Quite possibly the saddest obit I have ever read

[dsc]

Bob Green, a onetime radio DJ who married pop singer and Miss Oklahoma Anita Bryant, was found dead Jan. 26 at his home in Miami Beach. He was 80.

Mr. Green managed his wife’s rise to stardom as an entertainer and Florida citrus spokeswoman, then followed her into anti-gay activism, which ultimately destroyed their careers — and marriage in 1980. For more than 30 years, Mr. Green lived quietly, alone and resentful.

“Bob internalized a lot of his own anger and frustration and disappointments,” said Bryant, 71, on Wednesday from her home in Oklahoma City. That’s what happens “if you don’t let your faith rise up and you give into all those anxieties.

“The trouble with life is that it’s so daily,” she continued. “You have to have a mind-set that you’re going to work out your problems and God is going to help you. But he’s not going to lay it all in your lap.”

Robert Einar Green was born on June 13, 1931, in the Bronx to Swedish immigrants. He was an Air Force veteran and suffered from heart problems. He was on kidney dialysis at the time of his death, his sons said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/bob-green-former-dj-and-ex-husband-of-anita-bryant-dies-at-80/2012/02/23/gIQAJjPVWR_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop

[roguevalley]

1. agreed. Nice to have the ex lay the sanctimony on after he's dead.

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. Exactly my thoughts. She's a bigger jerk that I even thought. n/t

[orpupilofnature57]

3. Asshole of the month, once again

[monmouth]

4. She's still as annoying now as she was back then...n/t

[Duer 157099]

5. What a bitch. So he "internalized a lot of his anger and frustration..." and SHE externalized hers

and ruined other people's lives.

I'd say she did the more damage in the end.

[DURHAM D]

8. Well said. Thanks. nt

[warrior1]

6. you reap what you sow

[magical thyme]

7. wow. just wow. pot meet kettle and shit on a boomerang.

I was feeling really sorry for him, thinking that being married to such a sanctimonious hypocrite might leave me wanting to be alone for 30 years or so. Until I read this:

In 2007, Mr. Green told the Miami Herald that he blamed gay people for the turmoil in his life because “their stated goal was to put [Bryant] out of business and destroy her career. And that’s what they did. It’s unfair.”

So Mr. and Mrs. Anita Bryant were blessed with fame and fortune. They jointly used their fame and fortune to attempt to destroy other peoples lives. And he was bitter and self-pitying because he got a great big dose of karma kickback.

And Mrs. Bryant continues to steep in and spew mean-spirited, hateful venom.

What a pair. Phew!

[Maine-ah]

9. beat me to it!

[Raine]

17. He lived and died alone and with that attitude

apparently even his sons wanted nothing to do with him.

[gvstn]

22. "What a pair. Phew!". Says it all succinctly. n/t

[frogmarch]

10. Had to get in the last word, didn't she?

What an obnoxious person she continues to be.

[Tikki]

11. Sad human existence based on who can hate the most..

Can't even image living that kind of life.


Tikki

[Lint Head]

12. In times of trouble I always turn to the "all knowing" Anita Bryant.

[BlueCaliDem]

13. Bryant is just one example who gives people who believe in god, a bad name.

This was very unfortunate. She just should've kept her mouth shut, and quietly paid her respects with decency and good thoughts to a man who made her the star she once was.

As a person of Christian faith, I believe I have no right to judge others. I'm not god. I'm no better or lesser than anybody else. I have an opinion and I do speak out, but I try to respect others as I'd want them to respect me.

[broiles]

14. She is lying about her age.

No way she is 71.

[former9thward]

18. Wiki says you are wrong.

She was born in 1940 and won Miss Oklahoma at 18 in 1958 right after graduating high school. So if she was lying then it would have to be a lie when she graduated from high school and a lie when she won the contest. I doubt all of those were made up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant

[broiles]

21. okay, I guess youre right, but

She is still some sort shit.

[broiles]

15. She is lying about her age.

There is no way she's just 71.

[customerserviceguy]

16. Not that I believe in an afterlife

but if there is one, he's going to heaven because he's already spent his time in hell.

[Zalatix]

19. Here's an epitaph to use for them both:

Toxic hate is toxic.

[applegrove]

20. Sound like one nasty couple.