Posted on 03/13/2008 3:50:14 AM PDT by rellimpank
Spitzer, whose ability to govern New York was irrevocably destroyed by the exposure of his penchant for hiring overpriced prostitutes, resigned as the Empire State's chief executive Wednesday.
We hope Spitzer's resignation will take some of the spotlight off his wife and three teenage daughters. They are the real — and wholly blameless — victims of the prurient media coverage surrounding his role in a supposedly "victimless crime."
One need not be a defender of Spitzer to question whether the U.S. Justice Department was really serving "justice" by having so vigorously investigated a consensual, albeit commercial, act that only rises to a federal offense because of a tainted federal law known as the Mann Act. Passed in 1910, the measure, labeled the White-Slave Traffic Act, banned the interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes."
(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...
>victims of the prurient media coverage ...
Never thought that I would see that in print in my lifetime, but there it is.
Bears repeating.
victims of ... media coverage
“Spitzer, whose ability to govern New York...”
Spitzer, whose inability to govern himself......
How they conveniently forget about the money laundering, bogus dummy corp stuff.
--yeah--glad I din't have coffee in hand. Wonder what other federal laws the Denver Pest thinks are "tainted"---
Spitzer, who is a pompous ass and is doing everything he can to avoid criminal prosecution.
...for the “common good” of the people. (what a great guy)
Did I miss their victims of ... media coverage story on the Bush daughters?
Just like Klinton never happened ain’t it?
The absolute hypocrisy of liberal trash is breathtaking.
You know, one thing that the media doesn’t mention about all this is the impact this is going to have on kids other than Spitzer’s.
This is big news.
How many parents are going to have to explain what a “call girl” or a “prostitute” is to their “too young to know all the details” kids.
How will the schools handle this? Guaranteed, not the way conservative parents would want! (Please don’t start the home school debate here!)
These sleazy politicians who can’t keep it in their pants are absolutely changing the sexual climate and not in a good way. I am totally disgusted.
I see. The left is now gathering round its man. The man who did a lot to destroy businesses. A real good communist. Listen for the lame excuses and justifications for this man’s criminal behavior.
So, is the Denver Post saying that Spitzer should have been allowed to skate because he is a prominent Democrat, or because the FBI is suddenly not interested in enforcing the law?
Remember, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned in the wake of a congressional investigation into reports that several U.S. attorneys were fired precisely because they chose to prosecute serious crimes instead of pursuing fishing expeditions against Democrats.
Actually, they were fired because they were not pursuing serious crimes by Democrats. If that proved instructive and therefore they declined to let Spitzer skate, I say "Mission Accomplished".
There should be no Above-The-Law class in this country.
Those Fibbies should have seen all this and said “Oh, that’s just ol’ Eliot getting his freak on. We don’t have to worry about that sort of thing”...
Is that what they’re saying?
I am convinced this is part of a campaign so that Spitzer will be able to retract his resignation on Monday, the day it becomes effective.
Dershowitz wrote something similar to the DP article: “It’s just about sex, the evil feds are persecuting him for his harmless pecadilloes, he was entrapped, etc.”
First of all, Spitzer wasn’t entrapped and he is not being persecuted. Anybody who has been a prosecutor for all those years certainly must know the law, and the fact that he tried to get around it with his strange money transactions simply proves this. If Dershowitz and the Denver writer want to campaign for the legalization of prostitution, that’s their business; but the point is that it is currently illegal, this was an INTERNATIONAL prostitution ring that I am sure we will find was linked to organized crime, and Spitzer certainly knew all that. It was simply his arrogance that led him to feel he could get away with it.
Keep your eyes open, folks; it is obvious that Spitzer and the Dems are going to launch a media campaign in the next few days so that Spitz won’t have to resign on Monday.
With relative morality, the only evil is getting caught.
Next week's editorial will no doubt be a call for prostitute price controls - we need our government to step in and put an end to the obscene profits (no pun intended) that prostitutes like these are making. They're price-gouging and taking advantage of the consumer, the proverbial "little guy" at the mercy of "Big Prostitution"! </sarcasm>
I read an article this morning about that very subject.
It’s revolting.
I'm fairly certain that the 'other kids' already have a good understanding of what is going on.
This article fails to mention the chief reason for the investigation was that it was thought by the way Spitzer was transfering funds was that he was on the take.
or being blackmailed.
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