Think Progress gets their hands on a copy of anti-Hillary book. Essentially finds that not only is there no "smoking gun" but the book is shooting blanks.

So I mentioned yesterday there is this new book coming out May 5th, that has given the Right Wing media a semi in anticipation.

Apparently the good folks over at Think Progress managed to get their hands on an  advanced copy and it is safe to say that they are less than impressed: 

Schweizer makes clear that he does not intend to present a smoking gun, despite the media speculation. The book relies heavily on timing, stitching together the dates of donations to the Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton’s speaking fees with actions by the State Department. 

Schweizer explains he cannot prove the allegations, leaving that up to investigative journalists and possibly law enforcement. “Short of someone involved coming forward to give sworn testimony, we don’t know what might or might not have been said in private conversations, the exact nature of the transition, or why people in power make the decision they do,” he writes. Later, he concludes, “We cannot ultimately know what goes on in their minds and ultimately provide the links between the money they took and the benefits that subsequently accrued to themselves, their friends, and their associates.”

Schweizer makes all kinds of allegations with very little to back them up, and seems to be hoping that the media will do his work for him and chase each one of them down.

However Think Progress also points out that one of his allegations has ALREADY been proved false:

Schweizer also fingers Bill Clinton’s speaking fees, a favorite target in conservative circles, as a potential avenue to influence Hillary. He links the timing of the State Department’s generally positive report on the Keystone XL Pipeline with a slew of Clinton speeches paid for by TD Bank, a major shareholder in the project. As proof of how crucial Clinton’s support for the pipeline was to the bank, Schweizer quotes a press release that claimed TD Bank would “begin selling its $1.6 billion worth of shares in the massive but potentially still-born Keystone XL crude pipeline project” after Clinton left office. The press release was quickly revealed to be fake in 2013. Yet Schweizer, apparently unaware of the hoax, remarks, “Too bad for TD Bank. But the Clintons got paid regardless.”

That one's just well known bullshit and yet Schwiezer, did not even bother to Google it to find that out.

Ultimately this will all be, to borrow from Shakespeare, "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

However the Clintons being the Clintons they are not about to stand by idly and wait for the barrage of attacks from the conservative media.

So they issued a memo:   

“The book was backed by a Koch Brothers-linked organization and a billionaire family that is bankrolling Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign,” writes national press secretary Brian Fallon in the memo, which was forwarded to POLITICO by one of its recipients. In the three-page note Fallon also writes that Schweizer has coordinated with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, another presidential candidate and frequent Clinton critic. 

“It is sad, but not surprising, that [the Clintons’] philanthropic work has become the subject of false, right-wing attacks,” Fallon writes in the note, which carries the subject line, “What We Already Know About ‘Clinton Cash’: Book and Author Attacking Hillary Clinton Widely Discredited.”

“These types of books are standard fare in political campaigns now, and this one is clearly part of a coordinated Republican strategy. But this is not the first work of partisan-fueled fiction about Hillary Clinton’s record, and we know it will not be the last,” he adds.

And remember folks it is only April of 2015. We still have a year and a half of this garbage still before us.