Hillaryzilla

I read something that pissed me off. Then I laughed so hard I pissed again.

Five or six years ago, my book, “Living History” became a national bestseller. Even Oprah loved it. That was before her love affair with Barack Obama. As books go, Living History is special, not so much for what it says, but for what it does not say.

What is says is mostly bland; a history of my life as a Goldwater Girl, then activist, then First Lady. Wife. Mother. Lawyer. That’s me. Big whoop, right?

What got me pissed off was Bob from Accounting. One of my staffers emailed a link about some “missing chapters” to Living History which turned up on the internet. That got me worried. Obviously, not everything I wrote for the book turned up in the book. That’s what editors do. They edit. So, some chapters were edited, others were deleted altogether.

What turned up on the internet, thanks to Bob from Accounting, was a so-called lost chapter from Living History. The chapter wasn’t so much lost as it was completely made up. As in fictitious. But as I read it, I sincerely remember it all happening exactly that way. Mostly. I thought I actually wrote that chapter and the editors, thankfully, kept it out of the book.

The chapter had to do with my reaction to Bill telling me about that fat intern Monica Lewinsky and their escapades under the Oval Office desk and what she was doing and why I was really pissed at Bill because I had wanted to do it first. You know, spice things up a bit.

Well, it turns out that this wasn’t really a lost chapter. The whole thing was just made up, imaginary, fiction, a good guess.

Whew. Am I relieved.

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