Ho Ho Ho, Too!

Mostly from sloth, we decided not to drag out what apparent sacks of crap Nut-Meg Whitman's spawn are in our advert montage & rant just below.

Then, as if by magic, this Slate item, which sadly expands on the horror of Griffith Rutherford Harsh V (Yes, the fifth. Little low on imagination there, monied freaks?) showed up at the front door of the bunker, & we gave it a home.

The actions of a candidate's child are relevant to a campaign only to the degree that the candidate leans on his or her record as a parent to sell him or herself to the voters. (Unless the kids are working for the campaign or acting as surrogates, obviously.) California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman doesn't even have photos of her adult sons on her campaign website -- although her excuse for never voting was that she was focused, at the time, on being a mother. She's got a reputation as something of a bully, and there's a wealth of evidence that her sons, Griff and Will Harsh, are monstrously entitled. And as Gabriel Winant wrote, the last time news of Griff's misadventures made the news, "the Harsh boys are neither vulnerable nor irrelevant."

So. Gawker revealed today that Whitman's son Griffith Rutherford Harsh V, known to friends as Griff, was accused of rape in 2006 by a Princeton classmate. He claimed it was consensual sex after a night of drinking at undergraduate dining clubs. She awoke the next morning with bruises and a black eye -- and, she claimed, no memory of the night before. Harsh claimed to think she was sober enough to consent, and said the injuries came from an accidental fall. The Princeton disciplinary panel decided it didn't have enough evidence to discipline Harsh, and the woman never pressed criminal charges.

Just lovely. We hope Nut-Meg is very proud of her two young goats. Goats, as in this, from the would-be Schwarzenegger clone's web pile.

Her children are "kids," & she uses words like "grown-up" & "scary." And her favorite color? While it says 54 there, we're guessing eight to ten, tops. Hobbies: Hiking & fishing? It does not get more banal.