The last post was getting too long. Here's more stuff about Spitzer that I'm finding as I compulsively gorge myself at this table of trashy treats.
Great post by Lindsay about Spitzer's hubris.
Regardless of what you think of the morality of paying for sex, and irrespective of whatever understanding Mr. and Mrs. Spitzer might have had... Eliot Spitzer was a self-indulgent fool to think that he could arrange for sex over the telephone and move his money around to cover it! (...in an election year, as the Dems were poised to take back the State Senate, on the heels of the State police intel scandal...)
Spitzer displayed a Nixonian level of hubris. If he thinks the rules don't apply to him, he shouldn't be in power.
More to follow...
He's a vengeful humorless scold, a prig. He got power because no-one dared to cross him. That sort of position is peculiarly vulnerable to a scandal of any sort, because the people who thought they had better get along with him all suddenly see that they need not, the emperor has no clothes. There are some similarities with Hillary, though she has more people who actually like her and are loyal to her.
Posted by: dave.s. | March 12, 2008 at 07:07 AM
There are some similarities with Hillary, though she has more people who actually like her and are loyal to her.
and she doesn't sleep with prostitutes.
Posted by: laura | March 12, 2008 at 08:01 AM
"and she doesn't sleep with prostitutes."
"Well of course not, there is no basis for that. I take [her] on the basis of what [she] says," [bj] said. "And you know, there isn't any reason to doubt that."
Pressed by the reporter about "taking Sen. [Clinton] at [her] word," [bj] -- asked again if she believes [she sleeps with prostitutes] -- continued: "No, no, why would I -- there's nothing to base that on -- as far as I know," she added. She emphasized the word "I.""
Yeah, I'm bitter about that comment from Hillary. But, I'll say what she should have ("Of course i don't believe that Obama is a Muslim"). Of course I don't believe that Hillary sleeps with prostitutes. :-).
Posted by: bj | March 12, 2008 at 09:51 AM
here's somebody with actual informed views on the johns: http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/03/ive_seen_my_share_of_spitzers.php
Posted by: dave.s. | March 13, 2008 at 12:50 PM
hitchens thinks the ladies were not a but, but a feature: http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0812,hitchens-on-spitzer-s-lust,381263,2.html
Posted by: dave.s. | March 20, 2008 at 07:22 AM