: The Fall of Gary Hart,” New York Times, May 9, 1987.