Comments on: Standing By Their Men

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:32:35 +0000

Honestly, it creeps me out to see Zombie Wife stand next to Cheating Scumbug Husband at the podium. I tend to agree with you, Ken, in that it reflects more poorly on the husband to ask his wife to stand there and be humiliated.

I do think McGreevy's case is worse, however. Wifey, stand next to me while I let everyone know how much I dig dudes….

By: Grandy

Grandy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:16:24 +0000

don't forget in kobe's case, she was sporting a brand new diamond ring for the PC (though on thinking about it more, that might have come a few weeks later and I'm crazy).

By: Derrick

Derrick — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:06:25 +0000

McGreevy, not McCreedy.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:05:14 +0000

What about McCreedy? That press conference was utterly brutal.

I think the "most awkward press conference dealing with the husband doing freaky shit" award would have to go to Kobe Bryant, for his comeuppance. Which came complete with tearful public apology directly to said wife (or fiance).

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:09:06 +0000

Samantha Bee on the Daily Show shows how difficult it is to imagine it the other way around.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:09:25 +0000

Agreed on all counts Ken. I don't see how Mrs. Spitzer, who probably found out about that her husband is an utter shitheel less than 48 hours earlier, and possibly only an hour earlier, can be blamed for anything she did or didn't do. I've seen a lot of comments about the mean look she's giving her husband in the first press conference. I don't see it as a look at her husband. To me (and of course I don't know what she's thinking) it seems as though she's looking past him, and probably thinking about what to tell her daughters, who might have been finding out about it at that very moment. The only bright side to her private agony is we'll never have to deal with a Drudge Report siren heralding the impeachment of President Spitzer.