Right now we’re in a Hillary moment, already discussing whether she will be the nominee, and I hear Democratic friends say, “Hillary’s baggage,” and worrying about the distraction it could cause. Yesterday a friend said to me, “Those Clinton haters will try to tie her to murders…”
I won’t vote for Hillary because of Read More
Despite all the heavy-breathing hype generated to promote the forthcoming “attack biography” of Hillary Clinton by Edward Klein, citizens hoping to discover anything new about the famous junior Senator from New York shouldn’t waste their time or money on his unoriginal and unreliable rant.
I know because a copy showed up in my office the Read More
Right now there are only two conversations in New York. One is about how much you hate George W. Bush, and the other is that we are about to face hard times, real hard times. Both conversations seem to me a little bit unearned.
Myself, I’m more involved in the conversation about money. My story Read More
What the hell was that all about? I think we may have just arrived at Stage III in the Natural History of National Scandals: Call it the Huh? Moment. It’s exactly two years after the Monica feeding frenzy first exploded, two years since the Presidency of Bill Clinton seemed to hang by a thread, virtually Read More
Fair-minded people who are alarmed by the terrible force aimed at Bill Clinton have gathered on high ground: A person has the right to lie about a sexual affair. It is an honorable principle, and it works in John Updike novels and Jeremy Irons movies, but in the context of the Clinton political operation it’s Read More
Fair-minded people who are alarmed by the terrible force aimed at Bill Clinton have gathered on high ground: A person has the right to lie about a sexual affair. It is an honorable principle, and it works in John Updike novels and Jeremy Irons movies, but in the context of the Clinton political operation it’s Read More
I just wanted to hear her voice.
So I went to Washington and got the Webb Hubbell tapes from the offices of Dan Burton (Republican-Scumbag, Indiana) and walked around Capitol Hill, listening to the night of Webb’s loyalty crisis, March 1996. Heard Suzy Hubbell crying on the phone to Webb that Presidential aide Marsha Scott Read More
It strikes me that the story of H.M.S. Titanic is an apt metaphor for what has been going on in Washington. Not that I liked the movie all that much; I suppose I was looking for Grand Hotel on the bounding main and instead was given Love Story . This moviegoer may consider Leonardo DiCaprio Read More
Late at night at the Accuracy in Media ball on Oct. 18, I looked out a window of the Army-Navy Club and saw a good-looking young man in a fine jacket walking in and out of the lamplight by a park, and envied him his lightness of his step and air of intrigue, that weirdly Read More
