A Kitty Kelley tidbit...

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 4:00pm

I am listening to an audiobook of Kitty Kelley's The Family. It is surprisingly well written, and VERY interesting. Here is a sample...

Upon hearing that his brother Jeb's teenage son and a teenage girl had been busted by the local security guards in a mall paking lot...both naked from the waist down...George quipped, "Well, it could have been worse...the girl could have been a boy. [pause] But maybe we could've picked up some gay votes with that one, eh?"

[ckeaton]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 4:05pm

With the exception of the "gay vote" portion... I've heard the same punchline, or set-up for a punch line in more than one modern situation comedy. I think one such occurrence down this road was on "Will and Grace". Where's the controversy here?

[morosco]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 4:41pm

The teenage girl was a minor.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 4:47pm

I don't think it's controversial at all, but in light of is anti-gay policies, it comes across smug. Then again, almost everything he has to say comes across smug.

Nope, I'm not objective. The more I read about him (and no, Kitty Kelley and Michael Moore aren't my foundation sources...), the more I come to despise him. I am not sure how I can possibly abide four more years of him as president, should he win.

I've had no use for Nixon, but I never thought him stupid. Ditto for Bush Sr. But from source after source after source, a picture of someone who has gotten where he is by family connections and duplicitous behavior, wears a sense of entitlement proudly, and intentionally twists the truth to serve his purposes continues to emerge. Bad president. Bad role model.

[morosco]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 4:49pm

Oh and don't forget about his sister Noelle. You might remember her mugshot.

[ckeaton]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 6:56pm

Ah well... from someone who had a policeman tap on the glass and shine a flashlight on his dong in the parking lot of a Home Depot, both of us teens... (my future wife, in fact)

I will not throw stones. I guess I'm a corrupt bastard for getting a little hot action in my car.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 8:19pm

The difference is that you and your gf would get a tap on the window, maybe a warning. Me and my boyfriend would be taken to jail for indecent exposure, lewdness, (no longer sodomy).

[ckeaton]

Posted: 9/23/04 at 8:43pm

Depends on the cop jrb, my friend.
Methinks the flashlight lingered just a bit too long on my hoo-ha.

But I understand that there is a double standard.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 8:55pm

had i known the book had these kinda revelations i woulda bought it already!!

http://theonion.com/infograph/index.php?issue=4038