Comments on: Sex and the Capitol City

By: joy

joy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

You know, the thing about Jessica is that she not only slept with allegedly "powerful" people, but she slept with several at the same time, accepted money in return for acts, then publicized it through her blog and her newly found patroness. She isn't smart...shrewd, perhaps, so she can get that "rock" on her hand and that book deal. But from her writing, "smart" is about the last thing that came to mind. Jeez, she was only a mailclerk who also wanted to sleep with that "cute intern" in addition to her stable of johns. In other words, if she was middle aged, and tried to pull the same antics, she wouldn't have gotten very far. Plus, Jessica makes Monica look downright dowdy. To be honest, Monica only tried to profit *after* her liasion was publicized since was only known as "that chick".

By: carsick

carsick — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Polier DIDN'T have sex with powerful men.

Cutler HAD sex but not with powerful men.

People like titillation but neither girl will get their full 15 minutes. Once men can judge whether their HOT or not - it's over. (Unless they start designing handbags. Ha ha ha)

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Why does the overwhelming weight of opinion seem to be that A. Polier did not have sex with Kerry? The NYMag piece was breezily readable and at first blush an appropriate stab at laying it all out while making some bucks, but its after-taste is an elaborately concocted, untrue, attempt to give plausible answers to all of the weaknesses and curiosities of her story. The natural inference to be made from her father's response to the word "Kerry" and her former friend's take on the Senator's instantaneous callback seem more plausible than a simple denial. She even has a convenient beard whenever she and Kerry were staying at the same hotel by "coincidence".

By: Daniel W. Drezner

Daniel W. Drezner — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

How do young women react to political scandals?
Back in February I blogged about the rumors of John Kerry having an affair, the possible impact on his presidential campaign. Although I was somewhat ambivalent about whether it was a bloggable topic, and I quickly posted the subsequent flat-out...

By: Electric Venom

Electric Venom — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Suddenly It's Summer
School is over and summer vacations are starting. I'm not the only one who notices a correlation between these events and a dramatic reduction in hits.

Maybe I ought to go have sex with a senator or something. Whaddya think?

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By: jen

jen — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I say Not.

I'm completely disgusted by the antics of said 20-something women. That they get rich and famous for such behavior is a sad commentary on what our society has become.

By: Jim Henley

Jim Henley — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Isn't the attempt to find connections between the Polier and Cutler stories bedeviled by the fact that, near as we can tell, Polier DIDN'T have sex with a powerful man? Or maybe she did, but not the powerful man rumored, which is functionally the same thing.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Jim,

Sure. But the online media reaction and the fact that both will profit handsomely (although perhaps not as much as Monica Lewinski) from the exposure is still present.