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Date: September 14, 2007 6:43:45 PM PDT
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Subject: Condi Rice "Single" in the Same Way Cheney's Daughter Is?
http://signorile2003.blogspot.com/2007/09/condis-best-friends-
yesterday-on-show-i.html
Condi's "Closest Friends"
Yesterday on the show I had an interesting conversation with
Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Glenn Kessler, whose new
book is The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the
Bush Legacy.
There have long been questions about Rice's sexual orientation and
her personal life in general. As Kessler notes, "She has built a
wall of privacy around her that is never breached." But Kessler had
access to Rice's closest friends and to Rice herself, and he
reveals some eyebrow-raising information that hasn't been out there
before.
In the book and on the show, Kessler described how Rice's "closest
male friend" is openly gay, a man by the name of Coit D. Blacker, a
Stanford professor (Rice served as the provost as Stanford in the
late 1990s for six years) and a Democrat who served in the Clinton
administration. Blacker, whose partner is also mentioned, advised
Al Gore's campaign in 2000, while his close friend Rice served as a
chief confidante for a president who has tried to make gays into
second class citizens in the U.S. Constitution. But wait, it gets
better.
Rice's "closest female friend" is a woman named Randy Bean
(pictured here), who is unmarried and whose sexual orientation is
not stated. She is described as a "liberal progressive;" she's a
documentary filmmaker who works at Standford University and once
worked for Bill Moyers. She and Rice and Blacker (again, who has a
partner) are discussed as a "second family," a term Bean uses, also
saying that, "on friends, [Rice] goes narrow and deep."
According to newly revealed information in the book (which Kessler
found through real estate records), the two women, Rice and Bean
(yes, hilarious), own a home together and have a line of credit
together. The way Bean explains this in the book, is that she had
some medical bills that drained her financially years ago, and Rice
and Blacker helped her out by buying the house with Bean. But over
time Blacker sold his share of the house to Rice and Bean, and then
Rice would later get the line of credit with Bean to do some
renovations on the home. Kessler, when pressed, said he did not
know if this meant there was something more to the relationship
between the women beyond a friendship.
Where to begin?
For the record, in the book Kessler goes into the long-discussed
rumors about Rice and the few times her sexual orientation has been
gossiped about or discussed in the media, but he also talks about
how single, older (heterosexual) women often "unfairly" have their
sexual orientation questioned, and says in the book that Rice has
been the target of "nasty attacks" in this regard. He mentions that
she was linked to a man once -- back in college. Even if Rice is
heterosexual, however, it is fascinating and mind-boggling that
this woman whose best male friend is an openly gay liberal and
whose best female "friend" is a "liberal progressive," would work
for a president who has opposed every gay rights initiative and
tried to enshrine religious hatred in the Constitution. What does
it say about them as well?
Kessler, who is even-handed (and the bulk of whose book is about
foreign policy, where he offers many interesting new insights,
which we also discussed at length), reminded me that Rice doesn't
work on the domestic side and only works on foreign policy, so she
can't be held responsible for Bush's positions on those issues. But
to me, that's like someone who worked for Mussolini saying, "I only
helped to get the trains to run on time." (Though Rice hasn't even
accomplished that much.)
Oh, and I thought you'd get a kick out of this passage:
After she became secretary of state, she came to a party at
Blacker's house, kicked off her shoes, and began dancing through
the night to rock and and roll. Blacker, who is gay, wanted to show
his partner how tight her behind is; he postulated that if he aimed
a quarter at her butt, it would bounce off like a rocket. He was
right. Rice, who was dancing, didn't realize what he had done until
everyone began laughing hysterically. She was flattered -- and proud.
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