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12 December 2009

Taki lives the High Life

The hysteria over Tiger Woods is simply wonderful. Compared with Bill Clinton’s tarts, Tiger’s are of slightly better quality, which is not saying much. The prettiest of the lot, Rachel Uchitel, is something else. This is hard for me to admit, but she was at school with my daughter and I had actually noticed her and had said something to my little girl about her. (‘Daddy, stop it.’) Rachel’s best friend was also an operator, a girl by the name of Soshana Lonstein, who managed to land a multimillionaire once she graduated from Nightingale-Bamford, a top girls’ school in the Bagel. While attending school, Soshana was stepping out with a frightful man called Jerry Seinfeld, of TV fame, not the type any self-respecting father would like to see his daughter bring home. In fact, I remember asking the mother of my children whether she planned to turn our daughter into a pole dancer or something. ‘All her friends in that ghastly school look and dress like hookers.’ (Lolly was at L’Aiglon, a wonderful Swiss boarding school, but came back because she was homesick.)

Well, the papers are calling Rachel a socialite, which yet again goes to show how much they know. Uchitel’s grandfather was a sleazy nightclub-owner whom I knew ever so slightly, and her old man overdosed and died a few years ago. Not exactly top-drawer stuff, but better than Miss Chelsea Clinton’s future father-in-law, Ed Mezvinsky, who has just served seven years in a federal lock-up for bank and wire fraud. (Mezvinsky did seven, Jeffrey Epstein did two. I wonder which Clinton buddy is next?) The New York Times failed to report this because it doesn’t fit its agenda, but just imagine if Jenna Bush had become engaged to the son of a crook...

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Herbert Thornton

December 17th, 2009 5:43pm Report this comment

Tiger's certainly in the public dog house but as Taki forecasts, it's likely to be only for the time being.

But haven't some of the people throwing stones at the kennel been known to hint that they themselves live in glass houses?

Or perhaps a better class of glass house?

Occam's Razorboy

January 2nd, 2010 10:53pm Report this comment

Taki is somewhat amusing, but his antisemitism grows tiresome. Seinfeld would normally be considered a catch; however, as Shoshana was 17 and he was 39, not so much.

In the latest issue of the Spectator, Taki referenced positively an antisemitic prof at The U of California.

To state it plainly: Taki, if Jews have "undue" influence, it is because our religion places a premium on learning and scholastic attainments, as well as hard work. Sorry that our cultural achievements bother you so. I haven't looked up the number of Greek Nobel Prize winners, but I'm sure it can't be more than 10. Jews have 186, and I think the populations are similar.

I myself earned everything I got, unlike you. My father was lower middle class, and I went to a private American University by dint of a full tuition academic scholarship, earned because my test scores were sky high. After I graduated medical school, I paid off my $80,000 in student debt by practicing in a solo practice in rural Alabama, where the demand was fierce.

Everything I have, or own, I got by dint of my own hard work, unlike you. Take your antisemitic remarks and cram them into a small ball and shove them where the sun doesn't shine.

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