Does the Trump book feel a bit too tabloid-ish to anyone?

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93. Nope. Will re-post what I've said about Kitty KELLEY a few times.

Disclaimer: Have read the few excerpts, not the whole book. My post was a response to a put-down of KELLEY, related to WOLFF.

********(re-post: ) I don't know what would rule out somebody as a "credible source" who conducts hundreds of interviews for each of her books, with every anecdote being verified by two or more of her sources, and picked over by a team of lawyers. She is not the "source" of the stories.

She attributed the comment (via her sources) about Nancy's talent/reputation to Peter LAWFORD.

Years ago, I was being gigged here for posting items from Page Six, on the grounds of how lowbrow and unseemly it was to post GOSSIP (gasp!1) here at DU. Back then I copied/pasted the dictionary definition of "gossip" multiple times, the upshot of which is that it has NOTHING TO DO with being UNtrue, that it might be embarrassing or something not wanted to be spread around or whatever but NOT UNtrue. The items I posted were about politics, and legitimate reporters who specialize in gossip operate by standards, and a lot of one day's gossip becomes mainstream journalism days or weeks later. Notice, I am not talking about the Globe, Examiner, et al.

Here's something I'll take credit for. While I was disappointed in KELLEY's book about the BUSH Family Evil Empire (2004) because I thought it wasn't up to the snuff of her early books and that she went soft on the BUSHes, I eagerly tuned in to the Today show interview scheduled over two days. Whatever Matt LAUER's game was in politics and towards women (compare his 2016 treatment of Hillary) I didn't know, but I was appalled on the first day when he SCALDED Kelley for having the gall to do her kind of writing about the holy BUSHes and just tongue lashed her for the entire "interview".

I spent the next couple of hours Googling to find a phone number for the Today show and, incredibly, got through to some Today staffer (maybe a producer), and went over what I'm saying here about "gossip" and KELLEY's integrity and how unfair and horrible LAUER had been to her, and the staffer was totally receptive. The second day, LAUER was thoroughly chastened, sat close/next to KELLEY and conducted an entirely different, subdued and respectful, conversation with her.