The Fabricator
Little Bob Cries Wolf
Al Gore is not the only would-be alpha male who has been soliciting advice on how to be a man from feminist writer Naomi Wolf. The Fabricator has learned that Congressman “Little Bob” Clement has been in frequent phone contact with Wolf, seeking the key to the elusive alpha malehood.
So far, the results of Clement’s playing Eliza Doolittle to Wolf’s Henry Higgins have been less than promising.
Clement invited a camera crew from the WDCN-Channel 8 Tennessee Outdoorsman show to accompany him deer hunting, but the sight of Clement in camouflage clothing nasally braying, “There he goes?” while blasting his rifle in the general vicinity of a doe did little to establish his woodsman’s credentials.
Then, a photo op with the ultra-manly Nashville Predators took an ugly turn when Clement, apparently under the impression that the group was the Nashville creditors, puzzled the hockey team with a lengthy and confusing discussion of proposed changes in bankruptcy law.
Likewise, the Wolf-inspired gambit of having Clement drive himself to work at the Capitol in an SUV backfired when Clement selected a shiny new Land Rover as his testosterone-mobile, and the British-made vehicle stalled in Washington, D.C., traffic, leading to a front page Washington Post photo of a plaintive Clement looking bewildered beside his disabled SUV.
“Naomi likes a challenge,” said a source in Wolf’s office. “But she’s really got her work cut out for her with this guy.”
