It's a tempest in a teacup, but they want to make a mountain out of a molehill over it! Here's my understanding of the whole "big deal": the guy got caught getting his haircut for $800 or something. Or to be more precise, he got caught trying to pay that amount back into the fund, or whatever. Maybe he got caught first, and then tried to pay it back. But whatever the actual case, - meanwhile! - he's sitting there in an uncomfortable chair on a soundstage, waiting for some televised interview or something, when unbeknownst to him - they're rolling camera on him while he waits! So they end up with something like 8 straight minutes of him fussing with his hair, futzing with his tie, shooting winking grins at his reflection in available shiny surfaces - that sort of stuff.
Then some wag took the footage, set it to a jaunty tune, and put it out on U-Tube. Big joke. Big mockery of one of our prominent and serious politicians, make him look like some kind of pretty-boy just because he's trying to look good for a very important TV appearance!
WOULDN'T YOU DO THE SAME? If you were sitting waiting to put your image out over live television to the whole nation, wouldn't you be fussy and self-conscious about your appearance? Wouldn't you maybe be a little nervous, maybe some of that nervousness might play itself out as preening and fidgetousness? Wouldn't you do exactly the same thing IF YOU WERE GORGEOUS?
The man is gorgeous. People are jealous, and that's the whole story here. That, they call news. Well I say, "a cheap, tawdry news story it is - a news story as old as the hills themselves!" We don't need a story like that around here, trying to pass itself off as somebody did something questionable.
I think I'm petering out on this. I'll let it go at that.
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