Why do they always think no one will find out?
The information is changing minute by minute so I won’t bother linking to it, but CNN.com is reporting that a wiretap recorded him arranging for a prostitute himself.
Gamepolitics.com has an article on the matter, since Spitzer tried to push anti-game legislation. GP provided a handy quotable piece from the guy:
It couldn’t happen to a nicer hypocrite.
Is he resigning? The line “I must now dedicate some time to rededicate my trust to my family,” while a bit clunky, could be construed that way, but I don’t think he’s “officially” resigned.
[apologist] Well, as long as he wasn’t paying his hookers with public funds… [/apologist]
$5,500 an hour? Yow.
Now, wait a second. I’ve just posted a GD thread in which I’m critical of Spitzer, but where is his hypocrisy here?
In the quote you offer, he’s decrying a video game in which CHILDREN can arrange a prostitution liason. It’s not inconsistent of him to inveigh against that and still believe consenting adults should be permitted to hook up with hookers.
And while he prosecuted prostitution rings as Attorney General, you cannout confuse his acts as a professional, enforcing the law of his state, with his personal belief.
I wouldn’t say that that statement was hypocritical. He had issues with children simulating sex with a hooker.
Just another example of Life imitates Sharkey’s Machine.
While your ability to separate the personal from the professional is laudable, I haven’t noticed you doing this for Republicans/preachers who demonize homosexuals on one hand while secretly engaging in illicit backdoor action themselves on the other.
Quid est distinctus?
What is it with Democrats and their dicks, and Republicans and their wallets? Dems can’t keep their pants zipped and Repubs can’t keep their pockets shut. The whole system needs a fuckin’ enema.
Well, for one thing, vehemently preaching hatred for gays is not by any means required for clergy, whereas if you’re practicing law for the government, you pretty much have to prosecute the cases. To overstretch an analogy, Uncle Sam doesn’t particularly care what you believe as long as you do the job (though that’s less true nowadays), while the Pope most definitely does want to know what you believe, since it should be church doctrine.
That sound about right to you, Bricker?
A lot of Republicans can’t keep their pants zipped either, as shown by David Vitter and Larry Craig, among many, many others.
Um… are you suggesting in this post that I am giving the Democrats an easier time than I am giving the Republicans?
In any event, there’s a distinction between an attorney, whose job it is to advocate for his client – in this case, the people of the state of New York – and a preacher, who is announcing a moral rule and urging his listeners to follow it.
The latter case is fairly described as hypocrisy. The former is not.
ullamne subuculam geris?
Can I change my user name to Client 9?
Dude is an idiot and a hypocrite. As much as I’d like that to be the bastion of one political party, it ain’t.
Semper ubi sub ubi.
Ironic, isn’t it, that you of all people should be accused of favoritism toward the Democrats?
In this case, though, yes. You know very well that state Attorneys General can pretty much pick and choose what sort of entrenched crime to ignore and which to crack down on. Spitzer apparently made a point of going after hookers, or at least large-scale hooking, while engaging the services of hookers himself.
Don’t get me wrong; I love the guy, and frankly I couldn’t give a crap what he does with his free time. I just think you can make a very good case that he’s a hypocrite.
The character in the game is not a child, the game is not written for children, and the game is marked with an ESRB rating that indicates that it is not suitable for children (M–equivalent to an R rating for movies). He is decrying a video game which depicts an adult arranging a liaison with a prostitute. Bashing a piece of fiction for depicting something that you actually do smacks of hypocrisy to me.
I take no issue with the bulk of his professional record–I’m not familiar enough with it to criticize it–nor do I particularly care about his private pastimes. I just find his attempt to wrap his political aims in the now-stained and -tattered “Think of the Children” banner contemptible.
I guess that whole “Art Vandalay” thing didn’t work out.
The exchanges between RNATB and BMalion remind me of that scene in Tombstone.
Translation please.