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It wasn\u2019t until later in the afternoon that I learned what we all know now, that he has come out, that he is a gay American. By the way, I want to announce my truth today, ladies and gentlemen, that is I am a football-fan American. We\u2019re going to have these different kinds of Americans, I\u2019m a football-fan American, Jim McGreevey came out and says he\u2019s a gay American. And there are some today who are claiming that he\u2019s a hero, the media, particularly in the northeast. In fact, last night on WNBC Channel 4 in New York, some local politician said that he\u2019s the Jackie Robinson of gay politics, and there\u2019s another piece here in the LA Times — not the LA Times, I forgot, so many things here, but referring to him as the Rosa Parks of gay politics. But when I saw what this was all about, I\u2019ll share something with you. A year ago, I would have been poking fun, I would have been laughing along with everybody else about this, about the personal aspects, the personal impact. I would have been in here and I would have been trying to come up with the funniest things I could have thought to get in on the obvious fun of this. But that would have been a year ago. <\/p>\n

Today, I have a different perspective on McGreevey. And as I was telling Mr. Snerdley early this morning, when I saw what actually happened here and I saw without listening. I didn\u2019t hear it at first, but I watched some of the press conference and we\u2019ve got audio sound bites from it with his wife standing next to him, and knowing he\u2019s got two little girls, one of them is one year old. The first emotion I felt was sympathy. I felt sorry for the guy. Because he\u2019s been living a lie. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s not been who Jim McGreevey really is. He\u2019s been living two lives and he\u2019s been lying about both sides. Well, I don\u2019t know lying about both sides, but he\u2019s been lying to somebody about who he is, and it\u2019s stressful. It\u2019s probably oriented in trying to make as many people happy as he could. That was probably his objective, and instead of doing that, he was denying who he really is to a lot of people in his life, and to a lot of people who voted for him. And whatever political intrigue is involved here, the thing I know is that Jim McGreevey personally as a human being has a real tough road to hoe. I don\u2019t care how he comes across on television. I\u2019m sure that last night was very liberating for him. I mean, this is his first step, if you will, to being who he is and being open and honest with himself about who he is. It\u2019s no accident, ladies and gentlemen, that he used the word ‘truth\u2019 in describing something, ‘My truth is I\u2019m a gay American.\u2019 He\u2019s been denying who he is his. Well, I don\u2019t know for how long, but for much of his life, and it\u2019s difficult, it is hard, it is debilitating, it\u2019s false, it\u2019s phony, and it\u2019s unhealthy. <\/p>\n

Whoever you are, you have to be who you are. And a lot of people are not able to be who they really are because they\u2019re consumed with trying to make other people happy or trying to make other people avoid pain so they take all of that on themselves. McGreevey was no doubt doing this, and there was something that was a catalyst for this. Whether it was his own decision to do this or whether it was external forces, which I happen to think that gets into the political intrigue, the simple fact of the matter is that something happened here to force him to face his reality, and he\u2019s doing it. Last night, I know his wife was standing side by side and I know his ex-wife, both of his wives are as supportive as they can be, publicly, but regardless just as a human being and as a man, this is devastating for Jim McGreevey. He may think at the moment that his career has got salvageable aspects to it, and it may. I\u2019m not saying it doesn\u2019t. It probably does. But at this moment I don\u2019t care what public face he\u2019s putting on, he\u2019s devastated right now, and I can\u2019t help but just feel empathy and actual sympathy for him for all of this because it\u2019s not an easy thing to do. It\u2019s not an easy way to have lived, and it\u2019s a blessing to him that this has happened. For himself personally, for his life, for his future, this is a blessing that this has happened. There are going to be a lot of people that are going to try to join him and use him for their own gain. There will be a lot of people that will go against him to try to use him for their own gain, but in the middle of all that is Jim McGreevey who\u2019s got to live his life and try to find some sort of happiness and contentment in it and it is not going to be easy no matter what public face he puts forward.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m just honest with you here. This would not have been my take a year ago and I\u2019m glad that it is my take today, especially when you look at his two little girls. I mean, you cannot help but feel sorry for them as well, or have feelings for them. The youngest one is a one year old, and this is something that they\u2019re going to have to now deal with because of his actions, and don\u2019t think that\u2019s not weighing on him, either. You know, for all of the political ramifications, for all of his career, the personal life aspects of this cannot be easy, but he\u2019s, for whatever reason, here taking the first step toward setting it all straight. And I want to be one to wish him well in his personal quest here to make this a positive and liberating an event as it can be. We\u2019ll take a quick break and come back and get into all the other political intrigue surrounding this right after this.<\/p>\n

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