{"id":338,"date":"2008-03-11T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2008-03-20T18:19:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T23:19:22","slug":"clinton-and-the-mummy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Clinton and the Mummy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excerpts from my Journals<\/h3>\n

[digg-reddit-me][Early June 1998.]<\/small><\/p>\n

…the president made a crack about a five-hundred-year-old Inca mummy that had just been discovered at the summit of a Peruvian volcano. “You know, if I were a single man, I might just ask that mummy out,” Clinton said. “That’s a good-looking mummy.”<\/p>\n

Afterward, McCurry [Clinton’s press secretary] told the president this had not been a wise comment for a man with his reputation for philandering. Clinton snapped at him…<\/p>\n

On the ensuing flight to Milwalkee that night…McCurry had a drink, and he was shooting the breeze with a dozen reporters clogging the aisle. One scribe asked about Clinton’s appraisal of the mummy.<\/p>\n

“Probably does look good compared to the mummy he’s been fucking,” McCurry said.<\/p>\n

Had one of the reporters published the remark, even with the expletive deleted, McCurry’s tenure at the White House probably would have been over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Spin Cycle<\/em> by Howard Kurtz, pages 48-49<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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