Is Fame a Pass for Bad Behavior?

After a whole week of Weinergate playing out to humiliate another wife of a politician, I was thinking about how irresponsible, disrespectful, and plain ignorant politicians, celebrities and the media have become and how clueless they all are.

After 's torrid presidency, I truly am shocked that any politician has the nerve to have an extracurricular love life. John Edwards, who truly makes my stomach turn, was indicted last week for allegedly funneling nearly $1 million in campaign contributions to his mistress Rielle Hunter to keep her quiet. You remember Hunter, right? She was pregnant with Edwards's love child while his wife was fighting cancer. I’m fairly certain there is not a more vile human than Edwards.

And yet here comes Rep. Anthony Weiner, who on his best day looks a little like a weasel and now acts like one too. Basically the guy is trolling the Internet to send out explicit pictures of himself and his parts to girls half his age. Recently he admitted to chatting up a 17-year-old. Where is Chris Hansen from Dateline's “To Catch a Predator” when you need him?

Between Bill Clinton, Tiger Woods, Jesse James, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, you would think that every man in the public eye would have learned by now to keep it in their pants. All of the woman that would cheat with you, they can and will be bought to talk for the right price. There is no dignity, there are no morals, and they could care less if it makes them look horrible. They have done what they did solely to line their pocketbooks.

These men didn’t care about their mistresses, and their mistresses didn’t care about them.  I want to take out a billboard in Manhattan and Hollywood and say “MEN-Any Woman You Want to Fool Around With Will Turn on You and Sell You Out”--and then hire Gloria Allred to try and get you to apologize for lying to your adulteress.

Tiger Woods lost a whole boatload of money, and his wife, and his family. The question I still want to know is, "Were any of those skanky women worth the humiliation, hurt and pain, and the horrible decline of your golf game?"

Arnold Schwarzenegger is another example of a high profile pig that apparently consistently cheated on his family and had a child that he kept hidden for over a decade. What kind of person does that?

I’m not even sure what bugs me more. Is it the affairs, or is it the media reporting and sensationalizing all of those involved even though the behavior is deplorable and morally bankrupt? I mean, are we so obsessed with celebrity that the media is afraid to call them out on it?

I haven’t heard anyone say that Weiner is a sexual predator--that is what he was doing if you think about it. If it was your neighbor sitting there in his underwear sending sexually explicit photos of himself to girls half his age – you would think he is gross, but because this guy Weiner is in public office, many want to give him a pass.

And now he's going to rehab. He said he's distraught. But is he hurt because what he did to his wife is just horribly hurtful and wrong or because he’s been caught? The pessimist  in me says he’s more devastated for all his antics being made public than for what hurt he did to the woman that he married.