Posts Tagged ‘journalistist pettiness’

Ok, first a tiny bit of confession—every time the GOP has had a sex scandal I have made sarcastic and caustic comments. Big woof, I am a Democrat. But did I follow each story, scream and yell for which ever idiot de jour it was to be publicly castrated? No, in spite of hearing of a couple cases involving children that made me WANT to do so. Did I make insulting comments about their wives? No, I did not.

But I am feeling a bit maxed on nerves this morning for purely personal reasons, so I am going to wade into this hoopla about the Governor (ok, ex-governor) of New York. Why is it our business? Do all those journalists get that seriously panty-bunched over EVERY “john” who hires a hooker? And make no mistake—-$50 or $5000, its a hooker, get the hell over it.

Now, I am apparently a very unnatural woman. I believe prostitution should be legal. It is going to exist, it is my idea of a victimless “crime” if you insist on calling it criminal. I think legal prostitution is more easily regulated and kept both clean and UNcriminal. But obviously, the many Puritanical ideas about sexuality that still hold sway in America make that quite unlikely to occur. So when someone like Eliot Spitzer gets caught with a hand in the cookie jar, Oh My Gawds…..do you all see my eyes rolling here?

And all the lacrimose on-carryings about his wife and how she could stand by him—-some “journalists”(AH….yes, the LEGAL whores!) going so far as to say it was for purely ambitious political reasons of HER own. You know, that is just SO very classy, folks. Dwell on the poor wife. Cause you know, everyday women never have to deal with what she has on her unhappy plate, right?  And most of what is on her plate, because of “journalists” isn’t because of her husband at all. Here is a big clue for you camera-jockeying harlots: the fidelity or lack of it between a man and woman is THEIR business, not YOURS.

I have been a military wife for 30 years. I was military first. I was disliked by other wives, because I seem to have had an invisible scarlet letter on my forehead that meant “She is a WAC, one of those whores that is at work with HIM.” Now, I didn’t sleep with married men while single, and I never slept with ANYone  except my own husband after my marriage. This is not because physical fidelity is a big deal to me. It is NOT. I think it is the most shallow view of marriage one can possibly hold. I think it is as silly as swearing to never eat outside one’s own kitchen, even if starving. I have been physically faithful because it is important to my husband….but if he needed a piece of ass when I was not around, you know, I just don’t see that as the first sign of the marital apocalypse. See, obviously unnatural, me, in a field of women prone to making comments like “If he comes back from this exercise and I think he has been dipping his goddamned wick, I am gonna leave and take his damned retirement pay with me!” I also knew Army wives who ran around. Who wrote “Dear John” letters. But gee, if the guy does it, well, back to the “Oh my gawd” chorus we must surely go.

Get the hell OVER it America. It is their business. Oh, and you GOP MFs? You can kiss my unnatural ass—you of the multiple divorces, you who didn’t hound Vetter to bits, or Craig, you who do classy shit like serve divorce papers on cancer-fighting wifes, you who like Rudy of New York. What a bunch of silly tight-assed hypocrites! Personally, I don’t think Eliot was getting laid by a high priced call girl for sexual reasons at all. I think it was a power game, mostly—-not too different from the guy in the hotel bar who orders the Scotch that costs $78 bucks a shot. And his wife looked very unhappy, shame on journalists who make CERTAIN it gets worse because of lots of play. Kudos to Spitzer for quitting to give those vampiric assholes less cause to continue dogging their every move.

But honestly, America, this is the BIG deal? This matters? We have an economy trying to do a 1929 retro hell, we have a war on two fronts, we have civil rights being violated right and left (btw..that is how they nabbed Spitzer–watching his bank transactions as if he wre a member of the Cosa Nostra), we have a President who wants to go for number three in Iran in the next nine months and THIS is what you are getting your shorts up the crack about? A dozen US soldiers have died in the last week, tell me, do you know even ONE of their names off the top of your head? Why don’t you ask those journalistic watchdogs why THEY don’t get any goddamned play in the spotlight? Because if THIS kind of shit is what you all get your news hour rocks off about, well, then maybe we don’t bloody deserve anything better than what is happening to us.

My cup of disgust runneth over.