I’ve Seen My Share of Spitzers: The View From an Escort Service
Oh Dranoes, give it a rest. Do you really think the entire world would be talking about this if Spitzer was involved in some bone-dry scandal involving the SEC or something? Both he and Jim McGreevy “violated the public’s trust” with minor asexual scandals (charges of extortion, cronyism, Troopergate, etc), but nobody outside of the editorial pages gave a damn until they did something involving sex.
This isn’t about “violating the public’s trust”. Those twenty pics on the New York Post website today weren’t of Elliot Spitzer’s oath of office posing topless. It was the prostitute.
You do your point further disservice by bringing Clinton into this. There were any number of (mostly faux) scandals involving the Clintons that drove Republicans mad during the 90′s. Grab any random person on the street and see if they can remember any of them that don’t involve sex. The average American couldn’t tell you the first thing about Whitewater, but they know what a cigar and a blue dress signify. The average American doesn’t know who Marc Rich is and doesn’t care, which pretty much obliterates your point.
The New York Times posted this story on Monday afternoon, and by Tuesday morning pretty much every person in the country knew the significance of “3 diamonds”, “four thousand dollars” and “Client #9″. And the lede wasn’t “Spitzer violates trust, law.” It was, “Spitzer caught with hooker”. Give me a break.
