Thanks for the link to the article on faithfulness.

Reminds me of something humorous that Martin Amis wrote about men in general.  We don’t take responsibility for anything. 

I caught a few minutes of Spitzer and Parker last night.  Right now, he’s got bigger problems.

He doesn’t deserve his fate.  They had on three young CNN lightweights to comment on the issues of the day.  A bald comedian, a sports reporter (huh?) and some other forgettable person.  They all mouthed the tired views of the common crapola that everyone is saying all over the networks and all over the cable shows.

Spitzer’s a heavyeight.  He needs to be on a show that’ll allow him to speak his mind, not play Mickey the Dunce to these mild mannered media boys who are willing to leap over tall buildings in a single bound to maintain their shallow jobs.

Rehabilitaion?

Why rehabilitate a guy with the hormone level, the power, and the right frame of justice. 

They screwed us. He screwed a prostitute.

Let’s see:  Us versus them and their prurient interests.

I give it to Eliot.

By the way: Why do Chinese give their ABC children Vicotriarian names, and why do arriviste Jews give their children anglo names?

I was named after my dead great uncle.  I hated the name but it stuck.

That’s why the African Americans have it on us.  Theyve got courage and boldness.

Floyd Patterson, the heavyweight champion of the world in the 60s, said he named his daugther Seneca because he was walking down a street in NYC, looked up and saw Seneca Avenue. 

You’ve got to have sex.
All you really need is sex.
Yes, the home and chauffeur might be
might be quite the show de fleur,
but what you really need is sex.

Needs some work.

Hillary Fealty always astonishes me. She and Obama are two peas ina pod.

Although a couple of people brought up the Hillary campaign connection, I am surprised no one has brought up the more relevant issue.

In February 2008, Spitzer testified to Congress on economic matters - and all but predicted the meltdown that occurred beginning in September.  He even spoke of the imminent dangers of the “subprime mortgages.” Spitzer’s prescience was too dangerous for those who stood to gain from what was occurring, and what would occur.

Yes, he was a hypocrite for going after prostitution rings while availing himself of the service of prostitutes.  But that info had been known for some time prior.  The “powers that be” were simply waiting for the optimal moment to use it.  And they got a one-two punch: shutting him down as a voice against the coming economic debacle, and adversely affecting Hillary’s campaign.

Okay, times up, he’s rehabilitated.

Now Obama should put his fire and relentlessness to work having Spitzer investigate the mortgage meltdown, before the statute of limitations runs out.

Or perhaps the plan all along was to let it run out.

Ifr Obama wants to put some real fear into Wall Street, turn this attack dog loose on them.

By David Ehrenstein, November 8 at 11:37 pm Link to this comment

(blush!)

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I meant it. 

And have I told you, I also sell shoes and women’s wear.

After this, no ankle length black socks.

Call us at 1-888-281-APPLE.

(blush!)

It should also be noted that Nelson Rockefeller said in his 1968 campaign for President of the United States, “Take the average American, making $100,000 a year…”

I wish there were more David Ehrensteins with more timely refutations of these puerile pieces of disinformation.  That is how these right wing ad men make their bones.

The difference is that Nelson Rockefeller died. And from the looks of Megan Marashack (who was not it should be noted a hooker) he did so with a smile on his face.

Thanks, Mr Ehrenstein,

I never did get the point of black socks, other than it painted a picture. 

Disinformation:  A high brow, socially constricted Jew wanting to act like a common slob.

But then again, how do you know?  Where you there?  Do you you have pictures?  The prurient want to know.

I still like Eliot Spitzer.  I want him to get his revenge.  I think he’s sttling for less at the moment.  CNN is barbershop tv.

My feeling is that these people, the wealthy who Spitzer prosecuted, are disgusting.

As far as I’m concerned, anything goes in their downfall.  As David Boies pointed out after Gore V. Bush, 2000: These people will do anything to gain and maintain power.

The truth is just the start.  And I thank you Mr Ehrenstein.

Am I in an alternate universe or do I remember correctly that Nelson Rockefeller had a heart attack while in bed with a hooker who immediately called her Madam?  Now, what is the difference between the Rockefellers and the Spitzers?

As the film pointedly discloses the “black ankle socks” story was lie, promoted by Republican operatives.

Thanks for admitting you don’t like Eliot Spitzer,
although it was obvious from your review.  Yes, of
course Spitzer was arrogant, abrasive, and friendless
in the power elite, but he was a truthteller in an
arena where there are few, and balls are scarce.  I
would have tnought Truthdig would be the first to
recognize that.

Thank you Anarcissie.  Revealing and thought provoking.

What’s the matter with these people? 

A blow job here. A hand job there. Fucking with black ankle socks.  Pretty soon the whole Kingdom.

What could be worse?

Paying thousands of dollars for a hooker is scarcely a “low-life sexual redilection”

Men, regardless of stature, go to prostitutes for one reason - sex without committments and Spitzer was no different.  However, I would not relegate Spitzer to a miscreant role for what is a personal flaw, not a business one.

Spitzer was still the scourge of Wall Street goons and he predicted the Lehman Brothers fiasco.  He is a relentless fighter against greed and it does nothing but benefit America.  We need Sptizer in Government, not talking about it.

His only faults are his Zionistic attitude toward Israel’s occupation, blockade and genocide of the Palestinians and his approval of tons of money being spent on electoral campaigns.  So, I would put him where he belongs, out of politics and out of international dealings - under Eric Holder in the US Attorney Generals office.

when looked at from the world of myth, where hubris dwells….i can almost hear the siren call….Eliot…Eliot….the hero who could perhaps have put a real dent on the financial meltdown….taken on the banks..maybe even stopped the swindle….he was in the way.  Take him out, the forces of greed called from the darkness ...Eliot…Eliot…she seduced…and down he went…..This is the stuff of tragedy, Mr. Schickel…Ours.

Several years ago I did website work for a group of professional dominatrixes and got to know them and some of their clients (the latter at a distance, of course) and the ways of the curious country they inhabit.  I can assure you all that the behavior associated with Spitzer is not at all ‘low-life’ in a class or nouveau-riche sense.  The odd thing about the Spitzer story is that, although a cop type, he didn’t know how to protect himself from exposure.  There are so many cases of politicians doing themselves in in this manner that I have to wonder if there isn’t some kind of common drive toward exhibitionistic self-destruction present in politicians (as in many other entertainers).

When there is absolute transparency in the Government’s dealings, which includes all the elected representatives, then, and only then, will we start to like and respect them.

Even though Spitzer cheated on his wife and bows down to Israel, I still love the man as a politician. I will likely continue to believe that his financial records were illegally obtained and led to the outing of his visits to prostitutes. I would rather have bold leaders with human desires and passions that they sometimes give in to than be led by monks, celibate or otherwise.

Commenter Franz Biberkopf (of Berlin,
Alexanderplatz literary repute) has it exactly
right: what does it matter with whom or how Spitzer
is intimate with? Who the hell, except perhaps Mrs. Clinton, should care (and
why) what Bill Clinton did with his weenie?

Were not a majority of our American citizenry
blinded by a medieval puritanism (not of deed, but
of thought), were we not deathly afraid of the religious proscription of sex for
fun and sometimes profit, we’d not use the word
fuck as a pejorative, but a compliment. And we’d
not give a damn what other folks do for enjoyment.

“The Washington Post, controlled by Rohatyn-Lazard, “signalled” in a piece this morning that Senator Clinton and former President Bill Clinton should be asked repeatedly, while campaigning, about the Spitzer case. The Post spewed its venom on Clinton by presenting the Spitzer as a “bad-luck charm” for her.”

Thanks. I love that kind of news now that I have become familiar with who these palyers are. 

Felix Rohatyn was the money man from Lazard Frere who squeezed NYC went it went it bankrups in the 70s, making a pantload.

When the Spitzer story broke, I felt like I did when the MOnica Lewinsky shit hit the fan.  I didn’t believe it at first.  I thought it was just news media whack job. 

Well, he and Bill might’ve gotten their wicks wet in an unnacceptable orifice, but so what.  I liked Clinton’s response to the questioning, “It all depends on what is is?

The legal subtext of that is, “Fuck you and the horse you rode in on!”

Men use prostitutes because they know their price ahead
of time.  And, of course, Spitzer suffers from a full-
blown case of narcissism, a trance-like state
insulating one against worthlessness. 

The political world is filled with narcissists and
prostitutes - after all, to please and do another’s
will is prostitution.  Spitzer is merely one more case
that makes the point.

i think it a low-life predilection not to resist
smirking about a man’s public humiliation.

“Spitzer Was Hit Just After Confirming Support For Clinton

March 12, 2008 (LPAC [LaRouche Political Action Committee])—The sting investigation and compelled resignation of New York Governor Elliot Spitzer was used, and perhaps planned, as a targetted attack on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign. On March 6, the Boston Globe (owned by the New York Times) reported it had made a nationwide survey of superdelegates to see what were the effects of the Hillary Clinton victories in the March 4 Ohio and Texas primaries. The Globe found that there was a shift to “stand pat until the primaries are over,” i.e. that the superdelegates were resisting the pressure to shift from Clinton to Barack Obama. New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who endorsed Hillary Clinton in May 2007, was one of the superdelegates the Globe reported canvassing, and he said he was holding firm for Hillary Clinton. Spitzer was the state’s leader among superdelegates, 42 of whom were for Clinton and only one for Obama.

The following day, March 7, Spitzer was notified by the FBI that he was to be brought down, and on March 8 the New York Times was given details to go with.

The Times came out with the scandal on March 10, citing a Federal administration official “with knowledge of the governor’s role” in a Federal investigation. The Times demanded Spitzer’s resignation in editorials March 11 and March 12.

The Washington Post, controlled by Rohatyn-Lazard, “signalled” in a piece this morning that Senator Clinton and former President Bill Clinton should be asked repeatedly, while campaigning, about the Spitzer case. The Post spewed its venom on Clinton by presenting the Spitzer as a “bad-luck charm” for her.”

I appreciated Spitzer more as the Attorney General.  The piece 60 minutes did on him in that job made me think that he became Governor a tad too soon.

His rehabilitation, I think, is his fitting into the mold of the Liberal playing the Palooka to some right-wing pols who relate everything to low taxes, cutting spending and ‘the American Dream’ in canned, trite, repetitive delivery.

I saw the beginning of his and Ms Parker’s interview with Gov. Rick Perry of Texas.  Spitzer tried to make small talk about Cliff Lee of the Rangers and his possible trade to the Yankees. 

Perry looked like a nasty little bastard who had just got a whiff of something foul in the air.  Spitzer, in his new role as the media personality, tried to be congenial with a forced smile as if to send a message, “See, here’s how it’s done.  You can do it too.”

Tha’t all I could stands, I couldn’t no more.

Well maybe his wife and he “swap” for all we know. The children are another
matter regarding public humiliation. Lets not forget about who brought this so-
called disgrace to light and why. That said, this man stuck his neck out to expose
the true enemies of our society. It still amazes me how the banksters and the
fraudsters are not considered the real terrorists who are destroying the nation and
maybe the world when you look at history and maybe 9/11 for that matter. IMO
this is a hit piece article that continues to smear a guy with the guts to take on the
bad and powerful. Wouldn’t it be great if Obama did the same thing especially
after all the promises made on the campaign trail regarding “change” and that
profound statement of his “no body is above the law.”. Right now I’d rather have
Spitzer as POTUS.

back when the whole spitzer ‘scandal’ broke, i remember reading that he was heading a prosecutorial office that was going after prostitution rings.  i think the word hypocrite applies here.  and like grayson, he’s reflexively deferential when it comes to israel.  i’m glad there’s someone like him out there who has the stuff to drive home a case against financial fraudsters, but a guy like william black can do the same thing…and without the baggage.

I’m in agreement with most of the posters here. Spitzer is a brilliant guy and he is doing good work. As far as I know, he did not spend public money on his private “affairs,” so he committed no crime. He should never have resigned. Apart from his family, he owes an apology to no one. Compared to Governor Sanford, Elliot Spitzer is a genius and a saint. I know conservatives who damned Spitzer and supported Sandford, because Sanford truly loved his mistress. What difference does that make to anyone but the people immediately involved? Spitzer didn’t let his exploits affect his job performance. Sanford did. Perhaps that’s why Spitzer went to a prostitute - no emotional involvement to interfere with job performance. From that point of view, given that Spitzer needed a sexual outlet, I think he found a nobler solution than Sanford. Sanford should have resigned and Spitzer should have stayed. If Spitzer ran for president, I’d probably vote for him. I’d rather see a brilliant whore monger at the helm of this nation than, say, a stupid, god-fearing, family man who denies global warming and pockets handouts from Wall Street.

Of course Mr. Spitzer should have realized that any who go after the sewage on Wall Street, need to be free of sin themselves.

In fact they need to be celibate monks who, whip themselves in penance, when ever they feel the slightest twitch, “down there”.

Because Wall Street realizes that the quickest way to discredit anyone in this country is to take their clothes off in public. To reveal any not so attractive, sexual oddities and their secret festerings.

His sexuality, was just a way to get him. Just the least expensive opition available at the time. Probably, much less expensive than a traffic accident, plane crash, or exposure to some cancer causing agent.

And now like so many Celebs, he has been to Rehab, where he can once more attain, certification to mix with the rest of us, Normies..

Sadly his wife and family, are the only people really hurt by what Mr. Spitzer did, he is lucky to have her. But this is what happens when you vote for someone you don’t really know, but know only the person they pretend to be. Yet, we all fall prey to people, who don’t deserve our trust.

Unfortunately, for her, nothing on gods green earth will ever contain Mr. Spitzers expansive need to discharge in some manner. Which all of us will be seeing in the future in many media forms.

Books, radio, T.V., and oh yes movies… I guess that makes us peeping toms doesn’t it..?

So what? If Eliot Spitzer had prostitutes and had fun playing the part of Sky Masterson, he got the goods on the bad guys. The rest is no one’s business except his wife’s. I’d swap one Eliot for a thousand Barrys any day. Seems like sour grapes or jealousy on the part of this writer. And just a tad provincial or Victorian to suggest men shouldn’t have a hooker on the side now and then. Variety is the spice of life, after all.

I thought this was a “film review.” Instead it is a platform for the author to grouse about Spitzer - his   “righteous glee” and “arrogance.” Spitzer is one of the very few voices speaking truth to power. He is a breath of fresh air in a rather stale environment.

We have here another, tho partial, biography. Or even another propagation of
rugged individualism.
Alas, the region with 1k ethnicities and 100 cults—aka also as u.s., is governed
solely, according to u.s constitution, by laws.

End what is a constitution, but set of laws or in case of that of u.s, a set of
diktats? tnx

I was just thinking that.  Blood versus merit.  Let’s not forget: no matter how many generations of Harvard, neither a Jew nor an Irishman nor an Italian will EVER be accepted as the “elite”, the “gentry”.  Think Spitzer, Kennedy, Cuomo.  And I left out all the other ethnic groups.

Spitzer has his flaws and did wrong—it cost him the governship and possibly his marriage.  But unlike Sandford in SC, Spitzer STILL has one of the sharpest and most astute minds in American politics today—along with Andrew Cuomo—his counterpart, enemy, alter-ego, whatever.

Using that mind on a talk show is NOT a bad thing.

Wow. Spitzer isn’t a refined aristocrat, and that makes
him unlikeable.

That analysis tells me a lot about Richard Schickel.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com