Forgetting the Past?
Have you noticed how we tend to be absolutely fascinated with some people and are easily able to forget their colorful pasts? More specifically, we love to see people fall from grace, kick them when they are down and then lend them a hand to help them up again. It's a phenomenon I can only assume is uniquely American and maybe so, in part, because of the media.
Take for example, the entire Eliot Spitzer debacle. His lady in waiting, Ashley Dupre, is now gracing the cover of Playboy. When we first met the mistress, she was running and hiding her face, ashamed of her lascivious ways, trying to get the heck out of town. Shortly thereafter, we all called her anything from a home-wrecker to a "loose woman" to other colorful names. Now, we are paying money to see her without her clothes on. What is wrong with us? Why the 180?
The man of the hour, Spitzer himself, is apparently also staging a comeback. And, guess what, we are all eating it up! A report on the Politico reports that Eliot will be appearing (as himself) for the unveiling of a documentary about him and his downfall at the Tribeca Film Festival. I would seriously pay good money to be there for his walk down that red carpet. What a looney toon! The word on the street is that if he does make an appearance, he will be sitting through interviews with the woman who organized all his late night trists with the women of the night. He must really be a masochist. More importantly, I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out how he staged this lightening fast comeback. How did he do this? It seems like just yesterday he was disgraced and had to resign from the governorsh
ip of New York. It was, and to me at least, is a big scandal. Oh, but how quickly we forget? Now, we've opened our arms to Spitzer and he's making his comeback bigger than ever with a purported return to politics. I guess that's the only job that's right for him--lying and putting on a show.
A couple of weeks ago when Tiger Woods took to the green, people actually clapped and cheered for him. Yeay! The two-timing adulterer is back! Yippee! Let's all celebrate.
I wonder how we will feel about Tiffany Tehan, the runaway Ohio church mom who abandoned her 1 year old child and husband and ran off with some random Mr. Fixit? Pretty soon we will stop being angry at her for the abandonment and we will probably enter into some psychological discussion about how she felt she had to, she was trapped, yadda yadda yadda. Look, I know a little bit about parents who abandon their children. It's not pretty. I don't care why she left. The bottom line is, she left. There's no excuse for that. Just as there is no excuse for Susan Smith for drowning her little boys nor for for Andrea Yates for just slaughtering her babies.
Seriously, what is wrong with people? More specifically, with their memories? I guess I'm sort of like an elephant--I never forget anything. You won't see me cheering for Tiger Woods or ever voting for Eliot Spitzer or defending Tiffany Tehan.
Take for example, the entire Eliot Spitzer debacle. His lady in waiting, Ashley Dupre, is now gracing the cover of Playboy. When we first met the mistress, she was running and hiding her face, ashamed of her lascivious ways, trying to get the heck out of town. Shortly thereafter, we all called her anything from a home-wrecker to a "loose woman" to other colorful names. Now, we are paying money to see her without her clothes on. What is wrong with us? Why the 180?
The man of the hour, Spitzer himself, is apparently also staging a comeback. And, guess what, we are all eating it up! A report on the Politico reports that Eliot will be appearing (as himself) for the unveiling of a documentary about him and his downfall at the Tribeca Film Festival. I would seriously pay good money to be there for his walk down that red carpet. What a looney toon! The word on the street is that if he does make an appearance, he will be sitting through interviews with the woman who organized all his late night trists with the women of the night. He must really be a masochist. More importantly, I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out how he staged this lightening fast comeback. How did he do this? It seems like just yesterday he was disgraced and had to resign from the governorsh
ip of New York. It was, and to me at least, is a big scandal. Oh, but how quickly we forget? Now, we've opened our arms to Spitzer and he's making his comeback bigger than ever with a purported return to politics. I guess that's the only job that's right for him--lying and putting on a show. A couple of weeks ago when Tiger Woods took to the green, people actually clapped and cheered for him. Yeay! The two-timing adulterer is back! Yippee! Let's all celebrate.
I wonder how we will feel about Tiffany Tehan, the runaway Ohio church mom who abandoned her 1 year old child and husband and ran off with some random Mr. Fixit? Pretty soon we will stop being angry at her for the abandonment and we will probably enter into some psychological discussion about how she felt she had to, she was trapped, yadda yadda yadda. Look, I know a little bit about parents who abandon their children. It's not pretty. I don't care why she left. The bottom line is, she left. There's no excuse for that. Just as there is no excuse for Susan Smith for drowning her little boys nor for for Andrea Yates for just slaughtering her babies.
Seriously, what is wrong with people? More specifically, with their memories? I guess I'm sort of like an elephant--I never forget anything. You won't see me cheering for Tiger Woods or ever voting for Eliot Spitzer or defending Tiffany Tehan.
Posted by Socialista at 4/23/2010 2:10 PM 
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Tags: Tiger Woods Tiffany Tehan Ashley Dupre Eliot Spitzer Andrea Yates
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Tags: Tiger Woods Tiffany Tehan Ashley Dupre Eliot Spitzer Andrea Yates
When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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I would not want to be there
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