Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Dyke Hillary! Dyke Hillary! by Kristen Lombardi
Village Voice, NY
Edward Klein would tell you his new book The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President does not intimate that Hillary Clinton is a closet lesbian. And he would tell you the book, a much hyped biography that hit store shelves last week, does not engage in the broader sport of gay-baiting.
"I would say those criticisms are unsophisticated and politically motivated," Klein says, when asked if the text is trying to tell us something about the sexual proclivities of New York's junior senator.
This comes from a man who, 12 pages into his 305-page tome, relays the "water-cooler gossip" among White House staff over the Clintons' sex life:
"Were there any telltale signs on the presidential sheets that they ever had sex with each other? For that matter, did the Big Girl have any interest in sex with a man? Or, as was widely rumored, was she a lesbian?"
Just one page later, Klein is setting up the many contradictions of Hillary. He writes:
"She was a mother, but she wasn't maternal. She was a wife, but she had no wifely instincts. She said she was passionately in love with her husband, but many of her closest friends and aides were lesbians."
Throughout the book, he seems to reach for every last bit of innuendo. On page 62, he describes the "long tradition of lesbianism" that had, uh, influenced Hillary during her Wellesley College days, making a point to note, "At least two women who were close to Hillary . . . would become out-of-the-closet lesbians." ...
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