Replies to post #259908 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[dropdeadfred]

Since she is going to win I don't see why they don't take him in.. There is plenty of room in the White House for him.

[fuagf]

Newsmax then the Star revived it in the 90s .. paternity test came up negative .. the Star accepted it .. sounds more like a charcoal do-over ..

Despite failing to attract mainstream media attention in its first outing, the Clinton love child melodrama was revisited in the late '90s by the conservative web site Newsmax, whose dogged coverage (amid claims of being strong-armed by Clinton operatives) led to the commissioning of a DNA paternity test by another weekly tabloid, Star magazine. Drudge Report picked up the story at this point, claiming the revelations had "rocked the White House" and would lead to a "paternity showdown."

But no showdown occurred. Contrary to expectations, the paternity test determined that Bill Clinton was not Danney Williams' father, Time magazine reported on 18 July 1999:

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Using the Starr Report's FBI analysis of Clinton's DNA as its reference, Star paid former prostitute Bobbie Ann Williams, the source for the Globe article, and her 13-year-old son for their story and blood samples. And the result: "There was no match. Not even close," says a Star source. (The Starr Report contains sufficient data to make a valid DNA comparison to rule out paternity.) But if the tabloid was disappointed by the results, it's putting up a good, Brill's Content-ready front. Says editor in chief Phil Bunton: "We investigate dozens of stories every week, and if they don't prove to be true, we don't run them."
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Ironically, given how enthusiastically they participated in resurrecting the story in 2016, it was the Drudge Report that hammered the final nail in its coffin:

http://www.snopes.com/bill-clinton-illegitimate-son/

oh yeah .. and Drudge ..