101 Biggest Lies... #16 to #20
#16: John McCain is a Straight Talker
"...But it wasn't until 2000 that Senator John McCain, possibly emboldened by Clinton's survival of his [sex] scandals, became the first confessed adulterer to have the nerve to run. Now, just a few years after infidelity was considered a dealbreaker for a Presidential candidate, the [Republican] party that presents itself as the arbiter of virtue may field an unprecedented two-timing trifecta.
McCain was still married and living with his wife in 1979 while...aggressively courting a 25-year-old woman who was as beautiful as she was rich. McCain divorced his wife, who had raised their three children while he was imprisoned in Vietnam, then launched his political career with his new wife's family money.
#17: Rudy Giuliani is an American Hero
Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani informed his second wife of his intention to seek a separation during a 2000 press conference. The announcement was precipitated by the tabloid frenzy over Giuliani marching with his mistress in New York's St. Patrick's Day parade (an acknowledgement of infidelity so audacious that the Daily News likened it to "groping in the window at Macy's."
In the acrid divorce proceedings that followed, the wife accused Giuliani of serial adultery, alleging that this mistress was just the latest in a string of mistresses, following an affair the mayor had had with his former communications director.
#18: Newt Gingrich is a Revolutionary
But the most notorious of them all is undoubtedly Newt Gingrich, who ran for Congress in 1978 on the slogan, 'Let Our Family Represent Your Family' (he was cheating on his first wife at the time). In 1995, an alleged mistress from that period, Anne Manning, told Vanity Fair's Gail Sheehy: "We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'"
Gingrich obtained his first divorce in 1981, after forcing his wife, who had helped put him through graduate school, to haggle over the terms in the hospital, as she recovered from uterine cancer surgery. In 1999, he was disgraced again, having been caught in an affair with a 33-year-old congressional aide while spearheading the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton.
Thanks to Steve Brennan of Washington Monthly for all of the above, excerpted from
"High Infidelity"
#19: Ann Coulter Has Something Important to Say
Ann the Man doing what she can to keep 9/11 accountability off her Georgie-boy:
“These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9-11 was an attack on our nation and acted like as if the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing Bush was part of the closure process.
“These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much.
"This is the left’s doctrine of infallibility. If they have a point to make about the 9-11 commission, about how to fight the war on terrorism, how about sending in somebody we are allowed to respond to. No. No. No. We have to respond to someone who had a family member die. Because then if we respond, oh you are questioning their authenticity...the story is an attack on the nation. That requires a foreign policy response."
LAUER: By the way, they also criticized the Clinton administration.
COULTER: Not the ones I am talking about. No, no, no.
LAUER: Yeah they have.
COULTER: Oh no, no, no, no, no. They were cutting commercials for Kerry. They were using their grief to make a political point while preventing anyone from responding.
LAUER: So if you lose a husband, you no longer have the right to have a political point of view?
COULTER: No, but don’t use the fact that you lost a husband as the basis for being able to talk about, while preventing people from responding. Let Matt Lauer make the point. Let Bill Clinton make the point. Don’t put up someone I am not allowed to respond to without questioning the authenticity of their grief.
LAUER: Well apparently you are allowed to respond to them.
COULTER: Yeah, I did....That is the point of liberal infallibility. Of putting up Cindy Sheehan, of putting out these widows, of putting out Joe Wilson. No, no, no. You can’t respond. It’s their doctrine of infallibility. Have someone else make the argument then.
LAUER: What I’m saying is I don’t think they have ever told you, you can’t respond.
COULTER: Look, you are getting testy with me.
LAUER: No. I think it’s a dramatic statement. “These broads are millionaires stalked by stalked by grief-parazzies”? “I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s deaths so much”?
COULTER: Yes, they are all over the news.
LAUER: The book is called “Godless: The Church of Liberalism.” Ann Coulter, always fun to have you here.
#20: Ann Coulter is Not a Transexual Man
On the 9/11 widows: "By the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy."
On Rep. John Murtha: "The reason soldiers invented 'fragging (a Vietnam term referring to soldiers killing their own officers because of dangerous leadership)."
On Misc: "Two facts are now universally accepted -- liberals are godless and Hillary's husband is a rapist."
Coulter's column is distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. On its home page, Universal hails her "witty, no-holds-barred commentaries on the Washington scene. She tackles the hot issues with fervor and stands up for the things that she believes in."
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