I'm trying to figure out who this James Taranto character is. If a former or present porn star, why does he have a column in the Wall Street Journal, The Lewinsky Decade. I presume Mr. Taranto is referring to the 90s of the last century but I'm having difficulties because I'm picturing the fellah Taranto in a leopard G-string, hopefully a fellah with a good bod.
Too much, honestly, much too much is made of the Lewinsky thing. It was a dreadful, totally pornographic time when Ken Starr lovingly discussed all aspects of fellatio, how one might use a cigar as a sexual stimulant, when Mr. Starr presented to all America on national TV an excruciatingly yet lovingly detailed portrait of a certain penis (one does wonder about Ken Starr's secret life), fully displayed on our supposedly "liberal" and "mainstream" media, giving every child in America an education on many things that I think were not appropriate for children of that age.
But then, I'm a liberal. And, I truly know what family values are, not the faux "family values" of that hideous tribe of fascists. And I know what is appropriate for viewing by children on national TV. But, alas, ever since Rupert Murdoch put his sweaty, greedy hand on American media standards have slid into filth.
Mr. Taranto, I presume I'm safe in addressing the fellah as Mr., sometimes these folks who work in certain trades, if he is now or ever was a porn star, undergo sex changes and one can never be sure of the gender, credits a Mr. Drudge, another person with whom I am not well acquainted and I can only speculate as to what his occupation might be, (a madam in drag, perchance?), with the leading story:
BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT
**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**
My goodness! And shades of yellow journalism!
Mr. Taranto (if indeed he is a a Mr.) goes on his merry way to splice in the names of Janet Reno, the party accused, the accused party's wife, Gloria Steinem, (good golly gosh! what is a feminist doing in this astonishing soup?).
Taranto also works in Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and even Martin Luther King, Jr., for good measure.
Now I AM convinced that this Taranto fellah is or was a porn star.
This is rather a strange way to mark Martin Luther Kind Day and Mr. Taranto must have written this column precisly on the occasion of that day.