I have enjoyed George Clooney since his early days on “ER” as the compassionate doctor that had a little problem with commitment, and I have followed his career ever since.
You might say I was enamored.
Or, as my Aunt Rose used to say, “I wouldn’t mind his slippers under my side of the bed.”
Anyway, there was some recent flak that he was at a party with gazillionair Steve Wynn and reportedly, George stormed out when Wynn supposedly called the president an a——.
Wynn fired back in a Page 6 item in Friday’s New York Post, calling Clooney “Mollycoddled.”
What struck me was Wynn’s assessment, which was very on point when it came to the celebrities, and should have included our politicians as well.
“They’re mollycoddled, they’re highly privileged. They live in a relatively small world, the people around them are very solicitous and caring of them.”
Gee whiz, sounds just like our elected hoi polloi too, don’t you think? Mollycoddled, surrounded by highly paid flacks that yes them to death.
How true it is.
Wynn shared on being a successful businessman: “You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So therefore, you can’t be wasteful, you can’t squander things or you jeopardize people.” What he didn’t say is that if you jeopardize your workers, you jeopardize your self and if your business goes kaput, so do you.
Which is a lesson that our politicians should take to heart: if you take advantage of us, eventually us will turn and us will vote you out, or someone will blow the whistle on you. Whichever comes first.
The Fobs on the Hill should be worrying about their wasteful habits, squandering our money, and jeopardizing the people that voted them in. Sooner or later the laws of gravity kick in. What goes up must come down.
However, I can also argue that it seems the more crooked you are, the more times elected in. It isn’t until the elected really ticks someone off that he is indicted and sent packing.
What’s a little time spent at Otisville anyway? A round or two of golf, three squares a day, and when you get out, you still have that hefty pension to see you through. Hell, it isn’t much different than staying in office — well except for the clothes (prison gray is really, really drab).
You might say that Wynn’s motives are purely selfish. After all, he enjoys the high life and his empire affords him the privilege, which is not too much different than our elected, and George, after all, is the compassionate star with commitment problems, but still likes the high-life too.
Not for Nuthin™, but Wynn sadly is correct, Clooney sounds very mollycoddled, and let’s face it ladies, I still wouldn’t mind his slippers on my side of the bed.
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