NY Times Expose: John Edwards’ black (male) wife
Ah, the Times! Recently I interviewed a renowned sex therapist about “pornography addiction.” She doesn’t believe in the concept — she thinks spending too much time looking at internet smut is just a bad habit (though certainly, quite a troubling one for many people). She compared it to her own irksome vice: hours wasted every day reading the Times from front to back. I’m nowhere near that bad; still, do you think I need therapy? I see stuff in the Times and get weirded out and want to blog about it. My life goes down the rabbit hole. On the other hand, it’s almost as fun as going to the movies.
This morning, for instance. Midway through the “A” section I suddenly get the feeling I’m watching Todd Solondz’s Palindromes, where one character, the daughter, keeps shape-shifting body mass and race, between normal-weight, very white girl to stunningly obese African American — and even from female to male.
So cool of Solondz! And today the Times appears to be doing Palindromes: The Sequel with a John Edwards story. Check out this photo op of Edwards on a poverty tour down South.
The Times caption says: “John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, with Tanya Harris and Vanessa Gueringer yesterday in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans”.
Hey wait a sec — isn’t the convention to run names left to right? So, like, is Edwards’ wife a big, black woman? Or a little white gal? Or maybe both? Does she change back, on the far right, to something in the middle? (Or back on the far left — a la Solondz — is John-boy the wife — of himself? Just like that Broadway play?)
Or did the caption writer just assume no one in their right mind would ever think John Edwards could be married to a big Negro lady?
I prefer the Palindromes interpretation.
Times, I could be addicted, but you are hip!