Don't Stand, Walk!
May 22nd 2011 02:14
Ever since Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger vied for the office of the "Governator", the rumors of his less than gentlemanly actions, towards the women around him, began fluttering like soiled laundry on a clothes line. Well here we go again. And again I ask the much too overlooked and under-asked question, "Was anyone surprised?" Well, evidently the misses was.
Maria would like us to believe that she was bamboozled by the news of Benedict Arnold's infidelity and consequential fatherhood. I don't know how long she had been sidestepping the pink pachyderm in the middle of the mansion, but there's no way she could have dodged the manure that flanked it. We all know she stepped in it at least once.
Years ago before it could stick to the bottom of her Manolo Blahniks, she scuffed the then scandal off by telling the naysayers they could listen to the negative stories or they could listen to her. "I invite you to listen to me. I wouldn't be standing here if this man weren't an A plus human being." declared Shriver.
I accepted her invitation and listened, but that didn't mean I believed her. Though what bothered me most was the "I wouldn't be standing here" part. Enough already with the standing next to the betrayers. Maria Shriver, and many others—including one Ms. Jackie Kennedy Onassis—have been proclaimed as brave, courageous, gallant etc., for sticking with a cad. It takes more guts to walk away than to stand still.
I am not here to discount Ms. Shriver's pain and heartbreak, that I believe. However I don't think the sore is as fresh as she would have us think. When the inaugural smell of Arnold's dirty laundry was tickling the tip of Maria's pointed sniffer, she should have listened to the laundry list of women rather than an A plus barbarian. She's not extending any invitations to listen to her true lies now. I'm sure she would prefer it if we were all terminated. Sadly when you are a public figure privacy is an illusion.
If you don't want to air your dirty laundry then don't use the public laundromat.
And hopefully the next time Ms. Shriver—or her maid—hang the soggy laundry on the line, there will be one Mr. Schwarzenegger hanging out to dry .
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