So, a President, a Senator, and a Governor walk into a brothel….
Not the beginning of a clever, yet assuredly dirty, joke, but more-than-likely the words that will lead tomorrow’s newscast on Fox and Friends.
When I was in high school, the laughable debacle that was the Lewinsky/Clinton scandal unraveled. It was somewhat humorous to watch the highlights and recaps of testimony every night–and then, oh glorious day it was when the Kenneth Star book came out that had “novelized” the entire humiliating experience.
These seemingly powerful men who take part in our legislative branch can’t seem to make legitimacy out of their own matrimonial vows. Pictures of the sad girls who accept the money of our elected official in exchange for some act of reassurance are all part of the joke. The adulterous men are perhaps trying to prove themselves after escaping childhoods of being “picked last for kickball.” Maybe even now they are attempting to prove their manhood because none of the other senators/governors will eat lunch with them. Is the latest news novelty nothing more than an overgrown butt-of-the-joke in the capitol version of high school?
There seems to a link between a grasp of power and a grasp of (ehm). We can trace this back to the days of King Herod, Solomon (known more for his wisdom than his women), JFK’s “rumored” affair(s), Bill, to Spitzer; and in an ironic twist to his replacement! –David Patterson (who almost seemed to brag about his affairs). Despite his affairs, we still place the entity that was JFK on a pedestal, fondly remembering his reign as “Camelot.” Why?-because he was charming and handsome? The affair (or at least the most noted) he engaged in included a gilded sex-symbol, Marilyn Monroe. In consequence, society seems to brush it under the rug and judge her not either.
Eliot Spitzer isn’t exactly a JFK, and the Kristen/Ashley Dupree–whatever her name is, is nothing more than a post Girls-Gone-Wild wannabe starlet. Naturally, this makes the whole scene a joke- or at least laughable. Sadly, his turtleneck wearing wife isn’t laughing.
Not unlike Gutenburg1, TMZ has made a wide way in the year of the paparazzi. As the more-awesome-than-life, Trent2 would say, “everybody’s business is my business”, we seem to have adopted this as our nuevo-birthright, when “In God we Trust” is removed from our currency, it will leave the perfect amount of space for “Everybody’s Business is OUR Business.”
A media darling can’t sneeze without the greater of the population whom have access to the internet and t.v. finding out about it. Presidents, Senators, Governors, etc. ought to know they can’t engage in any activity (blatantly amoral and otherwise) without the same population knowing. As long as men in power are in search of reassurance though extra-marital affairs, disturbing associated connotations with cigars, New York, and cheap hotels will be superfluous.
My idea to solve the problem? Perhaps we should elect only women to lead. Then of course, we’d have to brace ourselves for the replacement of the “State of the Union Address” with the “State of the Dress Union.”
1. Gutenburg- responsible for mass printing of the Bible
2. Trent- pinkisthenewblog
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