Jim McGreevey got a $500,000.00 advance for his tell-all book.
McGreevey, former governor of New Jersey and closet "gay American", resigned his office after complaints by a member of his staff that he was being sexually harrassed by the governor.
Judging from the reaction of the Oprah audience to McGreevey's soul-baring book launch on the show, sales are going to be slow.
"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.
No kidding. What kind of idiot thought that the mere fact of being gay would excuse McGreevey in the minds of the American public, of deceiving two wives, engaging in rest stop glory hole sex, abuse the power of his office and sexual harrassment?
A New York publisher.
Hey, it worked in the "bubble", so it'll work across the country right?
Oprah Winfrey used to have a much better sense of what the average American woman would respond to--she might be spending too much time with John Travolta and George Clooney.
Posted by Mick Stockinger on September 13, 2006 12:38 PM
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It's hardly liberals who got it wrong; the "New York publisher" of the book is Regan, whose boss Judith Regan is known to be on the right. She's published Limbaugh, Hannity, Bork and was romantically tied to Bernard Kerik. I think the man's celebrity makes him of interest; whether the interest is pos or neg, or book-worthy, we'll see. It's quite possible that his appeal to the gay community is being misjudged since he did not simply come out of the closet, or discover late in life he was gay and come to grips with it, but rather was clearly a person living a deliberately secretive life at the expense of his wives (and his children). I don't think the sexual harassment bit will harm his appeal since the accuser fled and seems to have been demonstrably lower on the morality scale than McGreevey, but the downlow aspect...that might make him uninteresting to gays and straights alike. But the point is: It's not a liberal-vs.-conservative issue; plenty of avowed conservatives are up to EXACTLY what McGreevey was up to. The glory hole has two, uh, faces.
Posted by Matthew Rettenmund | September 13, 2006 3:55 PM
Posted on September 13, 2006 15:55
It'll not sell, any more than Mary Cheney's idiocy did. He's just not that interesting a guy, and he's known only because he was sitting in the governor's mansion when he got caught.
Posted by Greg | September 14, 2006 7:45 PM
Posted on September 14, 2006 19:45