'Golden Voice' Ted Williams Bails on Rehab

TMZ ^ | January 24, 2011

[marshmallow]

There's a teaching moment here for liberals.

Job offers, celebrity and money are often not the solution for rescuing the feral citizens who inhabit the urban ghettos in this country.

Their problems are personal, moral and spiritual and the solution must come from within. They can throw as much money as they like at Williams. Unless he overcomes his inner demons, he'll continue to be a deadbeat. Indeed, the money will only make things worse.

[N. Theknow]

'Golden Voice' Ted Williams Bails on Rehab

I will have to read this thread again when I get back from the eye doctor.

At first glance it appeared his family jewels were on rehab.

[Republic of Texas]

You are the exception then. Rejoice in that. For many of us, Sobriety wasn’t an option until it was the only option.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I’m sorry to sound harsh but I’m not wishing him the best or pulling for him. He’s a con man, pure and simple. He had a good story to sell and had a physical quality—his voice—that people found attractive. If he sounded like Harvey Fierstein no one would care about him.

That’s not to say I don’t have sympathy for those in addiciton or the homeless, but they have to at least be trying to change. This guy was running a con from Day 1, which is what active addicts do. They’ll take every penny you have and then demand more.

[Daffynition]

I can barely keep track

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[GreenAccord]

or maybe not.

Look, if a person is going to violate Mazlows’s 1st level of needs, and keep doing it, and keep doing it, there’s something wrong with more than their income stream.

I was NEVER talking about a (homeless) mother of two who chooses to escape a wretched, violent existence somewhere because of an abusive spouse (to make up a storyline). It’s not my out-of-thin-air claim that homelessness (the kind Mr Williams lived for YEARS) is rooted in a mental disorder.

And I don’t appreciate the weakly veiled assertion I’m somehow mentally ill.

[dennisw]

Not you yourself..?