I mean, no one would have blinked an eye if it were Uncle Mario. Heck, if it had been him, the whole thing would never have come to light.
2008-03-10
Caught with his pants down
When I first read the news article about the $5500/hour prostitution ring, I thought to myself, "Who has that kind of money to spend on hookers?" And I thought I knew the answer: big-cheese corporate executives and slimy stockbrokers, who make tons of money at the expense of shareholders and consumers, and get extra perks by fraud and deceptive business practices. And I'm sure those guys did make use of this particular service, but guess who's the first person to go public about it? Our knight in tarnished armor, Eliot Spitzer, who made his career, all the way to the CEO of the Empire State, on being the righteous crusader who brought those bad guys to justice.
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Well, heck. At least it was straight sex. Unlike our gay Republicans.
Nah, see, it all fits the same way. Your average Republican/fundamentalist has been railing against the degradation of family values and how homosexuals are destroying this nation's morality. Then they get caught soliciting gay sex in airport bathrooms.
Spitzer has been railing against crime and corruption and how corrupt and unethical business and politicians are destroying New York. Then he gets caught paying big bucks to a prostitution ring.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
I totally agree. I just wanted an excuse to say "Gay Republicans".
Gay Republicans! Gay Republicans!
Normally, Spitzer's little mis-appropriation of his children's inheritance would be a total non-issue for me -- victimless crime, etc. -- but the hypocrisy of doing the very thing that you've preached against makes me throw up just a little bit, and on that level I say throw him to the dogs.
For example, you'll never hear me going on about doughnuts or how people who eat them are ruining America (even though . . . admit it . . . they are).
I noticed the young working gal's picture's been plastered all over the news outlets. But hey? I don't remember the Reverend Haggart's prostitute being splashed all over the papers. Wonder why?
5k is a good day rate. :)
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