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When Will Spitzer Finally Pull Out?
Village Voice ^ | 3/10/08 | Harkavy

Posted on 03/10/2008 6:03:07 PM PDT by melt

Will Eliot Spitzer resign in time for this evening's network newscasts? I wouldn't if I were him. I'd wait until right afterwards, so that my smiling face wouldn't appear simultaneously on every TV set in the Western world.

This is not New York provincialism. Spitzer is practically the most prominent and powerful Democrat in a huge state — Hillary Clinton's state, Wall Street's state, the state of millions of Democrats.

Spitzer's boner really sticks out, even in this day and age. He didn't just get some on the side. He violated the law, if the federal complaint and published reports are true.

Yes, it will be more important to the country when Citigroup finally collapses. That will be a real disaster.

Still, there's some meat to this Spitzer thing. In any case, the way it went down was a case of exquisite timing, coming on the heels of last night's final episode of HBO's The Wire.

My buddy and former colleague Adamma Ince just texted me:

Looks like Lester got Spitzer on the wire too. She's referring to Lester Freamon, the ace detective on that ace investigative entertainment series about political corruption. Lester, adept at tapping and taping politicians, lawyers, and drug dealers, was the shining cop of all "murder police" on that instantly legendary series.

Judging from the complaint that apparently involves Spitzer, there was some pretty good bugging going on against him too.

Lost in the babble over the Spitzer story are the dubious prostitution laws. Why exactly is prostitution criminalized? However, it is, and Spitzer just got finished with a long stint as attorney general, where he hounded others for breaking laws. And now he's governor.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: badjokes; corruption; doubleentendres; goodriddance; hookers; hypocrite; liar; mediawhore; resignation; sex; spitzer; villagevoice
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To: melt
"ITS BUBBA (KLINTOON) TIME" :)
81 posted on 03/10/2008 7:15:59 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you...our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
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To: SevenofNine

82 posted on 03/10/2008 7:24:03 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: cookcounty

“Judging by the look on his wife’s face resigning is the least of Spitzer’s worries.”

why is she standing next to him? My wife would be gone to Canada for a year, just to keep herself from violence. Funny how all these wives suffer from Tammy Wynette Syndrome-—again.

Yes indeed...mine would already be dead, or they would be calling me Mrs. Bobbitt!


83 posted on 03/10/2008 7:24:48 PM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: melt

He won’t pull out until he’s done dispensing Love Potion #9.


84 posted on 03/10/2008 7:30:22 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: melt
Spitzer's boner really sticks out

Oh, no, he dint.

My understanding is that Elliot will not be pulling out. He will, however, have the common decency to offer his young lady friend a reacharound.

(...R. Lee Ermey, a role model for us all.)

85 posted on 03/10/2008 7:34:41 PM PDT by RichInOC (...William Frank Buckley, Jr., November 24, 1925-February 27, 2008, R.I.P.)
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To: isthisnickcool; All
"Just a little prayer. Please, please, let the hooker be an illegal Mexican."

OR A .......

Baaa Means No!!

86 posted on 03/10/2008 7:41:03 PM PDT by musicman
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To: monkapotamus

OMG That classic photoshop I think Governor Spitzeer is playera i think he has his wife, probably two or three ho on the side


87 posted on 03/10/2008 7:49:13 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: TornadoAlley3

What kinda of dude you have qualitfy get the TOP hos


88 posted on 03/10/2008 7:50:20 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: TornadoAlley3

Wow, family background and education are part of the hooker payrate system. Who knew?


89 posted on 03/10/2008 7:52:22 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Toskrin

I don’t think he will either. He will be a hero to the Democrats and obvious Presidential material. After all he went Wild Willie one better, he paid the working woman and the Democrats are all about the working people aren’t they? He’s disgusting, but he’s a true blue Dem, no denying that.


90 posted on 03/10/2008 8:21:52 PM PDT by pepperdog (The world has gone crazy.)
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To: cookcounty
why is she standing next to him?

She needs time to make his impending murder look like an accident.

91 posted on 03/10/2008 10:00:44 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
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To: Parody

LOL!


92 posted on 03/10/2008 10:17:32 PM PDT by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: melt

What a piece of dung.


93 posted on 03/10/2008 10:21:16 PM PDT by Bullish ( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
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To: monkapotamus

New Democrat campaign poster slogan--- "VOTE FOR bush IN 2008!"

94 posted on 03/10/2008 10:31:56 PM PDT by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: melt
PROSTITUTIN' SPITZ
Tune: "Puttin' on the Ritz"

If you're guv
And wish you knew
Where to get love
Why don't you do
Like hypocrites
Prostitutin' Spitz

Girls with names
You find out after
Play their games
And soon you hafta
Call it quits
Prostitutin' Spitz

Hooked up with a thousand-dollar hooker
Now you're stuck inside the pressure cooker
Lookin' snookered

Call-girl tricks
Of pure excitement
Pay for kicks
With your indictment
Paging Fitz
Prosecutin' Spitz

Have you seen the prostitute
Chargin' high and lookin' cute
You're a famous VIP
Now we write your RIP
Phone calls
And wiretapping
Net falls
It's you they're trapping
Spendin' lots of cash
For a thrill and a rash

If you're guv
And wish you knew
Where to get love
Why don't you do
Like hypocrites
Prostitutin' Spitz

Girls with names
You find out after
Play their games
And soon you hafta
Call it quits
Prostitutin' Spitz

Hooked up with a thousand-dollar hooker
Now you're stuck inside the pressure cooker
Lookin' snookered

Call-girl tricks
Of pure excitement
Pay for kicks
With your indictment
Paging Fitz
Prosecutin' Spitz

(Wiretapdancing)

Hooked up with a thousand-dollar hooker
Now you're stuck inside the pressure cooker
Lookin' snookered

If you're guv
And wish you knew
Where to get love
Why don't you do
Like hypocrites
Prostitutin' Spitz
Prostitutin' Spitz
Prostitutin' Spitz
Prostitutin' Spitz

95 posted on 03/10/2008 11:35:41 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (The wag tailoring the doggerel)
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To: IMTOFT
"He is absolutely one of the most pretentious, arrogant politicians ever - and that's saying a lot as New York has bred an enormous number of pretentious, arrogant politicians. He should resign, but won't as he probably only feels he did one thing wrong - he got caught, i.e., the Bill Clinton syndrome."

The media is already trying to cover for him by questioning why prostitution is illegal. I think he made that comment in his so-called apology, yesterday.

The latest talking point will be that he is a victim of an outdated, puritanical mindset that makes a "natural" business illegal.

96 posted on 03/11/2008 5:40:48 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: Mama Shawna
I suspect this habit of his is not new, and she went along with it as long as the dough rolled in. She looks pissed as in "You SOB! You weren't supposed to get caught!"

Like Hitlery, I think she is an enabler.

97 posted on 03/11/2008 5:45:38 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: RDTF

Better!


98 posted on 03/11/2008 6:57:08 AM PDT by billhilly (I was republican when republican wasn't cool. (With an apology to Barbara Mandrell.))
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To: Charles Henrickson
LOL! ROTFL!
99 posted on 03/11/2008 5:20:22 PM PDT by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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