Nina Burleigh, a New York free-lance writer who used to cover the White House for Time, makes a startling confession in a Mirabella magazine essay. Recalling a game of hearts she played with President Clinton aboard Air Force One, Burleigh writes: “There I was, walking away from a close encounter with the President of the United States, stupefied and vaguely hoping that he’d send an aide over to my hotel room to ask me for a drink.” This might be her true confession, but we can imagine a lot of outraged readers if a male writer had lusted after Hillary in such a way and wrote to tell about it. Burleigh goes on to say that most women- except perhaps, Janet Reno, Donna Shalala and Madeleine Albright-are “rendered willing and pliant around Bill Clinton.” Not only does Burleigh, a “feminist,” misrepresent most women, she manages to characterize women journalists as starry-eyed sycophants with little else than seduction on their minds.
