Olivia Nuzzi and the #ClintonKid
Reporter takes on the challenge of fully vetting a supermarket tabloid shocker.
The sub-headline for Olivia Nuzzi’s May 20 Daily Beast piece reads: ‘I tried to report out a supermarket tabloid story decades later. You’ll probably believe what happened next.’ She’s right; we believed it.
The story first propagated Feb. 18. 1992 by weekly supermarket tabloid The Globe alleges that Bill Clinton is the father of Danney Williams, born in late 1985 to an Arkansas prostitute. Nuzzi rock-skips past Newsmax, ABC, Star magazine, The Drudge Report, The Globe (again, in 2013) and the fall 2015 book The Clintons’ War on Women before landing at the bottom of the ripple pond:
On Facebook message, Danney asked for my contact information and said he’d reach out “soon.”
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