God bless those embed reporters. Some are armed with handheld video cameras. Others? Audio recorders. Which made for this fine clip of Bill Clinton responding to Todd Purdum's Vanity Fair article — which he sort of already did with that lengthy-ass letter. But now Clinton is saying things like: "[Purdum is] sleazy. He's a really dishonest reporter. And one of our guys talked to him . . . And I haven't read [the article]. But he told me there's five or six just blatant lies in there. But he's a real slimy guy. [...] Let me tell ya– he's one of the guys — he's one of the guys that propagated all those lies about Whitewater to Kenneth Starr. He's just a dishonest guy– can't help it."

And that's when he brought up David Granger.

"The editor of Esquire– he sent us an email yesterday and said it was the single sleaziest piece of journalism he'd seen in decades. He said it made him want to go take a shower and he was embarrassed to be a journalist when he read it."

Update: Turns out, Granger didn't tell Clinton anything. Speaking to Texas Monthly, the Esquire chief says he "certainly did not" email Clinton. Rather, a staff editor at the magazine sent Clinton aide Doug Band that email. [Politico]

[Audio Clip: HuffPo]