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Brock, in case you've forgotten, is that young, gay, conservative investigative sex journalist who specializes in the reverse beatification of liberal saints in the gay-baiting American Spectator . After making his name with a best seller arguing that Anita Hill had mixed up Clarence Thomas with someone else, Brock became even more notorious by breaking, in the pages of the Spectator , the lurid tale that came to be known as "Troopergate."
It told the riveting story of how I--"perhaps the only self-proclaimed conservative journalist devoted to digging up stories rather than writing editorials," author of a best-selling attack on Anita Hill, and "the star reporter at the [ American ] Spectator"-- came to break the Troopergate story, and how Troopergate begat Paula Jones, and how Paula Jones begat Monica Lewinsky.
The cover story describes how Clinton's "attack machine" of private investigators, lawyers, and spin doctors deflects the various White House scandals (Travelgate, Paula Jones, Troopergate, etc.).
The handling of the Troopergate charges is illustrative of the media's discomfort with the whole subject.
As he indicates, he thinks the media focused on Whitewater and Travelgate in 1994 as higher-minded alternatives to Troopergate.