Posted on 05/22/2006 10:19:35 AM PDT by LdSentinal
Gay sex trysts in 'bookstores and rest stops'
(New York-WABC, May 21, 2006) - It was the announcement that caught the attention of the nation. Jim McGreevey, Governor of New Jersey, husband, and father, telling the world he was gay and involved in an extra marital affair with a man. 21 months later, the former governor is going public again with a book titled "The Confession."
This is a tell-all book in every sense of the word. Former Governor Jim McGreevey doesn't appear to hold anything back. In the book, he writes about his life as a gay man in power and how he lied to everyone. The book comes out in September. The publisher just released 16-pages of excerpts.
"The truth is that I am a gay American," said former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey in August of 2004.
It was a personal truth aired in public. Now, McGreevey goes even further. In his new book, "The Confession", McGreevey speaks about meeting anonymous men at rest stops for sexual trysts. "As the years went on," McGreevey writes, "I became as avid a womanizer as anybody else on the New Jersey political scene, but my attraction was largely artificial. My sexual performance a triumph of mind over matter."
This is a tell-all book in every sense of the word. Former Governor Jim McGreevey doesn't appear to hold anything back. In the book, he writes about his life as a gay man in power and how he lied to everyone. The book comes out in September. The publisher released 16-pages of excerpts at a book expo in Washington D.C. Saturday. McGreevey made his first public appearance since the summer of 2004 at the expo.
McGreevey writes, "As glorious and meaningful as it would have been to have a loving and sound sexual relationship with another man, I knew I'd have to undo my happiness step by step as I began chasing my dream of a public career and the kind of 'acceptable' life that went with it. So instead, I settled for the detached anonymity of bookstores and rest stops. A compromise, but one that was wholly unfulfilling and morally unsatisfactory."
In the excerpts, McGreevey doesn't say when the encounters started. Nor does he mention his two marriages to women. He comes off as a man in great pain, in great conflict. "I knew I would have to lie for the rest of my life, and I knew I was capable of it," he writes. "The knowledge gave me a feeling of terrible power."
McGreevey will get $500,000 for writing the book and he's already a scheduled guest on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" for his first interview since the announcement. That interview will air next fall during Oprah Winfrey's new season right here on Channel 7.
Note to self: Add NJ as another state along with MA, that I will not stop at restops in..
This guy's presidential material for the democrats.
Boo hoo. Woe is me. I'm just a victim. Excuse me while I puke my guts out.
Too much information!!!!!!!!
The question, Is he lying Now or was he lying then?...........
For some reason, I just don't think this tome has the staying power or inspiration of St. Augustine's "Confessions".
Perfect Rat material.
Ick. His poor wife. Ex-wife, I assume.
That's what made him a great politician.... while it lasted!!
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
"In his new book, "The Confession", McGreevey speaks about meeting anonymous men at rest stops for sexual trysts."
He's a homo. That's what homos do.
Gee. Seems a little self-centered, doesn't he? Pretty standard for both his professional and private lifestyles...
"Is he lying Now or was he lying then?"
Yes.
And, something about the anonymous sex claim strikes a strange note, too. A governor, anonymous? Do I just not understand this sort of thing? I'd think he would have been blackmailed into bankruptcy. Methinks he's giving himself cover for some reason. Male prostitutes?
Do not click on link unless you want to be hijacked by some weirdo pointing to his breast!
Seems to be this book is thinly veiled porno. Nothing more.
This scum has married twice, father two little girls.
Who is that portly individual?
He could run with Mark Morford in 08.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
He is the actor who plays a gay mafioso on the Sopranos.
Why doesn't he try confessing to a priest and not practice self-exhibitionism with the public?
"I studied the moves, figured out what worked and what didn't, practiced and perfected my perfect inauthenticity," he wrote.
New definition?
democrat: one who has perfected perfect inauthenticity
Good grief, I hope this clown doesn't have kids.
If so, tell me again how this is in their best interests?
This is a classic case of transferring blame from the guilty to the innocent. Our culture eats this stuff up. No one is every guilty of their own misdeeds. No, in this case it is the fault of all those who insist society hold to traditional moral standards.
"McGreevey will get $500,000 for writing the book"
yep he is cashing in on this. What should be a complete embarassment and disgrace he will now make his cashcow.
this puke makes me sick - as do most Dems
The book should be titled "Brokeback Governor"
I wonder if she has political aspirations. Like maybe Senator of NY or something.
I don't think those pushing the homo "marriage" agenda want the anonymous sodomy thing out in the open. Homo "marriage" is supposed to be just like true marriage. So McGreevey is doing us all a favor. Well, all of us except the children. Children will be harmed by hearing about McGreevey's anguish over his "difficult decision," anonymous rest stop sodomy and frequent media expressions of "not that there's anything wrong with that."
In his new book did he confess that he was Governor of New Jersey?
This book is an overshare.
The man has no honor at all, NONE!
Were a guy in that position, and had no choice but to pee, I think I'd opt to find a tree!!
Too much information!
No, the truth is you are a sick pervert. Only weirdo's have anonymous sex in retail stores and interstate rest stops.
This is, of course, one of the inconvenient truths about gay behavior that the lobby doesn't want Americans to know the truth about when they are trying to get legislation passed for gay marriage and adoption rights. Promiscuity and risky behaviors go with the territory, they are common and quite universal among gay men.
He needs to go back into the closet. He is just disgusting. The parkway and turnpike should monitor the rest stops from perverts like him.
Was he getting tips on disguise from double-naught spy Valerie Plame, or what? An anonymous governor?
apparently not.
Again McGreevey tries to paint the issue as one of sexual orientation. It isn't. It's about infidelity to a chosen spouse and the corruption of naming, to high-paid positions of public trust, the lover with whom he was cheating. Said lover does HAPPEN to be male, but who really cares?
All of my friends/acquaintances who are gay are furious with McGreevey for seeking to make this an issue of orientation rather than cheating and political corruption.
He admits to being a womanizer!!! How many ladies did he expose to the risk of HIV? Now he gets to have a big payday for risking other peoples lives. He should take a long drop with a short rope around his neck!!!! This idiot could have, and may have, caused a chain reaction of pain, misery, and death. People like this really need to be gone from this earth.
Thanks for making rest stops so clean and inviting for families, governor.
So he's really not a "gay American" he's just a sleazy man-ho who will do anything that walks, crawls or slithers. Ugh.
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