One date only for Bill Bennett and Janis Joplin-So says Bennett’s brother, Bob....

[kpete]

One date only for Bill Bennett and Janis Joplin
February 26, 1:56 AM


AP
The eHarmony software would have never come up with this one: Back in the late ’60s, conservative commentator Bill Bennett went on a date with hippie icon Janis Joplin.

So says Bennett’s brother, Bob, in his recently released memoir, “In the Ring.”

So how’d it go? Bob says Bill told him at the time, “Let me put it this way, we were both disappointed.”

Bob, who would go on to be a respected Washington lawyer, begins discussing his close relationship with Bill — who is four years younger — right on the first page of chapter one. “It was standard fare for me to return from grade school and be given a list of neighborhood bullies who had mistreated Bill, then I did my brotherly duty of evening the score,” he writes. “No one was going to hit my little brother. That was a privilege I reserved for myself.”

Take his favorite boyhood game, Rocket Ship. This, according to Bob, “required Bill to get to the top of the staircase, place his arms to his sides, and, under my direction, often accompanied by a push, travel down the stairs headfirst. It is amazing that he is still alive, functioning at a very high level, and still loves me.”

more at:
http://www.examiner.com/blogs/Yeas_and_Nays/2008/2/26/One-date-only-for-Bill-Bennett-and-Janis-Joplin

[Fridays Child]

1. Could frontal lobe trauma explain some Republican personality traits?

Hmm.

[KharmaTrain]

2. Evening The Score? Little Bro Couldn't Fight His Own Battles...

Now we can see why Bettamillion Bill is such an arrogant fukwad...he'd shoot off his mouth and run behind his big brother. Still looks like that's the case...

So were the Bennetts from Beaumont? No wonder Janis couldn't stand the place. Or will we find out this was more "poetic license"...

One thing for sure...Bob Bennett is the ultimate betlway "fixer".

[annabanana]

3. "travel down the stairs headfirst". . . ah-HA!

Boy! That explains a lot!

[peacetalksforall]

4. So does the book reveal how Bill became the gambler and pseudo

moralist who writes pseudo books while he hangs out with thieves in the dynasty?

[Jim__]

5. Bill Bennett with Janis Joplin?

My brain refuses to form that picture.

[madokie]

You got that right

[annabanana]

7. It IS very hard to picture. . . . n/t

[tanyev]

6. After Janis laughed hysterically at Bill's clumsy overtures, the young conservative

left in a rage. He went home and began furiously scribbling a diatribe which in later years he developed into his tribute to hypocritical pomposity, The Book of Virtues.


That's how it happened in my imagination. :)