Remember how “expletive deleted” became a comic riff during Watergate? Now the House Judiciary Committee has come up with even a better euphemism in their efforts to bowdlerize the Linda Tripp tapes. Chatterbox found this gem in the just released transcripts of a conversation in which Monica wails about unsympathetic White House aide Marsha Scott. Watch the congressional blue pencils in action:
TRIPP: Yeah. Well, she – you know, Marsha did lie to you. She (REDACTED) you over…
That’s how Chatterbox feels about Bill Clinton: “Redacted over.”
–Walter Shapiro
