Beware when NewsMax touts someone’s Democratic credentials.
It does just that in a Jan. 30 article by Jerry Zeifman attacking Ted Kennedy. Not only does “Former Democratic Chief Counsel” appear in the headline, the tagline describes him as a “lifelong Democrat,” and Zeifman himself isn’t even five words into his commentary before he is pointing out that he is “a Democrat and former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee.”
So, who is this purported “lifelong Democrat”? The kind of Democrat the Republicans at NewsMax like — you know, the kind who’s actually a Republican. Zeifman is the author of a book called “Without Honor: Crimes of Camelot and the Impeachment of President Nixon,” in which he claims, according to a 1996 Washington Post review, that “Kennedy loyalists” such as Hillary Rodham obstructed the Nixon impeachment to protect the reputation of John Kennedy. The Post called the book “an unconvincing, if imaginative, tale of intrigue.” Zeifman’s conspiracy theories have also popped in such dens of Democratic thought as the New York Post and Judicial Watch. He wrote a 1996 Clinton-bashing commentary for the Wall Street Journal that begins in familiar fashion: “Sadly, as a life-long Democrat and chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee…”
In other words, like other NewsMax faves like Tammy Bruce and Zell Miller, a Democrat only NewsMax could love.