Posted on 01/22/2004 5:59:30 AM PST by mountaineer
Lauren Hutton and Georgette Mosbacher squared off in a verbal claw-fest Tuesday night at the Sony Club, significantly upping the entertainment value of a State of the Union-watching party hosted by Atlantic Monthly magazine.
"Bush is responsible for a trillion-dollar deficit," declared the gap-toothed fashion icon, rising from her seat to respond to Mosbacher's lonely defense of President Bush amid a liberal-leaning crowd that included Walter and Betsy Cronkite, Pete Peterson, David Dinkins, Tina Brown and Harry Evans, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld and Moby.
"I guess you can't read, or something," Hutton jabbed. "Because I can - and I'm a model, for God's sake!"
At which the flame-haired Mosbacher went ballistic.
"Don't you be personally insulting!" she fired back. "You can make your points, but I resent your personal insults."
"How's that insulting?" the 60-year-old Hutton demanded.
"It's insulting to you!" replied the 57-year-old ex-wife of former Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher.
"Ohhhh, catfight!" one of my tablemates exclaimed.
"I felt like I was in the lion's den," Mosbacher told me yesterday.
The trouble started when "the cream of Manhattan society" and "godless Manhattanites" - as moderator James Fallows (perhaps ironically) addressed the group - were invited to critique Bush's speech after watching it, over a sumptuous sushi-laced dinner, on flat-screen televisions on the 35th floor of the Sony Building.
Cronkite, the venerable former CBS anchorman, launched his assessment by noting portentously: "I have watched a great many of these speeches in my life, and I would say that President Bush's is unique in American history."
The majestic-voiced Cronkite looked grave as he continued: "Never before has a President of the United States taken such a strong stand - as he did tonight - against gonorrhea!"
It was a laugh line, of course, and the room erupted in laughter.
Before the speech, guests were encouraged to use personal electronic devices at each place setting to punch in answers to various questions. Almost 77% said they will support a Democrat for President this year, and 72% reported that they attend "zero" religious services.
During Bush's speech, Moby strolled up to one of the screens, tuned to CNN and stuck a piece of dark tape over the letter "V" in "LIVE." Now it read "LIE," prompting one guest to quip: "I didn't know that Moby cared so much about the Long Island Expressway!"
He doesn't. "We all have 'beaten-wife syndrome,' where we've been lied to so often," he told fellow diner Curtis Ellis of AP Radio. "George Bush is like a drunken, unfaithful spouse who's gone out and cheated on us so many times that at this point we just accept it....He looks like the belligerent guy in the bar who tries to pick a fight with you."
I thought that was Eminem.
The Democratic Party, drunk with power, is like the unfaithful spouse who, while secretly seeing his/her lover (socialism), is living a lie, cannot speak of her or be seen in public with her, but is in love with her none the less. I believe this is why the Dems act so schizo sometimes, they are in an untenable situation as they cannot reveal who they really are.
They don't:
Bob Williamson acted as her accountant and, upon his death, Hutton discovered that nearly $13 million, several years' wages, was gone. In his will, he left $2.5 million to his new wife, and nothing to Lauren Hutton--the rightful owner of most of his money.
"...accusing him of saying Iraq was an imminent threat to the U.S., when that isn't at all what he said..."You're absolutely right. Go back and see Bush's State of the Union delivery, there wasn't one mentioning of imminent threat but the lying RATs keep reciting!!!
Well, Nancy Pelosi's illusional performance on Tuesday was a good indication where the RATs want to go.
I think the question should be why do we in this society worship stupid people?
For a thoughtful analysis of the SOTU speech you must read Peter Robinson's article in this morning's Wall Street Journal (available online for paid subscribers - bummer!) Who's Peter Robinson? Maybe the kind of thinker this society should elevate.
George Costanza said: "Oh yeah, well the jerk store called and they're running out of you."
[wish she coulda come up with a better retort to the Hutton Hore.]
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