{"id":9862,"date":"2010-09-16T17:11:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T21:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9862"},"modified":"2010-09-16T17:11:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T21:11:03","slug":"making-fun-of-christine-odonnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/making-fun-of-christine-odonnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Making fun of Christine O'Donnell"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bumped into Normal Mailer briefly in the late 70\u2019s. I was attending a conference in Miami, waiting for an elevator in my hotel standing next to a large fellow with a walkie-talkie. The walkie-talkie squawked and seemed to say \u201cMr. Mailer is on his way\u201d. The elevator arrived and out stepped Norman Mailer. What I presumed was a hotel tart \u2013 with a hard face and stunning figure \u2013 flounced up, took his arm and disappeared with him into a waiting limousine. Mailer liked to take a contrarian view of many things; among them, masturbation \u2013 he didn\u2019t approve<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I wouldn’t say all people who masturbate are evil, probably I would even say that some of the best people in the world masturbate. But I am saying it’s a miserable activity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mailer was cool, of course, so those who adopted the conceit of thinking they were too, forgave him for criticising their favourite pastime. Not so for Christine O’Donnell – winner of Republican Senate Primary in Delaware – who said much the same thing<\/a> and is being roundly mocked for it by the usual twerps on the left<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking forward to the next Democratic Party slogan: Democrats, masturbating for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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