brock said that his former friends in right-wing politics shunned him because "seduction" did not adequately attack the clintons. jonah goldberg of "national review" proposed another theory: since "no liberal source in the world would talk to brock," he could not collect the kind of information he was after. goldberg also maintained that while writing the book, brock had been "seduced" by sidney blumenthal, a prominent champion and friend of the clinton circle. blumenthal would remain the subject of intense attention from anti-clintonites two decades later.