Bill Clinton called Vanity Fair reporter Todd Purdum “sleazy,” “slimy” and a “scumbag” in an interview with Mayhill Flower, the Post blogger who also reported Barack Obama’s “bitter” comments. Clinton, upset at Purdum’s story exploring his personal life and the media coverage of his wife’s campaign, also suggested that Obama “gets other people to slime” Hillary Clinton, Flower reports. To watch over the media’s coverage of the general election, Arianna Huffington has started the John McCain News Hunt. There should be no need for “after-the-fact books” about how journalists “enabled” McCain to win the presidency with “a phony reputation as a maverick,” Huffington writes.