An April 1 NewsBusters post by John Stephenson reported the latest anti-Hillary allegations by Jerry Zeifman — who, as we’ve detailed, likes to go on right-wing websites and tout his self-proclaimed status as a “lifelong Democrat” as an excuse to bash other Democrats. Stephenson reprinted excerpts of a North Star Writers article in which Zeifman asserted that he “fired Hillary from the [House Judiciary] committee staff” investigating the Watergate scandal. Stephenson, of course, swallows Zeifman’s claims without question; his headline on the post is “Will Media Give Story About Hillary’s Unethical Past the Legs It Deserves?”
But as Media Matters details, Zeifman claimed back in a 1998 article that he didn’t fire her and didn’t have the power to do so.
So either Zeifman lied back then, or he’s lying now — which makes him a liar either way. Will Stephenson or anyone else at NewsBusters hold Zeifman accountable for his conflicting claims? Don’t count on it.