Is hooking up with hookers like pressing up against prostitutes?
Yuh, it would only be hypocrisy if Spitzer was caught arranging virtual gaming hooker liasons. Or betting on the outcome.
Besides, prostitution involving consenting adults is legal in N.Y. State, isn’t it? :dubious:
From Bricker’s GD N.Y. Times link: "Though his signature issue was pursuing Wall Street misdeeds, as attorney general Mr. Spitzer also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force.
In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.
“This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,” Mr. Spitzer said at the time. “It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.”
As is usual with these sorts of things, it isn’t the fact that he’s been frequenting a hooker, it’s the fact that he’s a high-profile politician who’s been frequenting a hooker. It’s a career killer for someone who’s probably been doing a decent enough job. At least he admitted it, rather than denying it, so we don’t have to go through that whole charade; but the hypocrisy will do him in.
On another note: I’ve been with some pretty frisky women in my life, but NONE of them was worth $5500 an hour, or any part thereof.
“What are you wearing under that shirt?” (I’m not 100% on “shirt” - I’ve never seen the word subuculam before and had to look it up, and definitions vary)
“Always wear underwear” (literally, “always where under where”)
“Revulsion and anger” is a subjective characterization of Spitzer’s words. I just see his words as a statement of fact.
This is a worthless “gotcha” story, in my opinion. I can’t see that Spitzer did anything wrong. Like I said in a couple of other thread, he should tell the press to bite his ass and soldier right on as Governor.
I said the same thing about Larry Craig, by the way. Politicians need to stop legitimizing this garbage by apologizing for their private lives.
Bullshit. Elected officials who use your tax money to enact or defend laws must be held to a slightly higher standard than Joe Sanitary Engineer. Of course he did something wrong: he’s the fucking Governor and he was engaged in illegal activities. I’m no perfect specimen myself, but paying for sex with a prostitute is completely unimaginable when a mouse, an internet connection, and my right hand would suffice.
They’re reporting on BBC that he paid $4000 for a hooker last month. Words fail to express my shock. By my calculations, that would buy him at least 83 hookers over here.
First, I disagree that elected officials are obligated to any “higher standard” (whatever that means) and secondly, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with prostitution so I can’t agree that he failed any “standard.”
At the prices being quoted, I can’t help but want to see pictures. I mean, how good can one slice be? These chicks must be movie star hot and able to back it up. If he can afford, you can’t really blame the guy. What’s the point of holding a high elected office if you can’t cash in with the primest of tail?
I guess when you’re used to paying $3500 for a toilet seat, $5500 for a hooker doesn’t seem out of line…
I don’t think Spitzer is necessarily hypocritical. Stupid and arrogant, yes. And if he expensed to the state any of the hotel rooms, and, um services rendered for these little private parties, then I’d say he’s not only unethical but he should be tossed in the pokey.
Once again, I’m amazed that these men can cajole their wives to appear with them at the press conference where they give their sordid confessions. I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d appear with my husband while he told the world that he paid $5500 to fuck another woman. And, frankly, I’m not sure what would piss me off more: the other woman or the $5500.
Any word on whether this Federal wiretapping was linked at all to those warrantless wiretaps the administration has needed to persue its ‘war on terror’? The ones that Congress refused to grant the Bells blanket immunity over?
I’d be shocked if those were abused to garner favor/advantage over political opponents, especially in an election year…
It’s a misdemeanor and a victimless crime. Who gives a shit? It’s illegal like a speeding ticket is illegal. The only difference is that speeding might potentially endanger other people.
This from ABC News: “The federal investigation of a New York prostitution ring was triggered by Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s suspicious money transfers, initially leading agents to believe Spitzer was hiding bribes, according to federal officials.” Link.