Oh, joy. Sally Quinn lectures the Spitzers on adultery. Isn’t that like Hitler lecturing Churchill on war crimes? "What Was Silda Spitzer Thinking?" If she’s like me and knows your past history, both marriage and employment, she’s thinking that you’re a total sleazebag hypocrite. But I digress.
Lil’ Sally Homewrecker must think we all have short memories. She thinks wrong. Just like she thought wrong in March of 1998 in going after the Clintons, which was the first time she pulled a Dr. Laura and lectured someone over things she herself did gleefully.
Here, for your delectation, are memory-refreshers from Harry Jaffe’s landmark March 9, 1998 Salon piece, "The (not so) Mighty Quinn":
A peek into Quinn’s motives [for attacking the Clintons] reveals a hidden political agenda and the venom of a hostess scorned, and ultimately, an aging semi-journalist propped up by a cadre of media buddies, carping at the Clintons because they wouldn’t kiss her ring.
Quinn, the daughter of a general, was raised in high military society. As she describes in her book "The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining," she was first patted on the bottom at a Washington cocktail party by a randy Sen. Strom Thurmond when she was 17. From young socialite she moved on to dabbling in journalism, writing party stories for the Washington Post in the 1960s. She was a disaster at television and wrote a book about the debacle. But, failing upwards, she was about to be hired by the New York Times when Ben Bradlee, the storied executive editor of the Washington Post, lured her to his new Style section.
At the time Bradlee was married but separated; Quinn was living with journalist Warren Hoge, who would later work for the Times. Quinn and Bradlee became an item, Bradlee’s marriage failed, the two were married in 1978 — and Sally Quinn’s career took off.
So Sally, let us all know: Did you ask Ben Bradlee’s wife, Antoinette Pinchot — you know, the woman from whom you stole Ben? — the same question you so snottily asked Silda Spitzer?
Did you go up to Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee and say "What were you thinking? Why don’t you just get out of my way and let me have him, you aged leathery cow?! I’m his trophy wife now! I need him for my career prospects!"
C’mon, you can tell us. We’re waiting.
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Wow. Brutal. :)
I was just talking to a friend in NYC and she won’t turn on the news.
dugg ya, pee-dubya
eCAHN, you here?
Dugg: http://digg.com/2008_us_electi…..ewrecker_2
quinn What a winer she is
That’s because she can’t, it doesn’t exist. The news has been cancelled.
Hey PW! Good rant. I see the mood has changed around here since this morning.
Sally Quinn, and that other one, Peggy Noonan, are two nattering no-nothings. Just a couple of old fashioned Nosy Parkers. We can’t be surprised when they’re hypocritical.
What we can do is ignore them. Just like the trolls that they are.
It wouldn’t surprise me if ole Sally was transferring money over state lines illegally too. /snark
Yikkers.
I just peeked in for a moment to see what was going on before I run out to do some errands.
Life is brutal. Posts are brutal.
I’ve had enough bruises this week. (Except for the FISA vote. :)
Christy even had a hard time getting people to Go Positive this am. We finally got there…, but, I think she had already given up. :(
Hey demi!
RonDog!
If I see you here later, I’ll tell you about the cool-ass Drum Jam at Lunch (at work) I got to play my flute at.
(I know, I already did. Meant to do that.)
This Spitzer thing is such bullshit. Yeah, i know, it’s a story but on and on and on. QAt some point – very, very very early on, it’s non e of my business and I just don’t give a shit. i never thought I’d say this, but we need more primamries. No more time off. People have nothing to wruitr about nand keep writing about stupid shit.
Sorry to Howie for the OT.
Time limited at the Lake these days.
Bowing down…
I’ll be here…looking forward to it.:)
Just got here. Didn’t see that this morning. i could use some positive.
Wonder how much time Quinn and David Broder spend at the water cooler, tut-tutting about how ethical standards aren’t what they used to be.
Hypocrisy is one of the many activites of human beings I find most distasteful. Of course I am not here indicating that I have not had many shameful bouts of being a hypocrite. I am ashamed to say.
Okay, right before I leave. Pupster needs a haircut.
Tech guys at work, in Malibu Canyon Job, started a Drum Jam at lunch. Outside, under the trees, next to the Malibu Creek.
I brought my flute. There were guitars and all kinda cool drums and other percussives. We just jammed. Course the flute was the lyrical part. I just closed my eyes and let the universe play.
Was the highlight of my week.
And, of course, I made some new friends.
There are positive energies happening in the world.
I got lucky. Or, blessed.
Oh. You’re human too?
Bless you Kiddo.
So I just did some more digging on Sally Quinn. Wow! This is why women look so bad sometimes. She is an example of women being their own worst enemy. One of my favorites from SallyBell is on Bill Clinton after his White House closet-sex aside (some small corner), ” He soiled the nest.” And,
Bradlee didn’t? Just what was the difference? Sally, Sally, – people who live in glass houses should f..k in the basement (a la Jane). Sally you wanted everyone to see so you could flaunt your conquest.
But, she’s a goodie goodie religious rich b**ch.
I think that the whole Spitzer affair (yes, intended) stinks on ice. It’s interesting to note that the media used it to bury what was going on in the House vis-a-vis FISA.
Apologies for the o/t, PW, but for anyone who can but hasn’t watched parts/all of the IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against War) Testimonies Conference being held in DC this weekend, please do. Have spent a good bit of the afternoon with tears running….after I told someone at the Lake the ducts were worn out. It is very close to being unbearable.
Actually no. I’m from someplace else. Like “Starman”. I wish. ;0)
Amen!
pw-i went to the wapo article and left a comment—800-some comments already.
here’s mine…coulda been better, oh well. the column kinda pissed me off…….it did.
you are SUCH a hypocrite.
dating a married man, while living with another, then married the man from the adulturous affair……didn’t hurt your career any, did it?
and you wail and rail against women who made equally hard decisions, only they were the wife, you were not.
yep, you’re an expert all right.
http://firedoglake.com/2008/03…..mewrecker/
What a rush of tranquility. The best of times.
Got a link?
We’re All from Someplace Else.
And, I meant Sorry PW.…my bad.
I’m rushing. Gotta go.
See ya later, maybe.
The Rules….
Democrats/Progressives/Liberals can walk on water and it will never be enough…
Repugs… wade threw the cesspools of life and nothing sticks…
Dems just are NOT allowed to have sex…. be human…. are responsible for what someone said even if they were not alive when it was said…Don’t ya know….
Hello, everybody! Back from the market!
What You (dear RD) say all the time.
I like to point out when they are being stupid. :-)
speaking of goodie goodies,
How come Bill Bennett is back on the scene, opining on who should go to jail? It’s amazing what crawls out of the Republican walls these days. He says NYT Reporter James Risen should be jailed for writing articles on the Bush Admin secrecy. By the end of this administration, the jails are going to be in overload with political prisoners.
“Shut Yer Piehole, Homewrecker!” That is succinct and somewhat graphically flavorful. I have to say. ;0)
And you do it extremely well.
Thank you!
There is no other kind of history than “past” history.
I love you Sally. You sweet hypocrite, you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1JUyPDcIQc
Yes, and there’s also Past HerStory, which is usually) which is usually different. :)
please
Please what, honey?
Bill has a repution for being a naughty little phony.
The word history comes from the Proto-Indo-European *wid-tor-, from the root *weid-, “to know, to see”. This root is also present in the English word wit, in the Latin words vision and video, in the Sanskrit word veda, and in the Slavic word videti and vedati, as well as others.[citation needed] (The asterisk before a word indicates that it is a hypothetical construction, not an attested form.)
The Ancient Greek word ἱστορία, istoría, means “knowledge acquired by investigation, inquiry”. It was in that sense that Aristotle used the word in his Περί Τά Ζωα Ιστορία, Peri Ta Zoa Istória or, in Latinized form, Historia Animalium.[3] The term is derived from ἵστωρ, hístōr meaning wise man, witness, or judge. We can see early attestations of ἵστωρ in Homeric Hymns, Heraclitus, the Athenian ephebes’ oath, and in Boiotic inscriptions (in a legal sense, either “judge” or “witness,” or similar). The spirant is problematic, and not present in cognate Greek eídomai (”to appear”). The form historeîn, “to inquire”, is an Ionic derivation, which spread first in Classical Greece and ultimately over all of Hellenistic civilization.
PW – you are teh awesome. Great post.
GWB. The hypocrite for the ages.
Gee, without looking I thought you were talking about Clinton, it fit so well!
Okay, so the please was please don’t be stupid or sophomoric?
I stand corrected, I think.
What is it with these towering right-wing behemoths of hypocrisy? How do they get to be pundits?
No, not stupid or sophomoric, I’s just foolin around.
:)
Not to worry, I think you are quite witty! On the second thought, perhaps you do have reason for concern…
And how do we vote them off the island?
With the tornado warnings messin with my hoop I’m pretty edgy!
Oh? Do tell.
Wingnut Welfare. They are willing to go out there, abandon any shred of honesty or integrity and spout the Master’s line.
Welcome to The Oligarchy.
I pass a billboard on the way to my son’s school in the morning that says: Mother Nature Is A Bitch.
Chamomille tea.
Another damn CNN poll
http://www.cnn.com
Is Sen. Barack Obama doing enough to distance himself from his controversial former pastor?
Yes 47% 36333
No 53% 41240
I think they need their own island, where they can eat each other alive and not bother the rest of us.
HRC the former First lady to the First former black president must be enjoying this.
She’s jumpin ugly here right now!
Me too, well I got back an hour ago and spent more time than I thought I would. There were lots of organic farmers out today and I cleaned up on:
fuji apples
cara cara navel oranges
chard
cabbage
peppers
cucumbers
cilantro
parsley
tomatoes
celery
fish (the fish guy came out today and I got some halibut and shrimp for the mr)
carrots
greens
alfalfa sprouts
green pea sprouts
beautiful bright orange gerbera daisies
back on topic: pot meet kettle
If Hillary and the rest of her platoon put just a little more effort into it, we just might be able to hand the election to Mr. McCain.
Stay low, Raven.
(I’m putting off the haircut as long as I can…if I don’t keep it shaped, his father will get it buzzed. And sonny is helping the mister load the van with sound system equipment for a gig.)
Oh Senator Clinton, I give up. You’re right Mr. McCain would make a better prez than Senator Obama.
How about a poll about “McCain’s spiritual guide“?
An enormous construction crane has collapsed on 51st St and 2nd Ave. in Manhattan.
At least 3 fatalites. The crane collapse and fell into a building on the other side of the street.
all right Raven…I’m already impressed…but don’t you get me going now…*g*
Oh no, high wind in the area?
We had something like that happen in southern cal where a crane tipped over onto the 405 freeway (only slight injuries, I believe) but freeway was shut down for the rest of the day.
Obama won’t win against McCain.
It fell into the build on the other side of the street. The building that it fell into no longer exists. It has totally collapsed.
There will likely be many more fatalities.
herstory is a modern invention…by “femnists”….
Not saying how it happened yet.
It fell into and destroyed a bar on the the street level floor of the building.
Funny how the media doesn’t like to talk about McCain’s relationship to John Hagee, isn’t it? Yet Jeremiah Wright says something once that Jerry Falwell would agree with and the press is all over that like a diaper on David Vitter.
Uh oh, before I get another lecture, and because the JBLs are loaded, I’m outta here.
This is a great post.
The media in general needs to be told to sit down and shut up and just report the news not the news as they would prefer it. And I am 100% sure people want more time spent on Petreaus’ admission of failure in Iraq than Quinn’s prisspants article on the Spitzers.
I have had a query from my woman about my feelings on riding the horses to the river. I had no feelings on the matter. Needless to say, I’m almost on my way to the river banks. On my horse.
Holy crap.
Don’t know how, but somehow I’d missed the “diaper” aspect of that story when it came out…
Have fun on the horsies, OK! I was out riding the two-wheeled steed myself earlier. My quads are reminding of this even as I type.
Sally Quinn is no Slida Wall….
—Slida, not Silda…
(nor do I really want to get into this again…I had enough of this the other day..*g*)
ok, right now, at crooks and liars, we have this excerp
in there piece, all roads lead to rove
ENOUGH…THIS HAS GOT TO END
Damn! And I just ordered a 50 pack of lapel stickers from Obama’s website. I wish you would have told me this sooner!
have fun. what kind of horses? i had american quarter horses as a kid and did some english and western saddle riding
Yes. Holy Crap is right.
This was one of those huge cranes that they put up on top of buildings under construction. This one was on top of a 30 story building under construction on 51st St. and fell first onto a smaller building right behind it, taking out the top floor, and then falling further and completely demolishing a second five story building on the other side of 50th St.
Witnesses and neighbors are now saying that the construction site was very shoddy. Lots of bad stuff suddenly coming out. The crane was not properly attached to the building.
This is really bad.
I hereby denounce the politics of denunciation.
that story is about don seigleman, WHY IS HE STILL ENCARVERATED?
i’m out for some shirts and pins
i wore my obama t-shirt to the market where i used my lucky shirt effectively to score a free pound of apples for it, i feel like such a tool
nothin but wiki
Raven, How’s your wife? Has she had to spend lots of time in the closet with her crutches? I’ve have heard lots of sirens but that’s about it.
why wouldn’t the prison have him in protection ward? somebody has to do something before it’s too late
I wonder if this is the catastrophy that will allow the president to suspend the constitution
it is bizarre, why is he still encarcerated?
he’s getting beaten ga damn it
At this point nothing would surprise me.
the seigleman story has fallen below the radar, THAT IS THE COG THAT WILL BRING THIS ADMINISTRATION DOWN
we need to do something about him, we need to get to the bottom of that incarceration and we need to unseat the person who took his elected seat
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO said on Saturday it was nearing a deal to use Russian land and airspace to supply its security forces in Afghanistan, but Western diplomats denied any trade-off with Moscow to keep Ukraine and Georgia out of NATO.
The levels of irony here are just too many.
I wonder how warmly this will be received by the Afghanis?
-G
I would include Cokie Rroberts with those two as hypocritical nosy-parkers, although as I recall, she hasn’t done the homewrecking thing. But she’s a truly terrible “journalist.”
All of our mounts are quarter horses. My lady generally rides western. I ride bareback. I use just a bridle with no blanket.
Heh!
When Quinn the columnist gets here, everybody’s gonna tell her to shut her piehole…..Comeonwithout….comeonwithin…
-G
cool :) have a great time
Does the horse mind your jeans? Or is its hide pretty tough, what with the horsehair covering it and all?
Snort!
Kiddo and I read your stuff. And we like it.
L.
Holy crap, perris!
I’m all ears and ready for action. Any ideas? This story has to stay in the media somehow. What are our candidates saying about it?
Never, ever, ride bareback in cutoffs. ;0)
She’s nervous as a cat crappin ground glass!
Is anyone here (on FDL) writing any followup posts on the case?
I have to leave for a few hours, will be back later to see what’s developing
How do we react? I fully prepared to believe that they are abusing the man (more than they have, that is), but what can we do to actually expedite justice in his case?
The NYTimes has an advice column for Mrs. Spitzer tomorrow.
What a load of crap. The entire consumer affairs community was disappointed to see him forced from office so quickly and so little respect for the work he had done as a consumer advocate.
I understand your fatigue with this issue, and have read the earlier threads about this.
However, it’s now working my nerves. The correct spelling is “Silda”…..end of discussion. There may be mistakes in its spelling that are reflected on Google……but it’s Silda.
Check the “New York Times” articles….please.
I noticed something interesting in that bio of Bradlee: he was married 3 times. The divorce from the 1st wife shows the divorce date. He remarried the next year. But when he divorced the 2nd wife, it doesn’t show the date. I wonder why. hahahaha
These dweebs actually think the “common people” envy them! Amazing.
re: the whole Spitzer story….
A moralizing politician was caught with a hooker.
In further breaking news, dog bites man.
The MSM has a knack for this stuff.
How about Doris Kearns Goodwin being asked to explain the high road about plagiarism?
http://www.correntewire.com/do…..plagiarism
Peggy Noonan broke up Jeff Greenfield’s marriage and then wouldn’t marry him. So she’s certainly a moral authority.
I’d love a link for this.
Thanks.
Oh yeah, I forget to mention that Peggy Nooner, deeply devout Catholic that she constantly reminds everyone she is, was married with a young son while she was doing Greenfield. When she got caught it broke up her marriage. In a just society with the traditional conservative values she champions she would have been stoned.
I’m sorry I don’t have a link. There may be one out there. The great thing about the Internet is people can publish stuff they know of their own personal experience (life is not all Google searches). I knew several of the parties involved. Nooner may have been named in Greenfield’s divorce, but I’ve never seen the papers and don’t know if they’re even public. In the small world department, I also grew up in the same neighborhood as Sally Quinn. It’s all Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon out there.