highnote
10-24-2004, 11:49 AM
It's interesting to me that O'Reilly, Limbaugh and Bennett -- all loud mouthed TV/Radio commentators -- had a lot of skeletons in their closets.... Sex Fiend, Drug Addict, Compulsive Gamber. Makes me wonder if Coulter has something to hide.
I've seen this same thing over and over with people who come across as self righteous. J. Edgar Hoover comes to mind. Now here's a man who is rumored to have African-American roots and to be a homosexual.
Now, in my opinion, there is nothing bad about either of those things. But Hoover, public figure that he was in the middle of the century, knew that those would be big strikes against him. So he did what he could to hide the facts.
Hoover was also an horseplayer. So I guess he wasn't all that bad.
Maybe it's that people who have some sort of addiction or compulsion that is viewed negatively by society have a need to overcompensate in other areas of their lives because they feel it makes up for their shortcomings?
js
I've seen this same thing over and over with people who come across as self righteous. J. Edgar Hoover comes to mind. Now here's a man who is rumored to have African-American roots and to be a homosexual.
Now, in my opinion, there is nothing bad about either of those things. But Hoover, public figure that he was in the middle of the century, knew that those would be big strikes against him. So he did what he could to hide the facts.
Hoover was also an horseplayer. So I guess he wasn't all that bad.
Maybe it's that people who have some sort of addiction or compulsion that is viewed negatively by society have a need to overcompensate in other areas of their lives because they feel it makes up for their shortcomings?
js