John Podhoretz’s article about me and Richard M. Scaife implies that we are either mad or hypocritical by citing a New York Times story that quotes me as saying we share the view that Bill Clinton was “a good president in a lot of ways” (“Now They Tell Us,” Post- Opinion, Feb. 20).

Left out of both the Times’ and Podhoretz’s piece was that I told the Times that our view applied to Clinton’s domestic policies and the fact he had managed to avoid entangling us in a quagmire in the Mideast.

I also told the Times that I still stood behind my extensive reporting during the Clinton years.

Podhoretz makes several false accusations against me, claiming, for example, that I accused Clinton of being a “murderous rapist” and of having ties to drug-running at Mena airport.

I have never written or said such things, no matter how much Podhoretz “connects the dots.”

Christopher Ruddy

CEO, NewsMax.com

West Palm Beach, Fla.