Are You Recording This

What is going on in this country? People are recording private conversations and turning them into media soundbites.

There is the missing 18 and 1/2 minutes of missing tape from the Watergate Tapes. Where were these weaselly people in the Nixon White House?

So, the idea of secretly recording public officials seems like a good idea because of the trustworthy characters on these tapes. It seems like everyone is secretly recording Donald Trump or his associates.

Some of these secret recordings have more to do with making a quick buck. Work hard and good things happen to you--not anymore. The new motto should be: "Hit Record and Get Wealthy."

It seems that the drawback to having a celebrity for president is that the people around him want to be a celebrity too. They are a mix of Brutus and Kato Kaelin. These parasites need and want media attention.

These wannabe celebrities don't care how they get their 15 minutes of fame. They just want to be wanted by the media. There is something sleazy about people secretly recording private conversations for reasons that don't have anything to do with a criminal investigation.

Omarosa just wrote a book and she wants the book to do well, but she also craves the media attention. But her book isn't what everyone is talking about because she has tapes of private conversations she had with John Kelly, Donald Trump, and Lara Trump.

The media-savvy Omarosa knows the way to stay on camera and stay in the media is to release these tapes of conversations that she gained by secretly recording them. These tapes are nothing but meaningless conversations and Lara Trump offering Omarosa a job.

The job offer is the winner. There is something diabolical about a job offer after getting fired. It sure seems odd to offer her a job after firing her for her conduct. Maybe the Trumps knew that Omarosa had a bad habit of secretly recording everyone that might be famous and there might be something on these crummy tapes.

The Omarosa tapes prove the media loves anything Trump. The good tapes haven't been played yet. She is saving them for the moment the media starts getting bored of her. It will happen soon.

I am sure there are some people that feel it is okay to record things considered private because they feel privacy is nothing worth protecting and keeping things private is a bad thing for our democracy. But when someone is so obsessed with recording private conversations in the way that Omarosa does it, well, they should wonder about the mental health of a person so obsessed with trying to remain famous for nothing other than being on a reality television program.

But we are all waiting to hear what is on the next tape.