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| Lurid Moonbat Fantasy #48 -- Spitzer was "silenced" |
| 2008-03-19 |
The spectacular and bizarre release of secret FBI wiretap data to the New York Times exposing the tryst of New York State governor Eliot Spitzer, the now-infamous client "No 9", with an upmarket call-girl had relatively little to do with the George W Bush administrationÂ’s pursuit of high moral standards for public servants. Spitzer was likely the target of a White House and Wall Street dirty tricks operation to silence one of the most dangerous and vocal critics of their handling of the current financial market crisis. . . . . . . On February 14, Spitzer published a signed article in the influential Washington Post titled, "Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime: How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers." . . . With that article, Spitzer may well have signed his own political death warrant. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #11 Spitzer is probably wondering why the Obama racist preacher story couldn't have broken a couple of days earlier. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-03-19 18:20 |
| #10 She better look a lot like me. |
| Posted by: Elliott Spitzer 2008-03-19 17:43 |
| #9 Somebody fathered that 6 year old kid. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-19 17:35 |
| #8 #2 He has a completely sex free marriage that's solely for political reasons. That seemed to be high sport among the European |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-03-19 17:19 |
| #7 So either:- #1 He's trying or having "bareback" sex with hookers while also having sex with his wife as thus risking her health. OR #2 He has a completely sex free marriage that's solely for political reasons. Pretty messed up either way. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-03-19 11:35 |
| #6 Only Rove could have fostered in Spitzer the urge to spend tens of thousands of dollars and still not get the unsafe sex he was trying to pay for. Diabolical. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-03-19 11:07 |
| #5 Not to mention that apparently some of those accounts were those of the great state of New York, rather than private ones. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-19 10:28 |
| #4 It's pretty clear that Spitzer's father was a hard case, controlling and toxic to a kid who could never live up to his standards. Dinner times were briefings and heaven help the kid who wasn't prepared for the old man's grilling on their topic. Guy's worth half a billion but keeps his hands on it all: Eliot lives in an apartment in Manhattan that Dad continues to own, got his campaigns funded by Dad's money - but never inherited any to control himself and didn't even try to compete in that market. That's why Spitzer went after old guys running companies, often unfairly, as AG. The rage has been there all his life. I feel sorry for him and understand in a theoretical way why his wife would support him. (At a practical level if he were my husband, well .....) But understanding how he got warped isn't the same as thinking he is fit to hold public power. Spitzer got caught because he was laundering (excuse me, 'structuring') money movements through accounts to hid his whore habit. And that sort of money movement is something the Feds have been tracking very carefully since 9/11. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-19 10:25 |
| #3 You mean like with a ball and gag? Kinky. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-03-19 09:58 |
| #2 So this was a sting 10 years in the making, before Bush even took office? Wow, Rove IS the dark lord! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-03-19 09:41 |
| #1 Put this guy on "the list". Right away, Mr. Cheney... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-03-19 09:40 |