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BILL: In a taped January 2009 interview, a RELATED NEWS vacation fiestas, the best
54-year-old licensed masseuse whose cruises and long-
name has been redacted from police Campaign Takeout weekend escapes!
records, claimed that Al Gore groped her Portland police re-open Al Gore sex GO NOW!
during a massage session, describing the case
former VP as a giggling "crazed sex Al Gore dealing with inconvenient EDIT ORS' PICKS
poodle" who pounced on her in a Portland truths
hotel suite reports the blog, “The Smoking Hamster? Gerbil? No, it's
Laurie David - actor Larry David's ex-
Gun.” Snooki inside that ball!
wife -- slams reports of affair with Al
Gore Reality TV 'star' practices for
DR. DAVE: The cops out there have just re-
opened the matter as a sexual assault Al Gore and wife separating after 40 tonight's ball drop (love the
case. Is it any coincidence that Mrs. Gore years of marriage plastic cup, Snooks!)
has filed for divorce? Levi Johnston most-hated in Alaska:
poll
Happy Stinkin' New Y ear:
BILL: Which brings us to Bill Clinton who No trash pickup til Monday
pursued his own brand of sexual
pleasures with one of his interns right in Garbage removal, street
the Oval Office -- sweeping still days away, says
NYC sanitation boss.
DR.DAVE: --and to John Edwards who,
while out on the presidential campaign trail, left his cancer-battling wife to go impregnate
Russell Brand likely in t he
one of his video production staffers.
doghouse for t weeting
THIS pic
BILL: One of my layman’s rules of thumb says addiction is activity damaging to your
health, your marriage, family, finances or career, but you keep on anyway. Dave, these The funnyman posted this photo
three guys had their sights on the most important office in the world. Would you say they of wife Katy Perry with no make-
were addicted to sex, or to dominance and power? up on and quickly deleted it.

DR. DAVE: I’m glad to see you taking the havoc these sexual capers wreak on families What is she 'do-ing?!
more importantly than do the political pundits. Indeed, Vanity Fair’s political columnist, Kardashian sports braids
Michael Wolff, points out that the endless political dissecting of Edwards, Stanford, Reality TV starlet is
Spitzer and Nikki Haley allowed the many rumors about Al Gore ��� s affair with his photographed wearing tight
Laurie David, his Inconvenient Truth movie producer, to fly under the radar because, “If cornrows. VOTE: Hot or not?
we believe all politicians are having affairs, there’s no story.”

BILL: I still remember that long walk the Clinton family made across the White House The most notorious
lawn after the reality of Monica Lewinsky��� s DNA-stained dress brought the wall of “I Twitt er moment s of 2010
did not have sex with that woman” denial crashing down. There seemed to be pain in Demi Moore tweeting of pics
every step that Hillary or Chelsea took. herself in a bikini was a
milestone in stupidity.
DR. DAVE: A very real parallel with the masseuse who claims to have black pants with
“stains” from when Nobel laureate Al put her in an unwanted embrace.
Mom, daughter accused of
BILL: So, do I hear you saying these antics weren’t about an addiction to power—but, molesting same teen boy
rather, the inability to control their sexual obsessions? for 3 y ears
Police say the pair did it without
DR. DAVE: Right on the money—those obsessions lead to compulsive behavior and from knowing about each other’s
that potent mixture, a wall of denial is built to let the cycle keep repeating. relationship with him.

BILL: Maybe I am a Pollyanna, but can I hope that this may finally jolt the American health
care industry into offering more services for sexual addiction -- rather than for all of us to
remain anaesthetized, thinking it just more gossip and scandal? Dave, if one of our
readers needs help with this kind of problem, where can they turn?

DR. DAVE: Whether it’s a family trying to break through a loved one’s wall of denial, or the
addict himself, my best advice is go to Dr. Patrick Carnes’ website to discover a path to
recovery.

BILL: When I was in treatment for alcohol addiction, I saw too many fathers and
husbands just like Al Gore. It wasn’t so much that they didn’t think they should be held
accountable or spared the pain of divorce. But rather, they were bewildered themselves --

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How do I find my true self in all this mess?

DR. DAVE: We think alike there. I just read excerpts from Elizabeth Edwards ��� new
book and the interview with her and daughter Cate in this week’s People. You know, Bill, I
couldn’t tell the difference between their feelings of rage, sadness and even hope for
their family’s future, and similar emotions felt by the many families coming into the
Scripps Family Program where you and I first met.

BILL: I can’t fathom going from someone renowned for exhorting all of us to face the
“inconvenient truth” of global warming, to a groping sex poodle begging a masseuse to
“Release my chakra!”

DR. DAVE: Al Gore may never fully reclaim his revered statesman position but, my guess
is that public accolades are nothing compared to having the unconditional love of your
grandkids.

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11:24:42 AM Hey, any reason you two chose to use only liberal politicians in your
Those we lost in 2010
Jul 3, 2010 example, when there are plenty of conservatives who are just as bad
or worse (Mark Souder? John Ensign?). Hmmm, a bit of bias, IN MEMORIAM - Remembering
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respect for you with each new column. passed away this year.

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which should be Sanford as in Mark Sanford, Republican governmor Elmo... what a year!
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