LA Mayor Bashers Start in on Divorced Fathers Everywhere

 Well, I did the unthinkable last night. 

I shut down the computer without saving the large post I was writing even as a draft.  (At three in the morning do not tell your self to save.  Save now and then tell yourself to revise later.  Please.  How many more baby posts have to be sucked into the nether regions of the ethernet?)

 The one part of that large assembly I don't want to do without is the note about an LA Daily News article that takes an ax to divorced, but involved fathers everywhere.  

How long until the right wing fanatics are voting for president based on some idiot's promise to make divorce illegal?

Excerpt right wing LA Daily News article "Just like his father, Villaraigosa's family life falls apart ": 

To his great credit, Villaraigosa has broken the cycle of domestic violence, while managing to rise above the pitfalls that often trap fatherless boys - like crime, poverty, drug use and educational failure.

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Unlike his own father, Villaraigosa maintains a presence in his children's lives. But as any child of divorce can attest, that's a far cry from having a parent at home, day in, day out.

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As Roland Warren, president of the National Fatherhood Initiative, describes it, fatherlessness begets fatherlessness. "It's difficult to be what you don't see," says Warren. "If you really haven't seen your own dad be either as involved as he needs to be or you haven't seen him stay involved in a marriage, or a relationship with your mom, then you haven't really seen that modeling to the degree you need to."

The statistics speak for themselves. Children of divorce are themselves more likely to divorce. Boys and girls who grow up without dads at home are considerably more likely to have teen pregnancies.

On the other hand, I've seen men who stay married because they can use the position to force the mother to support them as well as the children while they lie around the house.  No kidding.  In one neighborhood I lived in the end of the block nearest me and the only part I knew had 90 percent of men being of nondisabled preretirement age and not working, and not doing housework or even cooking.  Their women did that when they got home. The rest of the men in the area I knew about were retired or actually disabled except at our house.  (The neighborhood was not minority or mixed.  It was firmly lower middle class white, and the families, as I noted, were not broken.)

Going through the rest of the Daily News you find similar Villaraigosa is evil tripe, but this one is special.  

Divorced fathers beware. 

This time the right wingers are aiming at you.

BTW, I visited the Luke Ford blog that the Tim Rutten at the LA Times says broke the news of the mayor's affair.  They are a real piece of cake.   They have the affair over and the mayor moving on to every other pretty woman in the city government and his security detail.  Well, I guess for once they got it right on Salinas, but I'd be wondering about where the LA Times got it's source for some of their allegations on Villaraigosa.  Their single source on an early start to the Salinas relationship sounds incredibly suspicious and like something they might have pick up at Luke Ford.  But I bet they blame it on a toilet seat.

 Tim Rutten does a pretty good job in his article"".  Still like all male journalists he's ready to get his fingernails into pretty Ms. Salinas' eyes.  (Bitch!)  But all big time journalists, male and female, enjoy their exclusivity with the rich and powerful a bit too much and that, I think, what is driving this bitch fight with (Oh hell, call it what it is: a bitch pile on) the Telemundo anchor.   Cover up the drinks the pretty boy journalists have with insiders by working up this big deal over an affair.  Do local reporters have the equivalent of all the parties the DC press corps has with the Bush administration.  If not, I've sure they are all individually, men and women, wooed by officials.  And they are all beholden to the fat cats that pay their bills through advertising.  And the LA Times is set to be taken over by rich and right wing Sam Zell in about 6 months.  

The attempt to get readers' eyes to focus on this one young female anchor is somewhat like the Salem witch trials.  Proving that they are pure, because "this woman is evil".   And they don't even know when real intimacy started between the two.  Oh, a male journalist can walk with the mayor, but a female one does and its an "affair"?  

Right now the folks at the LA Times are the least foul smelling of  the local dailies, but I find I have to put them outside after a day anymore. I take them out before I clean the cat litter.  

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