Replies

Didn't have time for this - preparing lectures for tomorrow, but it was GREAT! I had only read a transcript of the conversation, not actually seen the video, but she is totally correct.

I had noticed when he changed from the active to the passive voice before talking about “feeling up” the permissive “ladies”. (They let you....)

Of course it was a set up, but then the “accomplished media and political personalities” with their academic credentials have shown themselves time and time again unable to handle their own language properly. It may have been unfair when he wrote it, but today I give Bernhard Shaw full points for writing that English is not spoken in America. (Or was that only in the musical? Haven't time to check that now. Have to live with the shame.)

Anyway, first time I really understood that people high up in the media-poitical and legal(!!) world did not understand their own language was when I listened to transcripts of the Scooter Libby trial. An important issue was a discussion between Woodward and Novak. A tape recording of their phone(?) conversation was produced for the jury to listen to. However, anyone who can understand the English language, and knows the difference between passive and active voice, and furthermore is able to handle the conditional, would have (see it ain't so difficult!) been able to see that the two pompous men started to talk about two different things already after the first couple of sentences. Therefore they could not possibly have remembered what the other one had said, simple because they were not listening to each other.

If I remember correctly, Clarice Feldman picked up that one, but again as far as I remember no one else. Sad and it cost a god man his career. One would have hoped the present story will cost many reporters and reporterettes their careers, but I guess that would be too much to ask.

PS: Miss M, I added you to this post because I think this analysis goes hand in hand what you wrote about Donald Trump as a young man. Some of us just never change that much! Please, watch the video. I would like to hear what you think about it.

I listened to some of it - a bit amusing because of her dry, academic tone versus the usual high-energy spunk of Trump. Nothing that he says offends me - he has a young man’s love of girls that is quite appealing in these pajama boy times. Sorry, that’s just what I think. (And I suspect he took her to Conran’s when he probably should have taken her to Harry Winston.)

I guess I must be a pig like Trump. I go to cigar bars with my husband and while they smoke away I flip through magazines - Playboy and Penthouse, etc. AND YES, I ONLY READ THE INTERVIEWS! Actually, I occasionally look at the pix and wonder if women were more beautiful in the 1960s than today. And I can just imagine what happens when I don’t go and easily can imagine my husband yelling in fake outrage at the smutty talk: “Oh, you slob! You’re a pig!” while laughing hysterically.

I’m sick of the crass, phony outrage being expressed by this fake scandal.