The Media FINALLY label Spitzer ... Oh Wait.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/seton-motley/2008/03/13/media-finally-label-spiter-oh-wait ^

[chessplayer]

Those of us who have been participating in the Eliot Spitzer Media Waiting Game -- halting our respitory activity in anticipation of the Jurassic Press actually ascribing Party affiliation to the recently resigned Big Apple Governor -- can finally breathe easy. The Agence-France Presse and Yahoo! have teamed up to finally do what's right.

Only they do it so VERY wrong.

Eliot Spitzer (R) holds a news conference in New York City with his wife Silda by his side

[Antoninus]

LOL! This is classic!

[Liberty Valance]

LOL!

[dead]

The NY Post has been calling him “The Luv Guv.”

[traderrob6]

Related...

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2008/03/eliot-spitzer-r-holds-news-conference.html

[Diogenesis]

[nmh]

AHEM

“Eliot Spitzer (R)”

No, the Spitzer is a DEMONCRAT!!!!

[Resolute Conservative]

Their defense will be they meant on the right but it is a subliminal attempt to redirect bad vibes.

[Andyman]

they just forgot the first few letters in MAYO(R).

[dashing doofus]

LOL!

Maybe he switched party affiliations just before the second press conference?

This is too funny.

[MrB]

When it’s a dhimmirat congressman who’s in trouble, the press will refer to him as

Rep. So N So

to imply that he’s a republican.

[nmh]

Cute!

[TLI]

Political career
In 1994, Spitzer put aside his private practice to concentrate on attaining the elected office of New York State Attorney General. He lost in the 1994 election but was successfully elected in the next election in 1998. He has since become one of New York's most recognizable Democratic politicians. On November 7, 2006, he was elected Governor of New York.

Campaigns for Attorney General
Main article: New York Attorney General elections In 1994, long-serving Democratic New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams decided to leave office after having unsuccessfully challenged Al D'Amato for the seat of U.S. Senator from New York in 1992. Several Democrats saw weakness in Abrams's replacement as Attorney General, G. Oliver Koppell, and ran for the party's nomination, Spitzer among them. At the time, he was young and unknown, and, despite heavy funding from his own family, his campaign ended when he placed last among four candidates for the nomination. Judge Karen Burstein won. Burstein subsequently lost to Republican Dennis Vacco in the general election, part of a Republican sweep that included the election of Governor George Pataki.

That election of a Republican in 1994 allowed Spitzer to run again in 1998. Now more experienced in party politics, he won the Democratic primary, defeating Koppell, State Senator Catherine Abbate, local representative Jeff Orlick, and former Governor's Counsel Charles Davis. He went on to defeat the incumbent Vacco by 48.2% of the vote to Vacco's 47.6%. He ran for re-election in 2002, facing only token opposition from Republican Judge Dora Irizarry. Spitzer won this time with 66% of the vote.

[hosepipe]

It cost SPitz $5500 for a date..
Wonder what the going rate is for Henry Waxman.. must be really up there..

[LucyJo]

LOL. Too funny!

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Eliot Spitzer (R)

Come on. Give them the benefit fo the doubt.

Eliot Spitzer (Retired)

[JoJo Gunn]

At this minute, it’s still there:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080312/img/ppl-us-politics-newyork-gov-1-4e48f9b2ad981.html

[Steve_Seattle]

"Their defense will be they meant on the right but it is a subliminal attempt to redirect bad vibes."

The "R" would have been unnecessary as an indicator of "on the right" because the only two people in the pic are Spitzer and his wife, and it's obvious who is who.

[atomic conspiracy]

A while back, I talked to an old guy here in Lubbock who was absolutely convinced that Lyndon Johnson was a Republican and the GOP had assassinated Kennedy to put their man in office. He behaved as though it was an established fact of history! I told him to look it up and walked away.

This person is not senile or illiterate, at least not in the usual sense. How, I wonder, could somebody be that mis-informed? I think we have a clue.

The "typo-lie" is a familiar device of leftist propaganda, an exaggerated number, a small mis-identification, an erroneous date, that will lead to a huge misconception if unchallenged but that can be dismissed as a trivial error on the rare occasions when it is challenged.

The anti-military propagandist Tom Gervasi was a master of the typo-lie. His notorious screed Arsenal of Democracy has at least one typo-lie on every page, literally. These have stood uncorrected in successive editions for 30 years. Arsenal of Democracy is the most widely used military reference among college students.

[Political Junkie Too]

They probably meant Eliot Spitze(r).

-PJ