Genoa City News

When Jack confronted Nick Newman this week and asked why he put the pork to Phyllis Summers knowing how much Phyllis means to him, I let it slide and as it turned out GCN reporter Michael Kelly took Jack to task. But on Thursday, when Jack hurled his hate at Phyllis, when he went through her personal email, threw a fit and wondered again how she could have slept with a married man then said he doesn't know if he can live if living is without Phyllis, I decided it's time to haul out the Weasel of the Week award and crack Jack over the head with it.

Let's review.

It was August 5, 2005, when Jack was last awarded the WOW award, that I recalled how it is well documented that in 1994, when Jack first saw a photograph of Luan Volein, he swore she was Mai Yun the woman he'd fallen in love with twenty years before in Vietnam. When he realized Luan and Mai were one in the same and that he'd been reunited with her, Jack said repeatedly he'd always been in love with Luan and that she would be the only woman he'd ever love. That Jack made this statement there is no doubt.

When Luan kicked the bucket less than a year later Jack said he'd never love anyone else. But it wasn't long until he was screwing, literally, his own step-mother and any other woman who'd have him, Phyllis Summers in particular. When Phyllis refused to go along with Jack's dictator-like orders not to work for the competition and finally ditched him, Jack got so sleazy at one point it appeared he might get it on with his own step-daughter, Victoria Newman. Meanwhile, tired of sleeping around and unable to find a man willing to put up with her Grade-A BS, Phyllis went crawling back to Jack. He, of course, took her back and they pretended as if nothing had happened. And that was fine because as they say, misery loves company. But what was appalling, what was disgusting and made skin crawl, was that Jack told Phyllis on that August day, "I can't remember anything about my love life before you."

The fact Phyllis knew Jack's previous screwing around was his way of "practicing the art of seduction", and that she'd told him to his face what a liar he is, didn't mean Phyllis wasn't charmed. She was happy as a pig in a poke to be back living with Jack under his father's roof as she didn't have a job or the means to pay for her lavish lifestyle including the millions her son's legal defense was expected to cost. When the financial bough breaks Phyllis always runs to the nearest money tree. As it turned out, Phyllis' return to Jack came at a most opportune time. With Daniel Romalotti's trial about to start Jack was the only one willing to take time off from work to be at her side in the courtroom. No matter how many days the trial took, Jack said he wouldn't miss a minute of it. Chancellor Industries could go down the crapper for all he cared. After all, what mega-corporation in Genoa City needed its CEO showing up for work?

It was of conflicting interest to note that while Jack, and other CEOs, were able to take all the time off they wanted to handle personal matters, interim Newman Enterprises CEO Victoria was crabbing how busy she was at the office. So much so she didn't have time to go looking for strange men who might want her brittle bones in bed.

Later that month, while again accusing his former wife of betrayal, Jack told Phyllis that given the chance he'd hire Victoria for the CEO position at Jabot in a heartbeat. It was odd for Jack to say because not only had he squawked that Phyllis hadn't told him Victoria was back in town, he bitched that Phyllis had used their personal life to get a "competitive advantage" when in fact she had no obligation to tell Jack anything.