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Biden: Time for the truth
I decided to put my blog on hold during the coronavirus crisis, since the sort of people who show up here are unlikely to have much tolerance for my viewpoint. If you want to know what I think, go here and here.(Never thought I'd live long enough to see lefties hate me for suggesting that we emulate Sweden. Then again, I never thought I'd live long enough to see a campus free speech movement associated with the right. We live in topsy-turvy times.)
Privately, however, some readers have asked me to reveal something that I've kept under wraps for quite a while now. A few long-time readers may be aware that, over the past twelve years, I've hinted that I inadvertently learned about a secret -- a potential scandal -- which might prove damaging to Joe Biden's political career. The time has finally come to reveal all.
I never felt that this secret would necessarily destroy Biden. What we're talking about is nothing like John Edwards' Big Secret. The Biden matter always seemed rather small-scale -- a private sin which most rational Americans would not consider any of their business. Though Biden was not my first choice in the 2020 primaries, I've always admired the man and never wanted wanted to see him harmed by a minor bit of tawdriness which I learned only by accident.
Here's the problem: If this secret were revealed at precisely the right moment, it could sway enough voters to decide an election. This potential scandal is a bit like the "bouncing bomb" in The Dam Busters: The payload can take down the target only if the timing and the angle of approach are absolutely perfect.
As you will see, I also have reason to believe that the Republicans learned about this scandal a long time ago. Revelation, I've long felt, was inevitable. Perhaps Biden would be best served if an embarrassing truth came out now, as opposed to late October.
(Again, The Dam Busters provides a good metaphor. You really should see that film, which is said to have inspired the finale of Star Wars. Sorry about the dog's name, but it's historically accurate.)
So why have I kept mum all this time, even as I watched Joe Biden whip my preferred candidate, Elizabeth Warren? Because I've shared this information with six confidants, all of whom have advised me not to bring the matter up in public. One of those persons was the only "Democratic insider" willing to give me a hearing.
Most importantly, one of those confidants was my ladyfriend's mother, who happened to be my landlady at the time. She made me promise not to write about this, and I kept that promise. Sadly, she died recently. So I guess my vow no longer holds.
The Secret. On October 20, 2008, I received an email from my brother Steve. Please understand: His politics are NOT AT ALL like mine. I am not responsible for either his views or his phrasing. (Yes, he now supports Trump. I've told him that I will not talk politics with him. Truth be told, I don't talk politics with anyone these days -- not even with people who agree with me.)
From: STEVE CANNON <XXXXXX@gmail.com>
Subject: Juicy Info
To: "Martin Cannon" <cannonfiremail@yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 1:22 AM
I know you are always looking for juicy Political info...I was out with my friend G tonight (the lady who fixed my back) and she asked me who I was voting for. I told her I typically like Republicans when I am making big money but I felt they have screwed things up so bad, the black guy was looking good. I told her I liked that Biden character but when I said that, she made a face and said he was a lying slim-ball. I asked her why, barring the obvious (he's a Politician) and she told me he was having an affair with a girlfriend of hers and she wouldn't doubt if it hit the media soon.This is the girl:You may want to do some research on this (if possible)...maybe Bruce Jenner knows something since she has kids with him but don't call Grace as she told me in confidence and I don't want to get on her bad side.She was kinda cute in her day:
Would Linda Thompson have appreciated being called a "girl" in 2008? Maybe.
The original letter divulges the full name of G, an acupuncturist who had treated me some months earlier. (I had sciatica and was willing to try anything. Frankly, I did not come away with a high opinion of acupuncture, although others do swear by it.) G is one of several people who may be called "The acupuncturist to the stars," since her offices were close to Calabasas (a Hollywood "bedroom community") and her clientele included some famous names. It made perfect sense for G and Linda Thompson to become friends.
Despite my skeptical attitude toward acupuncture, I always felt that G was a very sweet person, incapable of lying and completely uninterested in politics. Given her clientele, her interests were not served by smearing a leading Democrat.
Bottom line: G had no reason to lie. I trust her. I believe that she told the truth when she said that Linda Thompson was her friend, and that Linda Thompson had spoken ruefully of a soured affair with Joe Biden.
Based on subsequent conversations with my brother, I got the impression that the affair had ended very abruptly and painfully. Linda Thompson's second marriage, to David Foster, ended in 2005, which leads me to deduce that any affair she may have had with Biden may have occurred in the 2005-2008 period.
Thomson and Jenner had two children together. My understanding is that they remain on good terms. If she (Thompson) confided in G, she undoubtedly confided in Jenner -- who supports Trump. This is one big reason why I believe the Republicans already know about the affair.
Thompson has mentioned no hint of any of this -- not in her autobiography and not anywhere else. Perhaps she got over her hurt feelings. Perhaps she decided that personal matters of this sort should not decide a good politician's fate.
Or perhaps a deal was struck behind the scenes.
Frankly, I can't believe that Joe Biden would pay for silence. On the other hand, if you had told me the truth about John Edwards in early 2008, I wouldn't have believed you then. The Edwards thing hit me hard. After that imbroglio, who knows what is possible?
These days, the idea that a politician might have an affair -- even one that ends in pain, as affairs are wont to do -- is no biggee. I think that the American public is finally sophisticated enough to forgive or ignore such things. Trump supporters certainly have no right to crow about their own man's history. (Does anyone still believe his denials of the Stormy Daniels story?)
Nevertheless, I fear that this particular affair could do harm, for the following reasons:
1. The possibility that Biden "pulled an Edwards." In other words, I fear that he paid for silence. (Let's be clear: I have no evidence that he did. I fear so.
2. The Jenner connection ties this business in with the goddamned Kardashians, the most ridiculous family in America. God only knows what late-night comics will do with this material, should Thompson confirm what I've said here.
3. It's easy to see how Republicans and feminists will argue that a secret affair in Biden's past will bestow credibility on Tara Reade.
After this Politico story on Tara Reade, it's hard to see why anyone still considers her believable. She claims that Biden committed a gross physical act in well-traveled public place without any hidden alcoves. Her long history of financial struggle is certainly troubling. Admittedly, I'm hardly in a position to criticize anyone else for playing the "dodge-the-landlord" game -- but the tawdry smears orchestrated by Jacob Wohl remind us that some women are indeed willing to lie for dollars. Reade's bizarre infatuation with Putin and her representation by a lawyer associated with Sputnik are, in my opinion, damning.
But.
How many times have we seen articles by Republicans and feminist writers arguing that "Bill Clinton lied about getting a blowjob from Monica, therefore Juanita Broaddrick must be telling the truth?" Even though Broaddrick's incredible story was rejected by both Ken Starr and the National Enquirer, feminists continue to buy into this utterly illogical conclusion: "Monica, therefore Juanita."
Monica Lewenski was an adult who made her own decisions. By her own account, she more-or-less threw herself at the guy. (Frankly, I never blamed him. As far as we know, his marriage may have segued into the "loving, but sexless" stage. Most marriages hit that stage at one point or another.) Yet Republicans and feminists have argued that the Monica pseudoscandal somehow justifies the "Clinton raped kids on Epstein's island" allegation which is so popular with the Alex Jonesians and the Q crowd.
I can well imagine what someone like Rebecca Traister (whose name would make more sense without the s) will do with this story. I can imagine how Virginia Heffernan or Sarah Kendzior or any number of Bernie-or-busters will react. Everyone who argued "Monica, therefore Juanita" will now argue "Linda, therefore Tara."
Those arguments are inevitable. Infuriating, yes. But inevitable.
Let's have it out now. Not in October. NOW.
I apologize to Joe Biden, to Linda Thompson and to their families. But the election outweighs all other concerns.
You may now want to ask me: What if you're wrong, Cannon? What if "G" really is a fantasist? What if you have the story wrong? Well...I strongly doubt that she is capable of concocting such an allegation. If I did not believe in her basic honesty, I would not have written this story, and I would not have confided in those six people. I would not have spent several sleepless nights asking myself "Should I tell?"
If I end up with an egg facial, so be it.
I have no ambitions. No more shits to give. I've had two heart attacks, and I'm feeling the familiar symptoms at this very moment, as I write. Those symptoms are not severe enough to prompt a visit to the ER, but they do whisper a continual, low-level momento mori.
After a man has had two heart attacks, he stops caring about the opinions of others.
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