![]() Abortion, to me, is an issue of personal responsibility.” ![]() “I find it intrusive if government comes in and says just about anything. I don’t think they belong in the political process,” Kennedy says. And I don’t think these issues rest upon laws. “I think, especially in cases of abortion and reproductive health, there needs to be a much greater self-examination. “I have had babies, so I’ve had ultrasounds and am very thankful for them,” Kennedy goes on-seriously this time-and essentially enunciates a reluctantly pro-choice position that Nancy Pelosi or even Mario Cuomo might be comfortable with. It’s hardly the sort of bon mot you’d expect from a rising star in Roger Ailes’s Fox cable television universe. And it was during a discussion of her political beliefs, which have evolved over the years from Dan Quayle Republican to Gary Johnson libertarian, when she blurted out the “dildo-cam” quip. She still sports the same partisan elephant tattoo on her left thigh, just below the thong-line, that she pulled up her party dress and pulled down her underwear to show off to John McLaughlin during Bill Clinton’s first-term inaugural festivities. Yet for all her cred as a femme serieux, Kennedy keeps in close touch with the naughty girl of her past. Two decades later, she’s 41, a happily married mother of two, an honors graduate in philosophy and politics from UCLA, a contributor to Reason TV and Reason magazine, the author of two books, including the recently published The Kennedy Chronicles, a rollicking memoir of her (occasionally X-rated) adventures in the rock ’n’ roll biz, and the host of Fox Business Network’s latest prime-time offering, The Independents, which launches Monday at 9 p.m. Miley Cyrus had nothing on the Kennedy of 1994. That prank, along with her raunchy reply-in-kind to VMA emcee Roseanne Barr’s on-air “joke” that Kennedy had been backstage fellating Rush Limbaugh, nearly got her fired. This, while an unsuspecting Rudy Giuliani, then mayor of New York, stood beside her on camera and, oblivious to Kennedy’s lewd sideshow, blathered on about how great it was to have the awards show back in Manhattan. Danforth Quayle, advertised her status as a virgin on Howard Stern’s radio show, and yet-in a notorious appearance as a presenter on the 1994 Video Music Awards-simulated oral sex on her microphone. ![]() When I profiled her for Vanity Fair back in 1994, she called herself an ardent Republican, professed an obsessive, stalkerish love for former vice president J. Having just raised the possibility, albeit in jest, of a probe of her nether parts-this, during a discussion of the political viability of legislatively compelled transvaginal ultrasounds-it’s clear she continues to enjoy a talk on the wild side.Īs a 22-year-old VJ for MTV, in the days when MTV still had VJs, Kennedy was at once transgressive and unpredictable. The more things change, the more Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, better known as just plain “Kennedy,” stays the same.
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