Tripp Wire

Steyn Online ^ | 9 Apr 2020 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Linda Tripp died yesterday, Wednesday - not of the Coronavirus, but of pancreatic cancer apparently diagnosed only last week. Without Ms Tripp's decision to tape surreptitiously her conversations with a certain Pentagon colleague, there would have been no Clinton second-term scandal, no little blue dress for the FBI crime lab, no impeachment... She was a not unattractive woman, but the left is unforgiving to those who refuse to overlook their heroes' pathologies (as we're currently seeing with Joe Biden's accuser), so Linda was turned into the pantomime dame of the cast: "Saturday Night Live" hired John Goodman to play her for the duration. Terminated by the federal government, she retreated to life as the proprietor of a German-themed Christmas shop - until, as with a remarkable number of those who cross the Clintons, she predeceased them.

So, as a Corona-interlude, or a WuFlu palate-cleanser, I thought we'd revisit the dawn of the Year of Monica. The years between the fall of the Berlin Wall, which went down almost as fast as Miss Lewinsky, and the fall of the Twin Towers came to be seen as the holiday from history, when the hyperpower squandered its advantage in a supposedly unipolar world, failed to nip new threats in the bud, and let the old one - the clapped-out utopianism of cultural Marxism - nest in its institutions as never before. Still, it had its laughs - and never had "the personal is political" found such a literal exemplar as Bill Clinton.

[Paladin2]

“he’s confusing the Book of Job with the Book of Blowjob”

[TChad]

For six days, Bill Clinton kept his head down, a position usually reserved for his womenfolk.

Yes, that's Mark Steyn.

[Rummyfan]

The years between the fall of the Berlin Wall, which went down almost as fast as Miss Lewinsky, and the fall of the Twin Towers came to be seen as the holiday from history, when the hyperpower squandered its advantage in a supposedly unipolar world, failed to nip new threats in the bud, and let the old one - the clapped-out utopianism of cultural Marxism - nest in its institutions as never before.

Partly because the worst man - not necessarily the worst president, but the worst man, totally amoral - to ever be elected as president. Billy Jeff Clinton, the Horny Hick from Hope. And his harridan wife as First Lady.

[Rummyfan]

The editor of The Sunday Telegraph called and asked likewise, as he'd dialed the Washington Bureau Chief whose telephone had a message saying he'd just left for a week's vacation in the Caribbean. I don't believe the poor fellow ever appeared in the paper again.

Mark Steyn 'Wally-Pipped ' him.

[Rummyfan]

The tapes and the blue dress saved Tripp's life and Lewisnky's too. They both would have been Arkancided.

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YOW!!

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testimony from Kathleen Willey, the woman who says he groped and fondled her on the day her husband committed suicide

Suicide? Like Vince Foster?

Did he have the misfortune to be between a Clinton and their object of desire?

[boop]

"RIP Linda. FU punk fat-a$$ John Goodman..... you’re nothing but a punk fat boy!"

I'm so old i remember that SNL episode.

Boy did the left hate Linda.

I've disliked John Goodman ever since.

[JohnnyP]

There was a young lib woman with a radio show in LA during that time. Every time Tripp was mentioned, she would play the sound of a trumpeting elephant. So cruel.

[Pining_4_TX]

Yes, this is a classic!