Following Clooney’s off-color joke at the Golden Globes last week, the father of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff has pulled out a powerful weapon: his granddaughter’s tears.
Blithely overlooking his son’s confession, guilty plea, and subsequent conviction on three felony counts, Papa Abramoff published a letter to Clooney in a Palm Springs newspaper in which he attempted to shame the actor for attempting to destroy the younger Abramoff’s name and family, and for sending Jack’s 12-year-old daughter into “a fit of tears.”
Granted, I’m no 12-year-old…but if I were, I have to think that having George Clooney poke fun at my dad on television would be slightly less mortifying than having my grandfather tell the whole world that Dr. Ross’ dirty joke made me cry.
