Some good stuff out of the Daily Beast recently, including a piece on how Scientology’s wall may be cracking and another Meagan McCain piece that finds me – frustratingly but yet again – in agreement.
My favorite part of the Scientology article highlighted the special white glove treatment Tom Cruise receives when he’s prancing around one of the cult’s fancy compounds. The below excerpt highlights how Cruise’s interactions are often limited to the most powerful member of the group, David Miscavige, who is chairman of the board of the Religious Technology Center.
…only Miscavige was permitted to speak to Cruise when he visited the facility. When a gardener spoke to the star once, the affidavit said, it caused ‘a major flap.’
On the McCain piece, I agree totally with her assertion that politicans’ sexual escapades should have little bearing on the public’s perception of the offender’s abilities. In my view, the ability to execute their professional duties doesn’t come into question in most of these situations and thus should not be public fodder. And, by the way, such trysts are standard practice pretty much everywhere else in the world, just as they were in America back in the days of JFK and Marilyn Monroe. And let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that politicians are any better than the average American whenit comes to morality. They most certainly are not. So enough with the shock and horror at these discoveries, America. Suck it up and deal with it because it’s a reality whose scope is much greater than we care to admit. I’m not condoning their actions, of course. I’m just sayin’. What people do with their personal lives is just that – personal. However, the hypocrisy she cites is the critical issue here, and she’s right to wag her finger at the shenanigans of politicians who claim moral superiority one day only to find themselves weeping at a podium with their dejected wives by their side the very next one. But her call for compassion and understanding is off the mark. That’s not what these forlorn politicians need. Rather, they need privacy. And let’s just leave it at that.
