We don't even WANT context for this. Don't cry for Easter, Argentina.
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, the woman who reputedly gave the greatest blowjobs in Hollywood and gave America the "Just Say No To Drugs" campaign, which ultimately proved far less satisfying, has died at the age of 94. Get ready for the predictable memorial glurge about how "she and her beloved Ronnie are together again" -- direct quote from former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein on MSNBC a while ago -- and if we're really lucky, some utterly vomit-worthy commemorative art on the internets. Don't worry, we're sure we'll find plenty.
And so while other media outlets will be full of phrases like "fiercely loyal," "protective," "stylish and influential," "a true Hollywood romance," and "her beloved Ronnie," we will leave them to their clichés and instead celebrate Nancy Reagan for being a pioneer of empowered women's sexuality, since by all accounts she could empower the chrome off a trailer hitch, or so said Kitty Kelley in her very unauthorized biography. While we don't have a copy of the book handy (HA!), the relevant passage, according to presidential blowjob essayist James Ledbetter, says that Nancy Davis
"was renowned in Hollywood for performing oral sex." Just-say-yes Nancy -- in the days when she was Nancy Davis -- was known to give the best blowjob in town, "not only in the evening but in offices. [T]hat was one of the reasons that she was very popular on the MGM lot."
And in an era when movie scripts usually reduced women's parts -- err roles -- to simply "the girl," one could make an argument that if Nancy Davis slept her way to power in that environment, then by god, she was simply playing the game as 'twas played in the day, and damned if we're going to be slut-shaming in this remembrance of the former Ms. Davis, who also, according to Kelley, boned the living daylights out of Frank Sinatra. But definitely not Mr. T; she only sat on his lap. It was a weird time, the 1980s.
Also, let us never forget, Nancy also inspired the all-time greatest Wonkette Comment of the Day, from the now apparently vanished Wonkette Operative, "MrsBiggTime":
Mrs Gobblecocks, suck down my balls!
MrsBiggTime, if you're still here under another username, please take a bow. But not one of those horrible bows that Nancy always wore.
As a First Lady, Nancy did some of the best acting in her career, always getting photographed as the Loyal Wife gazing adoringly at Ronnie, and when the cameras weren't around, cheerfully consulting an astrologer to help determine the schedule for virtually everything the President of the United States did, and why would anyone have a problem with that? Let's remember, with Rachel Maddow:
