David Brock

If the world ended tomorrow and good and evil fought it out for keeps, I imagine that David Brock would be one of the devil's chief recruits. His public behavior in recent years gives you the strong impression that he's exactly the kind of unctuous weasel you'd expect hell to be full of--hell, of course, being a place like Washington, a pit made wretched not by any external force but by its own jockeying inhabitants.

Decades ago, self-revolted ex-communists personified History with a capital H when they brought back news of grand error and grand turnabout. Big ideas were at stake--and to blame. The six fine writers who contributed to the 1949 classic "The God That Failed" had chosen communism in the dire 1930s before coming to realize its systematic inhumanity. Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, Richard Wright, Louis Fischer and Andre Gide, intellectuals all, wrote thoughtfully, even serenely.

The Paula Jones lawsuit against President Clinton, the tales that Clinton used Arkansas state troopers to procure sex, the rumor that the president sneaks out of the White House at night for secret sexual trysts all derive from the work of one man, conservative writer David Brock. With his lurid stories, Brock has been the source of more glee for conservatives, more fodder for radio talk shows and barroom jokes--and more heartache for the first family--than anyone in America.

It is sad to see David Brock trying to buy his way into respectability by admitting his evil ways as a right-wing hatchet man ("Author Who Trashed Anita Hill Now Confesses to Lies," July 3). I hope it was his conscience and not the prospective income from another book that inspired him. Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara went through the same cycle, but it took him more than 20 years to admit his mistakes during the Vietnam conflict. I'm still waiting for Henry Kissinger to finally come clean about his nefarious activities during that same period.

"Hillary's story is that of an intelligent, talented, ambitious and very determined woman who nevertheless succumbed to powerfully seductive forces--philosophical, political and personal.

David Brock, who made his name raking Anita Hill over the coals after the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, now says he lied--and he's sorry. The formerly right-wing author, in a forthcoming book, says he "lost my soul" in printing allegations he knew to be untrue. Brock writes that he was "dumping virtually every derogatory --and often contradictory--allegation I had collected on Hill into the vituperative mix."

David Brock, a partner in the property-management firm Beven & Brock, has been elected president of the Foothill Apartment Assn., a trade group representing owners of rental property in the San Gabriel Valley and east San Fernando Valley. Also elected were Mark Hilbert, Energy Optimization Inc., vice president; Lynne Frances, Rainbow Cleaning Co., treasurer, and Roberta Baron, Bliss Keeler Investments, secretary.

It is sad to see David Brock trying to buy his way into respectability by admitting his evil ways as a right-wing hatchet man ("Author Who Trashed Anita Hill Now Confesses to Lies," July 3). I hope it was his conscience and not the prospective income from another book that inspired him. Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara went through the same cycle, but it took him more than 20 years to admit his mistakes during the Vietnam conflict. I'm still waiting for Henry Kissinger to finally come clean about his nefarious activities during that same period.

David Brock, a reporter and author who established himself as one of America's most influential conservative voices, has publicly apologized to President Clinton for his role in breaking the story that helped create the crisis that now grips Clinton's presidency.

A crisis that has crippled New Hampshire's highest court for nearly six months came to a close Tuesday when Supreme Court Chief Justice David Brock was acquitted overwhelmingly of four articles of impeachment. Moments after the final vote, the 64-year-old Brock--who tenaciously faced down the first such trial in state history--smiled and hugged his tearful wife.

David Brock, who made his name raking Anita Hill over the coals after the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, now says he lied--and he's sorry. The formerly right-wing author, in a forthcoming book, says he "lost my soul" in printing allegations he knew to be untrue. Brock writes that he was "dumping virtually every derogatory --and often contradictory--allegation I had collected on Hill into the vituperative mix."

If the world ended tomorrow and good and evil fought it out for keeps, I imagine that David Brock would be one of the devil's chief recruits. His public behavior in recent years gives you the strong impression that he's exactly the kind of unctuous weasel you'd expect hell to be full of--hell, of course, being a place like Washington, a pit made wretched not by any external force but by its own jockeying inhabitants.

A crisis that has crippled New Hampshire's highest court for nearly six months came to a close Tuesday when Supreme Court Chief Justice David Brock was acquitted overwhelmingly of four articles of impeachment. Moments after the final vote, the 64-year-old Brock--who tenaciously faced down the first such trial in state history--smiled and hugged his tearful wife.

The state's chief justice was impeached by the Legislature on Wednesday in the first such action against a New Hampshire public official since 1790. He will face a state Senate trial that could result in his removal from the bench. Deepening a constitutional crisis that began over a divorce case, the state House voted, 253 to 95, to impeach David A. Brock for a host of alleged offenses, some of them more than a decade old. The vote came after seven hours of debate.

David Brock, a reporter and author who established himself as one of America's most influential conservative voices, has publicly apologized to President Clinton for his role in breaking the story that helped create the crisis that now grips Clinton's presidency.

The Paula Jones lawsuit against President Clinton, the tales that Clinton used Arkansas state troopers to procure sex, the rumor that the president sneaks out of the White House at night for secret sexual trysts all derive from the work of one man, conservative writer David Brock. With his lurid stories, Brock has been the source of more glee for conservatives, more fodder for radio talk shows and barroom jokes--and more heartache for the first family--than anyone in America.

The state's chief justice was impeached by the Legislature on Wednesday in the first such action against a New Hampshire public official since 1790. He will face a state Senate trial that could result in his removal from the bench. Deepening a constitutional crisis that began over a divorce case, the state House voted, 253 to 95, to impeach David A. Brock for a host of alleged offenses, some of them more than a decade old. The vote came after seven hours of debate.

It's a rare journalist these days who dares broach the notion of reportorial objectivity. Impartiality continues to be the professional ideal, and it's something toward which most journalists at least strive. In the past few decades, however, objectivity has been recognized to express a myth as much as a principle.

"Hillary's story is that of an intelligent, talented, ambitious and very determined woman who nevertheless succumbed to powerfully seductive forces--philosophical, political and personal.

It's a rare journalist these days who dares broach the notion of reportorial objectivity. Impartiality continues to be the professional ideal, and it's something toward which most journalists at least strive. In the past few decades, however, objectivity has been recognized to express a myth as much as a principle.