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Reports: NY Gov. Spitzer Is Indicted, Will Resign in Prostitution Scandal

Gov. Eliot Spitzer has admitted to being involved with a prostitution ring; reports are that he will be indicted.
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The video to the right is of Spitzer's statement to the public.


"Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a person briefed on the federal investigation," the New York Times reports in a blockbuster revelation. Additionally, Fox News reports that Spitzer will resign.



More from the NYT:
The wiretap recording, made during an investigation of a prostitution ring called Emperors Club VIP, captured a man identified as Client 9 on a telephone call confirming plans to have a woman travel from New York to Washington, where he had reserved a room. The person briefed on the case identified Mr. Spitzer as Client 9.




The governor learned that he had been implicated in the prostitution probe when a federal official contacted his staff last Friday, according to the person briefed on the case.



The governor informed his top aides Sunday night and this morning of his involvement. He canceled his public events today and scheduled an announcement for this afternoon after inquiries from the Times.



The governor's aides appeared shaken, and one of them began to weep as they waited for him to make his statement at his Manhattan office. Mr. Spitzer was seen leaving his Fifth Avenue apartment just before 3 p.m. with his wife of 21 years, Silda, heading to the news conference.



The man described as Client 9 in court papers arranged to meet with a prostitute who was part of the ring, Emperors Club VIP, on the night of Feb. 13. Mr. Spitzer traveled to Washington that evening, according to a person told of his travel arrangements.



The affidavit says that Client 9 met with the woman in hotel room 871 but does not identify the hotel. Mr. Spitzer stayed at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on Feb. 13, according to a source who was told of his travel arrangements. Room 871 at the Mayflower Hotel that evening was registered under the another name.


UPDATE: Fox News reports based on two sources, "including one involved in the investigation itself," that Spitzer "has been indicted regarding acts committed in the District of Columbia." Also, New York's WNBC is reporting that federal investigators may have text messages from Spitzer arranging a meeting with the Emperor's Club.



The Times reported last week that federal authorities had arrested four people on charges of running an online prostitution ring "that serviced clients in New York, Paris and other cities and took in more than $1 million in profits over four years." [Read all about the Emperor's Club.]
The ring, known as the Emperor's Club V.I.P., had 50 prostitutes available for appointments in New York, Washington, Miami, London and Paris, according to a complaint unsealed on Thursday in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The appointments, made by telephone or through an online booking service, cost $1,000 to $5,500 an hour and could be paid for with cash, credit card, wire transfers or money orders, the complaint said.




According to the office of the United States attorney in Manhattan, Mark Brener, 62, of New Jersey, was the leader of the ring, but delegated day-to-day business responsibilities to Cecil Suwal, 23, also of New Jersey. The office said that Ms. Suwal controlled the bank accounts, took applications from prospective prostitutes and oversaw two booking agents, identified by the authorities as Temeka Rachelle Lewis, 32, of Brooklyn, and Tanya Hollander, 36, of Rhinebeck, N.Y. …



The ring's Web site showed pictures of the prostitutes, cropped so faces were not visible, and listed names like Sienna and Christine. The Web site, which was disabled shortly after the arrests were announced, ranked the prostitutes on a scale of one to seven "diamonds." A three-diamond woman, for example, could command a fee of $1,000 per hour. A seven-diamond woman cost more than $3,000 an hour.



For its most valued clients, the Emperor's Club offered membership in the elite "Icon Club," with hourly fees starting at $5,500, according to the federal complaint. The club also offered clients the opportunity to purchase direct access to a prostitute without having to contact the agency.


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Poor Guy
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Posted by: DigitalAztec on Mar 10, 2008 12:32 PM   
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had a wife and still had to go out and pay for it.

You "Americans" LoL should make the desire for a man to have sex illegal.

Oh well, at least you can still take his children away and give them to a fireman of something like that.

p.s. don't forget to ruin his ability to produce an income.

That'll teach teach him not to be getting anymore hard ons.

Lool!!!

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CEO, former State AG, Sex Scandal
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Posted by: NoPCZone on Mar 10, 2008 12:47 PM   
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No wonder he was a Clinton supporter.

He is without excuse.

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defshepard
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Posted by: aurora545 on Mar 10, 2008 12:52 PM   
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So do tell, what party is he with? Didn't see that in the report. Thanks for the accuracy in the report.

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Why resign? Just deny!!!!
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Posted by: Doggycuny on Mar 10, 2008 12:54 PM   
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Is this clown for-real? You don't go resigning over something as mundane as prostitution!! If he resigns the terrorists have won!! This is the Goddamn US of A! If a man wants to go get some prostitutes he GODDAMN does it and then GODDAMN denies it! That's how politics works in USA, and don't let no terrorist bastard tell you otherwise!
Heil Bush!

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BTW
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Posted by: DigitalAztec on Mar 10, 2008 1:00 PM   
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His wife is prolly plenty horny. But she'll only give it to some loser (or someone that earns more) that mooches on her.

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Obviously, God is a sub-optimal Engineer
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Posted by: joeunix on Mar 10, 2008 1:09 PM   
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If God were really thinking outside the box, a man's penis would be detachable.

Think of the trouble we could avoid. For example,

Husband: "Honey, I'm going down to the waterhole to have a couple of beers with Frank and the boys. I'll return in two or three hours. Love ya."

Wife: "OK, but leave the penis with me. You won't need it where you're going."

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Pimps, prositutes and New York gov't
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Posted by: Reader11722 on Mar 10, 2008 1:18 PM   
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New York Governor Spitzer is innocent because E.A. Blayre III is Client #9. Seriously though, all politicians are prostitutes. It is natural for them to be drawn to their own kind. Party makes no difference. The Democrats willingly went along with the War in Iraq, suspension of Habeas Corpus, banning books like America Deceived (book) from Amazon, warrant-less wiretapping and the Patriot Act. Never forget, they are all prostitutes.

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Nothing significant happens in U. S. politics by accident
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Posted by: truthteller on Mar 10, 2008 1:32 PM   
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I think many on here would agree that just about all high office holders in this country are beholden to some group of patrons, other than "We the People". When they get out of line, their "handlers" take them down with something they have on them. Sometimes they go quietly, sometimes they don't - like Larry Craig (and the ones who won't play ball have "accidents" like Paul Wellstone). The real question to ask is, who was in charge of Spitzer, and what did he do to piss them off so badly?

In any event, it's obvious that his hormones overruled his common sense, since he had been a Federal prosecutor, and should have known better - if this is in-fact totally what it's being presented as. Given all that has happened in the past seven or so years, can we really take anything we are told at face value?

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An honest politician would
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Posted by: Jim Swanson on Mar 10, 2008 1:47 PM   
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An honest politician would say that of course he went to a prostitute, and more than once, did drugs, was gay and proud of it, got a little kinky once in a while, or just enjoyed life as a human being. Here in this religion obsessed nation we will not admit that we are humans but, instead, persist in the ignorant belief we are some form of supernatural being, not one of many evolved and evolving lifeforms inhabiting one small planet in a minor part of a great and yet to be explored universe.
In my long life I have snorted coke supplied by a former US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, same with a future mayor of Chicago, smoked pot and eaten shrooms with loads of present, future, or former judges, prosecutors and politicians along with just ordinary folks living ordinary lives.
It is time to lose our Puritanical past and get over our sense of superiority. We are mortal, sexual, drug using, life enjoying humans, period.
Get real.

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Political Power-The Ultimate Aphrodesiac?
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Posted by: drricklippin on Mar 10, 2008 1:59 PM   
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I think Henry Kissinger may have said that?

Why can't these pols control themselves?

Very sad.Especially for the Spitzer family

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton,Pa

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What a surprise!!
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Posted by: ReallyBearish on Mar 10, 2008 1:59 PM   
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That a Federal wiretap got the goods on him. I'll bet Wall Street is really happy to get rid of this trouble maker.

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wives aren't putting-out
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Posted by: zooeyhall on Mar 10, 2008 2:22 PM   
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Just curious as to why these high placed politicos--from state govs to the former pres of the U.S. (Clinton) have to get women (and in some cases, boys) for themselves? I mean, is there something about politics that makes these men extra horny? Are the wives to busy on the fund-raising circuit to put-out for their man? Or do these politician guys have "special tastes" that their significant other won't satisfy?

Just curious, because it seems like here in the U.S. our politicians have some of the most active libidos of any men I've known. Sure don't seem to see this sort of things in the average working-class Joe.

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abortion rights event
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Posted by: fferris on Mar 10, 2008 2:28 PM   
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Democracy Now! today dealt with an address Mr. Spitzer was going to give in support of abortion rights.

http://www.democracynow.org/

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INDICTED?
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Posted by: VZEQICVA on Mar 10, 2008 2:47 PM   
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No wonder Bush and Cheney don't worry about us doing anything about them, such as impeachment. Just throw the people anything about sex now and then. It's keeps them occupied. How pathetic. ANNA

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Big deal. So he got a hooker.
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Posted by: cindyn on Mar 10, 2008 3:03 PM   
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Give the guy a break. Jewish wives aren't exactly very giving in the bedroom.

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Dockside
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Posted by: rtmyth on Mar 10, 2008 3:08 PM   
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The power elite, of which Spitzer is a member, do as they please, while telling us what we must/should do.

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All I Know Is
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Posted by: desidid on Mar 10, 2008 3:09 PM   
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Mario Cuomo and Spitzer have both challenged NYRA (New York Racing Assoc.) They threw a lot of money to Pataki and Cuomo was finished. Spitzer had them in receivership and now he's in trouble.

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Um, shouldn't the subtitle say "prosti*tution*" ring? n/t
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Posted by: mtxcoll on Mar 10, 2008 3:26 PM   
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Buyer beware
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Posted by: kepstein7777 on Mar 10, 2008 3:38 PM   
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If he's guilty, he's stupid in too many ways to count.

Too bad. I kind of like the way he pissed off Wall Street.

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Am I the Only One Who Doesn't Give a Shit if Spitzer is Hiring Hookers
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Posted by: rfrancis@godisdead.com on Mar 10, 2008 3:44 PM   
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Consensual crime laws like prostitution laws are antithetical to true freedom.

We should all be able to do whatever we want with our own bodies and property as long as we don't physically harm another person's body or property without their consent.

Spitzer's only crime is not fighting to outlaw consensual crime laws.

If he had any stones he wouldn't resign but his lack of stones is why he never fought to outlaw those bullshit laws in the first place.

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Democrat?
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Posted by: ericthefool on Mar 10, 2008 3:56 PM   
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Yep, had to go see what fake party he was with and it is a Democrat. The Huffington Post is just like the other liars, propagandists, and misinformers. Outfoxed again...

'Circa 2010'-

"America finally wakes up and realizes Democrats are just as crooked as those darn Republicans."

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feeding frenzy
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Posted by: bomec on Mar 10, 2008 4:00 PM   
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This is going to be an appalling media feeding frenzy because it involves--gasp!--sex and a Democrat. Never mind the whoring, fag chasing, foot-tapping fascist filth who pollute the Republican party. Never mind the 4000 dead American soldiers, the hundreds of thousands of dead innocents in Iraq, the vets wounded in body and mind who will be with us for the rest of their and our lives, the 3 trillions "off the books" for this war that is killing our economy and our worthless dollar. Media, get a grip and go after the real evil septic slime that is consuming our once great nation. Impeach, convict, imprison, execute!

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feeding frenzy
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This is going to be an appalling media feeding frenzy because it involves--gasp!--sex and a Democrat. Never mind the whoring, fag chasing, foot-tapping fascist filth who pollute the Republican party. Never mind the 4000 dead American soldiers, the hundreds of thousands of dead innocents in Iraq, the vets wounded in body and mind who will be with us for the rest of their and our lives, the 3 trillions "off the books" for this war that is killing our economy and our worthless dollar. Media, get a grip and go after the real evil septic slime that is consuming our once great nation. Impeach, convict, imprison, execute!

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The FAUX Media at their Worst!
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Posted by: williameon on Mar 10, 2008 4:30 PM   
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No Questions about:
Lies,
Spying,
Torture,
and a
Phony
WAR.

We are still waiting for news report:
Telling us
Almost five years ago to the day
The President lied to us and
Took us to War
Where a Million people have died.

But plenty about a
John.
Set up
and
Knocked down

Now
They are really in their element
This is something
They know everything about!
Prostitution

Spritzer
Tried and Convicted
By
The Faux Media

The Crime of
The Century
Busted
Getting
Head.

Still they remain uninterested in
The American and Iraqi Dead
Or
The Trillions in debt and another Trillion missing.
Or
When Dead Eye was out whoring and shot
Someone in the Head!
Where are they?
When you really need them?

Now we know what the FBI is doing with those
Illegal
Wire Taps.
Ease dropping on Call Girls.

Still on 911 they were unable to find,
A terrorist.
Even when they fell
Out of the sky.
On their own Heads.

Holmes turn over
Another Democrat fell Dead.

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Make love not war!
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Posted by: WhatNow? on Mar 10, 2008 4:32 PM   
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Hooray for Spitzer!

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No-Fisa; No Mercy for Democrats
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Posted by: Gaubladt on Mar 10, 2008 5:44 PM   
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It is pretty clear here that Gov. Spitzer is the only "terrorist" that the Republi-Confederales have been able to nab using their No-Fisa Home Land Security Data Mining filters. Is it a wonder that David Vitter and Larry Craig weren't caught up by the same mechanism? No.
Democratic cave-ins to warrantless wiretapping are beginning to catch up with them. Serves them right.

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At Least He 'Fessed Up
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Posted by: AlexLawyer on Mar 10, 2008 6:17 PM   
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Spitzer made a mistake, but he has shown far more integrity and class than Bill Clinton, David Vitter, Larry Craig and the others. He frankly acknowledged wrongdoing and apologized. He has committed, at most, a misdemeanor. He is the governor, not the Pope. I don't think he should resign. We Americans tend to be so puritanical on sexual issues and so complacent about serious crimes. We turn a blind eye to Bush et al., with their record of war crimes and violations of constitutional and basic human rights, and call for action against a guy who has private, consensual sex with a willing sex worker. Let's get our priorities--er--straight.

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This is a crime, but using internet porno to "get off" is OK
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Posted by: sofla100 on Mar 10, 2008 6:58 PM   
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Why is prostitution illegal anyway? In most of Western Europe, brothel's are taxed and licensed by the state. Besides, I've been told a lot of guys "get off" with porno sex on the internet. At least Spitzer didn't do it that way, but used another human being who got paid a lot of money. My point, nobody is prosecuting guys who use internet sex to get off, and women are paid a lot for being models for doing that. But, one has actual sex with a guy and they and the guy get burned. It doesn't make any sense. Besides, if this were another rich John he would never be prosecuted. He is just being prosecuted now because he is high profile and some hot-shot government prosectuor gets to make his or her career. A lot of BS.

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agreed - misguided priorities
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Posted by: 1234 on Mar 10, 2008 7:06 PM   
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I agree. Why is it the press calls for impeachment and resignation for Clinton's blow jobs and Spitzer's paid sex, but yet won't peep the word impeachment when Bush orders ILLEGAL TORTURE, shreds our Constitution with an illegal mass wiretapping program, takes the country to war on a lie and previously debunked false intelligence, and drowns 2,000 people in New Orleans because of criminal negligence? And yet there is NO MENTION of resignation in the press! No scandal!

And Spitzer had paid sex. If his wife wants a divorce, that's justified. But, resignation is uncalled for. And sex work should be legal. Don't manual laborers sell their bodies? And high-tech laborers sell their minds? What's the big deal?

And, yeah, didn't Cheney shoot and kill someone? Did ANYONE call for his resignation after that?

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$3,000 an HOUR??
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Posted by: Longdream on Mar 10, 2008 7:08 PM   
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I'm in the wrong business.

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Yawn.
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Posted by: Libertine on Mar 10, 2008 7:15 PM   
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So he hired a prostitute. Big fat, hairy deal. Yes, it's illegal, but it's a victimless crime, especially in the type of high-class operation he patronized.

Consensual sex between two consenting adults. What a crime! (heavy sarcasm). I would think that law enforcement officials have better things to busy themselves with that would actually protect the public, rather that playing voyeur and worrying about who is stepping off the monogamy bandwagon.

This is nothing to resign over. His wife may choose to "resign" from their marriage, but that's a private matter between the two of them and nothing for the public to concern itself about.

I can only add that I hope he got his money's worth with these hookers.

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Why do men do this? m.
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Posted by: lwbaby on Mar 10, 2008 7:30 PM   
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Get involved in sexual misconduct that they KNOW will ruin everything in their non-sexual lives?

I just don't get it. Sure, there are women that screw up, the recent spate of teachers and all but the majority of people absolutely ruining their lives are men who engage in what they know are illegal liasons yet they go for it anyway.

I am reminded of so many FBI stings involving adult ment soliciting who they think are young boys onling, agreeing to hook up and getting slammed for life.

Is sex that important that you have no control over yourownselves?

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Swanson, I think you're obsessed with the religion thing
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Posted by: Ran on Mar 10, 2008 7:36 PM   
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Here we are talking about a two-timing adulterer in trouble for blewing a wad (no pun intended) on whores and you blame the whole thing on God, or the masses foolish belief in "him," so to speak. Let me see, Clinton's folly was Ken Starr's fault and now "Mr. Clean's" problems rest with the almighty. I'll bet Clinton feels a little slighted, I mean he was the prez and a mere mortal caused his problems. Now, here is a measly governor with God as his nemesis. How unfair. Tell us, did the nuns bust your knuckles too many times when you were a kid? What is this see everything through the anti-religion lens thing you have going on?

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maybe some are missing the point. . .
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Posted by: sashi on Mar 10, 2008 7:45 PM   
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the real problem is that he (spitzer and clinton) lied, by omission or otherwise, to his wife, about something important.

what makes you think that this type of person wouldn't lie to you?

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Purifying Power of Purchasable Pussy...
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Posted by: gazooks on Mar 10, 2008 8:59 PM   
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... humbles the haughty, hypocrite hero.

So long, Spitz. Thanks for helping, in the end, to put it in perspective for a nation of suckers.

A legacy dishonored, will be better remembered.

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Hart, Cisneros, Spitzer
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Posted by: Col. Jackleg on Mar 10, 2008 9:03 PM   
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All are Democrats that at one time seemed to possess enormous potential in national politics with the White House not out of reach. All three ruined their potential with sex scandals that took them down. Add Clinton to the list to complete the Four Horsemen of the "Woody" club. All four had much to offer those of us that revere progressive governance but their respective brain waves were corrupted by their adolescent libido and promise gave way to lust. Cheney and Bush must be doubled over in laughter pain while the rest of us hear of McCain's daliance(s), Obama's soon to be shouted womanizing and Hillary's defense of the 3 AM phone call. We're running a whore house folks and that's more important than crimes against humanity, deficits, recession, human suffering and despair. Will we ever progress to a collective lucid interval? Not likely, there are simply too many morons afoot and before we are done we will rejoice in becoming Americhung Province in the vast Communist empire known as China. At that point, whether your zipper is up, down or at half-mast won't mean a thing and neither will any upwardly-mobile Democrat.

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The Emperor
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Posted by: gellero on Mar 10, 2008 9:52 PM   
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is entitled to his concubines and diversions. Who cares, really. But where did he get the $$$ for this overpriced puss on a governors salary??

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And What Fun
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Posted by: gellero on Mar 10, 2008 9:55 PM   
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is it if you can't show it off in public like Pres. Sakorzy.

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Revenge is good
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Posted by: gellero on Mar 10, 2008 10:12 PM   
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I'm sure Mr. Spitzer has done much evil to many people for minor transgressions. He probably deserves this humiliation and ruination.

May he rot in MSM hell.

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Intelligence Operations
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Posted by: schwarze sonne on Mar 10, 2008 10:47 PM   
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Washington DC has a history of exclusive call girl services run by mafias and intelligence agencies, both US and foreign. These have been used (especially in the Hoover FBI era) to entrap politicians and blackmail or dicredit them.
Add to this the fact that everyone in the country is under 24 hour surveillance (and really since the 1st Bush administration-this isnt new- look up "Carnivore" - a programme for computer programs to data mine all telephony worldwide) and I can't help but wonder...
Still, Elliot showed no self control, which is the first prerequisite of being a crusader against corruption.
I hope she was good....

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the saddest thing...
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Posted by: Moira61 on Mar 11, 2008 3:22 AM   
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is the look on his wife's face - that says it all.
I can only imagine what his three daughters are going through. Victimless crime? Not so. Not when you get caught anyway.

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Sex Scandal now, but what's slipping by under our noses...?
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Posted by: what now cartoons on Mar 11, 2008 11:22 AM   
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All eyes are on Spitzer, because we have a SEX Scandal. So NOW is the time to be looking around to see what else is going on, what else is about to be slipped by the American people.
And LOOK, congress is about to soften it's stance on FISA IMMUNITY!
So once again the Democrats seem to be wearing down and giving ground to the Bush administrations push to give the telecom companies immunity. No, no, no. These telecom monopolies have a broken the laws of our Constitution, for profit from our government. This cannot be allowed to happen, the crimes MUST be fully investigated, and the top government officials that sanctioned this, before 9-11 and after, must be exposed and then prosecuted. To let them get away with this undermines the very fabric of our Constitution.
I draw a weekly political comic strip that very few people see, where I deal with this and outer under reported topics, FISA Immunity is my latest, it's up on my website now.
www.whatnowtoons.com
Cartoons for the coming Progressive age

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The Mann Act
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Posted by: Longdream on Mar 11, 2008 8:38 PM   
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It's a hundred-year-old piece of crap, and they only use it against people they don't like-- Charlie Chaplin and Charles Manson were two. It's also like convicting Al Capone for tax evasion--a way to trump up some charges when you can't nail somebody when you want to. Very few people are convicted under the Mann Act.

The guy hired a whore. He used his own money. The consequences are personal--to his credibility, his marriage, his relationships with his kids, etc.

They should cut the crap with the Mann Act.

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Divine Brown
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Posted by: desidid on Mar 15, 2008 6:18 AM   
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Can't help but wonder how much support Spitzer would be getting if her name was Divine Brown. Can't help but wonder how much empathy the prostitute would be getting if her name was Divine Brown. Can't help but wonder how many opportunities to turn this mess into income this girl would have, if her name was Divine Brown.

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Poor Guy
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Posted by: DigitalAztec on Mar 10, 2008 12:32 PM   
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had a wife and still had to go out and pay for it.

You "Americans" LoL should make the desire for a man to have sex illegal.

Oh well, at least you can still take his children away and give them to a fireman of something like that.

p.s. don't forget to ruin his ability to produce an income.

That'll teach teach him not to be getting anymore hard ons.

Lool!!!

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CEO, former State AG, Sex Scandal
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Posted by: NoPCZone on Mar 10, 2008 12:47 PM   
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No wonder he was a Clinton supporter.

He is without excuse.

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defshepard
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Posted by: aurora545 on Mar 10, 2008 12:52 PM   
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So do tell, what party is he with? Didn't see that in the report. Thanks for the accuracy in the report.

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Why resign? Just deny!!!!
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Posted by: Doggycuny on Mar 10, 2008 12:54 PM   
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Is this clown for-real? You don't go resigning over something as mundane as prostitution!! If he resigns the terrorists have won!! This is the Goddamn US of A! If a man wants to go get some prostitutes he GODDAMN does it and then GODDAMN denies it! That's how politics works in USA, and don't let no terrorist bastard tell you otherwise!
Heil Bush!

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BTW
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Posted by: DigitalAztec on Mar 10, 2008 1:00 PM   
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His wife is prolly plenty horny. But she'll only give it to some loser (or someone that earns more) that mooches on her.

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Posted by: joeunix on Mar 10, 2008 1:09 PM   
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If God were really thinking outside the box, a man's penis would be detachable.

Think of the trouble we could avoid. For example,

Husband: "Honey, I'm going down to the waterhole to have a couple of beers with Frank and the boys. I'll return in two or three hours. Love ya."

Wife: "OK, but leave the penis with me. You won't need it where you're going."

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Pimps, prositutes and New York gov't
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Posted by: Reader11722 on Mar 10, 2008 1:18 PM   
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New York Governor Spitzer is innocent because E.A. Blayre III is Client #9. Seriously though, all politicians are prostitutes. It is natural for them to be drawn to their own kind. Party makes no difference. The Democrats willingly went along with the War in Iraq, suspension of Habeas Corpus, banning books like America Deceived (book) from Amazon, warrant-less wiretapping and the Patriot Act. Never forget, they are all prostitutes.

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Nothing significant happens in U. S. politics by accident
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Posted by: truthteller on Mar 10, 2008 1:32 PM   
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I think many on here would agree that just about all high office holders in this country are beholden to some group of patrons, other than "We the People". When they get out of line, their "handlers" take them down with something they have on them. Sometimes they go quietly, sometimes they don't - like Larry Craig (and the ones who won't play ball have "accidents" like Paul Wellstone). The real question to ask is, who was in charge of Spitzer, and what did he do to piss them off so badly?

In any event, it's obvious that his hormones overruled his common sense, since he had been a Federal prosecutor, and should have known better - if this is in-fact totally what it's being presented as. Given all that has happened in the past seven or so years, can we really take anything we are told at face value?

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An honest politician would
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Posted by: Jim Swanson on Mar 10, 2008 1:47 PM   
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An honest politician would say that of course he went to a prostitute, and more than once, did drugs, was gay and proud of it, got a little kinky once in a while, or just enjoyed life as a human being. Here in this religion obsessed nation we will not admit that we are humans but, instead, persist in the ignorant belief we are some form of supernatural being, not one of many evolved and evolving lifeforms inhabiting one small planet in a minor part of a great and yet to be explored universe.
In my long life I have snorted coke supplied by a former US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, same with a future mayor of Chicago, smoked pot and eaten shrooms with loads of present, future, or former judges, prosecutors and politicians along with just ordinary folks living ordinary lives.
It is time to lose our Puritanical past and get over our sense of superiority. We are mortal, sexual, drug using, life enjoying humans, period.
Get real.

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Political Power-The Ultimate Aphrodesiac?
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Posted by: drricklippin on Mar 10, 2008 1:59 PM   
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I think Henry Kissinger may have said that?

Why can't these pols control themselves?

Very sad.Especially for the Spitzer family

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton,Pa

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What a surprise!!
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Posted by: ReallyBearish on Mar 10, 2008 1:59 PM   
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That a Federal wiretap got the goods on him. I'll bet Wall Street is really happy to get rid of this trouble maker.

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wives aren't putting-out
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Posted by: zooeyhall on Mar 10, 2008 2:22 PM   
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Just curious as to why these high placed politicos--from state govs to the former pres of the U.S. (Clinton) have to get women (and in some cases, boys) for themselves? I mean, is there something about politics that makes these men extra horny? Are the wives to busy on the fund-raising circuit to put-out for their man? Or do these politician guys have "special tastes" that their significant other won't satisfy?

Just curious, because it seems like here in the U.S. our politicians have some of the most active libidos of any men I've known. Sure don't seem to see this sort of things in the average working-class Joe.

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abortion rights event
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Posted by: fferris on Mar 10, 2008 2:28 PM   
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Democracy Now! today dealt with an address Mr. Spitzer was going to give in support of abortion rights.

http://www.democracynow.org/

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INDICTED?
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Posted by: VZEQICVA on Mar 10, 2008 2:47 PM   
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No wonder Bush and Cheney don't worry about us doing anything about them, such as impeachment. Just throw the people anything about sex now and then. It's keeps them occupied. How pathetic. ANNA

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Big deal. So he got a hooker.
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Posted by: cindyn on Mar 10, 2008 3:03 PM   
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Give the guy a break. Jewish wives aren't exactly very giving in the bedroom.

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Dockside
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Posted by: rtmyth on Mar 10, 2008 3:08 PM   
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The power elite, of which Spitzer is a member, do as they please, while telling us what we must/should do.

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All I Know Is
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Posted by: desidid on Mar 10, 2008 3:09 PM   
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Mario Cuomo and Spitzer have both challenged NYRA (New York Racing Assoc.) They threw a lot of money to Pataki and Cuomo was finished. Spitzer had them in receivership and now he's in trouble.

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Um, shouldn't the subtitle say "prosti*tution*" ring? n/t
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Posted by: mtxcoll on Mar 10, 2008 3:26 PM   
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Buyer beware
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Posted by: kepstein7777 on Mar 10, 2008 3:38 PM   
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If he's guilty, he's stupid in too many ways to count.

Too bad. I kind of like the way he pissed off Wall Street.

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Am I the Only One Who Doesn't Give a Shit if Spitzer is Hiring Hookers
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Posted by: rfrancis@godisdead.com on Mar 10, 2008 3:44 PM   
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Consensual crime laws like prostitution laws are antithetical to true freedom.

We should all be able to do whatever we want with our own bodies and property as long as we don't physically harm another person's body or property without their consent.

Spitzer's only crime is not fighting to outlaw consensual crime laws.

If he had any stones he wouldn't resign but his lack of stones is why he never fought to outlaw those bullshit laws in the first place.

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Democrat?
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Posted by: ericthefool on Mar 10, 2008 3:56 PM   
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Yep, had to go see what fake party he was with and it is a Democrat. The Huffington Post is just like the other liars, propagandists, and misinformers. Outfoxed again...

'Circa 2010'-

"America finally wakes up and realizes Democrats are just as crooked as those darn Republicans."

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feeding frenzy
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Posted by: bomec on Mar 10, 2008 4:00 PM   
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This is going to be an appalling media feeding frenzy because it involves--gasp!--sex and a Democrat. Never mind the whoring, fag chasing, foot-tapping fascist filth who pollute the Republican party. Never mind the 4000 dead American soldiers, the hundreds of thousands of dead innocents in Iraq, the vets wounded in body and mind who will be with us for the rest of their and our lives, the 3 trillions "off the books" for this war that is killing our economy and our worthless dollar. Media, get a grip and go after the real evil septic slime that is consuming our once great nation. Impeach, convict, imprison, execute!

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feeding frenzy
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This is going to be an appalling media feeding frenzy because it involves--gasp!--sex and a Democrat. Never mind the whoring, fag chasing, foot-tapping fascist filth who pollute the Republican party. Never mind the 4000 dead American soldiers, the hundreds of thousands of dead innocents in Iraq, the vets wounded in body and mind who will be with us for the rest of their and our lives, the 3 trillions "off the books" for this war that is killing our economy and our worthless dollar. Media, get a grip and go after the real evil septic slime that is consuming our once great nation. Impeach, convict, imprison, execute!

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The FAUX Media at their Worst!
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Posted by: williameon on Mar 10, 2008 4:30 PM   
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No Questions about:
Lies,
Spying,
Torture,
and a
Phony
WAR.

We are still waiting for news report:
Telling us
Almost five years ago to the day
The President lied to us and
Took us to War
Where a Million people have died.

But plenty about a
John.
Set up
and
Knocked down

Now
They are really in their element
This is something
They know everything about!
Prostitution

Spritzer
Tried and Convicted
By
The Faux Media

The Crime of
The Century
Busted
Getting
Head.

Still they remain uninterested in
The American and Iraqi Dead
Or
The Trillions in debt and another Trillion missing.
Or
When Dead Eye was out whoring and shot
Someone in the Head!
Where are they?
When you really need them?

Now we know what the FBI is doing with those
Illegal
Wire Taps.
Ease dropping on Call Girls.

Still on 911 they were unable to find,
A terrorist.
Even when they fell
Out of the sky.
On their own Heads.

Holmes turn over
Another Democrat fell Dead.

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Make love not war!
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Posted by: WhatNow? on Mar 10, 2008 4:32 PM   
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Hooray for Spitzer!

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No-Fisa; No Mercy for Democrats
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Posted by: Gaubladt on Mar 10, 2008 5:44 PM   
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It is pretty clear here that Gov. Spitzer is the only "terrorist" that the Republi-Confederales have been able to nab using their No-Fisa Home Land Security Data Mining filters. Is it a wonder that David Vitter and Larry Craig weren't caught up by the same mechanism? No.
Democratic cave-ins to warrantless wiretapping are beginning to catch up with them. Serves them right.

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At Least He 'Fessed Up
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Posted by: AlexLawyer on Mar 10, 2008 6:17 PM   
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Spitzer made a mistake, but he has shown far more integrity and class than Bill Clinton, David Vitter, Larry Craig and the others. He frankly acknowledged wrongdoing and apologized. He has committed, at most, a misdemeanor. He is the governor, not the Pope. I don't think he should resign. We Americans tend to be so puritanical on sexual issues and so complacent about serious crimes. We turn a blind eye to Bush et al., with their record of war crimes and violations of constitutional and basic human rights, and call for action against a guy who has private, consensual sex with a willing sex worker. Let's get our priorities--er--straight.

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This is a crime, but using internet porno to "get off" is OK
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Posted by: sofla100 on Mar 10, 2008 6:58 PM   
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Why is prostitution illegal anyway? In most of Western Europe, brothel's are taxed and licensed by the state. Besides, I've been told a lot of guys "get off" with porno sex on the internet. At least Spitzer didn't do it that way, but used another human being who got paid a lot of money. My point, nobody is prosecuting guys who use internet sex to get off, and women are paid a lot for being models for doing that. But, one has actual sex with a guy and they and the guy get burned. It doesn't make any sense. Besides, if this were another rich John he would never be prosecuted. He is just being prosecuted now because he is high profile and some hot-shot government prosectuor gets to make his or her career. A lot of BS.

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agreed - misguided priorities
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Posted by: 1234 on Mar 10, 2008 7:06 PM   
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I agree. Why is it the press calls for impeachment and resignation for Clinton's blow jobs and Spitzer's paid sex, but yet won't peep the word impeachment when Bush orders ILLEGAL TORTURE, shreds our Constitution with an illegal mass wiretapping program, takes the country to war on a lie and previously debunked false intelligence, and drowns 2,000 people in New Orleans because of criminal negligence? And yet there is NO MENTION of resignation in the press! No scandal!

And Spitzer had paid sex. If his wife wants a divorce, that's justified. But, resignation is uncalled for. And sex work should be legal. Don't manual laborers sell their bodies? And high-tech laborers sell their minds? What's the big deal?

And, yeah, didn't Cheney shoot and kill someone? Did ANYONE call for his resignation after that?

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$3,000 an HOUR??
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Posted by: Longdream on Mar 10, 2008 7:08 PM   
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I'm in the wrong business.

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Yawn.
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Posted by: Libertine on Mar 10, 2008 7:15 PM   
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So he hired a prostitute. Big fat, hairy deal. Yes, it's illegal, but it's a victimless crime, especially in the type of high-class operation he patronized.

Consensual sex between two consenting adults. What a crime! (heavy sarcasm). I would think that law enforcement officials have better things to busy themselves with that would actually protect the public, rather that playing voyeur and worrying about who is stepping off the monogamy bandwagon.

This is nothing to resign over. His wife may choose to "resign" from their marriage, but that's a private matter between the two of them and nothing for the public to concern itself about.

I can only add that I hope he got his money's worth with these hookers.

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Why do men do this? m.
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Posted by: lwbaby on Mar 10, 2008 7:30 PM   
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Get involved in sexual misconduct that they KNOW will ruin everything in their non-sexual lives?

I just don't get it. Sure, there are women that screw up, the recent spate of teachers and all but the majority of people absolutely ruining their lives are men who engage in what they know are illegal liasons yet they go for it anyway.

I am reminded of so many FBI stings involving adult ment soliciting who they think are young boys onling, agreeing to hook up and getting slammed for life.

Is sex that important that you have no control over yourownselves?

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Swanson, I think you're obsessed with the religion thing
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Posted by: Ran on Mar 10, 2008 7:36 PM   
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Here we are talking about a two-timing adulterer in trouble for blewing a wad (no pun intended) on whores and you blame the whole thing on God, or the masses foolish belief in "him," so to speak. Let me see, Clinton's folly was Ken Starr's fault and now "Mr. Clean's" problems rest with the almighty. I'll bet Clinton feels a little slighted, I mean he was the prez and a mere mortal caused his problems. Now, here is a measly governor with God as his nemesis. How unfair. Tell us, did the nuns bust your knuckles too many times when you were a kid? What is this see everything through the anti-religion lens thing you have going on?

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maybe some are missing the point. . .
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Posted by: sashi on Mar 10, 2008 7:45 PM   
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the real problem is that he (spitzer and clinton) lied, by omission or otherwise, to his wife, about something important.

what makes you think that this type of person wouldn't lie to you?

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Purifying Power of Purchasable Pussy...
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Posted by: gazooks on Mar 10, 2008 8:59 PM   
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... humbles the haughty, hypocrite hero.

So long, Spitz. Thanks for helping, in the end, to put it in perspective for a nation of suckers.

A legacy dishonored, will be better remembered.

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Hart, Cisneros, Spitzer
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Posted by: Col. Jackleg on Mar 10, 2008 9:03 PM   
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All are Democrats that at one time seemed to possess enormous potential in national politics with the White House not out of reach. All three ruined their potential with sex scandals that took them down. Add Clinton to the list to complete the Four Horsemen of the "Woody" club. All four had much to offer those of us that revere progressive governance but their respective brain waves were corrupted by their adolescent libido and promise gave way to lust. Cheney and Bush must be doubled over in laughter pain while the rest of us hear of McCain's daliance(s), Obama's soon to be shouted womanizing and Hillary's defense of the 3 AM phone call. We're running a whore house folks and that's more important than crimes against humanity, deficits, recession, human suffering and despair. Will we ever progress to a collective lucid interval? Not likely, there are simply too many morons afoot and before we are done we will rejoice in becoming Americhung Province in the vast Communist empire known as China. At that point, whether your zipper is up, down or at half-mast won't mean a thing and neither will any upwardly-mobile Democrat.

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The Emperor
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Posted by: gellero on Mar 10, 2008 9:52 PM   
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is entitled to his concubines and diversions. Who cares, really. But where did he get the $$$ for this overpriced puss on a governors salary??

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And What Fun
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Posted by: gellero on Mar 10, 2008 9:55 PM   
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is it if you can't show it off in public like Pres. Sakorzy.

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Revenge is good
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Posted by: gellero on Mar 10, 2008 10:12 PM   
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I'm sure Mr. Spitzer has done much evil to many people for minor transgressions. He probably deserves this humiliation and ruination.

May he rot in MSM hell.

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Intelligence Operations
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Posted by: schwarze sonne on Mar 10, 2008 10:47 PM   
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Washington DC has a history of exclusive call girl services run by mafias and intelligence agencies, both US and foreign. These have been used (especially in the Hoover FBI era) to entrap politicians and blackmail or dicredit them.
Add to this the fact that everyone in the country is under 24 hour surveillance (and really since the 1st Bush administration-this isnt new- look up "Carnivore" - a programme for computer programs to data mine all telephony worldwide) and I can't help but wonder...
Still, Elliot showed no self control, which is the first prerequisite of being a crusader against corruption.
I hope she was good....

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the saddest thing...
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Posted by: Moira61 on Mar 11, 2008 3:22 AM   
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is the look on his wife's face - that says it all.
I can only imagine what his three daughters are going through. Victimless crime? Not so. Not when you get caught anyway.

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Sex Scandal now, but what's slipping by under our noses...?
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Posted by: what now cartoons on Mar 11, 2008 11:22 AM   
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All eyes are on Spitzer, because we have a SEX Scandal. So NOW is the time to be looking around to see what else is going on, what else is about to be slipped by the American people.
And LOOK, congress is about to soften it's stance on FISA IMMUNITY!
So once again the Democrats seem to be wearing down and giving ground to the Bush administrations push to give the telecom companies immunity. No, no, no. These telecom monopolies have a broken the laws of our Constitution, for profit from our government. This cannot be allowed to happen, the crimes MUST be fully investigated, and the top government officials that sanctioned this, before 9-11 and after, must be exposed and then prosecuted. To let them get away with this undermines the very fabric of our Constitution.
I draw a weekly political comic strip that very few people see, where I deal with this and outer under reported topics, FISA Immunity is my latest, it's up on my website now.
www.whatnowtoons.com
Cartoons for the coming Progressive age

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The Mann Act
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Posted by: Longdream on Mar 11, 2008 8:38 PM   
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It's a hundred-year-old piece of crap, and they only use it against people they don't like-- Charlie Chaplin and Charles Manson were two. It's also like convicting Al Capone for tax evasion--a way to trump up some charges when you can't nail somebody when you want to. Very few people are convicted under the Mann Act.

The guy hired a whore. He used his own money. The consequences are personal--to his credibility, his marriage, his relationships with his kids, etc.

They should cut the crap with the Mann Act.

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Divine Brown
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Posted by: desidid on Mar 15, 2008 6:18 AM   
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Can't help but wonder how much support Spitzer would be getting if her name was Divine Brown. Can't help but wonder how much empathy the prostitute would be getting if her name was Divine Brown. Can't help but wonder how many opportunities to turn this mess into income this girl would have, if her name was Divine Brown.

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