Post #524889 by rupe33 on Mon, Apr 19, 2010 11:11 AM

Reading an old Q&A with novelist James Ellroy, who's in the news as apparently a script he wrote based on the LAPD's Rampart scandal is brewing in Hollywood. Anyway, he's discussing how people are often shocked that he's not a liberal, and he mentions the following experience:

"During Bill Clinton's second term, as the Lewinsky scandal raged, I was at Trader Vic's in Beverly Hills. I was standing outside waiting for a friend when Judge Kenneth Starr got out of a chauffeur-driven Town Car right in front of me. He was with a woman I presumed was his wife, not a 22-year-old White House intern, and as he got out our eyes met and I smiled. He smiled back at me, and as he walked by me he stuck out his hand, and I shook his hand and I said, "Your Honor." And that was it. Here we were in Beverly Hills, and I was the only person within five miles who both recognized him and approved of him."

If you want to read the rest of the article, it's here:
http://old.nationalreview.com/dunphy/dunphy200511150827.asp

Cheers,
Rupe