Thursday, February 19, 2009

Jack The BullDog Speaks: Julia, The Early Years



The First Encounter, or, Terror in the Public Square

Long before she became known as an abuser of interns, an advocate of censorship, and a mangler of Hobbes, our lady of entitlement was a college student. Or at least posing as one. Though Julia Allison Baugher did everything in her power to make everyone at Georgetown familiar with her name and reprehensible behavior, I still had never heard of the Pink Lady well into my sophomore year. Perhaps because I would never have read drivel like “Sex on the Hilltop” to begin with, or have spent my time skipping classes, lying to professors, and turning in work late. Yes, I actually loved university and was committed to my classes, to building a foundation for the future.

That Edenic fall occurred one fall afternoon when walking across campus with a professor and finding ourselves ensnared in what appeared to be a poorly staged play near the Healy Gates being put on by a group of eighth grade girls who had just received their Thespian Society certificates. We were walking towards the library when a brunette in a short skirt ran near us and screamed to her posse of morons: “Who cares if I’m dating a senator? It’s nobody’s business but ours!” Said brunette, who seemed older than the other students, was comforted by some Mary Rambin-in-training type, yet the creature in the tartan skirt ran from Mary manqué and to a tree, emoting for the ages about just how desperately she wanted no one to know that she was dating a senator.

When the professor and I were able to get on our way, he turned to me rather flustered and said some something like: “What exactly was that?” My response: “I’m not certain. But do you think she’s dating a senator?”

And so it began.

To be continued ...

22 comments:

  1. I've wondered in the past if Ford reads the site. This spectacle of an ex-girlfriend must be humiliating.

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  2. haha as a fellow Hoya, I am VERY excited to read more. I'm just sad she left before I arrived...

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  3. Wait, is this about Ford?

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  4. Well, he was in the House and was running for the Senate seat. He quite arguably lost the race because of Julia's indiscretion. There was a GOP smear campaign against him -- this ad depicts his romance with Allison:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkiz1_d1GsA

    Now it's not her fault he lost -- the blame belongs to the racists in Tennessee who were persuaded by this ad. But she eventually wrote about the affair in Cosmo so I can't imagine they have remained friends.

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  5. National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), more specifically

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  6. What a terrible ad. Geez. What a country.

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  7. Julia's Cosmo article about the affair:

    http://www.juliaallison.com/articles/2006/07/cosmo_july_2006.html#more

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  8. But why would she say Ford's a senator when he wasn't? Was she embellishing her date or did she really fuck some senator?

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  9. Anon 11:24, I remember Julia screaming "senator" in that oh-so-surreal moment around six years ago and doubt that my memory is inaccurate. However, at the time, I didn't know who Julia Baugher was and found her public spectacle both goofy and annoying, putting it out of my mind. When she ended up in TWO of my classes the following semester, I looped back to that strange first moment.

    Anon 11:06, Thanks for posting the puerile Cosmo piece. I had known that Loose Lips Baugher had written something about Ford but never read it and was amazed at the sophomoric content of her prose, even for Cosmo. The short piece read like drivel more appropriate for 17 magazine and Katie Holmes's recollection of meeting Tom Cruise: "His posters were on my bedroom wall."

    FYI Bunnies, I am posting a remembrance a day of our dear Julia to the Real Stories of the Real Julia section of this marvelous reblogging site. Posts have already been put up concerning Julia unwittingly engaging in water sports and bringing her accessory dog to a final exam. The memories . . .

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  10. I heard she was banging Strom Thurmond.

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  11. Ford's already got a new, teeny blonde rich GF. I'm sure it kills JA quite a bit. Also, as if she wouldn't embellish a story -- that's her MO. Jack, definitely send them to RBNS as well as posting them here so they can be individual posts like the last one featured! We don't want them getting lost in the fray, or people forgetting to click on the sidebar link.

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  12. Ford's already got a new, teeny blonde rich GF. I'm sure it kills JA quite a bit. Also, as if she wouldn't embellish a story -- that's her MO. Jack, definitely send them to RBNS as well as posting them here so they can be individual posts like the last one featured! We don't want them getting lost in the fray, or people forgetting to click on the sidebar link.

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  13. Or maybe it was Zell Miller. It could have been Zell Miller. That's just what I heard. Somebody from the South who had a thing for cupcakes.

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  14. Thanks, 10:46, I had never seen that infamous Ford commercial. TOO funny! Love the tagline "He's just not right." That's for sure, since he was attracted to Jankles. That doesn't say much for his mental prowess.

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  15. Gotta show some kissy-face love for Jack the Bulldog <3

    Now THIS is storytelling. (Unlike Julia's cryptic online photo scrapbooking site.)

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  16. Knowing all that I do about JAB now, that Cosmo story is sadly hilarious. The manic-depressive swings from "normally healthy self-esteem" to "he's better than me" over and over again. The crash diet, the pink ski suit, obsessively planning every outfit, gah! The superficiality of getting her own huge ego boost out of HIS career, the crushing disappointment to find out he was a normal person and not a super-hero. HAH!!

    Most annoying tidbit: she was 21 and getting an allowance. I suppose that's common in the wealthier families among us, but it explains a lot about her woman-child daddy-dependent personality.

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  17. Harold Ford married that beautiful blonde. Not sure if this will help his political career or not down South (sorry), but she is supposed to be very smart, cool, normal, etc.

    And god, he must rue the day he met/dated/whatever JA... she is STILL dining out on in.

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  18. I'm sure Julia called him a "senator" because she was too stupid to know the difference between a senator and a congressman.

    I mean, that just sounds like grade A Jules right there.

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  19. The real question is...does JAB realize that our Georgetown alumni directory (1) provides her fellow alumni with her home address and (2) still lists her as Editor-at-Large at Star? Also she once contributed $50 to her class alumni fund.

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  20. Anon 11:23--That $50 could only be why Julia is interviewing perspective Georgetown undergrads and scaring them away. The development office has no shame and no standards in this economy.

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  21. any USC alums around to tell us about meghan and mary?

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