Why did CNN have to give Peter Bregman so much space on their website for a puff piece about how we shouldn't go nuts on Gov. Sanford or any other politician that has a sexual scandal.
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But save your outrage for Iran or Darfur, for situations where people are being tortured and trampled and killed.
As a citizen of America, I have to ask one simple question: Why should I waste my outrage on Iran and Darfur since it's quite obvious that the people who are trampling, torturing and don't care about world opinion?
In a huggy, queasy kinda way, Bregman continues:
We need to understand this situation for what it is: human weakness, poor judgment, personal longing and complicated relationships. The question is, how are we -- each one of us personally -- going to respond? I'd like to make a suggestion:
We should empathize.
Why should we waste our time empathizing for Sanford? This is a guy who rants about the defense of marriage and how gay marriage is going to ruin HIS marriage.
Well where the gay person who ruined his marriage? Did Mr. Sulu's marriage force him to turn to this woman in Argentina while his wife and four kids were wondering where was daddy on Father's day?
Don't just empathize with Mark. Empathize with Jenny, his wife, and their boys. And with Maria, the mystery woman in Argentina. And with the press for doing their best to decipher and report the details. And with the people who are outraged. Don't take sides. Try to truly understand, without judging anyone, how everyone got to where they are and how each one feels.
Hey Bregman, some of us don't need to waste that much time thinking about everyone that we don't know. Why don't we imagine all these people sitting around in a circle singing Kumbia and drinking Coke. Why doesn't Bregman empathize with me? Think about me sitting in my house seeing the governor of my neighboring state taking off for a week without telling his wife, kids, office or the highway patrol. Must be nice to think you have zero obligations to others when you're the most powerful man in your state. Think about me laughing while Gov. Sanford tells us how he cried for five days in Buenos Aires. I can't empathize with a man who cries that much and that long because he can't juggle his wife and mistress.
The thing is that our outrage at Sanford has done something: It derailed his dreams of being in Iowa and New Hampshire. He won't even be the whispered VP of Huckabee. It also proved to Sanford's wife that she'd defended her marriage against the wrong people. instead of stopping gays, she should have blocked emails from argentina.
I don't like what's going on in Iran and Darfur, but all my outrage won't stop a single trigger from being pulled, It's like thinking your wishes brings Tinkerbell back to life
Why waste our outrage on things we can not control?