Never imagine the plight of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick can’t get stranger. He’s been indicted for perjury over a bunch of text messages he said didn’t exist, many damning examples of which have since surfaced. He arranged an 8.5-million-dollar payoff for some cops that were fired after looking like they might blow the whistle. He’s been asked to resign by most of his City Council.
And now he’s denying he was in a high-school play that pretty much everyone else involved says he was in. So what should have been a brief goofy story has become another chapter in the saga.
Appearing in a dress at age eight is the least of his worries, but its sad that macho types like him think something like that needs denying. A grown man who would be embarrased about something as inocuous as that to the point of denying it happened is pretty pathetic- is he afraid his homeboys are going to tease him about it? The horror! Ass.
And its not like with the current events anyone is questioning his sexuality anyway.
I don’t know if it’s particularly Clintonesque. The old saying about the coverup being worse than the crime goes back to Watergate, and this is really the same idea.
I like the detail that his spokeswoman, Tolliver, has taken to calling out-of-town papers for printing stuff like this. Flacks are… strange. And Kilpatrick is an idiot, but that goes without saying at this point.