You might have thought the former Pennsylvania senator had finished with what harm he could wreak on the republic. But you’d be wrong, oh so wrong. The Huffington Post’s Amanda Terkel wades into the pages of his depraved new memoir, Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It, and witnesses sights that shouldn’t be seen in the rankest bolgia of the Inferno: “knee to knee” with Sarah Palin; John Thune “looked like a movie star in or out of clothes”; “Ted Kennedy came over and climbed into the bath. Kennedy was one of the Senate’s giants, in many ways. … I’d never seen two men in the whirlpool before…” Politics, carnality, and grand guignol haven’t collided like this since the last time Tinto Brass, Gore Vidal, and Bob Guccione collaborated.
Arlen Specter’s Filthy New Memoir
8 Responses to Arlen Specter’s Filthy New Memoir
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Frank says:
Maybe Arlen is just “coming out”???
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Rossbach says:
As a lifelong Pennsylvanian, I am obliged to concur with Brutus’ observation.
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Those witnessing the passing of the scepter from the late publisher of Penthouse to his presumed heir in depravity must ask, All this and Guccitwo?
In the imposing precedent it affords in the decadence of empires passed, clearly a Europe is haunting Specter.
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Fran Macadam says:
It’s pretty tame stuff, hardly fully reflective of the coarseness of the body politic that the institution represents – just look at popular culture.
Actually the most wayward observation in that review was the following observation, which I agree definitely taboo and highly abnormal behavior:
“‘If people would express their honest opinions, it would be a very different place and a very different government,’ he said.”
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An Anachronistic Apostle says:
“If people would express their honest opinions, it would be a very different place and a very different government.”
It is thoughtfully left to the reader to decide whether that “place” would be heaven, or … and one will get you twenty … hell.
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Arlen Specter is a disagreeable crypto-democrat who always counted on the simplicity of the public in accepting his every self serving move as an example of principle over party. Specter is so detested by PA Republicans that his taint attaches to Rick Santorum for being Specter’s dupe.
Who cares what this old clown says?