Via AoS, NY Governor Elliot Spitzer huddles with his staff to impart the news that he’s involved with a prostitution ring. Bwahahahahahaha!
Hmmmmmm. I wonder why they always refer to it as a “ring.”
UPDATE: Bwahahahahahahaha!!1!!!! I haven’t grinned this way since I found out about Gunter Grass’s Nazi past.
is it a gay prostitution ring? otherwise, DON’T CARE!
hahaha,
He richly deserves the consequences.
Was he fighting the prostitution mafia some years ago?
How about Wall Street, will he lay off of them now?
But, well . . . it’s illegal, and I seem to recall his being State’s Attorney General.
details, details, dan… but it does explain how the limousine liberals afford their rock n roll lifestyles while taxing the fuck out of the rest of us.
DId the AP play name that party?
Because of the Patriarchy?
Why do they call it a prostitution ring?
Because it’s time to circle the wagons, boys!
ROVE YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!
Holy shit. Fox says he’s resigning.
i think theyll prob pin it to teh warming and all… in addition to the ph2oarmaceutical industry
MSNBC is reporting, I think, that the Feds stumbled upon this investigating the Gambinos….
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH
Yep, 8 years worth.
Fox: “expected” to resign/
Gavin Newsome is going to need some street cred like this if he really wants to make a serious CA gubernatorial run.
well, one super delegate less for Hillary.
Out of curiosity, how much the governor is paid?
That service was $5,500 an hour
Hey, TIME got it half-right.
He has now resigned. Blind black man to take over. Chickens roosting comfortably.
btw, watch for the WS workers dancing on the streets
well, one super delegate less for Hillary.
At least she still has super delegate William “90 G in the Freezer” Jefferson’s support!
No resignation, but they’re now suggesting he’s been indicted.
AP won’t say Spitzer’s a democrat, only that his nemesis is republican.
I personally think prostitution should be legal, health services and police has to supervise.
As far as Spitzer is concerned , may be if his own wife forgives him and he goes into sex rehab center for a month then we won’t make a big deal out of it ?
I take that back. Lawyers sure do know how to parse the language, don’t they?
Allah Akbar!
I understand that he was either client 6 or 9.
….
What?
Can you say “taking out the competition”? It’s one of the “public-private partnerships” the Dems are so happy to announce!
Whose $5500 was it? Not on his salary.
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Comment by sashal on 3/10 @ 1:12 pm #
well, one super delegate less for Hillary.
Out of curiosity, how much the governor is paid?
That service was $5,500 an hour”
There is, however, a 10% discount on the “Abu Gharib Special”.
What was the guy thinking? If he wanted to get into a sweet Presidential appointment, the security clearance might just turn up something like that.
This is some rich, creamy schaudenfreude I’m enjoying over here.
(Actually, looking at a picture of ol’ Eliot, I can see why he has to pay for “it.”)
He is not a number! He is a free man!
I feel so bad for his wife and 3 children. What an incredible putz this moron is!
So… Spitzer or swallows?
Officially or unofficially? Or, as someone else noted, maybe he was being remunerated in services for taking out the competition.
Anyway, it’s kind of stupid. There’s no reason why prostitution shouldn’t be completely legal.
(Prostitution in the classical sense, I mean, not things that are indistinguishable from prostitution, such as politics.)
Was anybody else left less than satisfied with that somewhat self serving “apology?” What is it about so many “progressive” politicians that they feel the need to remind everyone about their “progressive programs” and “real change” just before apologizing for a “personal matter” that “doen’t meet my own standards” while never actually mentioning that the “personal matter” involves a frackin’ federal organized crime probe?!
I need to find me a paper bag…
Way to go!! Do you have phone numbers? Do you need some?? Need a cigar?? What does impeachment mean anyway?? Thanks Bill
Spitzer comes from gobs of money. His salary is irrelevant. What is relevant is his posture as Mr. Ethical Super Law and Order Anti-Corruption Guy. Reminds me of our Most Ethical Congress Ever.
BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!!
Hey, somebody hadda say it.
Well, that’s one more scratched off the old Democratic VP list…
He’s Gay?
What was the guy thinking? If he wanted to get into a sweet Presidential appointment, the security clearance might just turn up something like that.
Spitzer was probably thinking that in the afterglow of a Clinton or Obama victory any investigation would get squashed.
He was thinking with his dick. He loved the romance of his double life. He was drunk with philauty.
It’s not sex because I SAID SO!! Bill
Comment by BJTexs on 3/10 @ 1:37 pm #
Number 9
This is so funny, on so many levels.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving dick. Something tells me Hank Greenberg is laughing his ass off while he selects just the right vintage of Crystal and pops the cork.
Dan, now Spitzer’s wife can ask Hillary’s advice on how to deal with it. Undoubtedly and unquestionably and regardless of the dubious 3 a.m. ad, HC has plenty of experience here, multitude of thresholds achieved…
H
3 am ad. Hahahaha. Whom do you want answering the phone when Billy Jeff’s picked up in a whorehouse sweep?
Personally, I hope it’s Hillary.
This limits his options going forward I think, but his best work seemed like it was way, way behind him anyway really. This scandal doesn’t detract I don’t think from his legacy with respect to expanding the fascist ambitions of district attorneys everywhere. But what’s interesting is that a lot of people probably didn’t realize the extent to which the two Americas have entirely separate whores what they call.
Show of hands: How many of you think that, with all of the enemies he has made with his high profile corruption probes and sanctimonious self promotion, dozens of powerful people will be coming out of the woodwork to stand by him in his hour of need?
**crickets**
Thought so…
True, hf.
There’s something very unegalitarian about that.
BJ, I think Mr. Sharpener is going to get shivved by one of those Wall Streeters in da joynt.
Well, it could have been worse. He could have been identified as “client 69”.
“Hey, Spitzer! I got your IPO right heeya!!!
Q: Where am I?
A: In the Village.
Q: What do you want?
A: Information.
Q: Whose side are you on?
A: That would be telling…. We want information. Information! INFORMATION!
Q: You won’t get it.
A: By hook or by crook, we will.
Q: Who are you?
A: The new Number Two.
Q: Who is Number One?
A: (after a pause) You are Number Nine.”
Q: I am not a number  I AM THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK. YOU WILL BE INVESTIGATED AND INDICTED. RESISTENCE IS FUTILE.
A: (laughter….)
hf, they belong to the world’s two oldest professions-Spitzer and the girls, that’s why pols and prostitutes got caught together so often, can’t resist that inherent mutual attraction.
btw, have you seen pics of those hookers?
I’d like to hit that…(sorry , honey, many kisses….)
Hay, at 5 grand a pop there better be some serious talent on hand, know what I mean?
But $5500 an hour??? I mean, that’s some wad to blow.
Allah has posted some of the transcript of the taped conversations between the call girls. Client 9 apparently wanted himself some different kind of action referred to (between the girls) as “unsafe.” Client 9 also could be “difficult.”
Ana Marie Cox is unavailable for comment just yet.
$5,500 an hour is fairly steep. I’ve seen some high-priced ones in Vegas (never partook) but I think the going rate for even the ultra hot ones goes about a thou/night.
Hey now.
Until we find a few hundred million corpses stuffed behind some brothel’s FICKEN MACHT FREI headboards, that’s just gratuitously insulting to whores.
Prostitution is shamed by its (very close (very, very close)) association with politics, not vice versa.
Allah reports from Radar that Hillary’s tech minions have already scrubbed bleachy clean any and all references to Elliot the Spitzer.
Heh!
If these revelations were just incidental to a Federal investigation, I would imagine that in the not too distant future he’s going to remember $5500 an hour for services rendered as a steal…
Lawyers. Always on top, and not a pillow mint to be had.
I mean merely by their operating characteristics, not their outcomes, psycho…
Agreed, psycho. The difference between whores and politicians is that whores put out.
Dude!
Aaaaaahahahahahahaaaa!
…and politicians take out.
Slartibartfast: What was the guy thinking?
He was obviously letting the little head do the big head’s thinking. What a waste. My sympathies to his family.
10:1 the real news is who was paying for the girl.
Had to do this one.
Regards,
Ric
Kos and HuffPo commentators calling this “no big deal” and “right wimd noise machine” in 3 … 2 … 1 …
Too slow on the draw.
Regards,
Ric
Nononono, BJ.
“It’s only sex! Winger prudes!”
Regards,
Ric
Wait, Ric. What do you mean “had to do” and “too slow on draw”?
pablo, in regards to #66.
Some people think, that personal indiscretaion do not matter in fight for the right policies
I’m not going to link, but second comment on the HuffPo Spitzer thread relativizes the offense to “rethuglican” episodes.
Some targets are too big too miss, eh?
http://www.redstate.com/stories/culture/two_cheers_for_the_hypocrites>forgot the link
Sashal, some people think that personal indiscretions only matter if there’s an R after your name. That place is lousy with them. I remain amused.
“Comment by TmjUtah on 3/10 @ 3:10 pm #
If these revelations were just incidental to a Federal investigation, Lawyers. Always on top, and not a pillow mint to be had.”
In his biography, that’s why he said he became a lawyer.
“On his deathbed, Dad told ‘Never fuck up!'”
I was trying to get comment #69, Dan.
TrojanMan managed it instead, which I thought appropriate but still had to express my disappointment.
Regards,
Ric
Ah!
You’re right, Ric, but I’m keeping my “right wing noise machine” and adding “hypocrites!!!” to go with the prude meme.
My condolances for your loss. :-)
I was just thinking that, frankly, there’s not really anything I could do that would get me $5500 an hour.
I mean, most people could work one hour a month at that rate. Two hours and you’re golden. 3 hours – there’s your retirement plan.
Dayamn.
Yeah, Merovign. Kinda reminds me of the victimage of the phone sex women.
His wife is nice-looking. Not that it matters.
Um…ouch.
BTW, not nearly OT enough:
Regards,
Ric
Incorrect first premises, Ric. You start wrong, and each conclusion builds on the incorrect initial starting point. You go from who dropped two skyscrapers to…God alone knows where.
Well, Mikey, that’s exactly how you generate a fractal, so the comment stands.
And anyway, I’m really just passing it on. Follow the link. If you have much knowledge of IT, it will have you alternately laughing and cursing.
Regards,
Ric
been gone all this morning, so I’m catching up.
The comments in the thread at Mandy’s Panda Place are hilarious!
aren’t “progressives” some of the most loving, tolerant peoples?
heh
This is the sort of situation the word “schadenfreude” was invented for. What fun it will be to watch this opportunistic, self-aggrandizing little fuck keel-hauled.
I was over at Huffpo reading the comments … funny, but expected, reponses.
Don’t care.
Rethuglians do it too.
He was set up by Bush.
Yada yada yada.
Follow the money. I agree; that’s where the real story is. If he was caught with a $300 hooker nobody would be thinking it was taxpayer money.
I got twenty bucks says he dressed up like Bo Peep and asked to have one of them big curved staffs planted in his undercarriage.
I don’t think he was using tax payer money. I think it’s more likely he was getting a discount rate from the Sicilians in exchange for some favors. Maybe the first time he paid the full rate, but from then on, I imagine he had a “frequent flyer” discount.
And I’d be looking into some of his prosecutions, too. What an ingenious way to take out some competition, with none of the fuss and bad press of a gang war — have a prosecutor in your pocket. As icing on the cake, any time somebody gets close, he can let you know, and you can swap out the big guys for someone small and out of favor, let the government take them out…
Or, Spitzer’s just an idiot with an inability to keep it in his pants and the arrogance to think he’d never be caught/punished. Occam says this is the reality, but, man…
I’d bet on diapers. Or maybe the kind of thing you mainly find in German films involving glass tables. (And Cartman’s mother)
But if it is Bo Peep and the staff — which end went in?
He’s going to be able to claim he was doing all sorts of different “research” with these hookers to benefit the people of the Great State of New York, of which he just happens to be one, don’t you damn forget.
This really made my day. Really.
I just want to know who made the call requesting that particular bordello be investigated. I’m confident that call was made with the knowledge that our friend Elliot was a client, and the intent of bringing him down. Folks, the man who made that call, whoever he is, is the true Governor of New York.
Still no resignation, which should have been the first news we had of this situation. Have Democrats no honor?
After Gerry Studds was censured for drilling an underage male Congressional page, he was given standing ovations by supporters. Honor?
The difference between whores and politicians is that whores put out.
That, and only a fraction of whores try to steal your wallet when you’re not looking.
I just want to know who made the call requesting that particular bordello be investigated
ABC
You’re also less likely to catch something nasty or be arrested when dealing with a whore.
My sympathies to his family.
Why? Did they like him?
The difference between whores and politicians is that whores stay bought.
Pfffft. That’s funny.
The Dems are rapidly becoming self-parodying. You don’t need to mock them, just quote them.
Mind you, the mocking will continue, ’cause hey, it’s fun.
As an investigative reporter, i was always a little gobsmacked by the operation AG Spitzer ran. I mean, every elected official leaks–but these guys took it to some level that no reporter i know (and I mean no one) had ever seen–documents that had hardly been entered into evidence, strategy, everything. I mean, it is difficult to embellish how completely and utterly ruthless they were in using public means to utterly and completely crush the AGs targets. Their opponents, who were on the defensive to begin and were constrained by what they could say, were put back on their heels, usually to stay.
I wont lie to you and pretend other “public servants” dont do something like this (Rove largely perfected it), but not as an operating methodology. Nor will I pretend that I was not the benefit of this largesse, or that I did not use some of what was leaked.
I am proudest of having stood against the AG’s operation in two very high-profile cases, both of which brought heated angry phone calls to me and my boss–and “the penalty box” wherein the doc flow was cut off–, not that my stand made me all that popular among my editors.
I guess, in hindsight, I can see a pattern of professional recklessness that spoke to personal flaws. Although, no one I know saw this angle coming.
Bravo, McGruder.
I sure am glad that the Democrats are cleaning up that culture of corruption.
Driving back from my 12 year-old’s hoops victory, I had on talk radio discussing Spitzer. A caller who said he worked for Obama’s campaign basically said there is no big deal, and that liberals “don’t eat their own as you guys do” and that “they understand everyone has sexual activities” that should be overlooked no matter what. I just about flipped the car over.
I must be a prude.
When the gleeeeeeens were writing in their normal breathlessly moralizing tone, while knobbing off Spritzer, I would if they swallowed, spit, or dodged?
Don’t anybody feel sorry for his wife. The kids, sure. She is a sanctimonious piece of shit in her own right and has been right behind this asshole supporting his class warfare “struggle” the whole frickin way. After all, she’s an attorney.
#89 Ric – I was agreeing with you. I wasn’t saying you were incorect, just that a person starts wrong and keeps getting wronger.