Radar magazine’s “Fresh Intelligence” blog obtains expert advice on the Spitzer scandal from… former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss: “It’s so easy not to not get caught,” reformed Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss tells Radar, adding that she provided service to many a well known politician her day. “I saw many famous people—more famous than Eliot Spitzer—and you know what, you pay people right, you treat them right, you don’t have a problem.”

To people like FDL’s Christy Hardin Smith, the fact that law enforcement officials gave the media the background of the Spitzer investigation — particularly that it arose from Spitzer’s suspicious financial transactions, not some politically-motivated witch hunt into Spitzer’s sex life — is of course evidence of a politically-motivated witch hunt: If this is a government source for these reports, that says to me that someone wants this story out

Clinton, Obama prepare for long, hard slog in Pennsylvania

At Harper’s, Scott Horton has his Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy mojo workin’: It looks like the Bush Justice Department just bagged themselves another Democratic Governor. *** …According to ABC, the whole investigation of the prostitution ring itself was triggered by an investigation of Spitzer. He then selectively quotes from the ABC News account, which refutes his conspiracy theory: The federal investigation of a New York prostitution ring was triggered by Gov.

It’s the politically motivated prosecution!!!1!!eleventy! The suspicious financial activity was initially reported by a bank to the IRS which, under direction from the Justice Department, brought in the FBI’s Public Corruption Squad. “We had no interest at all in the prostitution ring until the thing with Spitzer led us to learn about it,” said one Justice Department official. C’mon, man.  Get with the real story here.  Do you think that

New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt and TNR’s volunteer flack for Barack Obama, Noam Scheiber, have weighed in with their takes on whether the media has gone easy on Obama and whether the media is getting tougher now. Hoyt limits his analysis to the NYT’s coverage of Obama, concluding that the paper “has not been systematically biased in its news coverage, even if it has occasionally given ammunition to those who

On Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution charges.  “But Monkey“: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes? Regarding all of the breathless moralizing from all sides over the “reprehensible,” outrageous crimes of Eliot Spitzer: are there actually many people left who care if an adult who isn’t their spouse hires prostitutes? Are there really people left who think that doing so should be a crime, that adults who hire other consenting adults for sex

Eliot Spitzer at Daily Kos:  I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the netroots community on a successful weekend in Chicago . . .  h/t Pablo 

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.

Via NRO via Hot Air: In a 2004 interview with the Chicago Tribune, Michelle observed: “What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first. … And, for women, me is fourth, and that’s not healthy.” This is not a radical observation: Get a half-dozen gals together with a few bottles of Beaujolais, and a similar