Massa s'en est notamment pris à Rahm Emanuel, chef de cabinet de la Maison-Blanche, qui, selon ses dires, «vendrait sa mère pour un vote». Il a également décrit une confrontation entre lui et Emanuel qui se serait déroulée dans les douches du gym du Capitole. Je cite ce passage de son monologue dans le texte :
"I'm sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird and here comes Rahm Emanuel not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me because I wasn't going to vote for the president's budget. Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?"
Je cite également dans le texte le long passage où Massa donne sa version de l'incident qui aurait incité un membre de son personnel à se plaindre de harcèlement sexuel (dans cet article de Politico, une source anonyme laisse entendre qu'il ne s'agissait pas de l'unique incident) :
"I have to come find out that on New Year's Eve, I went to a staff party - it was actually a wedding for a staff member of mine. There were 250 people there. I was with my wife, and in fact we had a great time. She got the stomach flu, I went down to sing "Auld Lang Syne." And with cameras on me - I'm talking three of them - filming me, I danced with the bride, and I danced with the bridesmaid. Absolutely nothing occurred.
"I said goodnight to the bridesmaid. I sat at down at the table where my whole staff was, all of them, by the way, bachelors. One of them looked at me and - as they would do after, I don't know, 15 gin and tonics and goodness only knows how many bottles of champagne - a staff member made an intonation to me that maybe I should be chasing after the bridesmaid. His points were clear, and his words were far more colorful than that.
"And I grabbed the staff member sitting next to me and I said, 'What I really ought to be doing is frakking you,' and then tossled the guy's hair and left, went to my room, because I knew the party was getting to a point where I shouldn't be there."
"Was that inappropriate of me? Absolutely."
Le mot frakking est évidemment une façon polie de dire une chose qui commence également par la lettre f...
P.S. : Disons que cette histoire ne passe pas inaperçue sur le Drudge Report!