To his fans, David Brock, the writer who ruined the Clintons' Christmas, is a hard-hitting investigative reporter. To everyone else, he is a smear artist with a right-wing agenda. But a reading of Mr. Brock's oeuvre in the conservative journal The American Spectator suggests that his motives are at least as twisted as his facts. It's women, not liberals, who really get him going. The slightest sighting of female sexuality whips him into a frenzy of misogynist zeal.

All women are the same to Mr. Brock: terrifying, gutter-tongued sexual omnivores. Such caricatures are a staple of his latest expose and its predecessors, including the article that spawned his book "The Real Anita Hill."

Hillary Clinton, even more than her husband, is the real obsession in the writer's notorious 11,000-word treatise on Fornigate (as the alleged scandalous doings in Little Rock are now concisely labeled on the Don Imus radio show). With dour hyperventilation, Mr. Brock charges Mrs. Clinton with such non-crimes as using "language that makes the Watergate tapes sound like a Sunday school lesson" and referring to state troopers' guns as "phallic symbols." The prim Mr. Brock also alleges that the ubiquitous Little Rock Peeping Toms overheard Mrs. Clinton expressing aloud a desire to have more frequent sex with her husband. How shocking!

In a similar vein, Mr. Brock wrote that the real Anita Hill was "a bit nutty and a bit slutty." He described her as having an "obsessive, even perverse, desire for male attention." (Perverse?) He quoted an unnamed source on Ms. Hill's "flirtatiousness" and "provocative manner of dress" -- "not sweet or sexy [ but ] sort of angry, almost a weapon."

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When Mr. Brock went after Angela Wright, another potential witness against Clarence Thomas, he tracked down one source who accused her of having "a foul mouth" and another who said she "told male co-workers she liked to walk around her house in the nude." What most of America regards as PG-13, Mr. Brock, a tender 30-ish, rates triple-X.