Disenablers of the Month: Spain’s King Juan Carlos and Bill Nye, the Science Guy
Spain’s King Juan Carlos who told Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez to “shut up” at a Latin American-Spanish-Portuguese summit. Chavez repeatedly referred to former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar as a “fascist,” adding in his typical hyperbolic fashion that “fascists are not human” and “a snake is more human.” Spain’s current prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, elicited applause from the gathering when responding, “Former President Aznar was a…legitimate [democratically elected] representative of the Spanish people.” Although Chavez’ microphone was shut off, he repeatedly tried to interrupt and talk over the Spanish head of state. Hearing enough, Juan Carlos angrily leaned forward, looked directly at Chavez and said, “Why don’t you shut up?”
Sabina Morgan who, while telling her husband “30 Rock” star Tracy Morgan he’s a good father to their teenage sons, kicked him out of the house, allowing him to return only on the condition that he stay sober. He’d worked the program well enough, so she took him back after he’d been out for several weeks. We’ll see if it takes, but Sabina’s got the right idea.
Bill Nye the Science Guy, who sought a permanent restraining order against his ex-fiancee Blair Tindall, 47, because she poured weed killer on his vegetable garden. According to The Smoking Gun, Tindall describes the assault as a ”’foolish, sophomoric act of poor judgment’ that came in the midst of her having a series of personal and family problems.” In her memoir, Mozart in the Jungle, Blair described how she bedded and drugged her way up the classical career ladder in New York City in her teens, 20s and 30s.