There’s a little TV in the corner of my kitchen, and in the morning, as I make breakfast, I usually have it tuned to CNN. Today I was shocked to see Jim McGreevey, former governor of New Jersey, talking about his new involvement, an organization called “Faith in America.”
You remember Jimbo. He was the governor who, after someone threatened to expose his alleged affair with a male staffer, decided to spill the beans himself. On August 12, 2004, with his traumatized wife at his side, McGreevey announced to the world, “I am a gay American.”
I don’t believe it. McGreevey isn’t gay—he’s a sociopath.
Many sociopaths, if not most of them, are neither gay nor straight—they’re sexual opportunists. Sex is one of their main objectives in life, and any partner who can provide a thrill is fair game. My ex-husband told me he didn’t have “a gay bone in his body—”at the same time that he was soliciting male prostitutes. I’ve heard from many readers who were shocked to find that not only were their spouses cheating on them, but they were cheating with someone of the same sex. I’ve also asked several gay readers if they thought the sociopaths in their lives were actually gay. The answer is usually no.
Faith in America
Back to McGreevey. I last wrote about him when I reviewed his ex-wife’s book. (See BOOK REVIEW: Silent Partner, by the wife of former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey.) When he made his big announcement, things were not going well for him as governor. In my view, McGreevey played “the gay card” to distract from his political failures.
After being booted from the governor’s mansion, he moved in with a rich male financier and attended an Episcopal seminary. On TV this morning, McGreevey said he graduated from the seminary. But the reason he was on TV was to talk about his involvement with Faith in America.
McGreevey is on the board of directors. Faith in America is an organization dedicated to “ending religion-based bigotry toward LGBT people.” According to its website:
Faith In America was formed as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization in 2005 to effectively counter-message the bigotry, prejudice and hostility toward the LGBT community being sold to the public for several decades under the guise of religious belief and religious teaching.
I think this is an admirable mission. As McGreevey said on TV this morning, many religious organizations quote scripture to justify their condemnation of homosexuals. The organization hopes to promote tolerance, so that regardless of their sexual orientation, people can be their authentic selves.
McGreevey isn’t being authentic. He’s being expedient. He’s found a platform to put himself back in the limelight. A few weeks ago he was on the Joy Behar Show, and today he was on CNN.
In this interview this morning, McGreevey said, “I knew when I was six or seven years old that I was gay.” Really? Is that possible? Society may be moving faster now, but McGreevey is about the same age as me, and when I was six or seven years old, I was clueless about sex, let alone sexual orientation.
Oh well, for the sake of Faith in America, I hope that McGreevey can keep the act going. Time will tell.
Coming soon: The repackaging of Eliot Spitzer.
Donna, thanks for this article.
There are SO MANY examples of psychopaths in the news and media, from this creep, to Eliot Spitzer and others of their ilk, and Bernie Madoff, and all the way up to Charlie Manson, but they all have ONE THING IN COMMON, NO conscience. NO shame. Without conscience they have no ability to feel shame, without shame and conscience, they have no ability to change or to grow or become better people.
Many times people like Jimbo hook on to a legitimate “cause” and use their sociopathy to make themselves appear down trodden victims of “discrimination.” It makes me want to puke! Especially when the media falls for their “remaking” and their “rebirth” as champions of the down trodden!
Thanks for the article and following up on this psychopath, and can’t wait to hear how old Eliot has repacked himself! They just never seem to get enough of the lime light! Actually if it weren’t so SICK it would be funny!
Donna
I was reading your book and I can tell you that that James Montgomery was a piece of work!!! God have mercy on him! The guy was just the son of Satan altogether!!! You are a really strong person and I admire you, because you really went through a lot with that piece of junk. My ex sociopath was not even close to what this guy was and I am so devastated” imagine you? I was thinking what Martha Stewart said in her book about sociopaths being a lost soul and sometimes if you really want to know if a person is sociopath wait and see how they end up their lives” and this James really fits the profile of a complete lost soul. He end up with no job, no money no wife”and no teeth! No nothing at all. Ahahahah! Lost soul.
OxDrover;
“and can’t wait to hear how old Eliot has repacked himself!”
He already has. Spitzer co-anchors a new CNN show called Parker-Spitzer.
I have seen Spitzer running in Central Park. He is such a dork.
BBE, yea, it is amazing to me how they “repackage” themselves and somehow the media seems to “absolve” them of the FILTH that they are–filth is filth–regardless of how much CHARM a person has, or how prominent they are/were.
That always amazed me about Ted Kennedy—the man was cheating on his wife, had a car wreck, and fled the scene while he tried to get up an alibi that would not make him look like a cheater, and the woman MIGHT have been saved from drowning if he had even TRIED to save her….instead he is reelected to the senate for more decades. He had a life long record of cheating going back as far as COLLEGE where he was caught cheating….but because of his family name and money and position, he was “absolved” from what I believe in my mind was a SERIOUS lack of conscience or concern for others.
Bill Clinton LIEs to the public and to the government about his CHEATING….and he has now been “rehabilitated” as former president and stands up and politics for other politicians as HONEST!
(head shaking here) I could go on with a list upon list of others just like them….liars, cheats, politicians, investment bankers, murderers, psychopaths all…and they walk free among us in positions of power and authority and given fame and admiration….what the frack? Kind of reminds me of imperial Rome. Well, I’ll get off my rant now, if I keep it up, my blood pressure will go up! LOL Doesn’t change the reality of it though!
Changed forever –
In describing James Montgomery, I wanted to give a complete picture of a sociopath – or, at least as complete as I know. I’m sure there’s much more that I don’t know.
His method of repackaging himself was to find a new woman, move to a new location, and start again. He tried it again as of six months ago. These guys never quit.
Ox Drover,
Ted Kennedy carried out what he learned from his dear old dad, Joe Sr. (the patriarch of the Kennedy clan). His father was a crooked man, teaching by example screwed-up morals, values to his offspring, all of the sons giving the appearance of being upstanding men (eg. faithful husbands to their wives, etc.), but in private, totally messed up due to what they learned via their dysfunctional upbringing.
Yea, and this isn’t a political forum, but it seems to me that so many politicians are sociopaths like Spritzer and Jimbo here, and somehow the voting public doesn’t seem to care. What gives here? Why do people admire these people who DEMONSTRATE that they have no moral compass?
Well, I guess I shouldn’t throw stones, I had a BF who was a P, and I let my P relatives and friends walk all over me–so who am I to throw stones at the adoring voters who keep on voting these psychopaths back into office? LOL
Ah yes, the ROSY COLORED GLASSES of belief! I had several pair, very tick and very rosy but I smashed them! LOL
Donna,
I’m with you – when I was six or seven years of age, I didn’t know about sex or sexual orientation. I just spent my time being a kid, my thoughts being simple, childlike.
When the Spitzer scandal broke, I was talking a friend of mine:
“The Governor of New Jersey resigned over a gay sex scandal.”
The Governor of New York resigned over a sex scandal with prostitues.”
“I can’t wait to see what kind of a pervert is the Governor of Connecticutt…”
Delay in Texas is going to trial now—finally for state corruption, somehow the federal charges were not prosecuted—after almost 5 years after the Scandal “broke”—and only the TIP of the power-ice berg showed above the water line, or probably ever will.
My personal opinion is that in order to get a congressional or senatoral seat or a governorship you must sell your soul to Satan. Not to say ANYTHING about what you have to sell to become president of these United States. Go Bloggo, and I can’t believe that they couldn’t find a jury to convict him of every count on the indictment. But then, apparently, there wasn’t enough evidence to convict OJ of murder either, but I don’t think with a VIDEO TAPE of him killing Nichole it would have been enough evidence. With the audio TAPES of Bloggo trying to sell the senate seat, WHAT MORE DID THE JURY NEED? DUH??? (Head shaking here) I’m figuring that we have the kind of government that as a nation WE DESERVE, because “we the people” don’t stand up for honesty.
Just as we let psychopaths rule our personal lives and kept hoping that they would change, I think we as a nation are letting the psychopaths rule our nation, and until we individually get healthy and we as a people get healthy and say “This isn’t working for me” and “I won’t stand for this kind of behavior,” that our country and our lives will go down the sewer.
A nation is made up of “we, the people” and a family is made up of “we, the family” and as long as WE allow others to abuse us and remain mute and compliant and “ever hopeful” that somehow these people will change, then WE, the individual and WE, family, and WE the nation, and WE the world, will continue in corruption, fraud and abuse.
Tomorrow is election day in the US–get out and VOTE! Let your voices be heard for HONESTY (whatever your opinion is, I don’t care, But VOTE IT!) If nothing else, vote for the crook you think is NOT AS BAD as the other one–the lesser of two evils may be the only “choice” we have, but at least exercise your VOICE.