Posted by Erik Wemple on Mar. 10, 2008, at 4:00 pm
- He did prostitutes.
- He did at least one prostitute in D.C., at the Mayflower Hotel.
- He did prostitutes despite a record that’s built on breaking up organized crime rings.
- He did prostitutes despite having a wonderful family and a great, supportive wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, who looked like death at his press conference today.
- He did prostitutes, a fact that most pundits agree post serious political problems for him.
- He did prostitutes, a fact that old pal Alan Dershowitz calls a big deal in America but no big deal in Europe. (Note to Dersh: This is America.)
- He did prostitutes, a fact that has occasioned headlines saying that he’s been “linked” to a prostitution ring, a characterization that Spitzer fans, that most shrinking of breeds at this point, think overstates the case. For the record, there’s no overstating the case in this case.
- He did prostitutes, a fact that could pose some political problems for Hillary Rodham Clinton, for whom Spitzer is a committed superdelegate.
- He did prostitutes, which makes it much harder for him to become the first Jewish president, according to experts on MSNBC.
- He did prostitutes, a pattern of behavior that drew a rebuke from New York state assemblyman Jim Tedisco, who represents one of the greatest districts in all of the Empire State (Schenectady).
- He did prostitutes.
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March 10th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
being a student of the law, Spitzer chose a DC hotel knowing there’s a precedent for the Bitch-Set-Me-Up defense.
And doesn’t spitzer look like a combination of Bill Cowher and Satan?
i wonder if the news is this big in New York…