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Moral Values...Again
In
this morning's New York Times (I know, I know, you right-wing
jihadists, fill in your shibboleth 'the Chronicle From Satan'), comes
an article that doesn't quite seem to fit the tired mantra liberal
media.
What struck me the most about the article was how Thamel wrote about but didn't amplify on a major difference in the lives of these two young men. But maybe sports and politics are a combustible combination.
Leinart is shown as Holllywood's boy toy of the moment, on the cover of various 'entertainment magazines and mixing with the 'it' celebs.
Thamel depicts White as the aw shucks, second coming of Mayberry's Opie Taylor, 'the' humble celebrity of Norman, Oklahoma, ummarried but residing with the mother of his two-year-old daughter Tinley.
Leinart runs with the Hollywood crowd. White changes diapers.
As White is quoted in the article: "He's Hollywood, and I'm from a small town in Oklahoma."
The article makes both appear to be fine young men. They are acquainted with one another and have a friendly relationship.
But isn't it a bit incongruent that
blue-stater Leinart comes from a geographical area stained as a major
purveyor of filth and immorality and is closely associated with such
'sin' in the article while White, a red stater, has obviously engaged
in pre-marital sex, is currently living in sin but is presented more as
a golly-gee Boy Scout tossing around a football in between switching
Pampers.
This is nothing against either person.
But just who is living the higher moral values so often espoused as an
inbred Republican trait? Do sports heroes get a free pass in solely red
states?
Maybe we should check with Oklahoma's newly-elected U.S. Senator, the right freaky Tom Coburn. That would be interesting.
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