Open book, open wound
By Dave
February 23rd, 2009 | Leave a comment
Some books would be better left unwritten. This is one such book.
Gary Condit disappeared from headlines after his brush with infamy in 2001, but a recent breakthrough in finding a suspect in Chandra Levy’s death has returned the former congressman to the spotlight.
Condit, who had a “relationship” with the 23-year-old Levy and was questioned about her disappearance but not ever charged with a crime, nonetheless saw his political career come to an end. After years of silence, he is reportedly shopping for a publisher to tell his story.
Publishers Marketplace reported that Condit’s agent says the book will address his long silence and also “the media and the public’s power to destroy a public figure and keep on punishing them without end, regardless of guilt or innocence.”
Condit told an Arizona television station, “I had always hoped to have the opportunity to tell my side of this story, but too many were not prepared to listen. Now I plan to do so, but I will have no further comments on this story at this time.”
Levy’s family cannot be overjoyed to have to relive the slow torture of her disappearance months before her body was found in a park, or the lurid circumstances surrounding the whole thing.
The suspect, a Salvadoran immigrant in prison for attacks on two other women in the same park, was a known entity for some time. Apparently sloppy police work hasn’t helped matters there.
Now, Condit’s plans to write a book seem to be just adding insult to injury.
Gary, let it go already.
Our Daily Red is not quite daily and seldom red, but it is written by DelMio Editorial Director Dave Wilson.
http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/005087.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090222/ap_on_re_us/chandra_levy
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0209/597553.html
