Jason D. Fodeman

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Jason D. Fodeman is the author of How to Destroy a Village: What the Clintons Taught a Seventeen Year Old (ISBN 1-59129-804-0), a book critical of former U.S. president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton. Fodeman was an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University at the time he wrote the book.

His premise assumes the existence of a biased liberal establishment and a biased liberal media. After discussing the importance of values and morals, Foderman asserts that they can only be transgressed by those with the political support of the "liberal establishment". Under this premise, the Clintons are held up to blame. Fodeman states that they teach a false lesson to young people who may, by their example, feel that they can "get away" with certain types of behavior that they should not be able to, because they do not have the shield of the "liberal media" that the Clintons had.

Ironically, considering that the premise of his book depends on the "liberal media", Fodeman has received a lot of press coverage, including from MSNBC, Fox News, C-SPAN, Rush Limbaugh, the New York Post, The Washington Times, and National Review.^{[citation needed]} This amount of media attention is unusual for a book put out by PublishAmerica, widely considered to be a vanity press. (PublishAmerica pays a nominal $1 advance to its "authors", but then makes them bear most of the other costs that traditional publishers invest in their books.)