Monday, 19 March 2018

THE LOYAL WIFE AND THE BLACKMAILER (Letter to Dom Post, March 20)



If ever there were an example of ‘hate speech’, it’s New episode of Married An Orange Blight (March 19).
 
At the risk of being seen as coming out of “Trumpland”, I have to say in spite of the word “alleged” popped into the first paragraph, Jane Bowron’s sordid wallow in Trumps’s supposed affair and supposedly unhappy marriage amounts to libel.
 
In a remarkable inversion of the Christian mores still but ever more precariously upholding society, the text and carefully chosen photos depict the loyal wife as an awkward fool and a blackmailing ‘adult film’ (shouldn’t that read ‘soft porn’?) star as gorgeous and greatly to be admired.
 
But the unintended effect of Bowron’s fit of spleen is the light inadvertently shone on Melania Trump and her dignified silence.

Thank God some people still know how to keep their mouths shut.

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