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They also detected the qualities that right-wing mentors looked for, and often found, in young people of Brock's generation. "They could see that I was a hard worker with some talent who would do what I was told." With these creds, he was headed for the big time. "I had the distinct feeling that I was being passed along a network," Brock says. And so he was, from The Washington Times to the Spectator and eventually The Wall Street Journal 's op-ed page. On this grapevine, Brock's lies ripened, fertilized by rumors gleaned from sources who themselves were on the take. His pieces led to lucrative contracts from publishers bent on destroying Clinton.

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