Mystery lesbian in Clinton’s past

hindustantimes.com ^ | London, February 9 2003 | Vijay Dutt

[AM2000]

Controversies never seem to elude some people. Bill Clinton is one of them.

While Clinton and writer Christopher Hitchens were at Oxford, they reportedly shared a "girlfriend" who has been revealed now as a radical lesbian. She is a lecturer and writer on Princess Diana.

The media frantically searched for the girl ever since Hitchens said he and Clinton shared a girlfriend while at Oxford. "We had a girlfriend in common — who has since become a very famous radical lesbian. So one of us was doing something wrong or right."

The Sunday Times identified her as Mandy Merck and claimed she admitted to being the friend in question. She played strip poker with Clinton and exchanged a kiss with Hitchens, she told the Sunday, but added her preference was for her own sex.

Merck insisted she was never the girlfriend of either. "Hitchens once asked me 'did we have a moment?' and I said I recalled a kiss, little thinking he would imagine we were dating partners."

As for strip poker with Clinton, Merck said she managed to depart with most of her clothes. "I think I was the winner, because I got to leave first. Sex might have taken place afterwards but it didn't take place with me."

Merck is well-known in the Left circles. She and Clinton lived in the same anti-Vietnam war student hangout in Oxford.

"He (Clinton) knew I was a lesbian very early on in our friendship and it did not in any way eroticise or de-eroticise things."

Now a professor of media arts at Royal Halloway, London University, she denied three-in-a bed romp. She is no longer a friend with Hitchens who, she says, is a turncoat. "Its pathetic," she said denying any relationship with the either. "I'm not thrilled to be the body over which these two man supposedly met."

[Catspaw]

I thought Hitchens was referring to Germaine Greer.

[tet68]

Looking for a pic.
here's more.

Mandy Merck BA
(Professor, Head of Department, Director of MA in Gender and Sexuality on Screen)

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Research interests include the representation of gender and sexuality, psychoanalytic theory, pornography and the regulation of representation and queer studies. In addition to numerous articles, her most recent publications include: In Your Face: 9 Sexual Scenarios (New York University Press, forthcoming 2000), Perversion: Deviant Readings (Virago UK & Routledge US)

[tet68]

Queer studies ? How queer.

[Paul Atreides]

I imagine that this radical lesbian doesn't consider Bubba, who uses women up like Kleenex before throwing them away, a "turncoat."

[Unknown Freeper]

Saw the title and thought it was going to be another article about the wife.

[jigsaw]

...a small pic of Mandy: http://images.google.com/images?q=Mandy+Merck&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

[Dog Gone]

Bill seems to be attracted to lesbians. Weird.

[unspun]

Well... seems to me, that it just *is* queer (and that is using the meaning of the word "is.).

[bonfire]

Ugly ones, too.

[TightSqueeze]

Mystery lesbian in Clinton’s past

Is this one of those trendy 'real-life' game shows so popular now on TV? Bet it could run 13 weeks.

[LowOiL]

I imagine that this radical lesbian doesn't consider Bubba, who uses women up like Kleenex before throwing them away, a "turncoat."

Good point...They don't sacrafice their party before the so called agenda. The party is their agenda.

[Highest Authority]

Soooooooo ....... Hillary wasn't his first lesbian!!!!!!!

[Loyalist]

Bill seems to be attracted to lesbians. Weird.

CLINTON SUPPORTS WOMEN FOR BUSH

[Bon mots]

Bubba just can't seem to stay away from leftist lesbians. Which one is uglier???

Yuck.

[BenLurkin]

Mystery lesbian in Clinton’s past:

????

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

Looks like the University pulled down the link to her image. All the other faculty are still there.

[aShepard]

Left, or right

Totally fugly!