A CASE OF THE MUMPS?
Scrapbook A CASE OF THE MUMPS? For those still keeping track, the score remains Juanita Broaddrick: 5 (as in, witnesses she contemporaneously told about the Masher in Chief); Bill Clinton:...
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...Quoth Al: “I’ll be offering my vision when my campaign begins, and it’ll be comprehensive and sweeping, and I hope that it’ll be compelling enough to draw people toward it...
...Amazing...
...Good dogs, compliant dogs, go far, although that may be Lanny’s tragedy: so much heeling, so little to show for it on his own—until, relatively late in his career, his being a Friend of Bill, chief sycophant to the Commander in Chief, gave him a shot at the gold ring...
...I blame Yale...
...Seven years later, we’re still waiting...
...In some ways the case of Lanny Davis is special, more egregious, but perhaps more explicable...
...Without knowingthe facts, without pausing for a moment to wonder ‘Gee, he’s lied to me so many times before and I’ve looked like such a fool so many times before for defending him, wouldn’t it be a good idea to hesitate for just a moment before smearing a woman who says she’s been raped and calling her the liar...
...But whatever Clinton actually believed in 1978, there is evidence that he was in the habit of making this sort of claim to the women he encountered...
...I think it is not insignificant that the initial heated competition for a Scrapbook coveted place on the ladder to the chairmanship of the Yale Daily was, appropriately enough, called ‘Heeling.’ It is, you will notice, a term adopted from dog training...
...Browning, who claims a 30-year sexual relationship with Clinton, and who has known him since they were both children, says that she confronted Clinton about his habitual refusal to use a condom after she’d heard rumors that he’d been seeing other women...
...I feel that it will be...
...But, as with most allegations against the president, the claim that he would say such a thing becomes, upon closer inspection, all too believable...
...wrote Rosenbaum...
...We look forward to Bradley’s riposte...
...Anything you say, Al...
...It’s quite possible that in the spring of 1978, Clinton did believe that he was sterile, and he might well have ascribed this to a case of the mumps...
...After all, so much to betray, so little betrayal...
...D’Alema must have forgotten what was going on in Italy 10 years ago—no doubt jetting off for ideological summits in Beijing and Moscow as the head of the Communist Youth Federation was distracting...
...It was a horrible accident, the jury decided, but it was an accident...
...But there he is lining up, assuming the position so eagerly, so readily, once again...
...He never used the word ‘sterile,’ but he was pretty positive he couldn’t have children...
...No calls, please...
...I thought somebody might actually try to get pregnant by him and cause him a problem,” says Browning...
...But if I do, I’ll call you back...
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...But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people...
...INTERNET AL Last week was not a good one for Al Gore...
...Otherwise, he might have remembered that the Italians let Palestinian terrorist Abul Abbas walk away from the Sigonella air base in Sicily after his thugs had quite deliberately murdered Leon Klinghoffer on the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro...
...But Flowers, who claims a 12-year sexual relationship with Clinton, says that Clinton “indicated he had a fertility problem...
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...I’ve traveled to every part of this country during the last six years...
...Asked if Clinton had ever contracted the mumps, Kennedy took our phone number: “I’m probably not going to get anything on that,” he said...
...Richard Ashby, the pilot whose jet accidentally sent 20 skiers in a cable car plummeting fatally to the ground...
...But he said, ‘Nobody should worry about my getting them pregnant.’” White House spokesman Jim Kennedy said, “I’m not going to take or ask that question,” when we inquired whether Clinton had ever considered himself sterile before Chelsea’s conception...
...Perhaps, thanks to his ideological training, D’Alema simply doesn’t grasp the notion of a trial being conducted according to neutral principles of law...
...Davis is a friend of Bill, as Rosenbaum put it, “in the sense Bill Clinton has friends: people he can lie to shamelessly, whose lives and reputations he can ruin callously and still count on to go on TV and defend him...
...And as time passes, her story is only gaining credibility...
...Two authorities on Clinton— Gennifer Flowers and Dolly Kyle Browning—provided THE SCRAPBOOK with further detail...
...For instance, the most curious detail of Broaddrick’s rape allegation is this: Following her 1978 encounter with Clinton, she says he told her not to worry about getting pregnant, because a bout with the mumps had left him sterile...
...How do we know she didn’t lie to all her friends...
...For one thing, in his book Blood Sport, James Stewart reported that the Clintons in the late 1970s were concerned over not being able to conceive, and at one point “contemplated a visit to a doctor at the University of California...
...Well not Yale University, precisely, but the Yale Daily News and the culture of Establishment suck-uppery it cultivates...
...If Broaddrick is a calculating liar looking to embroider her account, inventing such a detail would seem foolish, since two years later Chelsea Clinton was born...
...SO MUCH TO BETRAY With all the hubbub over George Stephanopoulos’s supposed “betrayal” of Bill Clinton, one could easily lose sight of this: Amazingly few of his employees and associates have actually felt compelled to “betray” him by telling the truth...
...Nonetheless, Italian prime minister Massimo D’Alema complained during his recent trip to Washington: “We shall say we are satisfied when whoever is responsible for what happened is found guilty and punished...
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...Don’t I have any responsibility to think twice before mouthing off, just this once?’ Even if he (apparently) doesn’t care whether Bill Clinton screwed Juanita Broaddrick, he knows Bill Clinton’s screwed him repeatedly...
...Kennedy’s assurance reminds THE SCRAPBOOK of the Clinton campaign’s 1992 promise to produce Clinton’s medical records: “We’ll have them by Thursday,” they said at the time...
...This was the subject of a fantastic rant by columnist Ron Rosenbaum in the New York Observer last week on the subject of Lanny Davis...
...The best rejoinder came from House majority leader Dick Armey: “If the vice president created the Internet, then I created the Interstate Highway System...
...Davis had been quoted in the Washington Post...
...Bill Clinton: 1 (as in, number of feeble denials issued, and that denial not by Clinton but by his lawyer...
...Blitzer asked Gore why Democrats should support him and not Bill Bradley...
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...And not for nothing...
...Neither remembers Clinton saying that he’d had the mumps...
...During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet...
...ITALIAN JUSTICE So a Marine Corps jury, after a fair and open trial, unanimously acquits Capt...
...What most ticked off Rosenbaum was Lanny Davis’s attack on Juanita Broaddrick...
...When I arrived, an alienated outsider at Yale, Lanny Davis was already on his way to becoming the ultimate Insider, the chairman of the Yale Daily News, an exalted position that is not attained without strenuous sucking upward to the upperclassmen who hold the striving Yale Daily candidate’s fate in their hands...
...Not only did he fall further behind George W. Bush in various polls, but he made an extraordinary comment in response to Wolf Blitzer on CNN that will come back to haunt him...
...Not even a trial: Abbas was allowed to just leave the country, no matter the American warrant for his arrest...
Vol. 4 • March 1999 • No. 26
