I’ve been travelling for a couple of weeks, and not posting much, and now so many bodies have floated to the surface it’s hard to know where to start counting. We got your latest JFK sex scandal:
Here we go again?
The worlds of politics and the media were all atwitter yesterday over a report on the popular Internet site, the Drudge Report, that Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry – the Democratic presidential front-runner – may be brought down by a sex scandal.
Six years ago, it was a similar item on the Drudge Report that brought the world’s attention to the affair between then-President Bill Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky – sparking the scandal that led to Clinton’s impeachment.
It doesn’t surprise me that stories like this would turn up, but I don’t much believe it because Kerry looks like a failed experiment in taxidermy. So maybe it was planted by his campaign to make him look more human as he starts running against Bush and not just a Martian, a lunatic, and a robot. But Kerry’s campaign language has always been quite sexually suggestive, so maybe the boy has a secret life for real. It’s interesting that the British tabloids are all over the story, as you can see from the links Drudge Report’s assembled. The American media has too much invested in Kerry to tear him down quite yet.
Even if it’s all true, there’s no cigar, there’s no dress, nothing special. Hell, Henry Hyde’s scandal was more fun than this one.
I really don’t think that the country will care very much anymore about sex scandals unless it’s really insane. When there are bigger scandal fish to fry (WMDs, going AWOL, drunk driving, etc.) affairs just don’t seem so much of a big deal anymore.
I just can’t wait for the debates. Not that it has anything at all to do with who wins, I’m just looking forward to seeing someone who can actually form a sentence talk without something written in front of him.