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" As abused ex-wives go, Nigella Lawson has it, on the whole, pretty easy. She is fabulously wealthy, jaw-droppingly hot, and has her own TV show. And yet, it being a man&amp;#039;s world, she is being smeared and pilloried and propagandized, with appalling efficiency, by the forces of her evil former husband, and everybody seems to be buying it. I am appalled by this, and you should be too. Yes, there are women that have it a lot worse, and no, she was never physically assaulted by Charles Saatchi, the malevolent plutocrat she recently divorced. Oh, wait, yes she was. He choked her half to death in a restaurant, outdoors and in broad daylight, and then said afterward that it was just a &amp;quot;playful tiff.&amp;quot; This is what it looked like, by the way. But at least afterward, he was the object of obloquy and invective by a sympathetic media. Especially given that the woman he choked in public was a beloved global celebrity with a spotless personal reputation through twenty years in the public eye. Oh wait, that didn&amp;#039;t happen. She was immediately smeared in public as a monster because she did blow a few times years ago. Now, hilariously, she has been thrown off a plane to LA for that reason. Consider for two seconds the irony of that one! If everyone who once did blow were kept out of LA, the place would be empty within three weeks. The last time I looked, Robert Downey Jr. and Keith Richards and Ozzy Osborne were allowed within the city limits. Even Highway Rick Ross, the man who invented crack, has free access. And yet Nigella Lawson doesn&amp;#039;t. Why is that? Could it have to do with the smear campaign that began twelve minutes after she divorced her evil husband? It&amp;#039;s not as if he has much power within the world of media. Oh, that&amp;#039;s right. He owns Saatchi and Saatchi, the most powerful advertising agency in the world, and has a long business history with British Airways.  I never met Nigella Lawson, although I sure would have liked to. But I feel bad for her, and am pig-biting mad, as the Weekly World News&amp;#039; Ed Anger used to say, at how stupidly passive and permissive Saatchi&amp;#039;s stooges in the media are. And I am even madder at the mass audience that is swallowing this story whole. Just out of curiosity, why is it that nobody is talking about Charles Saatchi&amp;#039;s past? Did he make it through a lifetime of amoral luxury without once being tempted to indulge in some Charlie, or maybe something worse? Could he withstand a barrage of third-hand hearsay about what he might have done in his twenties or thirties? Or even now? His treatment of his wife is worse than any drug use in the history of the world. What is happening to Nigella Lawson is sordid and malicious, and I want to go on record as saying so, at least speaking as a private citizen. Had I been at the next table when he choked Nigella I would have thrown him a beating he well-deserved. I wasn&amp;#039;t, and so I couldn&amp;#039;t, but that doesn&amp;#039;t mean I have to buy his crude and transparent campaign against her. It may be a man&amp;#039;s world, but you are supposed to at least act like a man while living in it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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