Posted on 04/11/2008 11:32:00 AM PDT by pissant
Silda Wall Spitzer, the former New York Governor's wife, knew about her husband's penchant for prostitutes and didn't care. At least that's what the New York Post is saying, so don't dry your eyes just yet.
An unidentified source told the Post's Richard Johnson that Spitzer recently said, "My [bleep]ing wife doesn't care [about the hookers], so why does anybody else care?" Which brings up a whole lot of questions. Like, (a) where are the other hookers he solicited and (b) have they recorded any songs?
According to New York Magazine, the hour-long delay for Gov. Spitzer's press conference was due to the fact that Mrs. Spitzer--a former corporate lawyer--needed time to compose herself before facing the media. Whether this freshening-up was merely a deep breath prior to an intense confrontation with the media or a real-life screaming fit of magnanimous proportions, we will never know. Do the spouses of philandering politicians really have no idea that their husbands (or wives) are cheating, or do they ignore the obvious simply to keep up appearances?
Spitzer's new spokesperson Anna Cordasco called the New York Post report "completely false," but it does make us wonder: When are we going go ahead and allow our politicians to get jiggy with it?
After the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, opponents of President Clinton must have expected an immediate resignation. Everybody knew the drill: You got caught, you resigned. And in this case in particular, there were so many sordid details, you wondered if the man would just text-in his resignation. Not Bill Clinton. Instead, the President apologized on television and immediately got back to business. What created this moral forcefield? The fact that his wife didn't care.
If Eliot Spitzer did in fact ask why anyone else would care about his soliciting prostitutes if his wife doesn't care, he's essentially missing the overall point. The point being, we don't live in Finland.
MAYBE, just MAYBE he was buying the hookers for HER.
"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
I’d watch Silda do a little g on g action.
More to the story. Add in troopergate, and this dirtbag needs to be doing hard time.
Unbelievable. If this story is true, Silda is just like Hillary. FURIOUS with her husband -— for getting caught.
Silda Spitzer may have known about Eliot’s hookers, but McGreevy’s wife had NO IDEA about the gay/straight threesomes she was having with her husband,and her husband’s young male driver. Let them all return to the oblivion they should never have emerged from.
Prior to 1998, there was no way a sitting president could get caught jamming cigars in an intern in the oval office and not be forced to resign. Slick managed to change all that.
Slick changed a lot in this country: none of it for the better.
Yeah. She had to know something was up. It went on for years.
Hold on..................................
I’ve got my mental picture...........
Not Guilty!
How revisionist!!! Makes it sound like Bill said "yes, you caught me. Sorry. Maybe I'll go to rehab." Left out all the lies, DIRECT LIES to the nation, Hillary COMPLICIT in the cover-up (VRWC and all that). And what's that "immediately got back to business" crap?
Now we have an admitted doper (possible pusher), closeted Marxist, with racist sympathies running a “credible” campaign.
Yup. I personally believe that much of the moral decay in our country is due to Slick Willie, who made it “cool” to lie to the public, be a sexual predator, pardon criminals, etc.
Now we have all kinds of corporate malfeasance, kids beating the hell out of other kids (or a teacher) so they can put it on You Tube, teachers having sex with students, etc. We can even have an inexperienced, silver tounged socialist who for years attended a “church” ministered by a loon and a racist, run for President.
I believe most of our problems in the country are due to moral decay the the rise and acceptance of narcissism.
Silda is definitely Not Guilty.
Got right back to "the business" of doing,with other women, what he said he didn't do with "that woman".
The public wasn’t hit with a cold wet fish in the face. They were leaked little bits of the “investigation”/scandal by the Clintonistas.
If it had come out day one (or after the first denial) that there was a dress, taped phone calls, bribes, and pressure to lie under oath for the boss, he’d be cooked.
It was a slow drip scandal. Often leaked on a Friday.
She’s a pretty and elegant-looking woman. She could have done a lot better.
It's really a vicious circle...keep in mind that people voted for him as our nation's standard bearer....twice. People wanted the bar lowered, and elected just the guy to do it.
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