The Stoning of John Edwards

First off, probably a quarter to half of the people currently wringing their hands over Edwards’ extramarital affair have cheated, are cheating, or will cheat on their own spouse.

It’s not the kind of thing you’re supposed to talk about in polite company and it runs contrary to a lot of romantic/religious notions that people have, but monogamy is a fairly recent invention and is by no means natural. I’m just saying, keep in mind the ridiculous level of hypocrisy at work here.

Yes, he lied. Yes, it could have hurt his party’s chances, although it’s probably better that this distraction didn’t surface during the primaries. I do understand the disappointment of the people who defended him in good faith. You could even argue that people expect better-than-average behavior from their politicians, although the current gang of thugs and robber barons in power certainly speaks against that.

However, most of the sanctimonious commentators criticizing him would not have done any differently in his situation, and quite a few of them are in his situation.

Statistically, there is a significant portion of high-ranking politics/news people that have stories of infidelity of their own, so I’m assuming that we’ll soon see hundreds of these people come out and admit their own affairs in the name of honesty. Come on, who wants to go first?

*chirp!* *chirp!*