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More people need to learn why a man who fucked a few whores lost his job while a man who fucked a nation keeps his.

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Sunday, March 30th, 2008 2:50am PDT - promote requested by kronosposeidon.

The blind guy is a priceless comedy of errors topping to this, bust-a-nut case Say it Loud-Black and Blind....who knew the gov was a freak.....Fines, reprieves, pardons and forfeitures....all that responsibility can make a man horny-

If Spritzer himself thought this was purely a political assassination/retaliation, why wouldn't he state the claims made in this video and create a worthy soundbite instead of the fake apology? Just askin'.

From Friday's "Real Time w/ Bill Maher" ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=x1h0HCLsLf8 about 1 minute into the clip), the same point came up: that the Spitzer scandal was a smear job. Yet another example of how Republican conservatives use "homeland security" to railroad Democratic politicians (as if another example was needed after the travesty surrounding senator Don Siegelman).

>> ^quantumushroom:
If Spritzer himself thought this was purely a political assassination/retaliation, why wouldn't he state the claims made in this video and create a worthy soundbite instead of the fake apology? Just askin'.


We'll probably never know. Some type of blackmail no doubt. I'm guessing they made it clear this was a fight he would not win.

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So we're pinning Spitzer's hooker binge on Bush now? A long bow to draw I think.

More likely the reason he fell so hard is because he had placed himself as a paragon of moral virtue- and we always like to see these types crumble.

When it first came out- I did have a few conspiracy tingles come out- because it seems so dumb for a former AG to get snared in something like this. I was thinking more of a mob blackmail job.

^No one doubts that Spitzer is guilty of fucking prostitutes, dag. However there is very little doubt in my mind that the man was targeted because he went after big business.

No doubt, he did set himself up as a so-called "paragon", and I'm sure that also played a part in his downfall. But special interests have been gunning for him for years because of his crusades against corrupt business practices.

Don't get me wrong. Anyone who walks the corridors of power needs to set an example. They can't be lawmakers and lawbreakers at the same time. (And I'm not talking about trifles such as parking tickets or jaywalking.) Personally I think prostitution should be a legal, regulated enterprise, complete with health exams, payroll withholdings, and the extra "sin tax" we levy against cigarettes and booze. However, it's still illegal now, and therefore Spitzer is a lawbreaker. Bush didn't force Spitzer to put his dick into Ms. Dupre, however Bush operatives relentlessly pursued Spitzer until they finally found something they could nail him with. And that, to me, is one more example of how debased our political culture has become.

God why do they always bring the wife out to these things?

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I'm not sure I buy the conspiracy KP - that these were "Bush Operatives" - the mainstream news explanation rings true to my ears. He was transferring large sums of money out of his bank account which automatically tripped the alarms.

If you think it's a conspiracy that they fingered him based on the money transfers- then you would have to believe conversely that "normally" the FBI would turn a blind eye to a high-ranking politician's escapades - which is more disturbing to me.

dag, you really think a AG would do something that automatically trips alarms? Like, the alarms he used to use to track down and prosecute lawbreakers? Really?

No, somebody was scrutinizing his life. The real question is whether it was because of this specific issue, or just politics as usual.

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More people need to learn why a man who fucked a few whores lost his job while a man who fucked a nation keeps his.

I think they both deserve(d) to lose their jobs.

>> ^dag:
So we're pinning Spitzer's hooker binge on Bush now? A long bow to draw I think.
More likely the reason he fell so hard is because he had placed himself as a paragon of moral virtue- and we always like to see these types crumble.
When it first came out- I did have a few conspiracy tingles come out- because it seems so dumb for a former AG to get snared in something like this. I was thinking more of a mob blackmail job.

Check these out:

Feds shift strategy in bid to snare Spitzer: Campaign finance

King of Swing?

I don't know if there's wide-ranging conspiracy against Spitzer, but it appears that at least a couple of prominent Republicans had it in for him.

Dag, Spitzer was the corporate public enemy #1. Check out his political history - especially his work as AG. He took on corporations like no other politician has in my lifetime. Beyond that, the government and media pretty much ignored Cheney's similar indulgence in the DC prostitution ring. Do you believe the Bush administration/corporate giants are above this kind of thing?

>> ^dag:
I'm not sure I buy the conspiracy KP - that these were "Bush Operatives" - the mainstream news explanation rings true to my ears. He was transferring large sums of money out of his bank account which automatically tripped the alarms.
If you think it's a conspiracy that they fingered him based on the money transfers- then you would have to believe conversely that "normally" the FBI would turn a blind eye to a high-ranking politician's escapades - which is more disturbing to me.


There are 1.2 million of those "automatic alarms" every year thanks to the PATRIOT Act. Nobody would have found it if they hadn't been searching for Spitzer in the database. The federal Justice Department never gets involved in an individual's prostitution case unless there's a political assasination at stake.