GQ Standing by Rand Paul Bong Hit Story (TheWrap.com)

Rand Paul, image via Wikipedia

By Dylan Stableford

Published: August 10, 2010

 

Here’s a story that's burning up media tubes in D.C.

 

On Monday, GQ published a report about Republican Rand Paul, who is running for Kentucky's open U.S. Senate seat. In it, GQ claims that, in 1983, Paul – then a student at Baylor University – and a classmate once kidnapped a woman and tried to force her to take bong hits.

According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They'd been smoking pot." After the woman refused to smoke with them, Paul and his friend put her back in their car and drove to the countryside outside of Waco, where they stopped near a creek. "They told me their god was 'Aqua Buddha' and that I needed to bow down and worship him," the woman recalls. "They blindfolded me and made me bow down to 'Aqua Buddha' in the creek. I had to say, 'I worship you Aqua Buddha, I worship you.' At Baylor, there were people actively going around trying to save you and we had to go to chapel, so worshiping idols was a big no-no."
 

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Esquire Writer On Newt Gingrich: ‘It Was The Racism That Threw Me’ (Mediaite)

Newt Gingrich, image by Getty Images via @daylife

by Colby Hall | 9:42 am, August 11th, 2010

Yesterday Esquire released a rather explosive 8,000 word essay about former Clinton-era Speaker of the House and presumptive GOP Presidentail Candidate Newt Gingrich. The epic expose is sure to make a lot of news, and become an ongoing factor in Gingrich’s political future, because the writer chose a very interesting method of getting to know the candidate: by interviewing his ex-wife Marianne Gingrich. In a follow up blog post, writer John H. Richardson revealed his motivation behind the interview: his racist comments.


In a separate blog post entitled “Why Marianne Gingrich Told Me About a Vulnerable Newt,” Richardson opened:

It was the racism that threw me. As a reporter, I’ve always believed that everyone has some kind of inner coherence. No matter how inexplicable their behavior may be, there is always logic somewhere.

This proved true with a multitude of subjects, from murderers to movie stars. Until Newt Gingrich.

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Whitman vs. Brown: Hollywood donors named (THR.com)

Interesting graphic of Hollywood contributors to the California gubernatorial campaigns of eBay Republican Meg Whitman and former Gov. Moonbeam Jerry Brown on The Hollywood Reporter.