You've heard about Dr. Laura's whack-ass comments on Silda Spitzer's failure to please her man. (No? Get it here) Now listen and learn while Susie Bright explains to a Spanish journalist just why cuckolded wives feel such an obligation to stand by their cheating, lying, ship-sinking, law-breaking husbands.
For those of you who've wondered:
Why is it so important for the husbands to appear with their wives?
The Bright light elucidates after the jump:
It's contrition for sexual misconduct. The wife is understood to be the first victim, and must be the first to forgive him, if he is to have any chance with the public.
Ah hah. And then we learn that in Spain, no one really gives a rat's ass about how a politician's wife responds to the sexual habits of her husband.
Says Juan, the Spanish journalist:
I think the Spanish would not see it as a good thing for a politician to show up with his wife in a press conference. They would think, "this jerk not only cheats her, but humiliates her in public for his own selfish interest!" Probably she would be criticized for agreeing to play this PR game.
For a second there, we caught a whiff of fresh air and sanity. Then we checked the address on our passports and remembered that we're American and therefore, stuck with this standing-by-man crock of shit.
[Photo via NYTimes]