The Only place this confession has been greeted has been with gay rights advocates? Excuse me but everything I've read in the gay media has been along the lines of this:

"While we understand McGreevy's struggle, he is hardly a role-model." I've also seen the word "creepy" mentioned more than a few times.

And I stand with these critics. While his "I'm a Gay American" press conference was a truly memorable event in American History, it is hardly a high-point. As a gay man, I see it as a cautionary tale for all those who would continue to present themselves in the "Straight American Guy Mold" to achieve political purposes. And the questions about his level of corruption hardly make him datable material to myself but call that a preference. Believe it or not - some of us do have standards, and dating a creep is dating a creep whether you're straight or gay.

Ask Jeff Gannon - stuff does come back to bite you.

Can you back that up with statistics? or is it just a gratuitous slam? NJ certainly must have some close competitors in this horse race.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3308733,00.html

A great, big, homosexual scumbag. May he be welcomed into well-deserved obscurity for the rest of his life.

Was this writer's editor on vacation when the article was submitted? The prose had a frantic, chaotic quality.

I got the feeling that this was a character assassination in the guise of a book review.

I don't know (or care) enough about Jim McGreevey to know whether or not the criticisms were merited. But this seemed much more about the man behind the book than about the book itself.

I am not saying that an article slamming McGreevey would be out of place here, although I probably wouldn't make it the lead story. But this article is packaged by Salon as a book review, while in actually it is much more of an author review.

This is an autobiography being reviewed, so it's both an author and a book review. The reviewer found both lacking in profundity. I happened to agree, but a book with this much controversy behind it will obviously have a plentiful amount of reviews to compare/contrast with. I found this review insightful since the author (of this article) struggled with some of the same issues concerning his sexuality, therefore able to give insight other reviewers coud not. That said, that insight gives no special merit to the reviewer's writing skills or opinion, and i found that wasn't an issue - the fact that he shared the same "basic" sexual issues - didn't stop his intolerance for McGreevey's poor, cliche addled writing. I think it's a good, honest review, of both the author and the book.

The harsh truth of McGreevy's tawdry political life is not his tawdry sex scenes in a variety of covert environments, but his abuse of power as governor in ways that were truly awesome and stunning, even, ultimately, to those who benefited. His "coming out" disguised, or attempted to disguise, at the time, the fact that he had sold a position of some potential significance to a lover, something that is time-honored by men in power, but usually restricted to far, far more minor posts. I believe McGreevy hoped that his "coming out" would create a sympathy for him as a beleaguered "victim"; it actually is pure sophistry. He was a governor given to honoring the patronage system to the hilt; the fact that he was gay or bi is entirely beside the point. Moreover, most New Jersey residents knew so at the time, and know so now. His book remains a bit of an odd combination of a roman-a-clef, a defense, and a denial of reality, still, of his own power to be corrupt in place.

The review, an honest one by someone who knows not to be sucked into the vacuum of "victimhood" that closeted gay men can pretend to occupy, calls it as it is. McGreevy was, as governor, way in over his head, given to patronate to pay off his huge political debts incurred while garnering the Governor's Mansion; had his lover been a secretary named "Bambi", the results should have been precisely the same.

I remember his "coming out" press conference -- all I could think about was how awful it must have been for his wife, to have to stand there beside him as he announced to the whole country that his marriage had been a sham.

He is the creepiest of the creepy. And sleazy. Ugh!

I will be happy when this guy just goes away. He seems to have literally been interviewed by every TV show and publication in America this week.

I'm as gay as the next gay guy, but I can't figure out why some in the gay press like The Advocate have decided to lift this guy up as a role model. He does seem like a narcissitic egomaniac. I don't think he helps advance our cause with the rest of America.

Since his promotional tour for this book has started I’ve said no one should care or buy it. This is a grown man with the capabilities to run a state and he couldn’t once find the balls to come out of the closet or the common f*****g sense to get some therapy so, oh I don’t know, stop lying to everyone every day of his life?

I have no sympathy for closet cases anymore. It’s 2006. Stop expecting all the people not ashamed of who they are to bear the brunt of bigotry until “the all clear” and then you can stop cowering in the dark.

That McGreevey is making a fortune off being spineless, a hypocrite (um, how many gay men did you allow to be jailed in your state for cruising for sex in public just like you did?) and a liar makes me ill.

This is a person without character and no matter his 12-step speak, that will always be the case.