Gina Gershon Demands Vanity Fair Retraction For Implying Sexual Relationship With Bill Clinton
June 3, 2008 02:28 PM

TMZ reports that Hollywood actress Gina Gershon has had her lawyers pen a demand letter to Vanity Fair, and they have a copy:

Vanity Fair just published a pretty scandalous story about Prez Bill Clinton. The demand letter claims the article "outrageously insinuates that Ms. Gershon has had an inappropriate sexual relationship with President Clinton. This is absolutely false."

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Gershon's lawyers from the bulldog firm Lavely & Singer noted that "Gershon has only been in the same room as President Clinton on three occasions," all with many others present.(snip)

In the July Vanity Fair, Todd Purdum writes of Gershon just once:

Over the last few years, aides have winced at repeated tabloid reports about Clinton's episodic friendship and occasional dinners out with Belinda Stronach, a twice-divorced billionaire auto-parts heiress and member of the Canadian Parliament 20 years his junior, or at more recent high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip that Clinton has been seen visiting with the actress Gina Gershon in California. There has been talk of a female friend in Chappaqua, a woman in a bar at a meeting of the Aspen Institute, and a public sighting of Clinton, Bing, and a ravishing entourage in a New York elevator that, a former Clinton aide told me, led a business leader who saw them to say: I don't know what the guy was doing, but it was so clear that it was just no good.

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Ms. Gershon has only been in the same room as President Clinton on three occasions, during which she was always in the presence of anywhere from approximately a dozen people to several hundred or more. (snip)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/03 /gina-gershon-demands-emva_n_104936.html

OK.  Here's my only commentary.  I saw the author of this article on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, before I read Ms. Gershon's denial, and he was dancing around the fact that he did not claim that Bill was cheating - - - or even insinuate it.  He claims that he was just relaying "serious concerns" from all of his "anonymous sources", "sources close to Bill Clinton", "insiders", and "people with knowledge of the situation".  

Well, after reading of the incidents in which Bill Clinton actually was in the same room with Ms. Gershon, it is clear that all his statements to Wolf Blitzer about him not insinuating anything, and that he was just relaying "serious concerns" from real "insiders" that Bill was having an affair with Gina Gershon, were flat out lies by a propagandist smearing a candidate's husband at the worst possible time, to get revenge for the firing of his wife.  In other words, how could real "insiders" from Bill Clinton's staff be concerned that Bill was having an affair with someone they know he only met three times in crowded rooms?  Obviously, there were no "serious concerns" from any "insiders".

Update: Here's a copy of the transcript from the CNN interview. Note what a lying fucking weasel this guy is being about whether or not he is publishing a hit piece, or just relaying "serious concerns" from "insiders".

BLITZER: Probably the most explosive part of the article includes this notion of some sort of intervention, which was necessitated by the suggestion you make that he's still philandering, or whatever. Here's what you write: "Four former Clinton aides told me that, about 18 months ago, one of the president's former assistants, who still advises him on political matters, had heard so many complaints about such reports from Clinton supporters around the country that he felt compelled to try to conduct what one of these aides called an intervention, because, the aide believed, Clinton was apparently seeing a lot of women on the road." You quote these anonymous sources. And it sounds like rumor, basically. But go ahead and explain what the point is. PURDUM: Well, I'm very careful to say that there is no clear-cut evidence that President Clinton has done anything improper. What I am careful to say and what is the truth is that this former senior aide was concerned enough that prominent Democrats around the country were complaining about hearing reports of this in their own backyard that he felt President Clinton should be made aware of it and should know that it was out there in the slipstream, in the water, so to speak, and that it could have an effect in the campaign season. That's all I say. I don't say anything more. BLITZER: But does that rise up to the threshold required to make to make -- to make what obviously is a very serious insinuation, that he's still cheating on Hillary Clinton? PURDUM: Wolf, I don't make that insinuation. I don't make that insinuation in any place in the story. And I'm quite careful to say that I'm not. What I'm saying is that some of his own aides are concerned about these reports. That's all I say. And I think the point here is, I'm not quoting Ken Starr's operatives. I'm not quoting opposition researchers for Barack Obama. I'm not quoting Republican lawyers or private eyes. I'm quoting people who work and used to work and still work for Bill Clinton. And these are their concerns. They're not my concerns. They're not anyone else's concerns. These are their concerns. BLITZER: And are you comfortable just quoting anonymous sources to make this insinuation? PURDUM: First of all, I reject the notion that I'm making an insinuation. But I'm very comfortable quoting the people I quote, because I know who they are, and I know that they're very senior people who have known President Clinton for a very long time and worked for him at very high levels. Yes, I feel very confident about that.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0806/02/sitroom.03.html Scumbag! UPDATE No. 2: From wikipedia:

Myers holds the distinction of being the first woman to serve as White House Press Secretary, as well as being the second-youngest press secretary ever. However, she felt she was being treated unfairly on account of her gender. For instance, she revealed in her memoir that when she discovered that she had a lower salary than her predecessor, her request to have it raised appropriately was refused for budgetary reasons. When she pointed out that a certain male coworker in a position of less responsibility than herself was being paid more, they excused it as because he was older and had a family, which struck her as a disingenuous excuse for the favoritism.

In addition, RealClearPolitics has a full copy of Bill Clinton's response to Vanity Fair's hit job: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/the_facts_about_clintons_postp.html And PBS has an interview with Dee Dee Myers, herself, regarding her being upset that the "kids" who won Bill Clinton the White House, including her, were dumped for experienced politicians like David Gergen: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/interviews/myers2.html