Bread & Circuses

FOR the past six months, feminists have provided alibis for the guy who loves women too much. In the New York Observer in February, ten feminists celebrated the President’s escapades as evidence that he is “alive from the waist down.”

Tina Brown breathlessly reported in The New Yorker about President Clinton’s glamor and sex appeal. And the latest feminist response comes from the besotted Nina Burleigh, a freelance writer who covered the White House for Time. She writes in Mirabella about the allure of powerful men, having found herself “willing and compliant” after being ogled by the President during a flight on Air Force One. She later told the Washington Post. “I’d be happy to give him [oral sex] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal.”

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FOR the past six months, feminists have provided alibis for the guy who loves women too much. In the New York Observer in February, ten feminists celebrated the President’s escapades as evidence that he is “alive from the waist down.”

Tina Brown breathlessly reported in The New Yorker about President Clinton’s glamor and sex appeal. And the latest feminist response comes from the besotted Nina Burleigh, a freelance writer who covered the White House for Time. She writes in Mirabella about the allure of powerful men, having found herself “willing and compliant” after being ogled by the President during a flight on Air Force One. She later told the Washington Post. “I’d be happy to give him [oral sex] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal.”