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February 15, 2005

Fire With Fire

Posted by Bill

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Yesterday's outing and scandalous accusations about Jeff Gannon's alleged career as an escort were outrageous; the methodology of bloggers swarming to dig up questionable personal business associations and post graphic pornographic pictures of a partisan right wing journalist was perhaps the most deplorable example of the politics of personal destruction that I've ever witnessed. At first, I was shocked. Then I became angry. And finally - I decided to get even.

If these leftist sleaze merchants are going to employ depraved means to take down the mighty Gannon - previously the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's most valuable and powerful undercover asset - then I'm going to return the favor by shaming one of their treasured left-wing hacks into early retirement.

Some of you may judge me harshly, but I hope that in time, you'll come to understand.

Please be advised, the picture below the fold is quite explicit ...

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Buried deep in the pages of the Da Vinci Code, I unearthed a passage that tipped me to partisan left-wing journalist Helen Thomas's past career as a prostitute in a 15th Century Italian whorehouse. Though her real name was Annabella Vitello Scallopini Parmesano, she was more widely known as "La Volpe Sporca," a woman with a long and storied legacy of servicing the basest carnal whims of the military and merchant classes of Rome.

After centuries of jumping from questionable occupation to questionable occupation, she finally drifted to the United States and, despite her dubious qualifications, landed a job as a political reporter and White House correspondent for UPI. Adopting the nom de plume of "Helen Thomas," she's well-known for decades of lobbing friendly questions at Democratic Presidents and harsh queries at Republican Administrations.

Perhaps her most famous softball was directed at then President-elect John F. Kennedy on December, 14th, 1960:

"Mr. President-elect, I'd like to know - and I think America would like to know as well - how do you manage to keep your impossibly thick chestnut hair so lustrous and full of body? It's really quite breathtaking, something that many interpret as a sign of great virility and wisdom. And could you please sign my breasts? Thank you, Mr. President-elect."

And her most pointed barb was reserved for President Richard M. Nixon, on August 3, 1971:

"Mr. President, why do you hate colored people so much? Thank you, Mr. President."

Now it can be told.

Posted by Bill at February 15, 2005 12:25 AM | TrackBack (14)

Comments

Sure, make fun of an old woman who might have a wrinkle here and there. But I have loved this woman. I, as a twenty-year-old innocent, enjoyed many nights of passion in her mature and knowing embrace. I knew such tenderness and ecstasy with this 74-year-old lady! She initiated me into the wonders of romance and, most of all, the mystery that is woman.

Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2005 08:37 AM

Fresh out of facts, the radical left turns to salacious rumors, innuendo, slander, conspiracy, and smear tactics.

More thoughts on my blog, but I'll just add here that if it's not already obvious, I'm disgusted. The left is deeper than ever into "the end justifies the means" mode.

Posted by: Mark at February 15, 2005 08:55 AM

C'mon, Jim. I just ate! Urgh.

Posted by: Dave at February 15, 2005 09:37 AM

Ahhhh, my eyes, my eyes!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Veeshir at February 15, 2005 09:51 AM

"Annabella Vitello Scallopini Parmesano"

As an Italian-American, I am highly offended by that. Or at least I was after I finally stopped laughing.

Posted by: Mike C at February 15, 2005 09:57 AM

Pukes. Goes blind.
There are some rumors going on about her and some llamas.

Posted by: rbj at February 15, 2005 10:10 AM

Reminds me of Mo Rocca's book All the President's Pets in which he reveals that Helen is actually a Turkey Vulture in disguise.

Posted by: Beck at February 15, 2005 10:25 AM

Gee Bill, thanks for the visual.

May you dream of Ernest Borgnine in a Playgirl spread...

Posted by: C.Y. at February 15, 2005 10:45 AM

XXXcellent! Sickening, but xxxcellent! I knew it! How else would she be hanging around the White House press room for all these years! It's the press room prostitution ring!

Posted by: Beth the VRW Conspirator at February 15, 2005 03:12 PM

Is that Kos she's holding? (Seems about the right size).

Posted by: Jim in Chicago at February 15, 2005 03:30 PM

Man that Da Vinci really set the standard for air-brushing!

Posted by: The Monk at February 15, 2005 04:55 PM

Wonder if Guckert put Barney Frank down as a reference:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/frank.htm

Helen's response: "I've never been paid to have sex with anybody."

We believe you, Helen.

Posted by: betterred at February 15, 2005 05:43 PM

(yawn)
Oh wait...it's the Yee_Gnome de Bus!
(back to sleep...wake up
HOLLAND TUNNEL, baby!
zzzzzzzzzzzzz)

Posted by: TC-LeatherPenguin at February 15, 2005 06:03 PM

Plus, that really looks like one of the Python boys on the left.

Posted by: bobderfisch at February 15, 2005 08:33 PM

I need some mental floss to get that image out (it's stuck between two neirons)

Posted by: Doctor_D at February 15, 2005 08:34 PM

That is just wrong.

Instead of "scared straight", I've just been scared celibate.

Posted by: Trudger at February 15, 2005 10:29 PM

"May you dream of Ernest Borgnine in a Playgirl spread..."

And, IT COULD HAPPEN!! Couldn't believe he is still alive - shilling business opportunities>

Posted by: IcePilot at February 16, 2005 10:25 AM

Early retirement?

The Helenator has been doddering since the Carter administration...

Posted by: DANEgerus at February 16, 2005 04:42 PM

It's times like this that I'm really glad I work in a laboratory. Surely there's some 10M hydrochloric acid around here somewhere that I can use to rinse my brain, and some bleach for eyeball-soaking.

Bleeecchhh. I second the Ernest Borgnine thing ...

Posted by: irregardless at February 16, 2005 07:07 PM