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Edited on Sat Jun-07-08 10:46 AM by UTUSN
Copyright 2002 by David BROCK, (publisher) Three Rivers Press, New York (paperback)
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p. 253: .... well, that iconic leopard miniskirt, we often joked, launched Laura Ingraham's career. .... ...I often teased Laura, a bit of a tomboy who never bothered fixing her limp hair or wearing akeup, that she didn't know how to put herself together as a woman.
p. 254: .... ...her one desire in life was to leave her law firm and get herself on television as a political pundit, despite the fact that she was the only person I knew who didn't appear to own a book or regularly read a newspaper.
p. 254: .... ...she frequently attacked feminism for making women unhappy and resentful, while betraying those same qualities in her commentary. .... 'Some of us,' Ingraham once remarked,'are proud to be meanies.'
P. 255: .... ...she was also a wicked gossip, befriending the likes of Rush Limbaugh and George Will, then repeating their often creepy confidences to me.
p. 255: .... In candid moments, she confided she didn't believe much of what she was saying on the airwaves. ...the pain of a difficult childhood, and her tortured relations with men... .... I hadn't known of Laura's antigay past at Dartmouth, where, along with her then-boyfriend Dinesh D-Souza, she had participated in the infamous outing of gay students, who were branded 'sodomites,' until I cringed as I read about her Dartmouth Review exploits in a 1997 profile in Vanity Fair.
p. 256: .... On more than one occasion, I had taken her barhopping along the gay strip in Washington where she seemed to have a blast. .... ...Laura, in a drunken stupor, crawled through the packed two-story dance club on her hands and knees looking for me. ...she had managed to leave me a series of violent messages, threatening to 'break every window in (my) house'... .... ...Laura had asked... Debbie Stone, to speak on her behalf to Vanity Fair... .... ...why she backed out, she said she wasn't about to cover up for Laura: 'What am I supposed to do? Talk about how she pulled a gun on a boyfriend after he broke up with her?'
p. 256: After reading the article, I was chagrined and felt used but never confronted Laura about it, though Congressman Barney Frank... did. .... ...proceeded to denounce Laura's history of gay bashing. I remained mute during the harangue, because I agreed with everything Frank was saying. He then turned to me and snapped, 'And if you want to front her, that's fine.' I was speechless, red-faced and humiliated. Of course, Frank was right, but I didn't have the courage or self-regard to do anything about it. Blithely, I continued to revel in the gossip-page glitz and heartless sarcasm of my right-wing fag hags--the Ariannas, the Lauras, and the Ann Coulters. At this point in life, this transparently empty right-wing circle was all I had.
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