Ich bin ein [Texas-Born] Berliner

As a knee-jerk journalist of the compulsive-communicator type, I’ve automatically followed this tragi-farce closely, and thus done a lot of your homework for you.  Offhand I can’t recall any recent scandal, political or otherwise, that’s provided the American media with such tasty fodder for  a comparable feeding frenzy.  This morning’s Sunday edition of The New York Times, for instance, carries not one, not two, but three separate articles about this grubby case, all three of which, in my great-hearted way, I provide for you here.

But by far the fairest, most elegant, journalistically most admirable wrap-up I’ve found has appeared in that superior London weekly newspaper The Observer – and since that publication (which has no American equivalent except possibly The New York Times [Sunday] Magazine) has virtually no circulation in the USA, I’ve done you lucky, lucky people the favor of making that journalistically brilliant article available right here, for you to read and admire with your very own eyes.

And as long as I’m up, I’ll also toss in a poignant peripheral story from the stalwart wife, now ex-wife, of not a Senator but of Governor James E. McGreevey of New Jersey, who continued to stand by the husband she loved even as he finally, cornered under irresistible pressure from the pitiless media, proclaimed: “I am a gay American.”