Posted on 03/15/2008 8:09:41 AM PDT by fweingart
The story: Gov. Spitzer begs forgiveness after getting caught having a sex romp with a prostitute named Kristen in a fancy Washington hotel. Says the soon-to-be-ex gov, "I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, who I promised better."
In other words: Also, I apologize to Kristen, who was really a very sweet and smart kid. Kristen, I didn't mean for you to get caught up in all this. And, seriously, I didn't realize my hands were THAT cold.
The story: You, too, can own the fancy duds worn by the famous Queen of Mean, Leona Helmsley. "These clothes are beautiful. They are really over the top," gushes auction expert Leslie Hindman.
In other words: They are gorgeous, but the buyer must beware of the danger. The clothes are infected with the Hag stapholomeanness bacterium. Wearers may launch into abusive tirades, grow runaway eyebrows and wind up being hated by millions of people - and one miserable dog.
The story: A lot of people caught in the foreclosure crisis come up with a long list of excuses why they can't pay. Says Martin Goodman of Residential Capital, "Everyone's grandmother is dying. Everybody's kid is having surgery. I'd rather somebody say, 'We mismanaged our debt.'"
In other words: I would often feel bad for them, until one day a colleague explained that the catastrophe is really a necessary thing - like forest fire or drought - where the weak are culled. I think he called it Financial Darwinism.
The story: City Hall at last comes up with a plan to fix the rotting Coney Island Boardwalk, but tragically, work won't begin until after the summer. "By that time, it will probably have collapsed," says Dianna Carlin, who runs the kitschy beach shop Lola Staar. "It's horrific. We fix the Boardwalk ourselves so people don't injure themselves."
In other words: How are people supposed to come here and buy this jun ... er, delightful, one-of-a-kind keepsakes if they keep breaking their legs and getting nails through their feet? We can't survive just by selling
He may be rich in money, but ethically he's bankrupt....and so is the party whose label he bears.
If he didn’t bite his lip, he isn’t sincere.
Spitzer begs forgiveness after getting caught
$4,500 and an apology. That is some expensive stuff.
Filthy, Filthy Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!
Unfriggin believable
She's been facilitating his behavior for the last ten years. Any woman worth her position KNOWS when the hubby or boyfriend is cheating. Self-denial is the same as facilitating.
His daughters must be going through hell though with the sneers and jeers from their peers. Spitzer must be a seriously selfish man not to have thought ahead to how getting caught might affect his daughters.
Think Chelsea Clinton... national media and having to go to class everyday at Stanford.
What messes cheaters make !!!!!
Apologized to the whore for screwing him for money. Oh brother! He’s misguided among his other failings.
Except he didn’t. The author is taking liberties.
Spitzer is slime, and this writer is dumb.
Billy Goat always puffed up his face like a blowfish too.
hey idiot#9... 
Spitzer isn’t a serious person. He’s a spoiled rich kid who lives rent free in a four-bedroom, Fifth Avenue apartment owned by his dad. He thinks New York is his play ground and doesn’t take anyone seriously - not the people of New York and not his family.
Now his defense team is manned by former supervisors in the same unit - the United States attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York - that is supposed to investigate and prosecute him. He’s relying on his inside contacts and whatever dirt he has on the people in this unit to get him off. NOTE: The boss of that unit, Mike Garcia, was working with Spitzer’s current personal attorney, Dietrich Snell, in the 1990’s investigation of the Bojinka plot that led to 9/11 - and for some reason failed to pursue the evidence. Wonder what dirt Snell and Spitzer have on Garcia.
Nothing this crook can say to repair the damage he has done to his family and New York.
“Also, I apologize to Kristen, who was really a very sweet and smart kid”
Apparently, she’s NOT a kid. New York Magazine says she’s 32 not 22.
BWWWAAAHAHAHAHA!
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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