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
Compared to victims of childhood physical abuse and neglect, victims of childhood sexual abuse are at greater risk of being arrested for one type of sex crime: prostitution...Among children who were sexually abused, the odds are 27.7 times higher than for the control group of being arrested for prostitution as an adult.
Source: http://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/abuse.txt
It's a stunning statistic; and, you're right, there's simply nothing humorous about it
Good stuff, thanks for the information.
You might want to skip reading some of the other replies I received.
I briefly read the biography of the now famous Kristen, and guess what:
From a “broken home”. Left for good at age 17. No discussion of her parents. None. Her hero is her brother who had left this apparently totally dysfunctional family at an early age also, some years prior to Kristen.
Abysmally sad. Familial sexual abuse? Probably. The breakdown of the nuclear family is THE fundamental problem afflicting modern society, and not just in America.
Additionally, the abhorrent vermin (johns)that prey on these young women, (and I don’t care how much they pay or how “mutually consenting” the “tranasaction” is), should be as equally condemned as the deficient parents.
Sorry, but sex is not just like buying a beer. It has fundamental ties to our humanity, and is not something that is meant to be tossed off as a trifle.
As far as Spitzer being groomed to be first Jewish Prez, I thot that was going to be me.
Naw, yer too honest...LOL
I’m going to be a little kinder to her.
I think her main motivation for him not to resign is for their lives to return to normal so she can pretend none of this ever happened, once he resigns,their lives are irrevocably changed and she would have to be reminded of why it is he’s no longer going to work every day of her life.
OK, fine. Spitzer is a Jew. Next.
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.)
Joke about a Jew cheaping out on a prostitute...
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 --
Right about what? Marrying a wealthy man from a good family??
Had it been a Christian who committed these crimes and had this exact article been printed with the word "Christian" in place of the word "Jew" Christians here would be saying this is another example of media's attack on Christianity.
And I would've agreed with them.
So, with that in mind, let's try this again:
Eliot Spitzer was the golden boy with an absolutely charmed life. His parents were the children of Christian immigrants, who created a Ralph Lauren lifestyle for their children.
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-Christian expression for Christians haggling about money.)
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 --
Not *that* looks like some crap straight out of a left-wing Berkley rag.
Don't get me wrong, I do like Ann Coulter. The woman has spunk and I agree with 99% of everything that comes out of her mouth. I'm just saying that she's been jabbing a the Jews a bit lately. Am I offended? Nah. She tends to jab at just about everybody.
I still like her writing, but I'm not going to sit in denial and pretend that she doesn't put her foot in her mouth from time-to-time.
I hear That webschooner.
I had sympathy for her for about an hour,
Then I read on...
But what's going to happen to Silda when everyone finds out she's been enjoying the services of Andreia Schwartz, Kristen's madam, who claims she "only does girls now"?
Regarding prostitution, Well, I did tip the girl at Dunkies this morning extra, apparently making 5 bucks an hour pouring coffee to her is more appealing than spreading her legs to strangers for 1000 bucks an hour.
Do you really feel sympathy for the hooker? Did you see her pics?
Does she look desperate to you?
She probably has more money than both of us combined!!
Thanks for that info.
My sympathy for Silda lasted about an hour after the fact.
Beach town?
I love your spitz posts AND your tag line.
Did JR really say that?
Too Funny!!
I think Mia got banned for being too frigging crazy.
She still is all over the web if you google her.
(I still see her hillary pics in my nightmares!!)
I think what Ann is trying to drive home is that the Repubs made a VERY bad mistake this year, Just like the dems make every 4 years, and is trying to drive that fact into to us so we don’t ever repeat it again.
By endorsing the Hilldog she is showing how embarassed we all are at his moment so we hopefully never make this mistake again.
This election really is pathetic.
I remember my state as being MASS and i’m only 40.
(only, lol)
Maybe it was officially MA but as far as I know people used MASS for a long time.
I can’t even recall when it went to the two letters.
She looks a bit like Roselyn Sanchez of “Without a Trace”:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3027344128/nm0761052
Iv’e seen that watch now in a few photos...
I guess that “X” on her wrist IS a tattoo.
I thought it was a marker.
Suppose he were Amish. Don't you think Ann would come up with some clever Amish references about bartering quilts and furniture for sex? Of course she would. What if he were Wiccan? Same deal.
Sorry but it is just a fact of life that comedians are going to notice features outside the mainstream culture when they are sharpening the lampoon. This is true of all comics.
mark
Thanks, and JR did post that comment.
I will replace it when Ron Paul officialy withdraws and stops taking money for his campaign.
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