Out of the morass of GOP dirty tricks in the 1990s variously known as the Whitewater scandal, the Arkansas Project and the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy, only one person was a true hero: Susan McDougal.

To truly comprehend the skullduggery deployed by the Republicans to lay the way for saddling the nation and the world with the Worst President Ever, you have to understand what they were up to in the 1990s. McDougal’s autobiography, The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk is one of the best primers around on the story. When it came out in paperback earlier this year, she was interviewed by Robert Scheer at Truthdig. The video is posted HERE.

US News is reporting that McDougal’s story is going to be made into a movie, with Paul Haggis — director of two Oscar winning movies, the horribly written “Crash” and “Million Dollar Baby” — and Charlize Theron in the lead role.

Remnants of the Gang of 500’s sneering tone about Whitewater and the Clintons are evident in the US News blurb, which referred to Susan McDougal, who is a true American patriot, as a “bit player” in the scandal.

The truth is, McDougal is the only person in the scandal who stood up to evil “Judge Starr,” and for that service she should be applauded.