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Bill Bennett and the dominatrix: where’s the buzz?

My posts about William Bennett and the dominatrix have so far generated little buzz. Yet it’s a far bigger scandal than the Jessica Cutler scandal. All Jessica Cutler did was write about nobodies having sex with nobodies. Bill Bennett, on the other hand, is most definitely a somebody. He had a cabinet level position under President Reagan, was the “drug czar” under the first President Bush, and since then has been in the public spotlight constantly.

He is the author of many books, including The Book of Virtues, The Moral Compass : Stories for a Life's Journey, The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals, and The Broken Hearth : Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family. If anyone deserves to be called out for cheating on his wife with a prostitute/dominatrix, it’s William Bennett who has devoted his life to telling us how to be moral and virtuous, and making tens of millions of dollars doing so.

It’s Bill Bennett’s self-proclaimed authority on virtues and morals that made the news media so gleeful in exposing the story of his excessive gambling. This opinion piece by Michael Kinsley is but one small example of the kind of outrage caused by news of Bennett’s gambling problems. But despite the outing of his gambling problems, Bennett has not retired from the public spotlight. He still preaches virtues and morals, and now does it from the pulpit of a nationally syndicated radio talk show, Bill Bennett’s Morning in America.

Rumors of John Kerry’s affair with a staffer, Alexandra Polier, were quickly made public by the media, even though the whole thing was false. What’s the difference? Apparently, it’s acceptable media behavior to make public rumors of a normal extra-marital affair, even though there was very little evidence to back it up. But when a guy gets his jollies by being beaten up by a dominatrix, it’s too weird for the mainstream media to handle.

According to my anonymous email source, the media knows a lot more about this story than what I’ve reported on my website. Terry Neal of the Washington Post allegedly has an incriminating audiotape. (I sent an email to Neal that was unanswered.) According to democrats.com, Lloyd Grove of the NY Daily News and Josh Green of the Atlantic also have investigated the story. I am told that someone with detailed firsthand knowledge of their relationship, other than “Mistress Lee,” has talked to reporters. And of course there is “Mistress Lee’s” own confirmation that the story is true. I am told that there are casino videotapes of the two of them together, but casino employees won’t talk on the record because they’d lose their jobs for ratting out customers.

I am also told that this story is even bigger than just Bill Bennett. I am told that “Mistress Lee” has other high level clients, including governors, congressmen, and powerful businessmen.

I am unable to confirm any of this myself. (Of course, if anyone has any tips, my email address is on the sidebar of the blog’s main page.) The people who can confirm it, as well as publicize it, remain silent. What gives?

I already sent an email to Terry Neal but did not receive a response. Today I sent the following email to Joshua Green and Lloyd Grove:

We will see if I get a response. In the meantime, please keep visiting the Calico Cat. Tomorrow I will post yet another email from “Mistress Lee.”

UPDATE

I think this story is a hoax. Calico Cat scammed by the dominatrix.

posted Wednesday, June 02, 2004