For New Jersey Republicans, an Inviting Target Vanishes

New York Times ^ | August 13, 2004 | MICHAEL SLACKMAN

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This is disgusting beyond belief. It's how ALL the news stations in the Philly area were reporting the story last night, complete with vox populi clips of morons saying exactly the same thing: "It's a shame he had to resign because he's gay. People's personal lives should be kept separate from their public lives. Blah, blah, blah." And the reporter piously opines afterwards, "Everyone at this diner felt pretty much the same way."

It was the same thing on the New York City stations as well. And I've yet to see anybody in the media ask why the heck Mrs. McGreevey was smiling and holding her husband's hand when he just announced to the world he preferred men to her! McGreevey made his "personal life" public when he married her and had a kid as a campaign prop. It's valid to wonder what his wife got out of being part of a fake marriage.