SO George Stephanopoulos, presidential turncoat and erstwhile Columbia University professor, reportedly has a new girlfriend.
I’m not exactly known for picking winners in the men department, but even I wouldn’t need the “Lost in Space” robot flailing his arms and shouting, “Danger! Danger!” where Georgie boy is concerned.
I mean, would you date/marry this man?
First, he signs on as President Clinton’s spinmeister, then quits and eventually pens a scathing best-seller, “All Too Human,” about life with Bill and Hill. After the White House, Stephanopoulos lands a teaching gig at Columbia, but bags that, for now, to do his book tour.
Not exactly the committed type.
“I wouldn’t want my sister to marry him, because then he’d write a book and I’d be in it,” quips “Politically Incorrect” host Bill Maher. “The guy’s a snitch. And who wants a snitch in the family? Nobody would ever be comfortable at Thanksgiving.”
Maher called Stephanopoulos’ tell-all “very bad form.”
George’s presidential kiss-and-telling moved Diane Sawyer to label him “the poster boy for betrayal.”
Katie Couric called him “kinda creepy.”
A TV pal who works with him at ABC branded him “the egomaniacal elf.”
But Stephanopoulos – known to another pal as the “hairy hottie” – is not without attributes.
My friend Lisa says, “On the outside, he seems like a prime catch. He’s good looking, professional and seems to have his act together.
“But I question his loyalty and his character. And besides,” says the 5-foot-8 blonde, “I like to be able to be at least eye to eye with my dates.”
Political humorist Kate Clinton (no relation to the Horndog in Chief) says Stephanopoulos should come with a warning label.
Quips Clinton: “If my sister/niece/daughter were to marry George Stephanopoulos, she’d need 1) to be able to take it as a compliment when gay men hit on her husband; 2) whatever hair-care product Monica used to tame her tresses – for George; and 3) two words – Pro-zac.”
But Dr. Joyce Brothers, who recently questioned Monica Lewinsky’s chances of landing a lifemate, endorses George. Sort of.
“He’d make a wonderful husband, but he’d be a simply dreadful ex-husband,” she says. “He deals with his conscience and moral issues, but I sure wouldn’t want to deal with him in a divorce.”
Still, some women would jump at a go-round with George.
As my friend Denise so eloquently puts it: “Well, someone’s dating Monica, so why shouldn’t someone go out with George? They both screwed the president.”
