Spurious Sexual Scandal of Mike Gravel Coming Out of the Wormhole and Being Thrust Into Dark Corridors of the Internets. What was the spuriously claimed manifestation of Mike Gravel doing on the evening of August 10, 1972 and what was the sexual pro quid quo which resulted in the re-coronation of a minor landmark? Does this spuriously claimed manifestion of a possibly fictionalized account of Mike Gravel know no shame?
I hear that Condelleza Rice and George W Bush have a sexual fling going on. It pops up in — probably not the National Enquirer, but one of the tabloids that is more spurious than that one — from time to time, with Luara Bush apparently sidled off into separate corners. The radio program the Stephanie Miller Show has turned this into a a running gag of “Shh.. You can’t mention those spurious rumors!”
That recent spurious book about Hillary Clinton — Ed Klein’s The Truth About Hillary, posits that Hillary Clinton had a number of Lesbian relationships in her college years, or more precisely strongly implied. The source for these spurious rumours are pretty much trogldytes with a serious culture clash. Basically this statement found here sums it up. But also we have The National Review mulling it over with Joe Klein, without coming across terribly well.:
NRO: How many times do you use the word “lesbian” in your book? Why point out she had friends who were lesbians? Do we need to go there?Klein: Hillary’s politics were shaped by the culture of radical feminism and lesbianism at Wellesley College in the 1960s. This is paramount in exploring the political life of Hillary Clinton.
How could someone write a comprehensive biography of Hillary Clinton without investigating the rumors that have long circulated about her? I’ve gone further than any other journalist in exploring the question of her sexuality, which is often the first thing people wonder about her: Is she misrepresenting herself as a doting wife to Bill Clinton? How can she stand his chronic infidelity?
As for the number of times the word appears in the book, I don’t know. But I’m sure there are some in the Clinton campaign counting right now.
So. Whatever. “The Visitor Center: Bungling and Deception” by Blaine Harden, from November 17, 1980 in the Washington Post on what brought to pass the dream of … the dream of…
The plan that Gray promised on Nov. 27, 1967, to turn Union Station into the National Visitor Center was neither perspicacious nor farseeing. The plan was a hodgepodge of wishful thinking, outright deception and bad judgment. It has unfolded as an almost unparalleled example of congressional bungling. For what was supposed to save Union Station without costing “one cent of taxpayers’ money,” Congress has spent or committed itself to spend more than $117 million. Those millions have been spent on one of the world’s most expensive uncompleted parking garages and on a restoration project that’s actually helped destroy the monumental train station. Up to $90 million more may have to be spent to fix it.
What is it a Gray?
In Washington, Gray was a flashy dresser, favoring wine-colored velvet suits, multicolored slacks, bow ties and his trademark: high gloss patent leather shoes. He used country expressions such as “that stuff won’t wash” and “that calf won’t suck.” His constituents bought him a $100,000 jet helicopter, which he used to fly between Washington and his district. He had what was then known as an eye for the ladies; his staff consisted of some of the most attractive young women on Capitol Hill and he personally hired a blond named Elizabeth Ray in 1972.
And Jimmy Crack Corn and Why Should we care, within the purviews of blogging about irrelevant presidential contenders?
According to Elizabeth Ray, the major source in the congressional sex-scandal revelations in 1976, a condition of her employment was that she have sex with Gray’s friends. Ray claimed that Gray ordered her to have sex with Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) on the evening of Aug. 10, 1972, to ensure his support for the visitor center. Colleen Gardner, another major figure in the sex-scandal revelations, told a grand jury that she saw Ray and Gravel having sex that night on a houseboat that Gray owned and kept in a Washington marina. Both Gray and Gravel have denied the allegations.
I don’t have easy access to any media from that time-frame, but I suppose it would be mildly entertaining, but ultimately pointless.