In Kitty Kelley's 1991 book Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography,
actress Selene Walters accused Ronald Reagan
of raping her. People magazine did a follow up interview with
Walters, and all in all it had about the same credibility as the
Juanita Broaddwick story. Except of course, there was no television
network devoting most of its time to it, the Wall Street
Journal did not devote its editorial page to it, it did not
appear as headlines in all the major newspapers, it was not the topic of
discussion on every talking head program, and Rush Limbaugh
never even mentioned it. In fact I have not seen nor heard any
mention of this anywhere by any media source other than on the
net.
The call now from the Right and the media is for Clinton to answer
to the accusation. When Reagan was approached with
the charge by a reporter outside one of his biannual treks to
church, he said, "I don't think a church would be the proper
place to use the word I would have to use in discussing that."
That was a good enough answer for conservatives though.
But we have to remember, Ronald Reagan is the moral example of
conservative Americans. Divorced, knocked up his bride
to be and slapped around his daughter. Bill Clinton did none
of those things, but that does not matter because he did far far
worse, he got a couple BJ’s from a bimbo at work. I have to
say that in her interview, Monica is one of the very few people
who hit the nail right on the head with her giggly frivolity
concerning it, for giggly frivolity is just what a couple BJs are. Not
as Ken Starr and Company would have you believe, cause to threaten
numerous families with twenty years in prison and the
end of the rule of law as we know it.
Again here we are with the problem conservatives are far overdue
in suffering, the abject hypocrisy of it all. The good news
being, they just don’t get it, and probably never will.