When tears and lip gloss start flowing
Turning Brass Into Gold
By MAUREEN DOWD, NYT
WASHINGTON
The flesh is weak but the spirit of commerce is willing.
The sexy part of Washington’s newest sex scandal has waned. The crass part is cranking up.
As The Times’s Scott Shane writes: “The major players have hired high-profile, high-priced representatives to manage the fallout, watch for legal trouble, police the press and massage damaged reputations.”
And, no doubt, pave the way for future book deals, cushy jobs and TV apologias in honeyed light with Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters.
The tears and lip gloss started flowing Tuesday at a press conference at the Ritz-Carlton here featuring a distraught twin, a befuddled press corps and Gloria Allred, the feminist avenger last seen tormenting Herman Cain over sexual harassment charges.
(More here.)
WASHINGTON
The flesh is weak but the spirit of commerce is willing.
The sexy part of Washington’s newest sex scandal has waned. The crass part is cranking up.
As The Times’s Scott Shane writes: “The major players have hired high-profile, high-priced representatives to manage the fallout, watch for legal trouble, police the press and massage damaged reputations.”
And, no doubt, pave the way for future book deals, cushy jobs and TV apologias in honeyed light with Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters.
The tears and lip gloss started flowing Tuesday at a press conference at the Ritz-Carlton here featuring a distraught twin, a befuddled press corps and Gloria Allred, the feminist avenger last seen tormenting Herman Cain over sexual harassment charges.
(More here.)
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