What is wrong with this country? The three main headlines today are as follows – 1.) John Edwards Admits He Fathered Rielle Hunter’s Child - 2.) Conan Signs $45M Deal To Leave Network and - 3.) The New Heidi Montag. While most days when I pop open MSN for the first time (it’s my home page), I shake my head and think to myself, “…and we wonder why religious fundamentalists want us dead”, but today takes it to entirely new level.
The man who would have been Vice President and just as much a single heartbeat away from the Presidency as Sarah Palin had an affair while his wife was battling cancer, fathered a child with his mistress then took some very politician-like steps to cover up the whole thing, including a very Willy Jeff-esque denial with later denial retraction. It seems as if he even went as far as to have one of his staffers ready to take on the role as the baby’s father.
While John Edwards is the latest in a long line of disgraced politicians from both sides of the aisle, this again leads me to ask the question, “Why do we tolerate this type of behavior from our politicians? Why do they feel that they can continually get away with being on the very bottom step of the moral ladder?”
This behavior is unacceptable and we should hold our politicians to a better standard in this country, yet it seems there will be a good percentage of people out there who will not only defend this behavior but try to convince us that a politician’s actions in their personal life have no bearing on the job they do, or the person that they are. I, for one, beg to differ.
What has gone on with Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien and NBC is a fantastic example of how we view agreements and honesty in this country. While it is our right to change our mind here in America, I also think that we are too easily ready to let people out of their agreements. Bankruptcy is a fine example of this. You get to run up debt, promise to pay it, but then get to say, “Oh, no, I don’t want to pay it after all,” and come up with an excuse as to why you can’t. We, as a society, and as an economy, should be holding people to better standards than that.
If you look at the history of our government, you will see time and time again, this same type of back-tracking and revisionist history that we as Americans should not allow to be forced upon us. I, for one, do not believe that agreements are made to be broken. America, however, seems to feel differently. We allow people, businesses, and our entire government to back out of agreements that we have made way too easily.
Who do you think that Al Qaeda is thinking of when they form their description of the average American? Heidi Montag, that’s who. Poor troubled, vain, oblivious and self-centered Heidi, whose coming out party with her new ten plastic surgeries is taking up valuable space on my news page.
While I will be the last to condone the efforts of our enemies, we also must take a few minutes to try to understand where they are coming from. Think if every morning you had to wonder how you were going to eat, or how you were going to get medicine for your kids, whether your house would be standing when you got home from a job that paid you pennies a day, and/or if a rebel army, or even your own government was going to come and take you away, drag off your family, etc. etc. etc. – and then you turn on the TV and there is poor little Heidi Montag, the picture of America, talking about how she was teased as a child and how hard it was for her growing up, and how hard is to be poor little Heidi Montag. You’d want to wipe her off of the face of the earth, too, America. Don’t lie and tell me that you wouldn’t.
We have reached such a level of complacency in this country because we don’t have to fight for anything anymore. We have truly lost sight of what is important and what should be the main focus in our lives, and honestly, what should be the focus of our free press. Your children should be learning about all the wonderful things the world has to offer from arts to music to literature, but instead, the best that we can offer up as a nation is a two-part interview with Heidi Montag so that she can explain to us why she felt she needed a new look to the extent of spending 10 hours under the knife. Go America!
We can really do better as a nation and as a people…
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