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"The Rush To Mount More"
Mark Steyn has, I think, the definitive review of Bill Clinton's turgid and overlong autobiography. My favorite bit:
The president appears to have accidentally modified his story and started his relationship with the comely intern several months earlier than he testified to at the time: "During the government shutdown in late 1995," he writes, "I'd had an inappropriate encounter with Monica Lewinsky and would do so again on other occasions."
Truly, that is one of the saddest sentences ever written. If I were the big spenders at Knopf, I'd have said: "Look, we understand that a politician with legal difficulties has to say things like 'inappropriate encounter.' And, if you want to write a memoir in dead pol-speak, that's OK, we'll pay you 20,000 bucks. But for 10 mil do us a favor and lay off the 'I had an inappropriate encounter' stuff. Shoot for more of 'The shaft of light from the dying sun through the Oval Office window caught the swell of her bosom as she slid the extra-large pepperoni across the desk. I knew it was wrong. I'd penciled in that evening for bringing peace to Northern Ireland, but what the hell, the two sides of that troubled island's sectarian conflict were separated by as deep a divide as the plunging cleavage now beckoning from her low-cut angora sweater. Ulster could wait.'"
Posted by Rand Simberg at June 26, 2004 11:03 PM
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Just one question;
Who is Ms More?
Posted by Tony at June 27, 2004 01:44 PM
"Rushmore", Rand seems to have made a slight mistake in copy-pasting things: http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110005276.
Posted by Flint at June 27, 2004 02:52 PM
Uh, no, Flint, I think Rand did that exactly on purpose.
Posted by Rick C at June 27, 2004 08:23 PM
No, Flint is referring to the fact that I had no URL at all on the link. It's fixed now.
Posted by Rand Simberg at June 27, 2004 08:52 PM
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