Political journalist Ryan Lizza felt betrayed, naturally, when he discovered five years ago that journalist Olivia Nuzzi, his live-in fiancé at the time, had done the gasping slurpy nasty with former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, whom she had profiled for New York magazine in late ‘19.
Four years later came Nuzzi’s second affair of sorts — not an actual slippin’ and slidin’ thing, Nuzzi has written, as it was all about sexting — with an older politician, the hoarse-voiced Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. , Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Except in his second Substack piece about Nuzzi’s outre sexual entanglements, Lizza has posted a salacious excerpt from a “poem” that RFK allegedly sent to Nuzzi — one that not only challenges her “American Canto” account of an allegedly non-sexual involvement with RFK (whom she alludes to in the book as “the politician”) but graphically alludes to a pulse-quickening blowjob he may or may not have received from Nuzzi during their 2024 mess-around…hey, I’m just reporting this stuff.
Lizza has described “American Canto” as “a largely fictitious and self-serving account” of her thing with RFK. The honesty factor or lack thereof is between Nuzzi, her publisher and her readers, but it’s icky and rather vicious of Lizza to have posted RFK’s alleged account of…this is really distasteful in more ways than one…the adoring Nuzzi swallowing his “river” without spilling a drop.
Lizza’s (and possibly RFK’s) odious excerpt:
Even if Nuzzi did provide exceptional pleasuring last year to the nation’s current Health and Human Services honcho, Lizza’s attempt to publicly humiliate an ex-girlfriend reflects poorly upon his own character and temperament. Deciding to post that sliver of a b.j. “poem” was mean and toxic.
Lizza on discovering Luzzi’s Sanford betrayal — a note that alludes to more swallowing
A couple of months ago Nuzzi landed a West Coast editor position with Vanity Fair. Will Lizza’s posting RFK’s possibly genuine or possibly fanciful b.j. “poem” lead to VF cutting her loose? I say keep her on.
Nuzzi is obviously a tiny bit wacko, but she’s also a memorable “character” in the tradition of Isadora Duncan or Tallulah Bankhead or Marlene Dietrich, and who among us doesn’t enjoy colorful accounts of reckless, go-for-the-gusto living and yaddah-yaddah? Does each and every female political reporter or columnist have to radiate astringent, button-down posturing and no-monkey-business professionalism? The system can’t allow for an occasional free-spirited sensualist, just to liven things up?
It takes all sorts to make a world.