Wead says he's sorry

According to an article on Yahoo News, Doug Wead has apparently repented for the two years he spent taping the George W. Bush’s private conversations without his knowledge.

To do such a thing to a friend is reprehensible, even in the name of history, but Wead’s penitence seems real enough. Anyway, even if it’s not, let’s give him the benefit of the doubt why don’t we?

After all, it’s not often that someone in the public eye speaks out of humility. People are
arrogant and defensive, but rarely humble when faced with the horrible things they’ve done.

Wead was scheduled to appear on MSNBC’s “Hardball” with Chris Matthews to express his regrets, but cancelled, saying it would only add further distraction to the president’s important and historic work.

In a letter to Matthews Wead wrote, “Contrary to the statement I made in the New York Times, I have come to realize that relationships are more important than history.”

Wead went on to say he was asking his attorney to donate any further proceeds from his new book on presidential parents to charity, and to find the best way to get the tapes back to the president to whom they belong.

Naturally the story added that the president did drugs thirty years ago and that the president’s aides “brushed off” questions about the tapes.

And if “downplaying” them, as the media likes to say it, is not the appropriate response, what should the White House have done, I’d like to ask?

Should Bush have organized a press conference to announce that, yes, he admits to having known and talked to Doug Wead, yes he would like children to not follow his example of thirty years ago (while John Kerry was committing his self-proclaimed atrocities in Vietnam, on which he would base his future bid for president) and do drugs, and that yes, he admits he has refused to discriminate against homosexuals?

Anyway, enough of that. Just so you know, faithful readers, my posts are likely to become more rare over the next few months until I get a computer at home. In the next few weeks I’m being replaced at my job at the hospital by someone who will be paid to do what I do (but not all that well) for free.

I mean the Army still pays me, but they’ll keep paying me until May regardless. But stick with me. I am not deserting you.