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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Lacelle who wrote (23473)	12/21/1998 11:35:00 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

THE KINKS IN FRIEDAN'S TRAVEL KIT FURIOUS feminist Betty Friedan has been quick to criticize fallen House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston for his indiscretions, but Friedan has carried some kinky baggage as well. After Friedan and some of her cohorts insisted on an unscheduled 20-minute pow-wow with Livingston last week, she said he was ''extremely insulting to the modern American women's movement.'' And earlier in the day at a news conference in support of Bill Clinton, Friedan denounced the President's enemies as ''a bunch of dirty old white men trying to use sexual issues wrongly.'' But the remarks by Friedan, 77, aco-founder of the National Organization for Women, sound hypocritical coming from a woman who once packed graphic pornography in her bag while on a political mission. Back in July of 1984, the Daily News reported on an incident at the San Francisco airport when Friedan arrived for the Democratic National Convention as part of the New York delegation. Friedan's over-stuffed suitcase burst open on the luggage carousel, disgorging what the News described as ''naughty'' contents. A fellow delegate who was present at the time tells PAGE SIX that those naughty items were a cache of ''S&M magazines depicting women in extreme bondage.'' According to the witness, ''Both Friedan and the delegates around her were extremely embarrassed.'' Friedan, who has dismissed Clinton's sexual indiscretions as ''private behavior'' and ''his business,'' could not be reached for comment. Her attack on Livingston was prompted by his confession to fellow Republicans during an impeachment strategy session. He subsequently announced his resignation from the Speaker's post and from the House. ''During my 33-year marriage to my wife, Bonnie,'' Livingston admitted to stunned colleagues, ''I have on occasion strayed from my marriage and in doing so nearly cost me my marriage and my family.'' Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, who probably would have approved of Friedan's reading material at the San Francisco convention, was quick to take credit for digging up the dirt on Livingston's infidelities and promised more GOP revelations in the future. ''When our report comes out, Clinton's going to look like Mary Poppins,'' he said. According to Flynt, Friedan and Livingston share a taste for kinky sex. ''We have an audiotape,'' Flynt told The Post. ''He's having phone sex with one of the girls, and it's pretty raunchy. It's pretty kinky, his activities with these women.'' (More on the phone sex allegations: See Cindy Adams on Page 10.) Flynt should know. But instead of lashing out at Livingston, maybe Friedan should get together with him and compare predilections.