More Weird Sex Stuff from Scott Brown
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 in Uncategorized |
Gawker reports that his wife once appeared in a music video in which she brings a tube of sunscreen to orgasm. It’s called—hilariously—”The Girl With The Curious Hand.”
(The song is execrable, so if you don’t want to listen, the, um, juicy moment is at 1:05.)
Scott’s nude, the wife is porny, the daughters are “available.” The Browns just get more and more wholesome.
20 Responses
1/22/2010 6:50 pm
I wonder, did David Foster Wallace use this as inspiration for his story “Girl with Curious Hair”? he would have been in Boston around this time.
1/22/2010 8:43 pm
When did you become such a crank and a prude Rich? Who cares if these people had lives before they became politicians? Or is the left now the new Moral Majority!
1/22/2010 10:15 pm
Sorry, anon, people who have ever in their lives been willing to sell their dignity and integrity for money, or are so full of themselves that they can tell themselves it was otherwise, these same people will be willing to sell their supporters down the river for money too. Becoming a politician is just putting another face on it. Normal youthful and college antics notwithstanding…I think most of us can handle that. If he’s your Senator…good luck with that…glad he’s yours and not mine. And what moral majority would you be talking about…I don’t see any moral majority? Where are they?
1/22/2010 10:42 pm
His WIFE deserves this? For what? For being married to a Republican?
Ah, the liberal spirit.
1/22/2010 11:01 pm
Harry, you are smarter than that. I can’t speak for liberals, as I don’t place myself in that camp. But I know what bothers me about this stuff, and the liberals and I are probably on the same page here: What is irritating, and makes this sort of thing fair game, is when Republicans think this sort of thing is perfectly fine when they do it—pose nude, appear in lewd music videos—and then use their office to castigate others for expressions of sexuality, such as, say, wanting to get married.
Maybe I’m wrong about Brown and he’ll prove himself to be more socially tolerant than I expect. Maybe he’ll vote for gay marriage, or support a more progressive FCC, or think that it’s okay to have gay soldiers.
But the truism here is that liberals don’t care about this stuff from politicians who don’t try to castigate and punish and legislate against others for doing sexual things—but hypocrisy is infuriating, and liberals tend to hit it hard because, well, they should.
We’ll see which way Brown goes. Think he’ll break with the party line on any of the issues (or related ones that I’m not thinking of) mentioned above?
I don’t, but I hope I’m wrong.
1/22/2010 11:02 pm
By the way, the above is not the most lucid comment I’ve ever written. Apologies for that. Just got back from a long trip, plane was delayed, etc.
1/22/2010 11:10 pm
Hey, Richard - Gale is pretty smart so stand down dude….I am not an R but I am a Bostonian. She is highly regarded as a professional in this town and thank God he and we have her at his side.
And btw, it must be the seat…JFK, EMK and now SB….something about the peoples seat that attracts such types….
Let it go and focus on the real stuff.
If he wants the job for life he votes FOR health care but stripping out the crap…………
See ya in the funnies!
1/22/2010 11:35 pm
Sorry, everybody, I will stand by what I said…and I wouldn’t thank God, I highly doubt He had absolutely anything to do with it.
1/23/2010 9:47 am
Richard,
The woman raised two kids while working as a TV journalist. (Apparently good kids, though if there are sex tapes I am sure I will see them here first.) Do you have any idea how hard that is? She stayed totally out of the picture during the campaign, neither working nor campaigning. Invisible, so as to have some chance of preserving her career. She was a complete non-issue. If anyone knows her politics, I don’t, and I have been watching her on TV for years. And now you want to take down Brown by offing his wife? On the basis that you think he is going to block gay marriage? Wow. How progressive.
1/23/2010 9:48 am
Richard,
The woman raised two kids while working as a TV journalist. (Apparently good kids, though if there are sex tapes I am sure I will see them here first.) Do you have any idea how hard that is? She stayed totally out of the picture during the campaign, neither working nor campaigning. Invisible, so as to have some chance of preserving her career. She was a complete non-issue. If anyone knows her politics, I don’t, and I have been watching her on TV for years. And now you want to take down Brown by offing his wife? On the basis that you think he is going to block gay marriage? How progressive!
1/23/2010 12:56 pm
Harry, that’s not fair. The tape was on Gawker which is where Richard got it. I’m sure it’s in other places as well that will spread around a whole lot faster than this blog well. I may have been mistaken but I was pretty sure that for the most part, only fairly intelligent people with a little sense of fun read this blog. I don’t read Gawker…ever. Or stuff like it. And again I’m sorry, if you want to run for public office, you had better be sure there is nothing laying around that can get you into hot water. If there is, you “pays your money and takes your chances.” I’m hardly a prude, Harry, and I don’t care what you do in your spare time, but I’m a Canadian, we don’t have ex Centrefolds among our elected officials. We’d just as soon not. We have legal gay marriage, legal abortion (you can’t be anti-abortion and pro-war at the same time). We’re pretty boring, and not perfect, and we have dumb-bell politicians and dumb-bell voters, but we are also not in the tank, not by a long shot. You might think about that “progressive” stuff. I raised two kids as a single mom with no child support, as a lowly civil servant and had to flip hamburgers a few nights a week to keep food on the table. All three of us had health care. My kids turned out pretty good too. I didn’t have a Centrefold around to bring home a paycheque. And by the way, we spell funny, okay?
1/23/2010 1:57 pm
It is certainly around; the talk shows were giggling about it last week. Nobody here cares. They didn’t care about the centerfold either. Of course the same voters didn’t care when Brown’s sainted predecessor in office left a young woman at the bottom of the ocean overnight. It’s not what people worry about in this state, apparently — this state which also has gay marriage and universal health care. So why do I object to this posting? Because the people who lost this election are so angry that they are flailing, trying to weave grand moral lessons out of molehills, and in this case striking at an innocent woman rather than being honest with themselves about why they lost the election. I feel sorry for her because she doesn’t deserve it, and I expected better of Richard. I thought that we had gone a long way in society toward not tearing down women because we don’t like their husbands, and was sorry to see him so vicious about Brown that he went down that path.
Interesting, by the way, that Bob Herbert in today’s NY Times sees Obamacare the same way I do. [T]he Democrats wasted a year squabbling like unruly toddlers over health insurance legislation. No one in his or her right mind could have believed that a workable, efficient, cost-effective system could come out of the monstrously ugly plan that finally emerged from the Senate after long months of shady alliances, disgraceful back-room deals, outlandish payoffs and abject capitulation to the insurance companies and giant pharmaceutical outfits. The public interest? Forget about it. I doubt the Dems will lose the next election for Brown’s seat, but if they do, it’ll be because they are more intent on digging up dirt about him than in responding to what the voters were actually worried about.
1/23/2010 2:04 pm
Well said Harry!
1/23/2010 5:11 pm
Harry,
Please, don’t ever make Bob Herbert a representative of anything progressive. The man’s a ghastly columnist.
I’m not trying to “take down” Mrs. Brown. Myself, I couldn’t care less that she appeared in a racy music video. I’m more offended by the quality of the music than the cheesy sexual innuendo.
And of course I have respect for all good parents, whether working outside the home or not.
My tweaking really has more to do with the GOP, which, had the Browns been Democrats, would have ripped into these things as rendering the Browns unfit for national service. You’ll remember the Harold Ford/Playboy mansion ad in Tennessee? With an attractive (white) blonde miming a phone call and saying, “Harold…call me.” What would they have done to Brown should the situation have been reversed and he were a Dem and represented the 41st Dem senator?
Hell, it was Glenn Beck who implied that Brown was going to kill an intern, not the Huffington Post.
And consider this post also a bit of preemptive tweaking of Scott Brown, who sounds like he’s pretty sexually progressive in his private life but will inevitably not vote that way. Time will tell on that, and again, I hope I’m wrong, but we can both watch and wait. Do you really think Brown will buck his party?
I see from a brief web search that Brown has consistently opposed gay marriage and supports an amendment to the state constitution to ban it.
Pathetic.
Brown’s clearly not a dogmatic Republican and his politics are more nuanced than that of the typical GOPer in Washington. Good on him. Let’s hope he stays that way.
One other thing we can agree on: Yes, liberals are angry (and have some legitimate reason to be, I think). But it’s a mistake for the left to go postal on Scott Brown and lose sight of the larger issues.
So far, I don’t think that’s happening—whether Brown was a Democrat or a Republican, the culture would have had some fun, sometimes mean fun, with the fact that he once posed nude and his wife was in that video. I suspect/hope the left will move on; the right would have torn them apart.
1/23/2010 5:17 pm
omg, i totally remember this song/band. ah, good times, good times.
1/23/2010 5:26 pm
Harry–there is another way to look at this. Gail Huff will have to endure some momentary embarrassment for a video she made when she was young and needed work.
On the other hand, because of Scott Brown, 30 million Americans won’t get health insurance.
So…let’s keep the relative unfairness in perspective.
1/23/2010 6:03 pm
Another winning argument — “It’s fair for me to do it because it was awful when they did it.”
1/23/2010 6:09 pm
Actually, that’s not my argument, Harry. You’ll note my use of the word “unfairness” above.
I said that while the left might get a little chuckle out of something like this—and this video would have come out regardless of what party Brown came from, that’s just the nature of our culture these days—the right would use it to destroy a career. So your post about “the liberal spirit” seemed particularly off-base.
1/23/2010 9:25 pm
It would be nice if those who criticize the Democrats on aesthetic or karmic grounds (wanna talk sore losers? Let’s talk Norm Coleman & ridiculous senatorial holds on noncontroversial nominees) would show any hint of understanding OR CARING what the significant provisions of this bill actually are, and how relatively inconsequential the valid criticisms of it are. (Medicaid for Nebraska even in perpetuity is CHUMP CHANGE.)
Harry, you should be apprised that around 2005 Chappaquidick passed from being the punchline to jokes about Kennedy to being the punchline to jokes about people who bring it up in policy discussions: i.e. “Yes, Social Security is insurance from generation to generation that no one has to grow old and die in abject poverty — but it’s a little too late for that for Mary Alice Kopechki (sic), isn’t it now?”
Don’t let voting for one Republican with disregard for silly but significant metanarratives (that happen to hurt the country) turn you into a punchline.
Continuing to be ready to champion either health-insurance reform bill against all comers (or, for that matter, frosh preassifnment by dorm to Houses) –
Standing Eagle
PS. I’m bitterly disappointed with Obama in light of his choices since Tuesday and am giving him a last chance in the SOTU. If he is weak there I’m refocusing on my cooking hobby, as I did when Bush was re-elected.
1/23/2010 9:42 pm
Just to update people appropriately — all hope is not lost –
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_01/022058.php
AND
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_01/022063.php
BUT
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_01/022064.php
Boolishly,
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