Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Snubbing Washington's Hookers.

This Eliot Spitzer scandal is confusing me for two reasons, first of all why is it being covered so much over here when it's only a state governor involved? Finding out that someone who has styled themsleves as a 'crusading lawyer' is actually a sleazy little shit sure can't be news. From what I've read of the man this assessment by Reason's David Wiegel seems closest to the mark:
"The irony of Spitzer's scandal is that, unless we find out something far worse than what we know, this is the rare case of him not abusing power. He took some time off from a hard day of ruining careers with innuendo and novel applications of the law to buy some sex. Fine by me."
The second source of confusion is why he needed to have New York hookers brought down to the capital, why couldn't he use Washington's own prostitutes? In this age of frivolous accusations of racism I can only conclude that Spitzer's penis is racist and has discriminated against the largely black women of Washington DC in favour of white New Yorkers.

Update: Of course one thing that isn't confusing is the fact that he managed to spend thousands of dollars on his prostitutes, he's a Democrat after all.

4 comments:

JuliaM said...

"...first of all why is it being covered so much over here when it's only a state governor involved? Finding out that someone who has styled themsleves as a 'crusading lawyer' is actually a sleazy little shit sure can't be news."

Sex and scandal sells newspapers. It always has...

Funniest thing about this whole business is taking a look at the knots the hard left are tying themselves into on such sites as Pandagon and FireDogLake, to say nothing of Huffington and Daily Kos. It's just priceless...

JuliaM said...

Democrats seem to be in the news a lot lately for scandals over there. Although it seems there's a curious reluctance to show they are Democrats:

http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2008/03/name-that-party-detroit-edition.html

DJ said...

At least some good's come out of it: Iowahawk's been blogging up a storm about it:

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/

Ross said...

"the knots the hard left are tying themselves into"

I've seen quite a few insinuations that Spitzer has actually been got at by a Wall Street conspiracy in order to silence him.