This was an enjoyable piece and especially interesting in light of today's events. There is a big difference in what happens to scandalized politicians today compared to several decades ago. Think if Weiner and Spitzer.
1 posted on
07/17/2013 4:43:35 AM PDT by
grimalkin
To: grimalkin
She was living in poverty in a "council flat" (British for housing project) and had nothing to retail but those few months in the early Sixties ... For all she's got from the attempts to cling to her celebrity, Miss Keeler might as well have joined Profumo at Toynbee Hall and done charity work for four decades.I thought this was very sad, and an image of dozens - hundreds? - of women who have imagined that they matter because they could get a politician to have sex with them.
2 posted on
07/17/2013 4:56:48 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(No pun intended, no punishment ... If I offended you, you needed it.)
To: grimalkin
I remember reading at the time there was some discussion about Keeler’s nationality/ethnicity (?)...it was said that she was Czech.
A comedian said...’She went from check to cash.’ :)
3 posted on
07/17/2013 4:57:23 AM PDT by
SMARTY
("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
To: grimalkin
Profumo was forced to resign because he lied to the House of Commons. A quaint concept.
4 posted on
07/17/2013 4:59:18 AM PDT by
iowamark
To: grimalkin
You mean democrat politicians, no?
7 posted on
07/17/2013 5:30:38 AM PDT by
stanne
To: grimalkin
Is there ANY political scandal or contretemps that has NOT become the subject of a West End play or Hollywood movie. provided only that the scandals occurred during conservative/Republican administrations?
9 posted on
07/17/2013 6:04:50 AM PDT by
Jack Hammer
(American)
To: grimalkin
The words any parent dreads, “Mom, Dad, I want you to meet the girl I intend to marry, Monica Lewisinsky”.
11 posted on
07/17/2013 6:30:46 AM PDT by
sport
To: JLS
12 posted on
07/17/2013 7:22:43 AM PDT by
Twotone
(Marte Et Clypeo)
To: grimalkin
It's not really right to mention the Profumo scandal without showing the naughty, but Safe For (most) Work pictures of the, at the time, young women in the center of the scandal.
To: grimalkin
When you think of the Profumo scandal, it’s hard not to think of the movie Dr. Strangelove, filmed the same year but released the next.
To: grimalkin
‘Think of Weiner and Spitzer.’
Too close to lunchtime for THAT!
18 posted on
07/17/2013 10:01:55 AM PDT by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: grimalkin
I was in High School when the Keeler/Profumo affair came to a conclusion. NOT knowing what we all came to know about what was going on with JFK in our own White House in the exact same time frame, it’s no wonder our press was all over the Brit story. “Couldn’t happen here, now could it?”
And btw, considering the details of the other stories Steyn touches on, it seems the Brits have it all over us in perversion.
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