Discussion: President Harding Wrote Salacious, NSFW Letters To His Mistress

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Jerry. Heh. I checked her out on google images. I guess she was attractive for the early 20th century.

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Hey, da kidā€™s good. Hire him at Harlequin Romances.
Itā€™s sufficiently soft for chick porn.

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She put the Hard in Harding.

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More like Hardawg!

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Yeah, shades of Bea Arthur.

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A TPM clickbait orgasm.

So this equates today to sending a photo of your penis? Why did they keep this under wraps for over a century.? Conservatives were not supposed to have sex except for procreation? Everyone today knows that GOP family value is a crock of BS.

So he paid his mistress for not LOL when she received one of these letters. Imagine what Cindy McCain and Ann Romney have had to put up with and they never even made it to the White House.

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Since she was a skilled professional, does it matter what she looked like? Letā€™s not be prudes here. Conservatives expect us to treat this with a degree of reality that they never can.

What about him? Didnā€™t realize how much all these old conservatives coots look alike. All fire and brimstone to the world and silly schoolyard porn on the inside?

Everyone gets horny. Why should presidents be an exception?

Color me callow, but what does NSFW mean?

Iā€™m just reminded of Prince Charles, who kept having affairs with Camilla even though he was married to a major hottie. What was up with that? (no puns please)

Not Safe For Work.

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He wrote about her ā€˜teapot domes.ā€™

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Shit! Theyā€™re love letters and decent ones too.

Iā€™m a competent, but not great writer, but I could never write love letters to save my sorry ass. I envy anyone who can.

After we married, I retrieved all my love letters to my wife and burned them they were that bad.

Masque:

'Imagine love letters to a mistress by George W Bush or Mitt Romney."

Iā€™m sorry, but I canā€™t imagine such missives from either one of these two stiffs. Ditto for a Nixon. For a JFK, maybe yes.

I think of both as guys who do it with the lights off.

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ā€œMcCain off the list since he married his mistress after divorcing his disabled wife.ā€

Crippled chicks, donā€™t ya know, cramp the style of an ambitious man.

Without being rude, please correct the spelling of stationery. Stationary, as used, means to stay in oneā€™s place or not be moving. Letter-writing paper is stationery.

Some day Josh will hire a real proof-reader. Slips like this are not uncommon.

No shit. Granted this is from a different story, but ā€œFilmmakers and satirists Eitan Gorlin and Dan Mirvish, who successfully duped MSNBC in 2008 into quoting a fake pundit, Martin Eisenstadt, run the faux think tank born along with Eisenstadt.ā€ What is ā€œbornā€ doing there? There are mistakes all over this Web site. I donā€™t understand why TPM hates copy editors or why THE PEOPLE WHO WORK THERE DONā€™T AT LEAST READ EACH OTHERā€™S STUFF BEFORE ITā€™S PUBLISHED if TPM is unwilling to hire copy editors. Josh, when you worked at a real magazine, did you have a particular dislike of the copy editors for some reason?

Thanks.