Now this is worth a few pesos.
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
LOL!
When Ann is down I will not kick her. Do you not see the difference?
I do feel sorry for his wife and children.
I’ve been mailing letters since the 60’s. States always had 2 letter abreviations.
ZING! That's the money quote for me.
Sorry about that...you are so right! We have both possums and skunks out here in East Texas. I like them better than either Bill or Elliot.
No it's not. It's the character of the person who is addicted to drugs or alcohol that leads to both.
I can't explain it. Google "DUmmies in Mommy's basement looking at pictures of Chelsea"
Now this is worth a few pesos.
91 posts and counting BUMP!
Proving once again that people that go to Harvard are dumb.
I try to take people at face value, and also try to see the best in what they’re saying, and not take things personally unless it’s a “you so-and-so”.
And I am not defending Spitzer at all. Adultery is inexcusable, be it Clinton, Craig, Vetter, Hart, McGreavy, etc. I also don’t know how religious Spitzer is, but that is irrelevant in this context.
I was disappointed Ann targeted his/my religion TWICE in the column. I wasn’t sure if she attacked his religion because she thinks Jews are more likely to commit adultery, or more likely to use call girls, or behave as total hypocrites. Whatever her implications, his religion is NOT A FACTOR, and had no business being brought up. If Spitzer was Catholic, and Ann had made reference to that, Bill Donohue would be up in arms. And he’d be right.
Wanna make fun of The ex-gov’s education, great (I make fun of Ivy League grads all the time). His politics, fine. His immense hypocracy, ABSOLUTELY. I’ll be happy to pile on to any and all of these CHOICES.
“I sort of thought that this business was really bigger and more about money laundering or something more nefarious than just whoring around.”
I still think it is bigger than this. Not just the putting himself in a position to be black-mailed, etc. but what about as AG and prosecuting a prostitution ring that is in competition with the one he uses - seems like abuse of power to me.
Now take it another step, what he did to many Wall Street Firms may have been similar, supply bad publicity for firms in competition to firms he was friendly with (or provided support in his run for Governor).
I’m happy to see this guy exposed as the creep he is.
LMAO!
Granted, Ann is difficult for some people to “get”, but there is nothing antisemitic in this column.
And there was hardly any “again and again” in it either.
No attacks, no targeting.
It's easy enough to find religious prejudice without squishing it in some where it is not.
Your posts are more anti-Christian than Ann's comments are anti-Jewish.
My posts are anti-Christian?
In what way?
Did I say something like “boy, what church did Clinton, Vitter and Craig learn their Bible?”
No. Because it would be a very stupid thing to say, and because their religion has nothing to do with their indescretions.
Is it because I pointed out the “told ya so” line hit me as anti-Semitic? I felt that way because Ann brought up Mrs. Spitzer’s “Southern Baptist parents”. Why should I care what religion her family is? That’s why I read that line as: the parents of the future Mrs. Spitzer warned that her fiancee would eventually do something bad, because he’s a Jew. Not that he’s from New York, or that he attended Harvard, but that he was a Jew.
If that makes me anti-Christian, then you are way, way, WAY off. I even pointed out that if Spitzer was Catholic, and Ann had subbed the word “Catholic” for “Jew” in the ‘told ya so’ line, Bill Donohue woulda flipped, with good reason.
Do I care what religion Spitzer, Vitter, Clinton, Craig, etc are, or aren’t? No. Because it’s irrelevant. It has nothing to do with any of these cheaters.
Believe me, I ‘get’ Ann. Alot more than you think.
I wouldn't say that. Whether or not Jews are more likely to be unfaithful I would never discourage someone from raising the issue.
We need to know as much as we can about people who misbehave. I want to know his race, religion and where he went to school. I want to know how he was raised. I want to know what rock he crawled out from under. I'll decide if his religion was a factor.
If someone sets off a bomb in the public square we should know if he was Jewish, Christian or Muslim.
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