Posted on 06/17/2003 10:48:04 AM PDT by SoDak
ELK CITY, Idaho - For those addicted to "Reality" entertainment, the early days of summer bring myriad choices. Though most of these allegedly spontaneous "Reality" shows are scripted to one degree or another - with the participants consisting of failed actors, actresses and models - the genre has nonetheless managed to strike a voyeuristic chord with the American viewing public.
You can watch reruns of "Fear Factor," where idiots eat boiled bison testicles, immerse themselves in a vat of worms and endure public ridicule for the chance to win a measly $50,000 (before taxes). You can also watch the latest sequel to "Joe Millionaire," in which a herd of egocentric gold-diggers try to con a pretty boy (who probably already knows the scoop) into believing they are madly in love with him. The prize on this show is much better than "Fear Factor," with 1 million smackers awarded to the gold-digger who can high-grade the most emotional ore.
But if your tastes lean more toward literature than video, you can always run out and pick up a copy of Hillary Clinton's new book, "Living History." It is the ultimate example of false reality, preprocessed and homogenized for easy digestion among the deluded and the gullible.
Yes, indeed, the former first lady/wannabe dictator has been all the rage on the talk show circuit of late. She's spoken with Larry King, who asked his usual hard-hitting questions in the vein of "what's your favorite color." She's hung with Barbara Walters, and though I don't believe Hillary shed the crocodile tears which are the hallmark of a Walters presentation, she did manifest herself into the ultimate victim.
Heck, Hillary has even lurked around the set of "Dateline NBC." That sort of surprised me, since talking-head Katie Couric usually specializes in asking embarrassingly personal and tactless inquiries of grieving parents whose children have been butchered. However, having just feasted on the sorrow and vulnerability of Laci Peterson's parents, I guess "The Today Show's" resident vulture simply couldn't resist a palate-cleansing sorbet of bald-faced lies. Hillary does seem to be her heroine, after all.
Admittedly, I haven't read "Living History." Why bother? According to the strategically leaked excerpts, it brings out no new revelations regarding the national fiasco that was the Clinton era.
Hillary tells us that she didn't know her philandering hubby was fooling around with "Moby" Lewinski. She tells us she was in agony over the discovery of his adultery. She tells us she was so mad she wanted to "wring Bill's neck."
Oooooh ... those are fierce words from a woman who is widely reputed to cuss like a trucker and treat her low-level staffers with all the respect normally afforded to migrant share-croppers or galley slaves.
It is notable that, in describing how she was deceived by the former commander in heat, Hillary refuses to discuss any of Slick Willie's other affairs and alleged forays into the world of harassment, rape and sexual battery. We don't hear much about Gennifer Flowers or Paula Jones or Kathleen Willey or Juanita Broderick. Nope ... in Hillary's carefully crafted pseudo-catharsis, none of these women exist. In her Machiavellian scheme to fool the reading public and position herself for the 2008 presidential race, they are all liars.
They are all part of the much-heralded "vast right-wing conspiracy."
There's a reason for that. To admit that she got fooled once allows the senator from New York to don the garb of the offended party, the loving wife whose man done her wrong. However, to admit that she missed all of the indiscretions would cast Hillary in the role of a moron. This is not an appropriate image for one who enjoys the title bestowed by Hollywood liberals of "the smartest woman in the world."
A much more likely scenario is that Hillary knew about every one of Bill's tawdry affairs, and that she didn't and doesn't care. I wouldn't be terribly surprised to discover she actually encouraged his behavior and frequently engaged in similar antics herself.
The Clinton marriage has never been about emotion or trust. It has been about career and power. Hillary says she wanted the marriage to last because of "commitment, love and faith." That's perhaps her only true statement. It was a commitment to lies, a love of fame and the faith that, lacking any semblance of ethics or conscience, the duo could fulfill their every heinous wish.
I just loved this line from Hillary. "It was a challenge to forgive Bill, but if Mandela could forgive, I could try," she said, comparing her depth of understanding to that of Nelson Mandela's forgiveness of his white jailers.
Get real. Nobody talks like that. Nobody even thinks like that. Such is the stuff of poorly written fiction.
Or in this case, of "Living History."
Ron Marr is publisher, editor and janitor of The Troutwrapper magazine. Contact him at www.troutwrapper.com.
Love this paragraph - this guy is good. Nails the Hildebeeste AND Perky Katie in one fell swoop!
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