Gossip: Martha Stewart, Bill Maher and Grandmother's Story of Kwazi Mfume

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Bill Maher Still in Deep Do Do

In an earlier gossip missive I reported the Smoking Gun’s assertion that liberal talk show pundit, Bill Maher, was subject of a “palimony” lawsuit by his live-in love. HERE

Now we have the scoop from no less than the vaunted Washington Post.
From the Post’s “Reliable Source”:

from WAPO Thursday 12/2/04:
"Attorneys for chat show host Bill Maher say he never promised to marry and support sexy ex-girlfriend Nancy "Coco" Johnsen, and they are asking a California court to throw out her $9 million lawsuit against him for alleged fraud and assault.

"The Reliable Source"

Barbara Boxer Writing Romance Novel

From the same WAPO source we discover that Senator Barbara Boxer, a liberal Dem from California, is penning a romance novel involving politics and romance.

The Reliable Source-WAPO, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004:

"Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) is penning a novel about 'romantic entanglements' and 'political infighting'. Chronicle Books announced. No title yet, but the plot goes like this: The protagonist, named Ellen, takes over husband's Senate campaign after he's killed. Ellen wins. But :"On the eve of a crucial Senate vote, her personal and political worlds collide when her right-wing adversaries recruit her former lover to sabotage her credibility and career."
Boxer assured us, in a statement yesterday, that the novel is "completely fictional, but the characters, setting and battles all reflect my experiences in politics."

POP CULTURE STORY OF THE WEEK!

Princess Diana Won’t Shut Up Even Though She’s Dead

Twas a time in my life when I was a fan of sorts of Princess Diana. Then I’ve always had an odd fascination with British royalty, often pondering how such a group of genetic misfits came to power. I wasn’t especially kind to the Princess in that she was no better than Baltimore street white trash so far as I was concerned, as in love with cameras as they were with her.

First, the twit marries a man who obviously did not love her. More, it was obvious to all but the obtuse Diana that Prince Charles was marrying her so that he might have an heir.

He married Diana for her ovaries is what I’m saying here.

For the past two weeks Dateline has featured a special showing never before seen tapes of the Princess.

And indeed they were interesting tapes, more because I must wonder why on earth she did such a thing. There she is revealing all sorts of intimate things to this virtual stranger who was her speech coach of all things.

Princess Diana was a pretty woman of medium intelligence who never got a clue. Which clue one should have been when her husband-to-be responded to a reporter’s query if they were in love. Prince Charles said yes, he loved Diana, “whatever love means.”

Well I’d interpret it to mean that Prince Charles would love the mother of his children as was the plan. Camilla would always hold his heart.

In these recent tapes, Diana asserts that Charles told her before they were married that he would not be the only Prince of Wales not to have a mistress.

And she married him anyway?

Ah, Prince Charles, another jug-eared royal fool.

But yes, I watch because, well I don’t know why.

Below is a link to a National Review article by Myrna Blyth that is an excellent analysis of the Dateline Princess Di tapes.
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Martha Stewart Violates Prison Rules

Well, damn Martha, it’s only for six months and by your own admission you wanted to get it over with in time for spring planting.

Now we hear Martha is stealing food items from the prison commissary and getting into trouble for it.

Martha, you are in jail for violating rules, and then lying about the violation. You pissed off the federal prosecutors with your evasions, disdain and wanton attack on an ongoing federal investigation.

So far the prison people are only making you clean toilets. I predicts your disdain will eventually cost you more prison time.

You read it here first.

Some people, like Martha and her friend Bill Clinton, can’t stand such as rules only meant for the little folk.

Kwazi Mfume Quits NAACP

Did I ever mention that I knew Kwazi Mfume? Yes I did but then his name was Peter Lewis or some such.

Once upon a time myself worked for a little hospital in Baltimore called Liberty Medical Center. In fact, it was during my tenure at LMC that I lost my hopeless liberalism forever.

Because this little hospital prided itself on being the only medical facility that would never turn away a needy patient, whether they had Aids or were permanently addicted to heroin.

I labored at this hospital for five years as manager of the payroll department. And, silly me, I BELIEVED in this hospital, my soccer mom self.

The Chief of Medicine was a black doctor and indeed, most of the physician staff were black. It seemed a noble endeavor, a candle in the night to help the downtrodden. Then Mayor Schmoke’s wife was even a staff physician at LMC.

Then the city of Baltimore gives Liberty Medical Center a $20 million dollar grant.

Guess what they did with it?

They built the fanciest clinic with the most modern equipment all encased in a sky-lighted ceiling with covered parking. Facilities definitely not designed to help crack addicts. The doctors all got their handsome offices and for a year or so they made a lot of money.

Alas, Liberty Medical Center is no more and I’m not surprised. That facility was the biggest waste of time and money and it even helped bring down the Schmokes. I was a white liberal woman who really wanted to do something noble. I quit, bitter and disillusioned. In the end, I cared more about the pathetic patients than the black doctors.

Anyway, it was at Liberty Medical Center where I knew “Peter Lewis” or whatever his name was, who eventually became Kwazi Mfume. The man worked at the hospital, something about ambulances. All I ever did was process his paycheck.

Hey, he was a nice guy and seems that he still is. Scuttlebutt has it that Mfume got booted out of the NAACP. Even better, rumor has it that he might run for Merryland state senator!

The NAACP, however, is an organization behind the times. It will get worse if Julian Bond, who also worked at Liberty Medical Center you can’t make it up, takes over.

Let’s hope the IRS checks out their tax-exempt status real close.

TOMORROW: Review of Tommy Frank's book "American Soldier"