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I didn’t mean to imply that America invented or cornered the market on public circus. Oh no, the Brits are fucking revoltingly retarded when it comes to that and it makes me sick.
How many bunches of flowers at Buckingham palace when Diana died? Let’s not forget the furore when someone suggested that the royals weren’t mourning appropriately? It just went on and on AND ON. Fuck me, it’s still going on and on and on. Far too often these days on the BBC’s website the most-read articles talk about how the driver was drunk, then how he wasn’t drunk, then how he was drunk.
TFSU, assholes. I am, truly, ashamed to be English.
But I mean to say that there is a great fear in the US that speaks of the conflict that people feel when something like this happens. While the Brits react by shoving that steel rod a little further up their arses and starching that upper lip a little more, the American public seems to just degenerate into a large sheepish hubbub of confused babble and counter-babble depending on what they read/saw/heard they were supposed to feel last. To be fair, the Brits are also starting to react this way nowadays. Basil Fawlty is an increasingly rare breed.
Old drunkpants Sarkozy just seemed a topical example. We could go with Mr. & Mrs. Major + Edwina Currie, Grant & Hurley + Divine Brown, Mr & Mrs Beckham + Pigwanker Rebecca Loos. Perhaps the reaction to each of those marks the progress of Britain from a silent bag of endurers to a vociferous cage of morons.
I suppose it boils down to this. No opinions of one’s own and big fucking rights to voice them.
But back to the point. What happened to resignations? If Spitzer couldn’t deny the allegation, he should have resigned immediately and, as the reuters article says, spare his wife the public humility she had every right to choose to go through but shouldn’t have been given the opportunity to choose to go through. Why do people even need to debate what he should do? That’s the point I was trying to make originally. If you waste enough time, you might get away with it because the next story will push you to one side.
The public has no spine and is tired. We/they need a kick in the balls.
[ I should disclose that I live in New York and have lived in the US for 11 years now, and would only consider moving back to the UK if it was either to central London (although even that’s touch-and-go these days) or the very remotest little cottage I could find in the middle of nowhere. ]
I wonder how long you can keep re-blogging things?
Only in America? Why’s a Brit using a French example? Because he can’t find a British one. They not only invented, but define themselves by the stiff upper lip and practically had a corinary reporting a sexless, philandering, faux comforter of a royal couple getting divorced.
Other than that, good points. No, really. Just don’t pretend America cornered the market on the public circus.
Lindsay - you surely get it by now. Play nice. Play along…
Only in America…
Poor A. Stop yelling at him. It’s not his fault.
It’s important for the American people to see that their public figures are united as a family. In France, Sarcozy’s wife just told him to fuck off and get on with things himself, which he did and which she did (it wasn’t a hooker, but still). Here, the delusional fabric of public family is, whilst tearing at the seams, one last faux-comforter for the people.
As pubic figures, they belong to us, so they must tell us what happened because we’re nosy noxious little bottom-feeders, but please don’t make us uncomfortable by going into details or discussing it with us, because that would just be awkward and how would we explain that to the kids. But please do pretend it’s all OK and be big about it with an apology to *US*. Apologise to your wife on your own dime. That’s step 1.
Step 2? This is a two-parter:
A) Delude us all that you’re bigger than we are by somehow resolving this issue. “Oh, if my man ever did something like that, I’d be like ‘GET OUT YOU DIRTY LITTLE SCROTAL SCAB OUT OF MY HOUSE!’ - I don’t know how they find the strength to get through it”. The real answer is “Honey [slap! - DON’T EVER CALL ME THAT AGAIN!] Ok Ok… if we put on a united front we can avoid resigning and keep my massive salary for just a bit longer and perhaps it’ll blow over”. We’ll give you some time to do it, and we’ll call it privacy, but we want updates, damnit!
B) For God’s sake don’t let it out that we voted for someone who visits prostitutes, does drugs, or drives a Japanese car. We all know all American men do those things (except drive forrin cars) - we’re proud of our red-blooded muscle - but we can’t tell anyone.
2.5 kids. A white picket fence. A Labradoodpug and a daughter on the cheer-leading team. White smiles and deep tans all round please!
DING! Seconds out… Round 2…
I don’t think I’ve expressed myself with my usual alacritous efficiency, but it’s early and I need breakfast. In fact, I haven’t even brushed my haphazard English teeth yet, so forgive me please…
I just got home from Texas so I haven’t been immersed in all the Spitzer news like I’m sure people have been here in the Big Apple but I just scanned a few articles and landed on this one.
A is basically asleep but since he was semi-conscious I just started yelling at him that if he becomes the governor of New York after a career of prosecuting corrupt officials and prostitution rings, I WILL NOT STAND WITH HIM WHEN HE MAKES HIS RIDICULOUS “I MADE A BOO BOO” SPEECH before the press. I might love him, I might even forgive him, but there is no fucking way I’m going to stand there behind him and say nothing for all the world to watch. Fuck that. And fuck Hillary’s decision to do the same, and McGreevey’s wife, and Larry Craig’s too. I’m so tired of women playing this role. If he can meet up with the hooker alone he can make his apology for meeting up with her alone too. And then they can reconcile behind closed doors if they want to.
I guess the one positive to come out of this is that all the guys who don’t cheat on their wives with hookers can give themselves a pat on the back tonight. :)
