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The Wall Street Journal, in the newspaper's excellent investigation into the ties between Bill Clinton and Ron Burkle, explains why the former president is disentangling himself from the supermarket billionaire, as Gawker mentioned last month. Clinton will put some distance between his wife, the leading Democratic candidate in 2008, and politically toxic associates of the Yucaipa owner such as the Sheikh of Dubai and the official Chinese news agency. But is that all?
Ron Burkle, seen in the company of models like Gisele Bundchen since he separated from his wife, is a key member of Clinton's billionaire boy's club. (Former member: teen-massage-loving Jeffrey Epstein.) We don't really believe Hollywood's autumn rumor that the former president, notorious for receiving oral sex in the Oval Office, had entertained an actress on Ron Burkle's plane. (That was probably just an amalgam of Clinton's supposed affair with raunchy actress, Gina Gershon, and earlier pictures of the ex-president with girls on the Burklejet.)
Nobody really cares about Burkle's ties to foreign governments, apart from a few right-wing obsessives. It's Burkle's ties to pretty women that represent the real embarrassment, and threat to Bill Clinton's image as a reformed husband, or at least a more discreet reprobate. With Hillary Clinton in a battle for the Democratic nomination, her husband does not need a billionaire modelizer as a friend.
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Let's hear more about Clinton and Epstein. This is timely, newsy stuff Gawker!
bill clinton & gina gershon?!?! oh mr. denton, you really know how to get page views out of me, you little minx you!
@timbnyc44: screw epstein, i want to hear more about gina gershon. she's looking good for 45. yeah, i've been crushing on her since showgirls and bound, got a problem with that?
The Clintons are dirty. LBJ/Texas mafia dirty.
Hillary is taking more money from the military industrial complex than all other candidates combined-dirty.
Push polling with Obama's middle name dirty.
Rupert Murdoch's favorite dem dirty.
It's dark, folks. Real grim.
And when people still believe they're best we can get, the best we deserve... it's real sad.
What the FUCK is wrong with that picture? Is that the thing from Mimic? WHERE IS THAT OTHER LEG COMING FROM?
Gershon's foot looks a bit gangrenous. Otherwise, she's damn fine for 45.
@Colonel Mustard: Haha. I was going to say, it's like some Hindu god.
There is a god after all. I'm sitting in deepest rural France and I want to scream the name Denton from the rooftops ! Keep 'em coming. (okay not a good choice of word there).
the clintons: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
@Colonel Mustard: She does look like she was photographed during the process of "hatching".
For Gershon, Clinton must have needed a custom-made, extra-large cigar.
"A More Discreet Reprobate" is the name of my next album.
That Gershon photograph looks like the aftermath of a magician's trick gone terribly wrong.
@the supergoddess: Yeah, that was some pretty shady "click on the jump for secrets of the universe!" shit. You can only cry wolf so many times.
Maybe he cut a hole in the sheet.
That's not a picture of Gina at 45, kids. She's still hot, but she's not still that hot.
@MisterHippity: Ha!
@Dusty in the Wind: Yeah, real grim. We'd be much better off with a guy in the Oval Office who doesn't believe in evolution.
That picture makes me want to "get my Gersh on", if you know what I'm saying.
@fiveinchtaint:
She is sitting indian-style and leaning toward the camera to hide her stomach and tits. Jeez. Have you never taken a glamour shot?
I'm pretty sure Obama beleives in evolution. No matter what Bill Clinton is saying about him lately.
@CodePink:
start a failed band with girls against boys?
@mitchel_stevens: I don't know what you mean. Asplain, please.
@Macloserboy: for one thing, she lost that foot.
It's Burkle's ties to pretty women that is the embarassment? Not to worry - we all know Clinton likes 'em rough around the edges. Pretty? He'll pass.
I had an ex-girlfriend who used to sit like this for hours. Then suddenly, and without warning, she'd skitter across the bedroom floor, crawl up the wall and sit near the ceiling, nibbling on the mouldings.
To this day I've yet to see her genitalia.
@Ummwhat: Agreed. For a start her hair isn't "fuckin' huge helmet" enough for Billy-boy.
Itchcoo: I saw her show, she very very hot (her face work has grown on me).
@viruswithshoes:
If I were on the judging committee, that one would get a star.
@karion: You're not on the committee??!? Can I have my $18.50 back then?
@CodePink:
"GINA GERSHON ON TOUR with members of GIRLS AGAINST BOYS supporting the PREY FOR ROCK & ROLL film and soundtrack."
Screw this. I want to hear about Winifred Burkle.
@viruswithshoes: yeah, but in all fairness to Bill, it's hard to notice bad hair when you only see the top of her head.
Damn you!!! You better not make me click on more items based upon rumors YOU DO NOT BELIEVE! At least make me click on items based upon rumors that YOU MIGHT BELIEVE AT LEAST JUST A LITTLE!
It's about time you all wrote about Gina G. & Uncle Bill... That's been the buzz in fashion circles for ages.
Oh. My. God. Well shit...I guess that puts me only ONE degree from Bill. Eww. June 2006, Manchester Tennessee. Hampton Inn. Woke up with Drea DeMatteo's belt loosely around my neck and Gina's boots across my chest - and her still in them. Sorry G. I just cannot help but wonder...what happened to Roy Earl?
the title alone was enough for me.
where is this grainy video?
i would actually pay for this.
hell, i would pay for a video of gina gershon just daydreaming about having sex with, um, anyone...
I thought she was heterosexual! She always goes on in the interviews about how she just wishes she were gay, even though she starred in, like, the third or fourth hottest lesbian love scene of all time (too bad those Wachovia brothers, or whatever their name is, couldn't just hold the camera still so we could see it). She is still most hot in Delirious, and that was last year. If she sings "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" at the inaugural, we'll know for sure.
I'm still getting my mind around a millionaire living in Yucaipa, a town best known as a Firesign Theater punchline.
You are all misogynists. Hillary Clinton is a Strong Woman. Bill was the greatest President ever. Hillary is a kick-ass ballsy awesome woman and a rolemodel for women everywhere. Hillary rocks. Bill is a really great guy. If more people were like Bill and Hillary Clinton, the world would be a better place. Come November, Hillary will show those patriarchal bastards what she's made of.
Etc.
Mythology can be so much fun.
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