Who am I talking about? 

Obama? Gingrich? Ron Paul? Chris Matthews?

While all of the above would fill the bill, I’m not

talking politics today. 

Back in 1968, which seems like a lifetime ago,

history’s youngest Mr. Universe was holding court

on Muscle Beach, in California. While soaking up

the sun, and admiration, the 21 year old champ 

made the mistake of accepting a chin up, and push 

up challenge, from a 54 year old man. 

The young Mr. Universe lost the challenge…badly.

So who were the two men? The 21 year old was 

Arnold Schwarzenegger and the 54 year old was

Jack LaLanne. 

Arnold later joked that Lalanne is French for 

"do some push ups…you lazy bastard."

Lalanne was the guy being called names. 

Newspapers claimed his drills would cause 

hemorrhoids. Physicians warned that cardio

would cause heart attacks in men and that 

weight training would wreck a woman’s figure,

a myth that is still making the rounds today,

in some quarters.

ABC News has interviewed the ex-wife of Newt Gingrich,

and is hyping it as "explosive," while simultaneously 

talking about the lack of civility in politics today. While 

there have been many undignified attacks over the past

few elections, I can’t remember anything like this. You

would think that there would have been an editor, or 

executive, that said, "No, we don’t interview ex-wives 

as hit pieces."

That there wasn’t speaks volumes about the hypocrisy 

of the mainstream media. When you want to re-elect 

"your guy," nothing is too coarse, crass, or contemptible.

One thing’s for sure: they had better hope that Gingrich

doesn’t get elected, because I’m betting that Newt is

having special devices made, just for them. I don’t remember

anybody interviewing John Kerry’s ex-wife, or Ted Kennedy’s 

ex-wife, or anybody’s ex-wife, in the Democratic Party. 

Somebody did interview John Edward’s ex, but this was 

long after he dropped from contention. As I recall, the 

media was complicit in the coverup with Edwards, just as

they have been with Obama’s records, or lack thereof.

This may force me to watch "reality TV," or actually

start a new show called, "Ex-wives of Washington 

Politicians." I would guess that about half of our 

Congressfolk have walked down the aisle a couple of

times. The longer they’re in Washington, the stronger

the temptations become, and politicians, being mostly a 

spineless species, succumb, sooner or later, or develop

other proclivities that get them in trouble, or sent back 

to Idaho, where the sheep understand that when a polished

wing tip is brandished in your territory, it’s time to head 

to the high pasture.

Meanwhile, the man who was going to bring propriety 

and respectability back to Washington, sits on his hands

and makes sure that no one can link him to the attack.

This, is in spite of the fact that George ( Little G) 

Stephanopolous regularly meets for strategy sessions with

Democratic operatives. There isn’t much that separates 

Little G from the out of the closet Democrats over at 

MSNBC. "Tingle" Matthews was asked recently, on a 

radio show, to define where he stood politically and he 

said, without the slightest hesitation, "About 40 per cent

to the left." When pressed by the host, who thought the 

reply funny, Tingle insisted he was objective the rest of

the time. "This is from a guy who said, "Just give us our 

orders, Mr. President, just tell us what to do."

I’m not in the tank for Newt. He’s a big government guy,

in spite of his (excellent) rhetoric, and I’m ambivalent as to

whether he’s the guy the country needs at the moment.

But he doesn’t deserve what is clearly a very thinly-veiled

political attack, by his bitter ex-wife. She’s had years and

years to speak and this is old news. It’s also Revenge 101,

with ABC furnishing the gun and the timing. The Obamacrats

had better hope that this doesn’t backfire. We don’t mind our

politicians being smacked around a bit, but we know ugly

when we see it.

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