Taki Taki

What people want

Broadsides from the pirate captain of the Jet Set

issue 10 May 2003

New York

This is a very good time to be in the Bagel. The sun’s out, the girls are walking around in their briefest, Central Park’s blooming all over, and Miss Monica Lewinsky is on national television performing oral acrobatics as a presenter of a show called Mr Personality. No, I have not seen the freak show, and do not plan to. I assume it is pop culture at its ghastliest, Lewinsky being a typical product of our times, a woman who became a celebrity for performing oral sex on the artful draft dodger in the Oval Office. Some celebrity. Some dodger. Needless to say, the show is on the Fox network, where Mr Rupert Murdoch and his fellow neo-cons have stormed the culture from within and have lowered standards to their moral level. I’m told that Lewinsky has lost weight, which is like saying Bill Gates is getting poorer.

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