Public does not want to see politicians naked

Xxxsign Malaysia’s minister of health is bitter about being forced out of office after confessing that, yes, he is the man in two widely circulated sex DVDs. “At the end of the day, it just tells you that honesty sometimes does not pay,” he said. But a political analyst had a better lesson: “You can’t continue in power when you are seen naked.”

14 Comments

  1. Jed
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 3:33 am | Permalink

    Bush needs to take that lesson to heart and not wear that new presidential suit in public.

  2. Rage
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 3:43 am | Permalink

    Jed, it doesn’t matter when you can create your own reality!

  3. Jed
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 4:03 am | Permalink

    Rage,
    It does when only 28% of the electorate can see (or more likely pretend to see) that reality.

  4. Kev
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 6:03 am | Permalink

    I would not wish to see Mike Huckabee naked!

  5. The Phantom
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 6:47 am | Permalink

    The 28%ers haven’t seemed to care that their Emperor has no clothes!

  6. Mary Caruso
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 7:48 am | Permalink

    Talk about an ego!
    Can you imagine sex tapes of George Bush? Never mind, some things I don’t even want to try and visualize! EWWW!

  7. writerdog
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 8:41 am | Permalink

    I don’t know our Governor is kind of hot. Oh I do need to get away from this computer! See some sun light… drink some coffee…slap myself silly and go to bed!

  8. Doug
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 10:45 am | Permalink

    But in order for the public to see in minister naked they had to watch the sex tape. So wouldn’t that make them all hypocrites?

  9. Jed
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 11:46 am | Permalink

    Doug,
    No, only one (probably an opposition politician) would have to be a hypocrite. He’d tell the rest, and probably put it on the 6 o’clock news (with the sinful places pixelated out). At least that’s how it’s done here. Of course our politicians have known for centuries that honesty doesn’t pay.

  10. thinkfirst
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 11:54 am | Permalink

    Honesty pays? Politicans & honesty used in the same sentence? Not in Kansas.

  11. Doug
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 11:58 am | Permalink

    I’m just glad Ted Haggard didn’t make a sex tape. Or for that matter Republican Foley (or those other male Republicans who wanted to give other men oral sex).

  12. odb
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 12:40 pm | Permalink

    Now if the sexy Whitehouse Press Secretary were to have some videos on the internet…

  13. The Phantom
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 9:01 pm | Permalink

    I suspect after her p.r. gig is over, she’ll do a spread in Playboy!

  14. Jed
    Posted January 4, 2008 at 11:17 pm | Permalink

    Y’know, now that you mention it, maybe it would be a good idea to make all the candidates debate in the nude. Then we could all see if they’re being spoonfed their answers from a transmitter offstage.