Very few people know that George Wallace had a secret love affair with Aretha Franklin. The song "Freedom" made famous in the movie The Blues Brothers was actually about him not Matt (Guitar) Murphy.
Dennis Kucinich was one arrested without incident and sebsequently released for breaking into a nail salon fondling and licking womans feet. Charges were quietly dropped.
(seriously if that was a real story would anyone really be that surprised?)
March 14, 2008 at 7:28 AM
Anonymous said...
I will be back to do do this running out to class! I need time to think anyway! LOL!! you all are veterans!
Dang it Doc, your good at this one, I need time to think.
It wasn't until the turn of the century that Merriam-Webster, the names that together, carries the assurance of quality and authority were found to be the pen names of Jed Hadit and Billy Bob Tookit, from Paint Rock, TN
Doc's son Patrick won a multi-million dollar lawsuit from his parents for forcing him to drink the foul-tasting Baby's Bliss Gripe Water Colic Relief Formula as an infant. The suit made national headlines and made it all the way to the Supreme Court. It became known as Gripe Water-gate.
New research has found that the actual cause of the Alexander Hamilton Aaron Burr duel was the fact that Hamilton used the phrase 'intensive purposes' to describing Burr's tax and spend economic plan.
You forgot to mention when Janet Reno danced on a makeshift catwalk to the I'm too sexy for my shirt song while Rosie Odonnell, Melissa Ethridge and Kady Lang put 2dollar bills in her thong.
Reagan always wanted be a song and dance man so he would make his staff dress up like the cast from Cabaret and perform. He played Liza's part of Sally Bowels. Nancy played the chair.
Teddy Roosevelt was often portrayed saying charge supposedly for some battle. It was really because he had a spending problem and was in debt up to his spectacles. And the Rough Riders, well that had more to do with his wife than those fellows on horse back.
The Petticoat Affair (also known as the Eaton Affair or the Eaton Malaria) was an 1831 U.S. scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet.
Margaret "Peggy" O'Neale (or O'Neill, later Margaret O'Neill Eaton) was the daughter of a Washington, D.C. boarding-house owner who had lost her first husband, sailor John B. Timberlake, to suicide. Peggy was renowned for having a "vivacious" temperament — the implication being that she was overtly flirtatious and sexual at a time when "respectable" women, as a group, were not — and it was alleged that Timberlake had been driven to suicide because of her affair with Jackson's Secretary of War John Henry Eaton. Peggy and Eaton were married shortly after Timberlake's death, scandalizing the respectable women of the capital.
The anti-Peggy coalition was led by Second Lady Floride Calhoun, the wife of Vice President John C. Calhoun and a phalanx of other Cabinet wives, while Martin Van Buren, the only unmarried member of the Cabinet, having been widowed, allied himself with the Eatons. Jackson was sympathetic to the Eatons, in part, perhaps, because his own beloved late wife, Rachel Donelson Robards, had been the subject of equally nasty innuendo. (Her first marriage turned out to have not been completely dissolved prior to her wedding to Jackson.) That said, Jackson's First Lady, Rachel's niece Emily Donelson, nonetheless sided with the Calhoun faction.
The scandal was so intense that several members of the Cabinet finally resigned, including Samuel D. Ingham and John Branch, and Van Buren was elevated to a position as Jackson's favorite (replacing Calhoun) and the de facto heir to the Democratic party. Eventually, Eaton also resigned from the cabinet. Emily Donelson was made the "Official Hostess" under Jackson.
7. Geraldine Ferraro’s torrid love affairs in the 1960s with Mickey Dolenz, Michael Tork and Michael Nesmith. (Davy Jones refused to monkey around with her).
Always knew that boy had good taste!!!
Political facts/scandals... 1. John Quincy Adams used to get up two hours before sunrise to go skinny dipping in the Potomac River.
2. Warren G. Harding once lost all the White House china gambling, on one hand of cards.
3. Lyndon Baines Johnson, At fifteen he ran away from home and traveled to California where he worked as a grape picker and auto mechanic.
Warren G. Harding once lost all the White House china gambling, on one hand of cards. - BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
Maybe thats why they wanted to impeach him!
March 14, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Now that Eliot Spitzer has stepped down as Governor in shame for the ‘quality time’ he spent with a high class call girl, I did some research on other political scandals throughout American history. As it turns out, there have been a lot more scandals that have not gotten much press for some odd reasons. So for today’s top ten list I present to you the Top Ten Least Well Known Political Scandals:
10. Al & Tipper Gore for bringing their high-powered foot heater with them when they visited Greenland. 9. Millard Fillmore’s addiction to sniffing his inkwell.
8. Alberto Gonzalez’s restraining order for stalking Charo in 1975.
7. Geraldine Ferraro’s torrid love affairs in the 1960s with Mickey Dolenz, Michael
Tork and Michael Nesmith. (Davy Jones refused to monkey around with her).
6. Franklin Roosevelt was Adolph Hitler’s ghost writer.
5. Joe McCarthy’s quiet obsession with the Cincinnati Reds.
4. Jeb Bush’s illegal spear fishing in the Everglades.
3.John Quincy Adams taxation with representation.
2. Photographs of Jesse Helms playing in a minstrel blues band.
And the number one Least Well Known Political Scandals is:
1. Harry S. Truman often got bombed on sake.
Now I challenge you to remind us of some other obscure political scandal and win one of my Lion Awards. Thanks everyone and have a great weekend!
- The Mountain Cat
posted by The Mountain Cat at 12:06 AM on Mar 14, 2008
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March 14, 2008 at 1:44 AM
Very few people know that George Wallace had a secret love affair with Aretha Franklin. The song "Freedom" made famous in the movie The Blues Brothers was actually about him not Matt (Guitar) Murphy.
March 14, 2008 at 5:27 AM
The Anita Hill hearings were all just a big smokescreen to cover up Clarence Thomas' torrid gay love affair with Dee Snyder.
March 14, 2008 at 7:11 AM
Dennis Kucinich was one arrested without incident and sebsequently released for breaking into a nail salon fondling and licking womans feet. Charges were quietly dropped.
(seriously if that was a real story would anyone really be that surprised?)
March 14, 2008 at 7:28 AM
I will be back to do do this running out to class! I need time to think anyway! LOL!! you all are veterans!
Single
March 14, 2008 at 7:51 AM
Bob Dole's vicious lawsuit against the Dole Produce Company for firing him as their top banana and the loss of residual greens. Cheers!
March 14, 2008 at 7:58 AM
Rumors have been kept quiet for centuries that Betsy Ross' was actually born a man.
March 14, 2008 at 8:05 AM
Very few people know that Ben Franklin used to manufacture water bongs as a hobby.
March 14, 2008 at 8:13 AM
Calvin Coolidge was the first President to hire White House interns and also the first to get caught behiond closed doors with one.
March 14, 2008 at 8:42 AM
Hillary Clinton is actually Martin Short in drag.
March 14, 2008 at 8:56 AM
Dang it Doc, your good at this one, I need time to think.
It wasn't until the turn of the century that Merriam-Webster, the names that together, carries the assurance of quality and authority were found to be the pen names of
Jed Hadit and Billy Bob Tookit, from Paint Rock, TN
March 14, 2008 at 9:01 AM
Nancy Reagan was once Marion Berry's crack-whore.
March 14, 2008 at 9:09 AM
Abraham Lincoln was a closet penny hoarder....
March 14, 2008 at 9:19 AM
Doc's son Patrick won a multi-million dollar lawsuit from his parents for forcing him to drink the foul-tasting Baby's Bliss Gripe Water Colic Relief Formula as an infant. The suit made national headlines and made it all the way to the Supreme Court. It became known as Gripe Water-gate.
March 14, 2008 at 9:27 AM
I heard that Richard Nixon once stopped at an unmanned vegetable stand and actually left three dollars for the tomatoes he took. Cheers!!
March 14, 2008 at 9:30 AM
New research has found that the actual cause of the Alexander Hamilton Aaron Burr duel was the fact that Hamilton used the phrase 'intensive purposes' to describing Burr's tax and spend economic plan.
March 14, 2008 at 9:36 AM
It became known as Gripe Water-gate. - Very Funny!
March 14, 2008 at 9:39 AM
Bob Misenheimer, the mayor of Kannapolis, NC, was once caught having sex with a cardboard cut-out of Dale Earnhart, Jr.
March 14, 2008 at 9:41 AM
There should be a phrase intensive purposes dammit!!
March 14, 2008 at 9:48 AM
President Polk famously caught Polk-a dancing with those Polish strippers.
March 14, 2008 at 10:12 AM
You forgot to mention when Janet Reno danced on a makeshift catwalk to the I'm too sexy for my shirt song while Rosie Odonnell, Melissa Ethridge and Kady Lang put 2dollar bills in her thong.
March 14, 2008 at 10:23 AM
At Christmas Jack gave it to Jacky from behind while the dogs singing jingle bells played on the phonograph. I shouldn't have gone there but, I did.
March 14, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Lyndon Johnson used to gallop around the oval office in nothing but his tighty whites and cowboy boot shouting Giddy up.
March 14, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Coldolesa Rice's poor mental state, she thinks it is named after her.
March 14, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Lyndon Johnson used to gallop around the oval office in nothing but his tighty whites and cowboy boot shouting Giddy up.
Lu... these are supposed to be 'made up' things. Not real stories.
March 14, 2008 at 10:43 AM
[ Lu... these are supposed to be 'made up' things. Not real stories.]
LMFAO Damn you guys Rock!
March 14, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Reagan always wanted be a song and dance man so he would make his staff dress up like the cast from Cabaret and perform. He played Liza's part of Sally Bowels. Nancy played the chair.
March 14, 2008 at 11:03 AM
Teddy Roosevelt was often portrayed saying charge supposedly for some battle. It was really because he had a spending problem and was in debt up to his spectacles. And the Rough Riders, well that had more to do with his wife than those fellows on horse back.
March 14, 2008 at 11:07 AM
As for Pres' and VP scandles, well when Bill and Al spoke about Uranus, they weren't refering to outer space.
March 14, 2008 at 11:11 AM
Ronald Reagan's Depends were delivered to the White House in boxes labeled "Confidential Presidential Briefs."
March 14, 2008 at 11:18 AM
I found this one!
Petticoat Affair
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Petticoat Affair (also known as the Eaton Affair or the Eaton Malaria) was an 1831 U.S. scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet.
Margaret "Peggy" O'Neale (or O'Neill, later Margaret O'Neill Eaton) was the daughter of a Washington, D.C. boarding-house owner who had lost her first husband, sailor John B. Timberlake, to suicide. Peggy was renowned for having a "vivacious" temperament — the implication being that she was overtly flirtatious and sexual at a time when "respectable" women, as a group, were not — and it was alleged that Timberlake had been driven to suicide because of her affair with Jackson's Secretary of War John Henry Eaton. Peggy and Eaton were married shortly after Timberlake's death, scandalizing the respectable women of the capital.
The anti-Peggy coalition was led by Second Lady Floride Calhoun, the wife of Vice President John C. Calhoun and a phalanx of other Cabinet wives, while Martin Van Buren, the only unmarried member of the Cabinet, having been widowed, allied himself with the Eatons. Jackson was sympathetic to the Eatons, in part, perhaps, because his own beloved late wife, Rachel Donelson Robards, had been the subject of equally nasty innuendo. (Her first marriage turned out to have not been completely dissolved prior to her wedding to Jackson.) That said, Jackson's First Lady, Rachel's niece Emily Donelson, nonetheless sided with the Calhoun faction.
The scandal was so intense that several members of the Cabinet finally resigned, including Samuel D. Ingham and John Branch, and Van Buren was elevated to a position as Jackson's favorite (replacing Calhoun) and the de facto heir to the Democratic party. Eventually, Eaton also resigned from the cabinet. Emily Donelson was made the "Official Hostess" under Jackson.
March 14, 2008 at 12:32 PM
The "Anti-Peggy coalition" sounds like a bunch of kids who think their aunt Peg is the "cool" aunt.
March 14, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Wasn't Peggy the girl who Ted Kennedy drove into the lake? LOL
March 14, 2008 at 1:13 PM
No Vin... I thought her name was Mary Jo or something like that...
Oh... HHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHA !!
Her last name is somethign like Kopecnke... that might be what you are thinking of... HAHAAA!
March 14, 2008 at 1:34 PM
7. Geraldine Ferraro’s torrid love affairs in the 1960s with Mickey Dolenz, Michael
Tork and Michael Nesmith. (Davy Jones refused to monkey around with her).
Always knew that boy had good taste!!!
Political facts/scandals...
1. John Quincy Adams used to get up two hours before sunrise to go skinny dipping in the Potomac River.
2. Warren G. Harding once lost all the White House china gambling, on one hand of cards.
3. Lyndon Baines Johnson, At fifteen he ran away from home and traveled to California where he worked as a grape picker and auto mechanic.
March 14, 2008 at 3:06 PM
Warren G. Harding once lost all the White House china gambling, on one hand of cards. - BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
Maybe thats why they wanted to impeach him!
March 14, 2008 at 3:37 PM