Category — Elliot Spitzer

It’s that tangled web, weaving and deceiving thing again.

The New England Republican’s astute social reporter, M. Hotspur, noticed the foibles of former Prez candidate Hairspray, first.

A murder of crows from the fourth estate descended upon Sen. Craig for his playing footsie with a flatfoot resulting in a misdemeanor plea. The hypocrisy of the episode outraged the MSM. Late night talk shows worked the incident for weeks. A grand crucifixion festooned the front pages of all the papers.

Here trots Elliott Spitzer, Super AG, promoter of righteous behavior and thigh magnets, who chased moneychangers and ill-reputed women. Not much ink wasted here. Talk shows did a perfunctory one-night monologue and moved back to Bush.

[snip] Edwards categorically denied the relationship, stating: “The story is false. It’s completely untrue, ridiculous.” As he rejected the Enquirer’s charges, Edwards was making his wife and their marriage a central component of his campaign. If Edwards had had no affair, he wasn’t a hypocrite, not then and not now.

But if Edwards had an affair and lied about it, shouldn’t he suffer scrutiny akin to that of Craig? At least three-dozen daily newspapers in the United States published the Craig news the day after the Roll Call scoop, according to Nexis, but this morning not a single U.S. daily mentioned the Enquirer piece. [snip]

Well ole Chuckie looked at his calendar and found there is room for another Easter! I can cobble some cruciform shape outa cast off rough boards and I have some rusted bent hails ‘round here, no need to worry ‘bout tetanus.

Get Hairspray out front; let him tell us if he channeled Elizabeth while channeling Rielle Hunter. He convinced a jury he could do that very thing with a fetus.
He denied and the cock crowed.

Forget not, this is probably the Chosen One’s Anointed AG Selectee. We cannot have the MSM mucking around in this slop, can we?
Not much chance of that!

Ain’t it so!

Defender of public morals eats ass out of large crow.

Spitzer devours a large crow served in a delightful marinade of alum and castor oil. Wanna bet his butt is as puckered as his punim.

Protein Wisdom opined thusly on the Spitzer cockup.

Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?

[snip]
he previously prosecuted — quite aggressively and publicly – several citizens for the “crime” of operating an adult prostitution business. That hypocrisy precludes me from having any real personal sympathy for Spitzer, and no reasonable person could defend him from charges of rank hypocrisy. And he should be treated no differently — no better and no worse — than the average citizen whom law enforcement catches hiring prostitutes.

But how can his alleged behavior — paying another adult roughly $1,000 per hour to travel from New York to Washington to meet him for sex — possibly justify resignation, let alone criminal prosecution, conviction and imprisonment? Independent of the issue of his hypocrisy — which is an issue meriting attention and political criticism but not criminal prosecution — what possible business is it of anyone’s, let alone the state’s, what he or anyone else does in their private lives with other consenting adults?

See that? He paid f****ng $1000 per hour! Certainly that precludes any question of victimization, right? Leaving aside the issue of legality regarding an offense over which he gleefully prosecuted others with reference to criminal statutes . . . I mean, do you think he ought to be held to the letter of the law? Should he be treated more harshly because he was in a position of public trust, pledged to uphold the law? [snip]

No, he should be treated harshly for showing no fiscal responsibility (a Democrat foible). Paying some bimbo $5000.00 exhibits no common sense, it didn’t even buy silence.

For the charge of hypocrisy, having his johnson pounded flat on an anvil by a 3 pound lump hammer is light punishment.

Like most elitist clayfoot clowns, however, they never run for election on the prostitution platform. I don’t know why? If the public actions were compatible with personal morals, would not they be a shoo in to high office.

Worse, Spitzer’s problem doesn’t seem to be about getting dipped. He engaged in the activity called structuring, which he should know is quite criminal. He prosecuted many on Wall Street for similar missteps.

Let us clean up the political mess. The following steps make it easy:

1. First a warm and fuzzy auto-de-fe.
2. Then public crucifixions for all miscreants.

Where did I put my rack and sack of stones? And what’s with the stupid wife?

NY Governor Elliot Spitzer got snared by the Feds arranging a rendezvous with a prostitute.  His statement implies he’ll do the politician two-step—hold on hoping the storm blows over.  But one particular part of his terse statement is completely wrong:

Today I want to briefly address a private matter.

As attorney general and now governor, New York’s highest positions of public trust, you willingly sacrificed your private life for public service.  It comes with the territory.  Yet you exposed not only yourself but more importantly the people of New York to extortion and blackmail. 

And let’s not forget this isn’t your first “miscue”.  Your statements on Trooper Gate certainly need more scrutiny now too.

Do the right thing, Elliot.  Call it a day and resign.