The fall from political grace began during the Democratic National Convention in 1996, when the Star Magazine blew the whistle on Morris in a sex scandal. Something soured Morris on the Clintons, and that falling-out permeates Morris' writings. A September 27 column, "The Real Clinton Emerges," reprinted on Front Page says,

From behind the benign face and the tranquilizing smile, the real Bill Clinton emerged Sunday during Chris Wallace’s interview on Fox News Channel. There he was on live television, the man those who have worked for him have come to know – the angry, sarcastic, snarling, self-righteous, bombastic bully, roused to a fever pitch. The truer the accusation, the greater the feigned indignation. Clinton jabbed his finger in Wallace’s face, poking his knee, and invading the commentator’s space.

But beyond noting the ex-president’s non-presidential style, it is important to answer his distortions and misrepresentations. His self-justifications constitute a mangling of the truth which only someone who once quibbled about what the “definition of ‘is’ is” could perform.

An August column, "Hillary's Halliburton," hits the daily double of whacks at Bill AND Hillary, with this thought:

When Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2008, Bill Clinton's affiliation with billionaire Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Companies could become the new Bill & Hill scandal - the equivalent of Whitewater.

It's not that the various Yucaipa funds - which invest money for foreign and domestic investors - have done anything wrong; they haven't. But the company's investments have the potential to create conflicts of interest for the Clintons.

Anyway, Morris is great fun to study. I envision him as a vengeful Valkyrie, riding forth from his mist-shrouded fortress in the Valhallas of Connecticut to smite the Clintons with his flaming sword of retribution. Reading him is like unwinding a tangled ball of threads, equal parts keen political analysis, great experience, and unfathomable animus.

What a role model for bloggers!