Opinion: Silda Spitzer, Prop Wife?

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Why do so many women suck it up and stand grimly by, like a prop for the photo op, as the hubby spills his guilty guts for the cameras? Today Silda Spitzer looked like she might have had a gun at her back — or she might have had one in Eliot’s back — but there she was nonetheless, ‘at his side,’ as they say.

Stick with the marriage if that’s what you want, by all means — but let him twist in the wind alone. Just once, as the husband moves up to the microphone, I’d like to see one of these wronged women just walk offstage behind him, suitcase in hand, exit stage right.

YouTube has scored nearly a half-million hits for the video of a well-known broadcaster crashing a big Olympics press conference and, in front of those five emblematic rings, accusing her husband — an even better-known broadcaster — of having an affair. She dodges and weaves like a champion welterweight, shaking off the musclemen who try to hustle her offstage, to say her piece in front of the world’s press.

Now that’s what I’m talking about!