Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Bimbo Explosions
Why are we so obsessed with whom our presidential candidates sleep? We're not voting for pope.
Character my butt. Even Winston Churchill was said to have kept a mistress. LOTS of really smart people do funny things in their private life, with the operative word being PRIVATE.
Perhaps it's our tendency to want to tear to pieces the people who we've turned into superstars. It's like America's version of class warfare. We love it when people become big and famous, but love it even MORE when we get to kick them to the ground after they stumble. We take no prisoners in our public pillorying of famous people who made a mistake. Has some actor not had a good hit in a few years? There simply is NO end to the bad press about them, which tends to hasten their fall.
Why are we so obsessed with whom our presidential candidates sleep? We're not voting for pope.
Character my butt. Even Winston Churchill was said to have kept a mistress. LOTS of really smart people do funny things in their private life, with the operative word being PRIVATE.
Perhaps it's our tendency to want to tear to pieces the people who we've turned into superstars. It's like America's version of class warfare. We love it when people become big and famous, but love it even MORE when we get to kick them to the ground after they stumble. We take no prisoners in our public pillorying of famous people who made a mistake. Has some actor not had a good hit in a few years? There simply is NO end to the bad press about them, which tends to hasten their fall.
