A matter of privacy [Mimi celebrated]

The Boston Globe ^ | 5/18/03 | Eileen McNamara

[Gothmog]

Decorum is not dead. It revealed itself last week in the dignified carriage of the Manhattan grandmother who did not kiss and cash in, who chose, instead, to kiss and keep her own counsel. For 41 years.

We are well beyond shock that a president of the United States might have a dalliance with a young woman half his age. Bill and Monica lowered that bar. What startles, in this era of shameless, streaming confessionals, is that America still harbors individuals who prefer privacy to infamy.

[Gothmog]

Thank goodness decorum is not dead

[widowithfoursons]

Then why didn't the aged debutante keep her well bred mouth shut? We really didn't want to know.

[Sacajaweau]

Wonder who furnished Hillary with this woman's file?? Who paid Mimi?? or "threatened" Mimi. The DNC really thought this one out. Very clever!!

"See", said Hillary, "JFK did the same thing and no one said BOO. It was a right wing conspiracy just like I said!!!!!"

JFK was also a Dem, yes??? I still think Hillary has to do Bill in so she can bypass this pig's life. Imagine getting his sympathy vote from the sheep.

[widowithfoursons]

Oooohhh, you have a devious mind.

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, this ... this just makes me have MORE respect for John F. Kennedy. True, he was 47-years-old. True, he was schtupping a 19-year-old employee. But, he had the good sense to choose a floozy with class. JFK -- a truly great man!

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[xJones]

The timing of this totally unnecessary disclosure is interesting.

JKK = flawed but still Camelot President.
Beautiful, classy Jackie put up with it.
Bill Clinton had sleazy intern affairs.
Hillary put up with it (besides throwing the occasional lamp or ash tray).
So Hillary is as noble as the sainted Jackie, and having the scumbag but "charasmatic" husband she put up with is equally admirable.
Ergo, Camelot still lives, or some such B.S.

[SES1066]

''The thing that amazed me so was that these two or three girls were great friends and bosom buddies and gathered in corners and whispered and giggled, and there seemed to be no jealousy between them, and this was all one great big happy party and they didn't seem to resent any interest that the president or any other men might have in any of the girls. It was a marvelous example of sharing, which I found very difficult to understand as a woman.''

In other words, GROUPIES or maybe GROPIES! Yes, how decorous she is, but the fact remains that JFK had feet & legs of clay and his upbringing of priviledge and excesses were well hidden by the Kennedy Mafia and a compliant media (of whom the Boston Globe was an enthusiastic member).

The reason that this is still of interest is because the martyred Hero of Camelot was made a secular saint. Just as Wm. Bennett has gotten gored for hypocrisy, so must the shade of JFK as these stories of Marilyn Monroe, Judith Exeter, Addison's Disease and other unpleasantries surface.

[JOE6PAK]

This entire story has Hitlary's sticky fingers all over it.

[Paul Atreides]

How do we know that she just wasn't too scared to talk? It is the Kennedys, after all.

[Paul Atreides]

I just skimmed over the article, but is there anywhere in there a condemnation of Kennedy? Also, there is plenty of condemnation for Monica, but heaps of praise for the Kennedy intern. Far be it for me to defend Monica, but if we are going to heap scorn, we had might as well heap it all around. Kennedy was the one being the dirty old man, as was Bubba. That does not exclude the interns, but let us not pretend that being the other woman was some sort of noble calling. Both administrations should be renamed "Came-a-lot."

[tet68]

Ah yes, but sticky from WHAT ???

I'm sorry, that was a crude sexual slur, and while it was not beneath the former healthcare minister without portfolio,it was beneath me and I apologize.....profusely.
Yet again, I tender my apologies and ask in a most fawning way for your forgivness.

[Paul Atreides]

Isn't it interesting that we had Hugh Hefner as President twice, and both times as Democrats? And, neither time, not a word of condemnation from the feminazis.

[Jack Black]

BINGO! You win the cupie doll!

[Gothmog]

Yeah, if this was a story about a GOPer or a CEO there would be all sorts of condemnations from the libs -- overhyped worries about creating an 'attitude of oppression in the workplace,' etc. They had no problem condemning Henry Hyde for his one affair which occured years ago, but JFK's serial philandering, 'oh well, he was just being boyish, tee hee hee.'

Poor showing by Tucker Carlson on Chris Mathews' show this AM. The panel had just discussed Mimi and JFK's poor health. Tucker mumbled something unremarkable. What he shouedl have done was say something like 'JFK was sick in both body and spirit, he was a disgrace to the country.' But then, Tucker's just a boy.

[jackbill]

I just skimmed over the article, but is there anywhere in there a condemnation of Kennedy?

I wouldn't expect any, knowing that Ms. McNamara is a charter member of the Kennedy Knee-pad Klan.

Also, there is plenty of condemnation for Monica, but heaps of praise for the Kennedy intern.

Perhaps because Mimi had the decency to do it the old fashioned way whereas Monica just gave lip service?

Both administrations should be renamed "Came-a-lot."

No argument from me on that one.

I think that I'll archive this story and then send it back to Ms. McNamara when Mimi formalizes the book and movie deals.

[freekitty]

I agree.

[LadyDoc]

This reminds me of Mel Brook's line from History of the world part I: It's GOOD to be the king...

powerful kings used to use the women in court as their concubines, and these women had no choice. Some became powerful, others pregnant, and still others turned to alcohol and drugs when they were discarded. And the wives put up with it. THe only protection the women had was if their husbands or fathers got mad enough to blow away the king...

To have a woman reporter write this kind of drivel reminds me of the reporter who said that she would give Clinton a blow job for keeping abortion legal.

More melt down of feminism....

[archy]

I still think Hillary has to do Bill in so she can bypass this pig's life.

*Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.* --New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello

[archy]

Beautiful, classy Jackie put up with it. ... Hillary put up with it So Hillary is as noble as the sainted Jackie, and having the scumbag but "charasmatic" husband she put up with is equally admirable... Ergo, Camelot still lives, or some such B.S.

So who will be Jackie's Aristotle Onassis, once her husband meets his equivalent of JFK's finale in Dallas?

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