Ladies first
“I think it’s very unfortunate what’s happening to Fred Thompson’s wife,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Connie Schultz said of Jeri Thompson at a book signing at Politics & Prose on Monday. “The New York Times called her a bleached-blonde trophy wife. … Have we really come so far?”
She would know: Schultz spent plenty of time in the passenger seat of her husband Sherrod Brown’s, D-Ohio, campaign for Senate last fall, but now she’s taking the wheel during her tour to promote her memoir of the experience, “…And His Lovely Wife.”
When we asked Schultz to weigh in on the “media blitz” surrounding presidential candidate John Edwards’ wife, Elizabeth, and her recurrence of breast cancer, she called the ordeal “ridiculous.”
“I had dinner with her one night, and there were literally camera lenses hitting me in the head as they surrounded the table,” she said.
Brown was in attendance Monday, but played it low-key. “She doesn’t always want me with her at these things,” Brown told Yeas & Nays. “I know a lot of people in D.C. obviously, so that’s why I’m here tonight.”
