Happy Birthday, Betty Ford!
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Betty Ford celebrates her 90th birthday today, and Wonkette offers up a hearty, nonalcoholic toast in her honor. For the 896 wonderful days of Gerald Ford’s presidency, this sassy dancing divorcee brought outspoken feminism and frank talk to the White House. And the pills, dear God, the pills and booze! MORE »
Betty Ford celebrates her 90th birthday today, and Wonkette offers up a hearty, nonalcoholic toast in her honor. For the 896 wonderful days of Gerald Ford’s presidency, this sassy dancing divorcee brought outspoken feminism and frank talk to the White House. And the pills, dear God, the pills and booze! MORE »









America has lost its greatest leader, Earl Butz. The racist Nixon-Ford Administration agriculture secretary always kept the white protestant Republicans laughing with his poetic comedy stylings. For example, back in 1974 he made fun of Pope Paul VI’s support of population control with a wacky fake-Italian accent: “He no playa the game, he no maka the rules.” But it was his whimsical, outrageously vulgar and racist view of America’s African-Americans that truly made his mark on the world.
The new Gerald Ford biography, Write It When I’m Gone, hits bookshelves tomorrow, and now we know why the ex-president was such a sissy about having to die before it came out: it drops bombshell after bombshell, and then drops more bombshells yet. Specifically, only Ford knew these two juicy bits of Beltway insiderism: Bill Clinton might be a sex addict, and Dick Cheney might be a liability to George W. Bush. OMG OMG OMG!#RR#@ 