Liberal Media At It Again

After her hatchet job on Joseph Wilson last month, it's hard to come up with reasons why one should trust her judgment on any political memoir, let alone Bill Clinton's, so I'm taking her assessment--"sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull"--with a grain of salt for the time being. Though I'm not surprised at her disdain for the lengths at which Clinton defends himself against the right-wing detractors who sought to end his presidency ahead of schedule, given her similar reaction to Wilson's counterattacks...and, as Salon points out, given the historical antagonism of the Times towards Clinton.

Meanwhile, at USA Today, Harriet Rubin does her best to undercut Clinton by wondering who'd want to buy a stupid presidential memoir anyway. Apart from repeating the lie that Mark Twain ghostwrote U.S. Grant's memoirs, she comes up with this gem (first noted by TMFTML):

Abe Lincoln is loved for his 300-word Gettysburg Address. He never wrote a memoir.

Is it just me, or is that veering into Red Skelton at the Friars Club territory?