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.
Comment by maggie katzen on 3/10 @ 12:46 pm #
is it a gay prostitution ring? otherwise, DON’T CARE!
Comment by sashal on 3/10 @ 12:49 pm #
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?
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 12:51 pm #
But, well . . . it’s illegal, and I seem to recall his being State’s Attorney General.
Comment by Enoch_Root on 3/10 @ 12:54 pm #
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.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 3/10 @ 12:55 pm #
DId the AP play name that party?
Comment by Mr. B on 3/10 @ 12:56 pm #
Because of the Patriarchy?
Comment by Robert on 3/10 @ 12:57 pm #
Why do they call it a prostitution ring?
Because it’s time to circle the wagons, boys!
ROVE YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!
Comment by Pablo on 3/10 @ 12:59 pm #
Holy shit. Fox says he’s resigning.
Comment by Enoch_Root on 3/10 @ 12:59 pm #
i think theyll prob pin it to teh warming and all… in addition to the ph2oarmaceutical industry
Comment by Techie on 3/10 @ 1:01 pm #
MSNBC is reporting, I think, that the Feds stumbled upon this investigating the Gambinos….
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH
Comment by Pablo on 3/10 @ 1:01 pm #
Yep, 8 years worth.
Comment by Belvedere jones on 3/10 @ 1:10 pm #
Fox: “expected” to resign/
Comment by LionDude on 3/10 @ 1:10 pm #
Gavin Newsome is going to need some street cred like this if he really wants to make a serious CA gubernatorial run.
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
Comment by Karl on 3/10 @ 1:14 pm #
Hey, TIME got it half-right.
Comment by Drumwaster on 3/10 @ 1:18 pm #
He has now resigned. Blind black man to take over. Chickens roosting comfortably.
Comment by sashal on 3/10 @ 1:19 pm #
btw, watch for the WS workers dancing on the streets
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 3/10 @ 1:21 pm #
well, one super delegate less for Hillary.
At least she still has super delegate William “90 G in the Freezer” Jefferson’s support!
Comment by Pablo on 3/10 @ 1:22 pm #
No resignation, but they’re now suggesting he’s been indicted.
Comment by bergerbilder on 3/10 @ 1:32 pm #
AP won’t say Spitzer’s a democrat, only that his nemesis is republican.
Comment by sashal on 3/10 @ 1:35 pm #
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 ?
Comment by Drumwaster on 3/10 @ 1:36 pm #
I take that back. Lawyers sure do know how to parse the language, don’t they?
Comment by Fat Man on 3/10 @ 1:36 pm #
Allah Akbar!
Comment by BJTexs on 3/10 @ 1:37 pm #
I understand that he was either client 6 or 9.
….
What?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/10 @ 1:39 pm #
Can you say “taking out the competition”? It’s one of the “public-private partnerships” the Dems are so happy to announce!
Comment by Timstigator on 3/10 @ 1:39 pm #
Whose $5500 was it? Not on his salary.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 3/10 @ 1:42 pm #
“#
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”.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/10 @ 1:42 pm #
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.
Comment by Percy Dovetonsils on 3/10 @ 1:43 pm #
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.”)
Comment by Techie on 3/10 @ 1:44 pm #
He is not a number! He is a free man!
Comment by irongrampa on 3/10 @ 1:45 pm #
I feel so bad for his wife and 3 children. What an incredible putz this moron is!
Comment by Percy Dovetonsils on 3/10 @ 1:49 pm #
So… Spitzer or swallows?
Comment by Jim in KC on 3/10 @ 1:54 pm #
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.)
Comment by BJTexs on 3/10 @ 1:57 pm #
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…
Comment by Bill Clinton on 3/10 @ 2:08 pm #
Way to go!! Do you have phone numbers? Do you need some?? Need a cigar?? What does impeachment mean anyway?? Thanks Bill
Comment by Pablo on 3/10 @ 2:10 pm #
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.
Comment by mojo on 3/10 @ 2:11 pm #
BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!!
Hey, somebody hadda say it.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/10 @ 2:11 pm #
Well, that’s one more scratched off the old Democratic VP list…
Comment by Enoch_Root on 3/10 @ 2:14 pm #
He’s Gay?
Comment by Mwalimu Daudi on 3/10 @ 2:16 pm #
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.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 2:18 pm #
He was thinking with his dick. He loved the romance of his double life. He was drunk with philauty.
Comment by Bill Clinton on 3/10 @ 2:18 pm #
It’s not sex because I SAID SO!! Bill
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 3/10 @ 2:21 pm #
Comment by BJTexs on 3/10 @ 1:37 pm #
Number 9
Comment by JD on 3/10 @ 2:24 pm #
This is so funny, on so many levels.
Comment by kelly on 3/10 @ 2:31 pm #
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.
Comment by sashal on 3/10 @ 2:31 pm #
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…
Comment by MC on 3/10 @ 2:32 pm #
H
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 2:34 pm #
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.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/10 @ 2:39 pm #
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.
Comment by BJTexs on 3/10 @ 2:42 pm #
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…
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 2:42 pm #
True, hf.
There’s something very unegalitarian about that.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 2:43 pm #
BJ, I think Mr. Sharpener is going to get shivved by one of those Wall Streeters in da joynt.
Comment by Divine Brown on 3/10 @ 2:45 pm #
Well, it could have been worse. He could have been identified as “client 69″.
Comment by BJTexs on 3/10 @ 2:46 pm #
“Hey, Spitzer! I got your IPO right heeya!!!
Comment by Mwalimu Daudi on 3/10 @ 2:49 pm #
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….)
Comment by sashal on 3/10 @ 2:49 pm #
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….)
Comment by mojo on 3/10 @ 2:56 pm #
Hay, at 5 grand a pop there better be some serious talent on hand, know what I mean?
Comment by Timstigator on 3/10 @ 2:58 pm #
But $5500 an hour??? I mean, that’s some wad to blow.
Comment by kelly on 3/10 @ 2:59 pm #
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.
Comment by kelly on 3/10 @ 3:04 pm #
$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.
Comment by psycho... on 3/10 @ 3:06 pm #
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.
Comment by BJTexs on 3/10 @ 3:07 pm #
Allah reports from Radar that Hillary’s tech minions have already scrubbed bleachy clean any and all references to Elliot the Spitzer.
Heh!
Comment by TmjUtah on 3/10 @ 3:10 pm #
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.
Comment by Jim in KC on 3/10 @ 3:11 pm #
I mean merely by their operating characteristics, not their outcomes, psycho…
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 3:11 pm #
Agreed, psycho. The difference between whores and politicians is that whores put out.
Comment by Pablo on 3/10 @ 3:12 pm #
Dude!
Aaaaaahahahahahahaaaa!
Comment by BJTexs on 3/10 @ 3:12 pm #
…and politicians take out.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 3/10 @ 3:13 pm #
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.
Comment by Trojan Man on 3/10 @ 3:14 pm #
10:1 the real news is who was paying for the girl.
Comment by Ric Locke on 3/10 @ 3:15 pm #
Had to do this one.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by BJTexs on 3/10 @ 3:15 pm #
Kos and HuffPo commentators calling this “no big deal” and “right wimd noise machine” in 3 … 2 … 1 …
Comment by Ric Locke on 3/10 @ 3:15 pm #
Too slow on the draw.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Ric Locke on 3/10 @ 3:19 pm #
Nononono, BJ.
“It’s only sex! Winger prudes!”
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 3:21 pm #
Wait, Ric. What do you mean “had to do” and “too slow on draw”?
Comment by sashal on 3/10 @ 3:22 pm #
pablo, in regards to #66.
Some people think, that personal indiscretaion do not matter in fight for the right policies
Comment by TmjUtah on 3/10 @ 3:22 pm #
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?
Comment by sashal on 3/10 @ 3:23 pm #
http://www.redstate.com/stories/culture/two_cheers_for_the_hypocrites>forgot the link
Comment by Pablo on 3/10 @ 3:24 pm #
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 N. O'Brain on 3/10 @ 3:24 pm #
“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!’”
Comment by Ric Locke on 3/10 @ 3:25 pm #
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
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 3:27 pm #
Ah!
Comment by BJTexs on 3/10 @ 3:29 pm #
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. :-)
Comment by Merovign on 3/10 @ 3:41 pm #
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.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 3:44 pm #
Yeah, Merovign. Kinda reminds me of the victimage of the phone sex women.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/10 @ 3:57 pm #
His wife is nice-looking. Not that it matters.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/10 @ 4:03 pm #
Um…ouch.
Comment by Ric Locke on 3/10 @ 4:13 pm #
BTW, not nearly OT enough:
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/10 @ 4:23 pm #
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.
Comment by Ric Locke on 3/10 @ 4:30 pm #
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
Comment by Darleen on 3/10 @ 4:40 pm #
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
Comment by Jeffersonian on 3/10 @ 4:40 pm #
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.
Comment by Carin on 3/10 @ 4:52 pm #
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.
Comment by Timstigator on 3/10 @ 5:02 pm #
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.
Comment by Jeff G. on 3/10 @ 5:23 pm #
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.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/10 @ 5:29 pm #
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…
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/10 @ 5:32 pm #
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?
Comment by daleyrocks on 3/10 @ 5:44 pm #
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.
Comment by kelly on 3/10 @ 5:46 pm #
This really made my day. Really.
Comment by jim warren on 3/10 @ 6:06 pm #
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.
Comment by Brett on 3/10 @ 6:08 pm #
Still no resignation, which should have been the first news we had of this situation. Have Democrats no honor?
Comment by Jeffersonian on 3/10 @ 6:16 pm #
After Gerry Studds was censured for drilling an underage male Congressional page, he was given standing ovations by supporters. Honor?
Comment by guinsPen on 3/10 @ 6:23 pm #
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.
Comment by Darleen on 3/10 @ 6:34 pm #
I just want to know who made the call requesting that particular bordello be investigated
ABC
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/10 @ 6:40 pm #
You’re also less likely to catch something nasty or be arrested when dealing with a whore.
Comment by alppuccino on 3/10 @ 6:45 pm #
My sympathies to his family.
Why? Did they like him?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 3/10 @ 6:50 pm #
The difference between whores and politicians is that whores stay bought.
Comment by Merovign on 3/10 @ 6:55 pm #
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.
Comment by Mcgruder on 3/10 @ 6:57 pm #
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.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/10 @ 7:00 pm #
Bravo, McGruder.
Comment by SGT Ted on 3/10 @ 10:26 pm #
I sure am glad that the Democrats are cleaning up that culture of corruption.
Comment by Timstigator on 3/10 @ 10:33 pm #
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.
Comment by JD on 3/10 @ 10:36 pm #
When the gleeeeeeens were writing in their normal breathlessly moralizing tone, while knobbing off Spritzer, I would if they swallowed, spit, or dodged?
Comment by Donald on 3/11 @ 4:55 am #
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.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/11 @ 7:42 am #
#89 Ric – I was agreeing with you. I wasn’t saying you were incorect, just that a person starts wrong and keeps getting wronger.
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