Deep Gobbles

Turkeys Gobble

I watched Inside Deep Throat last night, because I didn't want to have to think.  It's about making the Linda Lovelace movie of the same name (which I saw 3 times), and you'll be hard pressed to find anyone involved  who doesn't make your skin crawl.  Well, Harry Reems comes off pretty well,  and yes it shows the gobble.  But that's not what I wanted to tell you about. After the film had been in distribution for a few years (it remains the most profitable film ever made), Linda Lovelace began doing television interviews.  This was about the time Gloria Steinem, et al, were building the Lib Women's Lib franchise, and suddenly here's the gobbler herself turned victim, saying "every time you see me in that movie I'm being raped!"   Well, likety-split she's traveling with Steinem, and made a poster girl for the  movement.  Later of course, she's old, wrinkled, broke and of no use to NOW, so she goes back to making hard core, but here's the point. When the most famous porn star in the universe recants, the Libbers and their media allies used it as prima-facie evidence that they were right.  Women are exploited!   When twenty years later, however, Norma McCorvey (the Roe in Roe  v. Wade) recanted, saying that she, and abortion, were wrong ...  guess what?   No "we were wrong" statement forthcoming. Al Gore would call it an Inconvenient Gobble, wot? Yeah, much ado about nothing, but it was in my head.