The Pot & The Kettle (one of whom is also “PatriotPal”, a loyal GP commenter and friend) has the dirt on New Jersey’s favorite corrupt gay ex-Governor.
McGreevey will be on Oprah in September. The Pot isn’t impressed..
Oprah, girl, what were you thinking? Jimbo’s fifteen minutes were up a few hours ago and his book isn’t going to change that. Plus, do you really need to be chit chatting about another memoir filled with lies?
P&K also tell us that the McGayvenator has a new beau.
And to top it all off, the Advocate gives us some “TMI” dirt on the former Guv. He cruised truck stops.
A much-anticipated memoir from the nation’s first openly gay governor is due out this fall. But excerpts from the book by former New Jersey governor James McGreevey are already causing a small storm of media hype.
In the book, titled The Confession (ReganBooks), McGreevey reveals that he once resorted to anonymous sex at highway rest stops. McGreevey, who proclaimed himself “a gay American” in 2004 while announcing his impending resignation as governor, engaged in the secret encounters because he feared having a relationship with a man would ruin his chances of success as a politician.
“So instead I settled for the detached anonymity of bookstores and rest stops as a compromise, but one that was wholly unfulfilling and morally unsatisfactory,” McGreevey writes in the book, according to the excerpts published Sunday in The [Newark, N.J.] Star-Ledger. The excerpts do not mention whether the activities took place during his tenure as governor.
What a great role model for young gay Americans, right? I wonder if our friends over at the HRC and NGLTF still stand behind their praise of McGreevey as “courageous” and “honest and straightforward”?
I don’t know about you, but I’m going to spend my money this summer on this book by a true gay American role model. It is written by someone who believes in all that is good about America and stands up for her beliefs and stands behind her family.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Maybe it is me, but how can, Iassume the Advocate, describe a married man, who was having an adulterous affair and doing everything in his power to hide his sexuality and only comes forth when he was about to be outed and at the same time announce his resignation be described as “the nation’s first openly gay govenor.”
McGreevey is a prime example of why I have long distinguished between the hetero-/bi-/homo-sexual trichotomy and the straight/gay dichotomy (with minor variations). As far as I can tell, McGreevey was a straight man. He had been married–to women–twice, (presumptively) fathered children by both of them, and was elected to public office touting his marriage relationships. Straight? In my book, yes.
He was straight/hetero in his public face, but he had had possibly more than a few dalliances with men in his not-so-public face. And that is why I was outraged when self-described gay organizations “praised” him for “coming out.” Quite frankly, he gives us gay people a bad name.
McGreevey’s only saving grace–from what I have read–is that, unlike more than a few other politicians in similar circumstances, he was not virulantly anti-gay in his policies. Unlike, for example Robert Bauman a number of years ago, who, after having been caught dallying with men, tried to connive his way into sympathy from gay people. Frankly, gay people should give them the cold shoulder that they deserve.
While I can appreciate some gays and many Democrats want to give Jim McGreevey and others like him the “cold shoulder” now, the truth of the matter is that his path to becoming an open gay male –absent the public disgrace, corruption, sexual predation and duplicity– was indeed heralded by the GayLeft as “courageous” and difficult and, as one gay rag put it, “…happened only after painstaking personal reflection.”
Bruce has it right: there are two points to this story.
First, McGreevey is lower than pond scum and just because he’s gay doesn’t mean that gays should flock to his pond like he’s the new queen swan. His conduct in the closet did more to demean marriage than most radical gay activists can do in a lifetime of misdirected advocacy.
Second, the GayLeft was wrong to trumpet his mea culpa and conversion to the gay side. He is NOT a role model except for other closeted sexual predators with access to the state job dole.
I would add a third: the machinations surrounding the timing of his resignation should make it clear to everyone that NJ’s Democrat Party machine is as corrupting, as vile, as dishonest to democratic ideals as McGreevey was to the institution of marriage.
GayLeft groups should make it it clear: “He ain’t one of us, Oprah!” Will they? Nope; not if it means taking issue with a fellow Democrat… no matter how fallen.
The hetero majority in America think being gay is exclusively about sex, fawning and absorbed self-interest, extoic and erotic public expression at the expense of others and uber victimhood.
To achieve progress on our agenda, we need to publicly and loudly distance ourselves from the McGreevey types…
Lemme get this straight: this creep’s now blabbing to the world about blowing random truckers at Turnpike reststops…while he was married…with kids…and the f’ing Governor?!!! Yeah…that’s real helpful in countering any gay stereotypes, Jim. Way to go. Now please crawl back under your rock and keep the lurid details of your sex life to yourself, ya freak!
I think McGreevey should just go back to obscurity, but what he seems to be saying is that while he was in the closet and ashamed of what he was, he frequented truck stops. He’s saying this is what shouldn’t be done. A lot of married, closeted gay/bi men do this very thing – it’s important that someone talks about this as it will remind closeted gay men that their desires don’t go away solely because they get married.
McGreevey is to gays as OJ was to Nicole.
Regards,
Peter H.
Are you kiddin me???? This guy deserves a medal and
then some!!! I dare any of you gay cabeloeros to
do what he did. YAH????? You betcha!!!!
I salute this gay man and his gay mate. He is happy now. Celebrate!!!! What a tortuous life he’s led.
What a dilema. I feel bad for the wife (wives) and kids
that were strung along for the deception part..
“Oh what a tangled web we weave” yadda yada yadda
and ” The truth shall set you free.
Hallelujah.
Takes one to know one. This is a hero not a villian
as he has been poised as here on this website.
Shamy shamy!!!!!!
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Let’s be serious for a moment… We are still talking about one of the most famously corrupt governors in recent history. It was widely known (and frequently publicized) that he squandered public monies on personal expenses (aka the trip to Ireland), appointed wholly unqualified people to public office based personal relationships and when the investigation into the REALLY illegal stuff (like campaign contributions) begins… he runs out and says…. “wait, I’m gay!”
I am totally unconcerned with what he did at public reststops… He should be in prison, not on Oprah- That’s what concerns me. The fact that everyone forgot about his track record as soon as he came out is totally insane.
There is nothing courageous about Jim McGreevey’s actions. He used his sexuality to step out of public office so he did not have to face criminal charges.
Hello, I think watching this show on Oprah triggered bad memories because I am a victim of this type of Circus life that some men lead. I understand if you are gay your are gay and there are things I try to hide in my life (therefore I am not perfect), but the victims of these people are severly mentally traumatized. My father does this now who has a wife and when I found out I was devasted. He also seeks sexual encounters with stangers and possibly is at risk of getting murdered or aids. He is known in his community and goes to church every Sunday, but when he gets his chance he will go to those places and seek men. I don’t want to explain how I know the facts, but when Governor McGreevey came out with the truth, the people that are the victims get no mercy. It’s a shame and it is painful.