Comments on: McGreevey’s 16th Minute Alert

By: MS

MS — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:12:59 +0000

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.

By: JS

JS — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:51:21 +0000

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.

By: wassim

wassim — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:16:03 +0000

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By: Macho Mark -eda -sade

Macho Mark -eda -sade — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:46:28 +0000

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!!!!!!

By: Peter Hughes

Peter Hughes — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 00:46:54 +0000

McGreevey is to gays as OJ was to Nicole.

Regards,
Peter H.

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:48:31 +0000

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.

By: glisteny

glisteny — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 05:10:26 +0000

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!

By: Michigan-Matt

Michigan-Matt — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:22:58 +0000

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…

By: raj

raj — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:45:57 +0000

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.

By: ralph

ralph — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:20:57 +0000

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.”