At today's bloggers briefing at Heritage, Brent Bozell came by to talk about his new book Whitewash: What the Media Won't Tell You About Hillary Clinton, But Conservatives Will- that documents how the MSM has buried all negative news about Hillary Clinton, and is shamelessly promoting her presidential ambitions.

We also heard about a new conservative commentary and news website targeted at American and foreign expatriates, and a new study that grades the states on key labor issues.

Whitewashing Hillary Clinton
Bozell noted that the two most common reactions he’s gotten to his book so far are:

1) I had no idea.
2) I had forgotten all these things.

According to Bozell, many Conservatives don’t understand why many American voters still support Hillary Clinton. But it’s because many Americans don’t get their news from conservative media outlets.

He challenged us to examine the alphabet soup of Clinton scandals and name one that’s ever been resolved. But on the flip side, for a scandal involving a Republican – the media never lets the story die until they’ve gotten to the bottom of it.

As Bozell put it, there are two kinds of bias: that of commission and that of omission, and the MSM is guilty of both when it comes to the Clintons.

Also, the MSM consistently pushes the story of Hillary Clinton as a moderate, and there can only be two reasons for this: either they’re lying or they truly believe she’s a moderate. Despite the fact that her voting record in the Senate is almost in line with Ted Kennedy’s.

Bozell doesn’t think the MSM is lying, instead, “It just defines where they are on the spectrum. Don’t insult my intelligence by saying you’re being objective.”

Building the Conservative Movement Abroad
Eric Staal is the chairman of Republicans Abroad Germany, and the founder of a new media venture, The Reactionary. As an American expatriate who’s lived abroad for many years, Eric described how the US is routinely defamed in Europe’s publicly-financed media. To combat this misinformation and to help win the hearts and minds of Europeans, and the millions of Africans and Asians who are reached by European media – Eric started the Reactionary. It’ll be an independent, for-profit journalism and commentary site, that’s modeled in part off of RealClearPolitics.

The Reactionary is planning a January 2008 launch, will publish in English, and is aimed at the 6 million America expatriates and the growing “global elite” who in Eric’s words live and work in a foreign country, or are engaged in international affairs.

The Reactionary’s twin goals are to “Help export the US Conservative movement, and nurture and foster Conservative movements as much as possible,” in other countries by becoming a platform for those ideas.

Eric ended by noting that America has, “Lost the moral support of the European right.” And we need to completely shift the terms of the debate and shake things up. He explained that if Conservative ideas can be repackaged to be new, edgy or cheeky (as they say in Britain) than people might be open to them.

Grading the States
Brian Johnson, the director of the Alliance for Worker Freedom (an affiliate of ATR), came by to announce the release (on Thursday) of AWF's state-by-state report card that uses quantitative and policy data to grade all 50 states on workers rights. Utah ranked #1 in the report.