Did Chris Dodd sexually assault a waitress? What's this I'm reading?

[Alexander]

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/features/2165/

Those to the manner born who’ve been in trouble -- Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd, for instance, who participated in the famous “waitress sandwich” at La Brasserie in 1985, while their dates were in the bathroom -- have tended to get out of it by claiming that their boyish high jinks had simply gotten out of hand.

From Wikipedia:

When they were both unattached, he and Senator Edward Kennedy were legendary Washington, D.C., hell-raisers..." Dodd and Kennedy formed a "human sandwich" with a female waiter, allegedly sexually assaulting the woman, as she was jammed between the two senators with Dodd on the bottom during a 1985 back-room romp at a Washington, D.C. eatery.

The same Chris Dodd running for president?

[Tempest]

1. Don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia

Someone recently posted on Wikipedia that Sinbad was dead. They shut down the editing feature on the site because of it.

[Debi]

7. Maybe they meant Sinbad's career? n/t

[regnaD kciN]

11. Maybe they meant Sinbad the Sailor...

He's really most sincerely dead! ;-)

[JI7]

17. on the whole site ?

[Ian David]

2. UPDATED: That story seems to have originated from NewsMax and Penthouse Magazine

http://www.newsmax.com/cgi-bin/showinside.pl?a=2002/2/5/135214

Not credible.

Primary source: The woman's interview in Penthouse.
Secondary source: NewsMax

Those few outlets citing this quote only the Penthouse article or the NewsMax article

The Kennedy-Dodd Waitress Sandwich Information Clearinghouse
http://sonsoftherepublic.blogspot.com/2005/08/kennedy-dodd-waitress-sandwich.html

Not credible.

[pinto]

3. In the interests of some background context, this is a brief snip from a 1998 article.

[RedStateShame]

Dupe

My bad.

[RedStateShame]

4. That's impossible!! The press isn't supposed to mention Chris Dodd!!

[babylonsister]

5. Good one!

:D

[Debi]

6. Now why would anyone need to dig up dirt on a guy running below

'other' in the polls? Unless maybe he's worthy to be running for president and they need to try and keep him down?

[Howardx]

8. to the manner born?

to the MANOR born maybe? dumbasses.

[texastoast]

9. Oh, now that should make the repubs whine

Didn't I read something about "no personal life issues" (i.e., Pooty Nooty's and John McPain's divorces) being brought into the fray?

I'm sure they would be very upset if something "personal" came out about any of the prospective candidates.:eyes:

[Czolgosz]

10. I think you are supposed to let the candidate peak first, and then sabotage him with innuendo.

You're too early.

[cali]

12. Don't know about this story but both Kennedy

and Dodd were fairly piggish about women at that time. I know first hand about Kennedy. Look, I love him as a Senator, but there's no doubt that his sexual escapades, which are legendary, are real.

[JI7]

16. but this is accusing them of assault

i can see them having relationships with many women and cheating on them.

but assault ? i find that hard to believe.

[Virginia Dare]

13. Yes it's true, and I also heard that on the same night..

Cheney and the chimp were snorting coke at the Playboy Mansion.

[Gormy Cuss]

14. ~

:spray:

[walldude]

15. They were not!

It was 2 nights later... They could be the father of Anna Nicole's baby as well.

[Judi Lynn]

18. I heard Rush Limbaugh telling this story many, many years ago & I thought only a scum would dare

spread rot like that around.

If one can't find something more worthwhile to discuss than some tale which was passed from asshole to asshole so long ago, it's time to hang it up and go attempt to read a book.

Adult people usually have far more pressing things over which to obsess. This is very similar to being held hostage as we were to revelations of the oh-so-terrifying assaults made upon helpless women by Bill Clinton.