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The excellent book "Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams."
Carol Newquist » Fri Oct 18, 2013 12:19 pm wrote:And, I wonder if Lewis is still a "cunt man" like JFK? Who would lay down with this besides a lonely and blind pet?
Wombaticus Rex wrote:The excellent book "Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams."
mulebone, I just got off the horn with Hugh, and he said the whole Camelot thing was keyword hijacking psyops to cover up the fact that JFK Came-A-Lot. I believe it. They knew the word would eventually leak out that JFK was always getting some strange, so they preempted it with Camelot.
That is really unfair because Jerry Lewis has pulmonary fibrosis and the medicine for it made him bloat up, only temporarily. So, as if it matters, he doesn't look like that any more. Jerry has a wife.
So, in Fantasyland, Kennedy is a hero, but in reality, the hero was some nameless sub commander who probably spent his last days buried in some distant Soviet gulag.
JFK intern Mimi Alford shares story of her affair with Kennedy in new book. Relevant? Historian Robert Dallek says yes
More than you wanted to know? A new book shares explicit details about a 50-year-old presidential sex scandal between JFK and a White House intern.
“Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath,” by Mimi Beardsley Alford, chronicles the 18-month relationship that ended when Kennedy died in 1963. The memoir is getting a lot of advance buzz — including a prime-time NBC interview Wednesday with Meredith Vieira — because of Alford’s credibility and her graphic descriptions of encounters with the dazzling Womanizer-in-Chief, whom she always called “Mr. President” and never kissed on the lips.
Why do we need more salacious details about Kennedy’s sex life? Beyond the prurience, it once again raises legitimate questions about the character of our leaders. “If presidents represent the best of America, then there’s quite a gap between that and their behavior,” historian Robert Dallek told us Monday. “Presidents — all of them — hide things.”
Alford, then 19, had just completed her first year at Wheaton College when she started a job in the White House press office in the summer of 1962. Within days of her arrival, the beautiful young blonde was invited to join the president for an afternoon swim — and later that day, lost her virginity to him in the first lady’s bedroom, according to excerpts published in the New York Post, which snagged an early copy. “I wouldn’t describe what happened that night as making love, but I wouldn’t call it nonconsensual either,” she wrote.
More graphic stuff: Drugs with the president, and the sex act she was urged to perform on presidential aide Dave Powers as JFK watched. Alford tells NBC she should have felt guilty, but didn’t because she was swept up in the Kennedy aura. “I’m not going to say he loved me, but I think he did like me a lot.”
As in most books involving private affairs with public officials, most of the principals in the book are dead. Unlike many of JFK’s rumored encounters, this one has grounding in historic records.
In 2003, Dallek included a passing reference to a “tall, slender, beautiful nineteen-year-old college sophomore” in his acclaimed biography, “An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963.” More details about the intern came via an oral history by Barbara Gamarekian, a former press aide to Kennedy. Mimi, she said, had a “sort of a special relationship with the president. . . the sort of thing that legitimate newspaper people don’t write about or don’t even make any implications about.” Alford kept the affair a secret, but confirmed it in 2003 after reporters tracked her down.
Dallek, who has not read Alford’s book yet, finds her “entirely credible” and the Powers incident “disgusting.” The value of her book is not in the dirty details, he said, but in balancing the historical perception of JFK, who’s become some kind of “rock star, a mythological figure — he’s no longer a real person.”
Dallek told us he originally wrote about Mimi — though in a mere 38 words — because he was interested in the changing social mores of the country. Journalists knew about Kennedy’s adultery but never wrote a thing; 35 years later, no detail of Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky went unreported.
Which is why he found Newt Gingrich’s attack on CNN’s John King for asking about alleged affairs so fascinating — and probably unwise.
“You’re not going to put the genie back in the bottle anymore,” said Dallek. “This has become part of the public discourse.”
“I’m not going to say he loved me, but I think he did like me a lot.”
Forgetting2 » 19 Oct 2013 01:20 wrote:Well that Parkland trailer was annoying. Fortunately the movie appears to be tanking, even in it's limited release.
I think the the feminists hired the Mob who subcontracted the CIA who in turn ordered Oswald to ingratiate himself to the Cubans so they'd send some freshly rolled Cuban Magic Bullets that were specially engineered to ejaculate from the very Venus Mound-like grassy knoll thereby avenging the legions of deflowered virgins who were used & abused by President Broken Zipper. I think you'll find, upon careful examination, that this was all encoded into the subtext of every beach movie that featured Eric Von Zipper. Or, as Hugh would say, the Eric Von Zipper character was an early form of keyword hijacking designed to deflect any & all interest away from Kennedy's zipper.
Carol Newquist » Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:09 pm wrote:That is really unfair because Jerry Lewis has pulmonary fibrosis and the medicine for it made him bloat up, only temporarily. So, as if it matters, he doesn't look like that any more. Jerry has a wife.
Great satire, Elvis. Yeah, he had a wife....and so did JFK. How does that change the fact he was a "cunt man?" If Lewis isn't a "cunt man" any longer because he has pulmonary fibrosis, well, isn't that a crying shame? The book, for which you thanked WR for the title to but not mulebone for the introduction to it with the quote, does not treat Lewis or JFK admirably. Think before you react.
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