Celebrity "Fidelity"
Imagine if someone from another planet were to land here on earth and read the headlines or watched news stories for just a few days. They'd think everyone on this planet was famous, did drugs (or other stupid things), and cheated on their spouses. Of course if they stuck around long enough, aforementioned spouses would also talk about forgiveness and take the lying cheating bastards back into their lives. Our interplanetary visitor may mistakenly think we're a most tolerant and forgiving society and want to settle here. Yeah? Give me ten minutes with the alien and I'll set them straight.
On second thought, this may take a tad longer.
How do you explain Mark Sanford in ten minutes? Dude had this 'image' of himself as 'Marco' the dashing gringo seducing the Argentinian beauty. Dude trekked to another freaking continent to get a piece - then has the audacity to claim he's a 'born again Christian' and speaks of 'Christian love'. Okie dookie - guess the born agains don't have to adhere to that pesky seventh commandment. You know the one about not committing adultery - or in base terms, not diddling the Argentinan chick!
But I can almost explain this cad - he's a flipping characiture of power crazed horny politicians who just know some twit chick will be so blown away by his 'power, that she'd be happy to - well, blow away! Don't believe me, ask Monica - the patron 'saint' of politically seduceable twits! It's Jenny Sanford I'd have a hard time explaining to our alien friend. Or Hillary Clinton or Kobe Bryant's wife or a whole host of cheated upon spouses who seem to turn the other cheek.
I mean, thank God I've never been in their shoes, and I suppose it's way easier for the wife of some cheating Everyman to throw his philandering ass to the curb - it's probably a bit more of a challenge to toss his skivvies out the window of the governor's mansion or White House. But still - ladies, have some respect for yourselves. Sloppy seconds - ewwwww! Dudes have wandered - I say let 'em keep going! Good riddance. If they cheat once, they'll do it again - and again and again. No amount of money or perceived power is worth that to me. But I guess that's just me! Darn that self respect stuff, I just won't put up with that kind of crap - no matter the net worth involved.
Over the weekend, the worst possible cheating story came out. Steve McNair. Well, worst in that the dude is dead. Honestly, is anyone really surprised that an NFL star with the 'family man' image was a total fraud? I wasn't. Then again, I've never forgiven that hypocrite, Eugene Robinson for ruining the Falcons one and only Superbowl appearance for his little late night escapades. I never did hear if "Athletes in Action" ever snatched back that Bart Starr award they gave him that very morning for his "high moral character". Idiot! And to the best of my knowledge, his wife is still with him, too. Although the Falcons came to their senses and booted him out the following year.
Anyway, Steve McNair was murdered - supposedly by his 20 year old girlfriend. In the apartment registered to the both of them. After she got a DUI in the SUV registered to the both of them. Oh, and she's dead, too so it's probably a murder suicide thing. Or maybe a murder thing but still, dude who was supposed to be this great 'family man' was doing a little diddling on the side - and not exactly recreationally since there were auto and apartment leases involved. But what got me about this story was the quote from his buddy - one who probably knew about the extra curricular diddling so there goes his credibility in my book. I loved this one - dude says
OH REALLY? A ' great member of society'? I'm sorry, I really hate to speak badly of the dearly departed but Steve McNair was hardly a 'great member of society' in my book. He was cheating on his wife - and sons! (Sorry, you diddle outside the marriage, you cheat on the WHOLE family not just the spouse). Steve McNair, rest in peace, was a philandering asshole who cheated on his wife! Now, if you want to pull that born again shit and say the seventh commandment doesn't count, then yeah, he's singing with the angels right now. However, if you believe that adultery is wrong - as I do - then Steve and those of his ilk, are in some kind of asexual purgatory right now - or a version of ninth grade Civics class listening to my old teacher Mrs. S say 'arright' nine thousand times while trying to explain the Constitution to surly 14 year olds.
Crazy thing is - I bet you if that alien polled all these cheaters, every one of them would say they believe gay marriage is 'wrong' because marriage is between a man and a woman and 'sacred'. And yet, look what they do with their marriages? Worse yet, look what their jilted spouses allow them to continue to do with their marriages. And that society still reveres them as celebrities or worse, 'great members of society'.
Think I can hitch a ride with that alien?
VM
On second thought, this may take a tad longer.
How do you explain Mark Sanford in ten minutes? Dude had this 'image' of himself as 'Marco' the dashing gringo seducing the Argentinian beauty. Dude trekked to another freaking continent to get a piece - then has the audacity to claim he's a 'born again Christian' and speaks of 'Christian love'. Okie dookie - guess the born agains don't have to adhere to that pesky seventh commandment. You know the one about not committing adultery - or in base terms, not diddling the Argentinan chick!
But I can almost explain this cad - he's a flipping characiture of power crazed horny politicians who just know some twit chick will be so blown away by his 'power, that she'd be happy to - well, blow away! Don't believe me, ask Monica - the patron 'saint' of politically seduceable twits! It's Jenny Sanford I'd have a hard time explaining to our alien friend. Or Hillary Clinton or Kobe Bryant's wife or a whole host of cheated upon spouses who seem to turn the other cheek.
I mean, thank God I've never been in their shoes, and I suppose it's way easier for the wife of some cheating Everyman to throw his philandering ass to the curb - it's probably a bit more of a challenge to toss his skivvies out the window of the governor's mansion or White House. But still - ladies, have some respect for yourselves. Sloppy seconds - ewwwww! Dudes have wandered - I say let 'em keep going! Good riddance. If they cheat once, they'll do it again - and again and again. No amount of money or perceived power is worth that to me. But I guess that's just me! Darn that self respect stuff, I just won't put up with that kind of crap - no matter the net worth involved.
Over the weekend, the worst possible cheating story came out. Steve McNair. Well, worst in that the dude is dead. Honestly, is anyone really surprised that an NFL star with the 'family man' image was a total fraud? I wasn't. Then again, I've never forgiven that hypocrite, Eugene Robinson for ruining the Falcons one and only Superbowl appearance for his little late night escapades. I never did hear if "Athletes in Action" ever snatched back that Bart Starr award they gave him that very morning for his "high moral character". Idiot! And to the best of my knowledge, his wife is still with him, too. Although the Falcons came to their senses and booted him out the following year.
Anyway, Steve McNair was murdered - supposedly by his 20 year old girlfriend. In the apartment registered to the both of them. After she got a DUI in the SUV registered to the both of them. Oh, and she's dead, too so it's probably a murder suicide thing. Or maybe a murder thing but still, dude who was supposed to be this great 'family man' was doing a little diddling on the side - and not exactly recreationally since there were auto and apartment leases involved. But what got me about this story was the quote from his buddy - one who probably knew about the extra curricular diddling so there goes his credibility in my book. I loved this one - dude says
People have certain things that they do in life,” said McNair’s longtime friend Robert Gaddy, who called 911. “We don’t need to look on the situation at this time (but) on the fact we just lost a great member of society.”
OH REALLY? A ' great member of society'? I'm sorry, I really hate to speak badly of the dearly departed but Steve McNair was hardly a 'great member of society' in my book. He was cheating on his wife - and sons! (Sorry, you diddle outside the marriage, you cheat on the WHOLE family not just the spouse). Steve McNair, rest in peace, was a philandering asshole who cheated on his wife! Now, if you want to pull that born again shit and say the seventh commandment doesn't count, then yeah, he's singing with the angels right now. However, if you believe that adultery is wrong - as I do - then Steve and those of his ilk, are in some kind of asexual purgatory right now - or a version of ninth grade Civics class listening to my old teacher Mrs. S say 'arright' nine thousand times while trying to explain the Constitution to surly 14 year olds.
Crazy thing is - I bet you if that alien polled all these cheaters, every one of them would say they believe gay marriage is 'wrong' because marriage is between a man and a woman and 'sacred'. And yet, look what they do with their marriages? Worse yet, look what their jilted spouses allow them to continue to do with their marriages. And that society still reveres them as celebrities or worse, 'great members of society'.
Think I can hitch a ride with that alien?
VM
posted by Vinegar Martini at 10:20 AM
2 Comments:
Oh, yowza--Mark Sanford. Yet another wave of wacked out publicity for our fair home state. Poor, maligned South Carolina. I adore my home state, but when will folks there stop electing these eejits?
Now South Carolinians may have to choose between Sanford and the ever-diginified Andre Bauer. And as to your very insightful comment about the "born-agains," I will add (referencing an episdoe of the West Wing): If demand for leaders to expouse their Christian and/or religious beliefs to you, you are asking to be lied to... and it'll be the easiest lie they ever have to tell.
YES YES YES YES YES YES!
I have wanted to say the same things myself, but I could not have written this better!!
I'm coining a new meaning for an old abbreviation: STD. Whenever I hear about "the righteous" and their stupid extramarital affairs, I will think of how "Sick to Death" I am of their possible Sexually Transmitted Diseases!!
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