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4. David Brock reflects on his Clinton evolution

"...Hating the Clintons has long been an industry, complete with books, movies and paraphernalia dating to Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential run. It was within that industry that Brock first developed a career.

Brock, now 51, was a conservative reporter and writer who famously penned a book casting doubts on the credibility of Anita Hill, who accused now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. He later did reporting that first introduced America to the name Paula Jones, the woman who, in the scandal known as Troopergate, accused Bill Clinton of harassment during his days in Arkansas, where he served as governor.

But then came his efforts to write a book about Hillary Clinton, who once complained of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” working against the couple. He intended the book as a hit piece, but the project converted him instead to a Clinton supporter, and soon he publicly disavowed his earlier attacks on the pair.

Brock declined to discuss his relationship with the former president or the former secretary of state, who lost out on the White House to Barack Obama in 2008. Yet his appearance in Little Rock on Tuesday is further evidence of how far inside their orbit he has traveled since becoming an ally after Bill Clinton left office. He is known to have close ties to some top Clinton aides and donors..."



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In the interview with POLITICO, Brock said his own research eventually changed his mind about the Clintons.
“What led to my change of views about the Clintons was working through the research and writing on the book on Hillary,” he said of the 1997 book, which other conservatives viewed as treating the then-first lady too gently.

“And I went into that with a very negative agenda and after doing all the work on it for a couple of years I came out of it with a much more positive view of her, and so the transition … really worked itself out through that book.”

After "The Seduction of Hillary Rodham" was published, Brock wrote an apologia in Esquire magazine, saying he was finished with the career he’d led in the 1990s. A year later, he wrote a follow-up piece apologizing to Clinton (he ultimately did the same with Anita Hill).


http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/david-brock-bill-clinton-hillary-clinton-104976.html