Prosecutor of Pretend Crimes Prosecuted for Pretend Crime
Jason Kuznicki on Mar 10th 2008
With an extra helping of schadenfreude. And a side order of irony, too. TheSmokingGun has the dirt. You know you want to see it.
Tomorrow: Nothing but economic history, I promise. Dry. As. Dust. I promise. But today: Whores!
Filed in The Boudoir, The Bureau
Since Spitzer’s a Democrat, and quite a self-righteous one, I’m trying not to enjoy this too much. A GOP senator named Vetter got named in a DC hooker ring, and he was given a pass, as it was indeed a private matter.
Proper, in my view.
Spitzer was a prosecutor, however. My own rules for hypocrisy are pretty liberal—Spitzer said he failed to live up to his own standards, and that’s fair—among human beings who have standards, failure is inevitable.
But to condemn others [and Spitzer prosecuted prostitution] for what you do yourself is another matter entirely, and fits my definition of hypocrisy.
Now, if he gave hookers a break—and because there is no moral difference here between buyer and seller—perhaps he’s just the victim of bad luck.
Me, I just wonder how he could afford Emperor’s Club courtesans on a civil servant’s salary. Up to five grand a pop? At least we can hope he selected from the Three Diamond menu instead of the Seven, as any fiscally responsible politician would.
It appears schadenfreude is the word of the day…
I’m sure he could try to lawyer away from the term hypocrisy by pointing out that he wasn’t doing this IN New York, or maybe it was all the late nights pouring over “documents” surrounding the prostitution rings that he busted in his time in the AG’s office that warped or haunted his mind and made him act out, but none of this will mean a thing when this videotape from a recent high-level Governor’s cabinet meeting gets leaked.
I know it’s been done at other sites already, but I thought of it independently (like hundreds of other folks) and so just once I want to type:
“Spitzer? It damned near killed her!”
Okay, the adults can go back to work now.
Hoisted on his own petard!