Outside the Beltway

Don’t Ask Bill Clinton About Al Gore

Doug Mataconis · Friday, July 9, 2010 · 1 comment

So discovers Chicago Sun-Times reporter Bill Zwecker:

• Given I was surrounded by five armed Secret Service agents who eyed me suspiciously, I didn’t have the nerve to bring up Al Gore’s name, but another Aspen pal did so. ”Even though it was about a global warming issue and had nothing to do with that masseuse sex scandal, the mere mention of Gore’s name made Clinton shoot me a very ugly look,” said the source, who realized the former president was mentally connecting the dots to his own well-documented challenges to marital fidelity.

Indeed.

H/T: Instapundit

FILED UNDER: US Politics, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Chicago, Glenn Reynolds, Secret Service

About Doug Mataconis

Doug Mataconis held a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University and J.D. from George Mason University School of Law. He joined the staff of OTB in May 2010 and contributed a staggering 16,483 posts before his retirement in January 2020. He passed far too young in July 2021.

Comments

James Joyner says:

Friday, 9 July 2010 at 08:34

That’s always the problem with these kind of gatherings. They create the faux illusion of collegial equality but some of the attendees are decidedly more equal than others.