Patrick Swayze...tabloid gossip on illness cruel and insensitive!

I was standing in line at a check-out counter at the supermarket a couple of weeks ago when I spied a screaming headline on the cover of a tabloid magazine.

Patrick Swayze dying!"

I recall recoiling in horror.

How cruel and insensitive!

The same thought crossed the talented actor's mind, too.

Although Mr. Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he has been valiantly fighting the disease. In fact, he is responding to treatment, and winning the battle.

Still stinging from the hurt, Mr. Swayze angrily noted to the legitimate press:

"They're reporting that I'm on my last legs and saying good-bye to my tearful family. It's upsetting that the shoddy and reckless reporting from these publications cast a negative shadow on the positive and good fight I'm fighting."

At a time when "hope is precious", he can only shake his head in disbelief.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Prying into - and reporting on - highly confidential medical records without the knowledge or permission of an individual - is a shocking and disturbing trend in a "no-holds-barred" kind of gossip-mongering which must be condemned - and ultimately - stopped in its tracks.

If the shoe were on the other foot, I hazzard a guess that the insensitive intruders might be angry, too.

George Eliot once said:

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity."

John Edwards...Oh, my gosh! Had an afffair. More like Kennedy than I thought!

John primps for love tryst...


There must be something about Politics that revs up the old libido.

But - somehow - everyone thought that Edwards was a different kind of stud - um - breed of horse (in that regard, anyway).

To many, he gave the impression of being a loving husband and family man.

Golly - when I compared him to a charismatic John Kennedy - I was closer to the target than I ever imagined.

After all, John Kennedy was such a womanizer.

As George would say in - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" - what archery!

After all, it's just been reported that John Edwards had a clandestine "affair".

Apparently - when the handsome Presidential Candidate was first confronted with the allegations - he dismissed the so-called gossip as "Tabloid Trash".

On the heels of the startling revelations now, many are irked by the fact he gave the stalwart impression that he was a forthright husband standing by his cancer-stricken wife.

Golly, there have been allegations that he fathered a child, too.

But, he's off the hook on that one.

A former campaign staff member stepped forward and acknowledged he is the father.

Sounds like this young lady was passed around, doesn't it?

The seedy goings-on along the campaign trail sure titillate!

Edwards confessed that he disclosed the tawdry details to his wife and family long ago. Then, shame-faced, he revealed he hoped the knowledge of the love tryst would never see the light of day.

An ABC News feature intends to report this evening that Edwards lied repeatedly about the affair with 42-year-old Rielle Hunter. And, that he has admitted that Tabloid reports that he secretly met with Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hilton, were actually true.

"In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs. I recognized my mistake, and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for her forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public."

He added that he was ashamed of his conduct and the choices he made with regard to his supportive family.

"I took responsibility for my actions back then. I take full responsibility now, publicly."

But, he has not stepped forward, without a lot of soul-searching.

"In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic. If you want to beat me up feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare and will now work with everything I have to help my family and others who need my help.

David Bonior - who managed Edwards' bid for the presidency - acknowledged to the press he was not only disappointed, but angry.

"Thousands of friends of the senator's and his supporters have put their faith and confidence in him, and he's let them down," said Bonior.

"They've been betrayed by his action."

Asked whether the affair would damage Edwards' future aspirations in public service, Bonior astutely noted for the record,

"You can't lie in politics and expect to have people's confidence."

The whole fiasco makes him look like such a hypocrite, too.

After all, when Edwards was a Senator, he made some pretty disparaging remarks about President Clinton and his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

"I think this president has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen."

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

There are also hints of some other improprieties, too.

Edwards' political action committee allegedly paid $100,000 (in a four-month span) to a firm run by Hunter to direct Web videos showing Edwards in candid moments.

But things get curiouser.

The payments to - "One America Committee to Midline Groove Productions LLC" - started just five days after Hunter incorporated the firm in Delaware.

The initial six-figure payment was followed with two smaller payments totaling $14,461 on the first day of April in 2007.

Sounds like pay for play, doesn't it?

Well, as I always said,

A stiff di** has no conscience!

Hillary Clinton...gay rumors persist in tabloids! Old news to G & L community.

When I sauntered into Von's this morning for a cup of java and a doughnut, I couldn't help but notice the screaming headlines at the check-out counter on the cover of a tabloid magazine:

Hillary Clinton Gay Affair!

Well, that bit of gossip has been circulating around the gay community for years.

G & L activists haven't pursued the issue - or put the spotlight on the persistent whispers that swirl around Jodie Foster either - because most have taken the stance that both - if the rumors are true - should be afforded the opportunity to "come out" when they're ready to skirt the idea.

Actually, the titillating thought of the winsome duo in the sack - Whoa Nellie, Hillary & Jody! - is inclined to rev up a few scintillating passions in some.

Although both high-profile celebrities are cool and aloof in the public arena, I just betcha, they're both wild tigresses in-between the sheets, dudes!

Meow.

Theorists allege that the reason Hillary never left Bill over his womanizing - and in particular, the Lewinski affair - was due to the fact the Clinton union is a marriage of convenience. Makes sense, doesn't it?

As long as Bill acts discreetly, and doesn't embarrass her too badly in public, she'll forgo on the heave ho!

And, it suits slick Willy's willy; after all, the prospect of hopping into bed with two lusty women is a great little scenario for the over-sexed former president whose favorite motto is: Don't Ask. Don't tell.

Actually, for many men, fantasizing about a threesome with two Lesbos is quite a turn on!

Yeah, men are such animals, aren't they?

As to Hillary - well, I guess the pant suits make sense now - don’t ‘ya think?

For some, butch is a turn on!

Hillary & Bill same person.
Ever see 'em together?