I'm Just Like You!

Excuse me? You are not like us. We do not always seem to be chewing on a rancid anchovy. We do not always feel underdressed unless we are wearing a wire. And if we strapped a microphone on our inner thigh so the FBI could listen in on our close friend yammering away about excruciatingly embarrassing details of her sex life, and then we sort of copped a smoke when they burst in and hauled her into a back room and tried to scare her witless, igniting a nightmarish national scandal in which that close friend is ridiculed as a liar and a trollop, we would probably feel really, really bad.

Also, our closest confidant isn't the unapologetic Lucianne (The Gaboon Viper) Goldberg. Moreover, we do not ride a broom.

No, Linda, you are not just like us. -- Washington Post sports columnist Tony Kornheiser, covering a different Washington sport, comments on Linda Tripp's "I'm just like you" statement after her Whitewater grand jury testimony. Quoted in the Globe and Mail, August 6, 1998.