After first
disparaging her looks, Hillary Clinton's Republican opponent
for the U.S. Senate has now questioned her sexuality. In an
interview with a local Westchester County, N.Y.,
newspaper, John Spencer suggested the New York senator
and Democratic star is a lesbian, The New York
Times reports.
A columnist for the paper, The Journal
News, said that Spencer made the insinuation last
week in a telephone interview in response to a
question about whether he would attempt to portray
Clinton as a liberal in two recent debates. "He said words
to the effect of, 'Well, you know me, words slip out,
but I won't call her a lesbian or anything,'" Phil
Reisman, the columnist, told the Times. "He was
definitely joking--he laughed after he said it."
Spencer's camp did not deny the remark but
offered a lukewarm apology. "As John Spencer said this
afternoon, if he offended anyone, he apologizes," Rob
Ryan, Spencer's spokesman, said.
Spencer was already in hot water for comments he
made before the first debate last week, in which he
suggested that Clinton had benefited from "millions in
surgery to make her pretty" and wondered "why Bill
married her," according to the New York Daily News.
Spencer has denied making both comments. (The
Advocate)
