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| Taking One for the Team, Extended |
| 2010-07-01 |
| A few days ago, I mentioned this nugget from Byron York’s piece on the Gore-masseuse business: “Later, she talked to friends, liberals like herself, who advised against telling police. One asked her ‘to just suck it up; otherwise, the world’s going to be destroyed from global warming.’” And I said that that reminded me of a great hit from the Lewinsky era. Remember Nina Burleigh of Time magazine? “I would be happy to give him [Bill Clinton] a [particular sexual favor] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with their presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs.” Then I recalled the old, rotten congressman Gus Savage, who went to Zaire and sicced himself on a Peace Corps volunteer. He appealed to a perverse racial solidarity: “Oh, come on, baby, when you help the shepherd, you help the whole flock.” He also said that, if she gave in to him, she would be helping “the movement.” Later, when the young woman reported the congressman’s actions, he called her “a traitor to the black movement.” Of course. Anyway: Just one more, which I thought of this morning. You remember what Melissa Lafsky wrote at the Huffington Post, talking about Ted Kennedy’s glorious career for the Left? “Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.” The “she” was Mary Jo Kopechne. Sometimes, you take one for the team (as Mark Krikorian observed the other day). Sometimes you take a lot. |
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