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Posted on 03/12/2008 3:05:59 PM PDT by Syncro
WHOREABLE BEHAVIOR
March 12, 2008
This is a disaster for Hillary Clinton.
According to the wiretaps, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was delighted to be getting the prostitute "Kristen" again. At least he knew her name. It took Monica Lewinsky's boyfriend six sexual encounters to remember her name (raising his lifetime average to 8.2).
You know that queasy feeling you get thinking about Bill Clinton back in the White House again? Now you remember why. Hillary Clinton couldn't feel worse about the Spitzer case if she were an actual New Yorker.
Proving that Karl Marx got everything wrong -- more bad news for Hillary -- history is indeed repeating itself, but, contra Marx, the first time as farce, the second time as tragedy. Clinton's scandal was hilarious; Spitzer's is just depressing.
Most people outside of New York can't grasp the enormity of Spitzer's political free fall.
Eliot Spitzer was the golden boy with an absolutely charmed life. His parents were the children of Jewish immigrants, who created a Ralph Lauren lifestyle for their children.
Spitzer's father made half a billion dollars in New York real estate and raised three high-achieving children -- two lawyers and a neurosurgeon. In a family like that, becoming governor of New York makes you the black sheep.
Spitzer went to the best schools -- Horace Mann, Princeton and Harvard Law School. He must have written some good papers.
He lives at the perfect address (Fifth Avenue and 79th St.) with his perfect Harvard Law School-educated Southern Baptist wife -- whose parents must be telling her they told her so right about now -- and their three perfect daughters. (Admittedly, the apartment is a gift from Dad: A mere top-flight education doesn't get you an apartment overlooking Central Park.)
And now Spitzer's entire anal-retentive, good paper-writing life has collapsed in the horrifying image of a frenzied masturbator. This is the most complete coup de grace imaginable, short of an assassin's bullet.
Spitzer's life is ruined. It doesn't matter if he has defenders who will wail, "It's his private life!" It doesn't matter if he fights the charges. It doesn't matter if this was a political prosecution. As Talleyrand said: "It's worse than a crime; it's a blunder."
Eliot Spitzer, Harvard Law graduate and Fifth Avenue denizen, is forevermore: "Client No. 9."
Forget about his career -- those around him better have him on suicide watch. Dudley Do-Right is on tape in a white-knuckle negotiation with pimps about payment for a prostitute. (Let's just be thankful that there's no anti-Semitic expression for Jews haggling about money.)
No one will ever be able to look him in the eye again. How can Spitzer hold a press conference when reporters won't stop giggling at him?
Spitzer can't go to the restaurants he used to frequent. He can't go to the Whitney Museum near his apartment. He can't go to track meets at his daughters' expensive private school. He can't show his face in public.
The golden boy's disgrace is deep and subliminal; it can't be expunged.
One shudders to imagine the sepulchral gloom pervading the Spitzer home this week. At least Hillary would liven the place up with some lamp-throwing.
Whatever Spitzer's flaws, he was a pristine product of wealth and attainment. And he threw away a star-studded life of accomplishment in a wanton, reckless pursuit of sex with prostitutes.
There's no prettifying what Spitzer has done. The Web site of the "Emperors Club VIP" whorehouse patronized by Spitzer heroically claims the prostitutes -- or "models" -- are chosen for their "level of education, family background, intelligence, personality."
One can almost hear the typical John, heavy-breathing into the phone: "And this one you call 'Busty Betty' -- does she come from a good family? Parents still together? What church do they attend?"
Surprising no one, police wiretaps indicate that the "models" were semi-literate, could not learn to swipe a credit card and seemed invariably to be on drugs. That's what you get for $2,000 an hour in this charming business.
After one prostitute missed an appointment and left a "crazy" text message for one of her pimps, the procurer remarks that the girl is on drugs. It seems, the procurer adds, "a lot of these girls deteriorate to this point."
Behold the "victimless" crime of prostitution. Hard to believe these girls would turn to drugs. Having sex with strangers for money, nothing to live for ... just thinking about it makes me want to take drugs.
It's absurd to talk about Spitzer's problem being "hypocrisy" -- as if everything would be fine if only he had previously advocated legalized prostitution.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
When Ann is down I will not kick her. Do you not see the difference?
If you were correct in your first post, that she acted in an unChristian manner, then she was already down and you did, indeed, pile on. But consider this, which was my point originally. Where do you get the authority to question her Christianity? Are you actually willing to be judged in the same way you have judged her? If so, why do you do the very thing you accuse her of, namely writing critically and piling on?
See #82 & 101
At her best here.
I was pointing out how anti-(fill-in-the-blank) can be created out of whole cloth if one wishes to do so.
You did it, so I illustrated it back to you.
The point was if Coulter's comments were anti-semitic, then yours were anti-Christian. Same skewed method used.
You didn't even get what I was conveying to you.
Regardless of the context in this case, the phrase "told ya so" is used generically all the time, with no need to make it seeped with prejudice as you clearly wanted to see it.
It wasn't done by Coulter, but created by you.
You wanted it to be because he was a Jew, I don't see that as Coulter's intention.
Her mentioning Baptist is part of her being through in her reserch of the parties involved.
If that makes me anti-Christian, then you are way, way, WAY off.
There is my point. If Coulter's statement makes her anti-Jew, then you are way way way WAY off.
(Of course it doesn't make you anti-Christian, any more than her comments make her anti-Jew)
I added an extra "way" for emphasis.
Very good points, thanks.
“As in what, she shouldn’t have married a New Yorker, or a Jew?”
That’s not anti-Semetic; it’s life. Marrying outside of one’s religion is not a smart thing to do because it make a difficult life twice as difficult. We’re Baptists and our best friends are Jewish, but we don’t make life decisions together, and don’t create and raise children together. I would hope that any Jewish parent would discourage their kids from marrying Christians, and vice versa.
I guess we agree to disagree as to what we saw.
I only brought it up because I never see Ann mention Clinton’s religion or Kennedy’s religion in any context to their behavior. So why mention Spitzer’s a Jew at all?
What was the point?
Fine, but a needless statement which solves nothing.
I only brought it up because I never see Ann mention Clinton’s religion or Kennedy’s religion in any context to their behavior.
Well, spend some time reading Coulter and you will.
And BTW, she didn't do that with the Spitter either.
So why mention Spitzer’s a Jew at all? What was the point?
I don't think she mentioned that he is a Jew.
Show me the quote from the article, OK? Thanks.
Oh the point? LOL, if there is one, I can't 'splain it to you, sorry.
It's absurd to talk about "alpha males" and political power -- an alpha male does not bring his family shame and disaster. Who was more alpha than Ronald Reagan? Think he ever had a "whore problem"? This is more like a dog who wee-wees on your leg.
It's absurd to talk about legal defenses. This guy has fallen from the pinnacle of New York society to being a disgrace to his class. He's the Ivy League version of Paris Hilton.
That was always the advantage Clinton had: We never expected any better. He went from Skunk Trot, Ark., to Skunk Trot, Ark. Spitzer fell from Fifth Avenue to Skunk Trot, Ark.
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Most folks in “interfaith” marriages are not very religious. That’s why they’re called “interfaithless” marriages.
Pretty early in the column, she mentions Spitzer being the son of children of Jewish immigrants.
I do realize that for some people it is considered anti-semitic to mention that Jews are good at being successful.
Oops..his parents were the children of Jewish immigrants.
My error.
Hello NEWBIE!! Being Jewish is a MAJOR part of the family story because in ALL the articles it’s noted that his father ILLEGALLY FINANCED his AG campaigns in ORDER for him to be the FIRST JEWISH PRESIDENT!! That’s from the dad!!
I like yer style...
I guess this means Ann and Eliot won’t be dating any time soon.
Maybe deep down Eliot KNOWS he never got where he was by being on the up and up.....his family and he has CHEATED his way to the top.
THIS was the best part of the story!!!!
OK, you win.
I saw the ‘told ya so’ in tghe context of their different religious upbringings. Obviously I was in error.
As far as Spitzer being groomed to be first Jewish Prez, I thot that was going to be me.
Damn, wrong twice in the same day.
I’ll get over it.
Ashley Dupre with a member of her family...
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