Who is Isabelle Goetz? A Brief Bio of Kerry's Coiffure Queen

The Kerry Fairy ^ | 08/17/04 | Becki Snow

[dandelion]

It is a time of crisis - with America at war and hurricanes at the door - and the Democratic Candidate for the President of the United States feels his fingers twitch nervously. It is time to make the call.

The well-manicured hand smacks down upon the phone, heavy with decision. Now is not the time for waffling; now is the time for resolve. He dials, knowing the world hangs in balance...

"Get me Christophe! CHRISTOPHE!?! Tell Isabelle to come quickly - it is the HAIR! Oh god oh god oh god oh god my HAIR!"

Yes, indeed, when it comes to real decisions by Kerry, there are no waffles here: only the love of a man for his hair.

But who is this Wonder Woman who flies in to save the hair of the man who would be King? Truly, this is the question that stumped your Kerry Fairy, until she Googled and translated. Then she was just truly fascinated, albiet in mangled French.

First and foremost, Isabelle Goetz is a native of France, born in Bessencourt. Her rise to power is truly remarkable, considering that the Clintons discovered her when she was only 22 - a young Frenchwoman, only 18 months in this country. She has since made her fortune trimming the coifs of Clintons and friends, some of the most powerful people in the Democratic Party. But other than that, what did the Kerry Fairy find? Oh, nothing earth-shaking, but certainly interesting...

We'll start with a fun little tid-bit of information was found on a French forum, "Ca Se Discute", or "That is Discussed". Evidently, they had invitees to the forum on Tuesday, February 5, 2003, and Ms. Goetz was among them. Ms. Goetz had written a lovely book, Little Isabelle - Une Française à la Maison Blanche -literally, "A French Citizen in the White House". and she had been invited to give her insight into weighty French matters.

The subject: To live in the shade of a celebrity: sacrifice or privilege?

AH! The sacrifices of Ms. Goetz! Tre' magnifique!

From the site: "Edith Piaf had had to prepare itself her frichti, if Hillary Clinton were to ensure each day its blow-dry, if Claude François had had to all alone prepare in his cabin his costumes with spangles, if the eyes of the actresses were not carefully made up, so certain singers with voice were to only write all the songs which they interpret... we would have more evil, undoubtedly, to succumb to their talent, their prestige, or their magic.

No the star, of man, woman of State or being able, therefore, without an army of small hands charged to emphasize them and to manage in their place small worries of the daily newspaper. Between do humility and spangles, what resemble the life of these men and women of the shade?

Which bonds are tied between a personality and those which attend it with the daily newspaper?

Is it always necessary to yield to the legendary whims of stars?

With force of living in the shade, doesn't one see being born in oneself the desire to be famous in his turn? To live in is the shade of a personality a sacrifice or a privilege? It is the question which we submit this evening to our guests.

Discover the testimony of our guests in the heading invited, inform you by dividing into sheets the file, and deliver your opinion while taking part in the forum of "That Is discussed".

http://www.casediscute.com/2002/023_sacrifice_privilege/invites/invites.shtml

Okay! This is getting fun. To the invitees we go. But now Babelfish just babbled at me - it made no sense. So I went to my lucky back-up translator page, Systransoft. What it garbled into English for me was truly ironic.

I quote:

Isabelle Goetz, 31 years, single person, hairdresser, Arlington (the United States) Isabelle was a hairdresser of province when, at 22 years, it decides on a blow of head to follow a 18 months formation to the United States. A 22 years, it finds in Washington and that made now 5 years that it is the appointed hairdresser of Mrs. Hillary Clinton. It is it which took in hand its hairstyle at the White House and renovated, which was worth to him compliments and the cover of "Vogue" for Mrs. Clinton. She tells with emotion her first meeting with the first-lady, her voyages in the "One Air Force"...

Karma? Bad Translation? You decide... oh now, come on, it really means a "blow dry". Really.

But beyond fun wordplay, (or horseplay, or whatever) comes some serious intel from the Belly of the Beast itself - a blogger with the DNC:

(Warning: you may want to copy the source for the following page to your harddrive if you like the info - by mid-week, this story should magically disappear...)

http://www.b-may.com/2002/12/isabelle-heres-what-you-need-to-know.html

12.2.2002

ISABELLE Here's what you need to know about getting past German police standing guard: they hold their post. No matter what, they won't move. So, if you have a tiny French woman who has to do both the First Lady's AND the Secretary of State's hair before the opening ceremony of the G7 Summit of World Leaders, then you should just RUN! If you can get her past the guards outside the hotel (because she never remembers her credentials) you can make it to American soil (The Hyatt.)

That was Cologne 1999. Now, she's causing real trouble: Isabelle Goetz is the woman who finally got Mrs. Clinton's hair looking good, just before she ran for Senate. She tried with Secretary Albright - it didn't go as well. She's been doing Senator Kerry's hair in preparation for his 2004 bid for President. AND CHARGING THEM DIFFERENT PRICES.

She's going to bring down the Democratic Party before she's done.

posted by b-may at 22:57

Now, b-may is really an event manager who appears to be on the inside quite far enough to goof around in the CNN booth at the Fleet Center during the convention. According to b-may, Ms. Goetz cares not for presenting her credentials. It is for the gauche, perhaps? But it begs the question - is she a woman who, even when waving finely honed 440 steel around the neck of the President of the United States, greets security guards by fleeing past them, thanks to the advice of an event manager? Leaving one's credentials behind, then running away from security is hardly the kind of behavior one would want in a person wandering in and out of the president's office. Wandering in and out while running with sharp scissors, no less.

But from what comes this apparent sense of celebrity entitlement? This next passage explains why - it is an interview with a Alsapresse, and Ms. Goetz reveals she is more than just a hairdresser to the Clintons. The article reveals, wistfully, the magnetic pull of the American Dream that exists even today in Europe; she speaks charmingly of her first encounters in this "New Eldorado" and her desire for "the boots of cow-boys". The interview also introduces us to her perceptions of her personal relationship with the Clintons.

The interviewer explains, in amusingly translated French:

"Cristophe trusts him and, after several years of training and labour at its sides, it quite naturally proposes to him to go to replace it in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, in fact at the White House where Hillary Clinton took the practice to entrust its hair to the expert hands of Pygmalion of Isabelle. Its first meeting with First Lady? "I had frogs in the stomach but they was fabulous. Finally, we were quite simply women with work "both seem to take there taste and soon Isabelle becomes a member appointed of Clinton. staff" Of visit in visit, I had the feeling to belong to a family "It builds little by little a relation privileged with her prestigious model. She enters the daily newspaper of this couple "which she admires since always" in spite of an asserted political inculture. When one attacks Clinton, Isabelle feels touched in her own flesh. Mark of a frankness and a sometimes excessive enthusiasm although frankly and of which it still does not manage to get rid. Sign that even in contact with people among most influential of planet, the young woman is still very far from being blasée."

Ahhh, she is not just a mere hairdresser - she is a "member of Clinton's family". Ms. Goetz is hairdresser who has inside information on Kerry's campaign, gets close to the candidate on a regular basis, and who also is admantly pro-Clinton and still sees Hillary for a heart-to-heart trim.

I think were I Kerry, I would be very careful with my private and personal information. After all, only his hairdresser knows for sure; and if the fabulous Isabelle Goetz is talking, she isn't saying...

[dandelion]

He's a man of the people! She's a "blow of head"... together, they make beautiful hair. But will Hillary! come between them?

[john_virtue]

Get this...

She made a $500 campaign donation to Kerry.

[dandelion]

Why didn't she just give him a free haircut?

[Spok]

Well, we've already had Caligula in the White House (WJC)-maybe it's time for Nero. Nero fiddled while Rome burned; Kerry will preen. Kerry is smoothly transitioning from metrosexual to girlie man.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Kerry is so intouch with the little people.

Leaving on His Jet Plane

Leaving on a Jet Plane



JohnDenver

All his records sealed, he’s ready to go.
He’s flipped and flopped, as we well know.
But we must now wake up,
And say goodbye.
Now the light is shining,
It’s a new morn.
His bus is waiting,
He’s holding corn.



Already he’s so funny,
I could cry.


So wave bye, don’t look at me,
Turn around and really flee.
Told you that, you really need to go.



He’s leaving, on his jet plane.
We all hope, he won’t be back again.
Oh John, we wish you’d go.



There’s so many times, he’s lied, we found.
We all just wish, he would leave town.
The words he says, they don’t mean a thing.
Everything he says, a lie to you.
As he flips and flops a time or two.
When he leaves town, much sunshine it will bring.



So wave bye, don’t look at me,
Turn around and really flee.
Told him that, he really needs to go.



We all hope, he won’t be back again.
Oh John, we wish you’d go.

Now the time has passed we’re tired of you.
Please be gone we won’t miss you.
We’ll hold the door, you get on your way.
Think about the time will come.
You will see that you are dumb.



We’ll recall the day we got to say.



So wave bye, don’t look at me,
Turn around and really flee.
Told him that, he really needs to go.



He’s leaving, on his jet plane.
We all hope, he won’t be back again.
Oh John, we wish you’d go.




Conspiracy Guy aka DIF 8/6/2004

[Mr. Mojo]

Ms. Goetz is hairdresser

Liberal men have "hairdressers."

Conservative men have barbers.

[They'reGone2000]

Scott Jonasz, Isabelle Goetz & Sahir Erozan

[agrace]

My question is, how come no one has her doing Teresa's hair?

[familyofman]

Truly meaningful - GWB in a landslide with this out.

[Jaded]

Teresa needs more than a hair cut!

[dandelion]

Yeah, I figured this would change the course of history for sure!! LOL

We've got to NIP IT - nip it in the bud...

[mel]

Good point

[RJL]

the Clintons discovered her when she was only 22 - a young Frenchwoman, only 18 months in this country.

No doubt Bill "handled" this personally.

[They'reGone2000]

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry likes to style himself as the candidate of working folks, while scissoring President Bush as the protector of the rich. "We have to bring back an America that values work and honors working people, day in and day out," Kerry urged in a recent stump speech.

But when every campaign stop is a photo op, even a man of the people needs a high-quality haircut.

I hear that when Kerry was in Portland, Ore., last weekend preparing to windsurf on the Columbia River Gorge, he flew his Washington-based hairstylist, Isabelle Goetz, across the country to give him a camera-ready trim.

A knowledgeable source told me that the French-born Goetz - who tends the Massachusetts senator's mane while also caring for Sen. Hillary Clinton's coiffure - caught up with the candidate in Portland on Friday (after flying commercial, I'm told), trimmed his luxuriant salt-and-pepper locks and then returned to Washington the same night.

But because of light breezes on Saturday, Kerry's windsurfing photo op never came off.

Here's the fresh "do" -- Aug. 14 photo being recycled today.

[Hammerhead]

how come he's wearing a Vietnam coat and everyone else is in tank tops and short sleeves?

[They'reGone2000]

Did'nt you know he served in Vietnam?

[WestCoastGal]

Fabulous thread!!!!!

It's too bad all those dummies laughing with F'n in his new hairdo pic are too stupid to see the truth about this dork, wimp, girlie man, liar etc.

BTW Ter-Ray-Zaaa can't be helped by the hairdo guru Isabelle
she should watch the new show Nip/Tuck and get that kind of redo.

[Nevermore]

So I'm reading that Kerry has hired a foreigner to cut his hair? Can you say "outsourcing"?

[Conspiracy Guy]

I fly my stylist in from Sweden every 2 weeks.

[WestCoastGal]

How about the Queer Eye for the Terrorism Jihad Guys...


http://www.well.com/user/queerjhd/