Dennis Prager echoes…

Dennis Prager echoes my comments about Gov. McGreevey’s smoke screen.

New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey’s resignation statement was brilliant.

Threatened with a sexual harassment lawsuit by his alleged male lover, having appointed him, a thoroughly unqualified man, as homeland security adviser at a time when America – in particular, the New York metropolitan area – is threatened with horrific terror and with any number of other instances of corruption already revealed and more likely to come out, Gov. McGreevey saw the future and realized he had to resign from office.

But the way he did it was a masterstroke. He turned opprobrium into compassion.

He did it with one sentence: “I am a gay American.”

On the face of it, it is irrelevant to whatever wrongs he may have committed against his state, his wife or his religion. But he did so because he knew it would immediately deflect attention from his actions to his sexual orientation.

And then he would receive at least as much understanding and compassion as condemnation.

Why?

Read on to find out why.

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