Second note to Paula Zahn: If you feel you must keep an uncomfortably detailed sex-diary of your illicit extramarital trysts (and we’re totally not saying you should) please at least have the foresight not to gush like a “16-year-old schoolgirl” and/or “illustrate it with photos.”
Also, what’s up with the whole “accounting” probe thing? (We get it, you’re trying to override the prenup by proving your super-rich husband is financially irresponsible). But don’t you think you just might have a sliiiightly stronger case if your “my husband kicked me out after finding my illustrated sex-diary” apartment weren’t costing an estimated $40,000 per month in rent?
Note to Paula Zahn: The next time you feel like having an extramarital affair with married ContiGroup CEO Paul Fribourg and cheating on your multimillionaire husband —and father to your three children—Richard Cohen, you might want to think about, you know, not keeping a handwritten diary of all the lurid details, stashing it in a totally obvious hiding place, and then accidentally leaving it behind for your soon-to-be-ex husband (who’s still, understandably, somewhat bitter about the whole extramarital affair/divorce thing) to find just in time for the settlement proceedings.
Otherwise, keep up the good work! Oh, but since we’re on the subject of things you should probably have done differently, you might also want to rethink that tacky lime green blazer.
With the sentencing of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Fitzgerald has apparently finished his work, which was, not to put too fine a point on it, to make a mountain out of a molehill. At the urging of the liberal press (especially the New York Times), he was appointed to look into a run-of-the-mill leak and wound up prosecuting not the leaker — Richard Armitage of the State Department — but Libby, convicted in the end of lying. This is not an entirely trivial matter since government officials should not lie to grand juries, but neither should they be called to account for practicing the dark art of politics. As with sex or real estate, it is often best to keep the lights off.
That’s from Richard Cohen’s WaPo column this morning. The fun begins when Salon’s Glenn Greenwald tears it to pieces.
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