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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (18529)	8/25/1998 11:34:00 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Hi All!; The Drudge report finally explained to me what "Boink" means this past weekend. I've never tried it, sounds a little kinky. I'm sorry. I just can't help laughing about this whole thing. I'm inclined to forgive the pervert in chief cause he has provided about the same number of free laughs that $4 got me at Something About Mary. The funny thing, is that this cat, now that it is totally out of the bag, cannot possibly be put back. What was he thinking? 21-year olds are notorious for boinking and telling. In a more repressed society, this would be an example of a classic tragedy. The hero, Bill, earns shame of the most excruciating variety, brought onto himself because of his lying. He could have simply admitted the Lewinsky affair without the embarassing details ever becoming public. (Or at least if they did become public it would be in the plausibly deniable pages of a tabloid rather than in front of a grand jury.) Instead, he accused Monica of being a bald faced liar, with his buddies implying she was a little nuts. His slimy friends even looked up Monica's previous lovers, and got statements from them. (Everybody's ex-lovers are likely to have a little dirty laundry available.) But Monica, being at least partly a nut case, saved the dress. Without the dress, Bill would be home clean. None of this would have come out, or, if it did, it could be easily denied. He would have been saved by the lie. Instead, his own lawyers decided to try and finesse the definition of "sexual relations." So in order to find evidence of perjury regarding the relationship, Ken had to go into the gruesome details. Of course it leaked. If you had been one of the dozens of people who heard the testimony, would you have been able to avoid telling your spouse? I try to think of myself as one who can keep a secret, but I would have been bursting with that one. I don't think I could have kept a straight face while he was testifying. Now the media has its blood up, and are out interviewing every possible Clinton ex-lover for titillating details. These will be devoured by a ravenous public over the next few weeks. I can hardly wait. -- Carl