High life
Kindred spirits
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Mind you, I'm not surprised. Clinton and Flynt are kindred spirits. Both of them are perverse and degenerate, both believe that shame equals fame, both are power- obsessed and amoral opportunists. Clinton insists oral sex is not sex, Flynt thinks incest is funny. He once ran a cartoon showing Jerry Falwell having sex with his mother in an outhouse. (In the meantime, Flynt's own daughter has accused him of having sexually molested her, an allegation he has denied.) Both men are hypocrites. Clinton deplores the 'politics of personal destruc- tion' while feeding Flynt the purloined FBI files in order for the latter to embarrass Republicans. Flynt claims he's doing what he's doing because the Republicans are hypocrites. If he really hated hypocrisy, he'd go after only one man, the First Mas- turbator. The man who didn't inhale and now uses the latest euphemism for lying under oath — `misremembering'.
What a fine state of affairs. The numero uno liar in cahoots with the numero uno pornographer. The man who degrades women underlings in various government mansions, and the man who degrades women regularly in his magazine. Some time ago, in this space, I wrote that Clinton and O.J. Simpson resembled each other. Both preferred to lie even when the truth was more convenient. Flynt has been lionised in a Hollywood film as a defender of free speech, but he, too, is an extraordi- nary liar. Pornographers always pretend to defend free speech and to be against hypocrisy, and they justify porn as honesty. Nothing, however, is more of a lie. Pornog- raphy is not honesty, it is merely an effort to reduce decency to its own level.
See what I mean by kindred spirits? 0.1, the Draft Dodger and Larry Flynt. The Spirit of America in 1999. Watching the trial in the Senate throughout last week, I couldn't help but remember Mary McCarthy's words about Lillian Hellman, that 'every word she utters, including "the" and "and", is a lie'. Substitute Hellman's name for Clinton's and you're right as rain.
Needless to say, a lying, corrupt president corrupts all those around him. One has to wonder what kind of secretary of state, sec- retary of defence and national security adviser allows a president to squander America's foreign policy capital in an attempt to divert public opinion. Clinton's private use of military power has put- the Russians back in a leadership rival position and has aligned France and China with Moscow. On the domestic front, the pur- loined FBI files are being deployed to warn senators who might contemplate convicting. It doesn't have to be heavy-handed. The Washington rumour mill makes sure the right people get the message. And it's been like this from the start. The corruption and the sleaze, that is. Gary Aldrich, the veteran FBI agent who did security checks in the Clinton White House, described it in his book, Unlimited Access — the Clinton peo- ple were rude and arrogant towards the mil- itary and the FBI, the first lady foul- mouthed, cruel to subordinates, power-hun- gry and totally ruthless. Her cynical efforts to fire the staff of the White House Travel Office and frame them for crimes they didn't commit, I know something about.
A friend I hadn't seen in years clued me in recently. He is a famous and talented film director, someone I will not name for obvious reasons. No sooner were Bonnie and Clyde installed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it became obvious that Washing- ton was not Little Rock, and that Clyde's sexual shenanigans could not be covered up. Air Force One was designated as the place for trysts. The presidential quarters are a no-go area and, if one controlled the Travel Office, names flying on Air Force One could be kept off the register. Ergo, the firings and the instalment of Harry Thomasson to head the office. The same Hollywood character who advised the first liar to point his finger and announce he never had sex with that woman.
Well, it didn't exactly work, but in the meantime a few careers went down the tubes and lots of hard-working people spent their life savings defending them- selves against the trumped-up charges of Hillary the bitch. Incidentally, it was Sharon Stone who was present during that famous haircut on Air Force One that grounded Los Angeles air traffic six years ago. Some hair cut! Some president!
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