Enablers: Donald Trump enables a former star and the Chinese government enables a former despot
Enablers of the month:
Donald Trump, who announced he will purchase Ed McMahon’s home and lease it back to him. That’s very sweet, Donald, but you don’t seem to understand what you’re doing. How do we know this? Because you asked, “How could this happen?”Donald, Ed McMahon dug himself into this hole because of his alcoholism. He’s reportedly been sober for a decade, but recent history suggests otherwise. He won a lawsuit with his insurer over mold and lost THAT fortune after squandering millions from being Johnny’s sidekick. He borrowed an additional $250,000 in July 2006 at an annual interest rate of 15%, suggesting there were serious financial problems before he injured himself so badly he couldn’t continue to work”at age 85. McMahon has not come clean about his underlying problem. On “Larry King Live,”he responded to King’s query about what happened. “If you spend more money than you make, you know what happens. A couple of divorces thrown in, a few things like that.”Sorry, but “that”is not specific enough. He needs to admit to his alcoholism and explain to the world that this disease compelled him to spend wantonly (without, of course, excusing his misbehaviors).
The Chinese government, which continues to revere the barbiturate-addicted Mao Tse-tung, despite the horrifying outcome of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, which resulted in the deaths of at least 30 million Chinese. The mass murderer’s face remains not only on much Chinese currency, many postage stamps and on posters and souvenirs, but also on walls and billboards surrounding the August 2008 Olympic Games. Can you imagine amphetamine addict Adolf Hitler’s portrait hanging all over Germany, or Russia honoring the alcoholic Josef Stalin by encouraging the display of such pictures?