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Monday, June 06, 2011
Five Stages of Weiner
Non-sports post.
While we wish everyone would deal with grief as quickly as Homer Simpson did (video), Weiner took less than a week for his:
1. denial and isolation (he’s laughing it off)
2. anger (he starts to accuse someone of hacking)
3. bargaining (talks with media, though not completely honest)
4. depression (presumably he did not have a fun weekend)
5. acceptance (tells us what we were able to piece together anyway)
We need more Homer Simpsons in politics. Can’t a politician simply do stages 1 through 4 in private, and then publicly do stage 5? For all his faults, the Governator’s story lasted one day, because he did just that. Palin’s lack of historical facts, etc. Just admit you were being a foolish human being and the story dies.