Edward Klein's book "The Truth About Hillary" debuted at number 2 on the New York Times best seller list, and is still there this week at number 4. Klein, who is a liberal and former editor of New York Times Magazine, has had trouble selling his book. The mainstream media seems to be circling the wagons around Hillary, with Klein facing cancelled interviews and a lack of media coverage about the book.

And now the New York Times has taken to putting a disclaimer on the best seller list, vilifying Klein and his book. News Max reports:

The Times has yet to review the book, but took the unusual step in Sunday's book section to publish a disclaimer attacking the book from pillar to post in a sidebar column adjacent to the best-seller list.

"'The Truth About Hillary' has united [no easy task] literary critics," Timesman Dwight Garner fumed, adding "it is easily this year's most vilified book."

Then Garner promptly joined in the vilification:

"Writing in the Book Review in 1988, Joyce Carol Oates coined the term 'pathography' to describe hatchet jobs like Klein's. Reading Oates's taxonomy of that genre today, it sounds as if she somehow had an advance copy of Klein's book rotting at her elbow."

Rotting?

Still - in what must have been a gut-wrenching admission for the paper - Garner lamented, "That hasn't stopped Klein's book from landing on beach blankets; it makes its debut at No. 2 on this week's hardcover nonfiction list."

The paper's vitriol against Klein contrasts with its first-class treatment of Kitty Kelley's works, including her recent hit book on the Bush family. Kelley's book on Nancy Reagan - in which Kelley alleged that Ronald Reagan engaged in date rape, among numerous other scurrilous allegations - made Page One coverage in the Times. . .

Hours after speaking to NewsMax, Klein told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley:

"Hillary and her people have called up ... all the TV networks and the newspapers and said to them that if you give Ed Klein exposure, we're not going to be very happy about it." The result: "I've been canceled on many of the TV shows that I was booked on," Klein said, "and have not had my book reviewed by any of the major media."

Normally, any allegations against a former first lady and sitting U.S. Senator would be loudly echoed in the media. If Hillary were a conservative Republican, the mainstream press would call for an investigation based solely on the "seriousness of the charge". Instead, they don't want to discuss it.

Of course one mainstream media outlet that hasn't engaged in the petty boycott of Klein and his book is the "right wing" Fox News Network. And you just know that has to be a thumb in the eye of the liberal elites.