Posted on 09/13/2006 6:22:12 AM PDT by seanmerc
McGreevey opens closet for Oprah but audience icy
Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey spilled his guts to Oprah yesterday about the years he spent living as a closeted "gay American," but Oprah's audience was unimpressed.
Oprah swore the audience to secrecy at the taping of her show, which airs Sept. 19 - the same day that McGreevey's memoir, "The Confession," hits store shelves.
If the reaction of her fans who watched the taping are any indication, McGreevey's musings - for which he reportedly got a $500,000 advance - could be a tough sell.
"Not impressed with him or his story," one woman who declined to give her name said after she left Harpo Studios, the Chicago home of "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
Another woman was put off by McGreevey - and the subject matter. "It's not my type of show," she said.
McGreevey shocked the nation, not to mention the Garden State, when he outed himself as "a gay American" in 2004 and announced that he was resigning.
He and his second wife, Dina Matos, are in the midst of a divorce and McGreevey is now living in New Jersey with Australian rainmaker Mark O'Donnell.
McGreevey was forced out of the closet when Golan Cipel - a young Israeli the governor appointed as his homeland security chief even though he wasn't a U.S. citizen - charged McGreevey was pressuring him for sex.
Excerpts from McGreevey's memoir leaked out in May and in them the ex-governor recounted his struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality.
McGreevey, who fathered two daughters by each of his two ex-wives, wrote that he had secret gay sex in bookstores and rest stops because he feared his homosexuality would ruin his chances of success as a politician.
Homosexual agenda ping
So -- let me get this straight -- the entire reason he had gay sex was because he was afraid it would ruin his political career?
Journalists are paid to write clear, well-crafted sentences. Too bad they don't.
The book advance obviously was the publisher's way of funneling money to the creep. Not much new or of interest he could possibly include. Besides, he has a credibility problem and vested interest in pushing the book.
"McGreevey is now living with Austrailian rainmaker Mark O'Donnell"
What is a rainmaker?
Well, Oprah is non-judgemental and compassionate, right?
And we're told we're supposed to be tolerant of gays?
Please do not speculate any further. It could be a brain scorching experience.
Yeah, McGreevey probably wouldn't think of Oprah as his type, either.
Well, it either refers to a lawyer making lots of money, or to some urine fetish we don't want to know very much about.
"he had secret gay sex in bookstores"
I always wondered about those guys in Border's.
You see, they are just like the rest of us... come on, I mean, who hasn't stopped at highway rest stops, or public park bathrooms in the middle of the night to have anonymous sex with complete strangers?
Homosexuality = Mental Disorder
Erin Brockovich is thought of as a "rainmaker."
I don't know, but I'm sure they look fabulous in a thong.. or arseless chaps.
Much to the surprise of the media, Americans are a tolerant people. We just don't buy a queer putting his johnson ahead of the safety of the people of New Jersey and New York by putting his bone smoking bud in charge of NJ Homeland Security.
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