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Sep 06, 2008 21:41

How vanity led to downfall of Clinton's guru



FOR such a smooth Svengali-like political operator, Dick Morris was incredibly naive. His downfall came after he tried to impress the $200-an-hour prostitute Sherry Rowlands first with his wit (he liked to perform a frantic version of "Popeye the Sailor Man" in his underpants), and then with the fact that he knew President Clinton like a brother.

Phil Bunton, the British-born editor of the Star tabloid, which ambushed him last Thursday with the woman, said: "He seemed to think that Sherry was just some dim bimbo." But the blue-eyed blonde was busy nearly every week for a year making "voluminous" notes of their regular trysts at the Jefferson Hotel, just down the street from the White House.

Mr Morris so trusted her that he gave her a key to his regular suite, room 205, which he had because he was so often in Washington, away from his wife for 20 years, Eileen, an attorney, who stayed at home in Connecticut. It is paid for from Clinton campaign funds. When Mr Morris had no spare cash to pay the prostitute, he gave her a $824 (£528) cheque made out to him for a speech at the University of Memphis, counter-signing it so that she could go to a bank.

Armed with this evidence, Star reporters waited for 10 days in a room above the suite, to capture the couple on video, sitting on the balcony. Mr Bunton said his team had pictures of them in their clothes at 1.10am, and then at 3am relaxing in bathrobes. Other proof includes tapes from the prostitute's message service with Mr Morris arranging "dates". Similar tapes were offered by Gennifer Flowers in her 1992 deal with the Star to allege an affair with Mr Clinton. Mr Bunton said Rowlands was paid "considerably less" than Flowers.

If the prostitute is to be believed, Mr Morris's ego was his great problem. "When he first told me he was the president's political strategist, I hadn't a clue," Rowlands said. "Hey, I didn't care if Dick called himself Napoleon as long as his money was green. But I let him try to impress me."

She claimed that the phone rang one night while they were sprawled on a bed after some kinky sex (he apparently had a preference for toe-sucking and dominance). On the line, she said, was Mr Clinton. "After a few words he motioned for me to sit on the sofa close to him. He held the receiver between us and was giggling and pointing for me to listen in. It was the man! Yeah! I was finally impressed."

Rowlands allegedly eavesdropped on several more conversations between the two, who have known each other since Mr Morris worked on Mr Clinton's first gubernatorial campaign in Arkansas in 1978. He helped him engineer his comeback in the state in 1982. She claimed to have heard a lot of political talk. "They were talking about changing the Medicare package, and Clinton apparently wasn't real happy with what Dick wanted him to do. At one point the President blurted out: 'Ah, hell, Dick, I don't want to wake up in the morning and see a whole bunch of cripples in wheelchairs chained to my front gate!' "

At one low point for the White House in the Whitewater scandal, Rowlands said that Mr Morris phoned the president early in the morning. She claimed to have heard Mr Clinton say: "Look, don't call on this phone anymore. Use the office phone. Hillary's just out of sorts and she's not well. She doesn't need to be answering phone calls."

She said Mr Morris called Mr Clinton "the monster" and Hillary "the twister". He had a "love-hate" relationship with the couple. "He told me that if he wasn't married, and if Hillary wasn't First Lady, if he ever wanted to have an affair, it would be with Hillary - because she's an intelligent, strong, seductive woman." Mr Morris allegedly said: "She's the lightning rod of the marriage. She stands tall in front of all her adversaries and says: 'Come on, get me, put me in jail! Come on!' "

Rowlands spoke of back-stabbing at the White House, saying that Mr Morris had cried in her arms, telling her he was not certain if he was giving the President "the right answers". She said Mr Morris had spoken of Mr Clinton's lack of "compassion and common sense", his tantrums, childish sulks and hypochondria. Rowlands said that early last month Mr Morris told her about "a military secret that only seven people in the world knew", the claim about rock from Mars.

The night that the Star filmed them, Rowlands said Mr Morris let her read an advance copy of Hillary Clinton's convention speech. They went out on to the balcony where Mr Morris was seen hugging and kissing her. He was overheard to say: "Oh, sweetie, this is very romantic. But it's also very, very stupid."

After spending Wednesday avoiding the Star, Mr Morris and his wife woke up in bed at their $650-a-night suite in the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago to find themselves engulfed in scandal.

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I feel this was necessary after that LOLarious post back there. Just remember the next time you see this fat piece of shit obsessing about the Clintons how much he wanted to have an affair with Hillz... LOL

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