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Title Of the Year

by John Cole|  March 10, 20085:51 pm| 50 Comments

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Clinton Yanks Spitzer Endorsement Faster Than A Hooker Yanks… Well, You Get It

LOL. Apparently the website has already been scrubbed of Spitzer references.

Speaking of things that amuse me, last night I couldn’t sleep and was watching Revenge of the Nerds on HBO. For some reason, perhaps because I am 37 years old going on 12, the scene where Takashi is working the locker room for the football team and Ted McGinley’s character asks him if he knows karate always cracks me up. I am sure one of you can find that scene on youtube, but I can’t.

Consider this an open thread.

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  1. 1.

    Jorge

    March 10, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    Are you a hooker?
    I just thought I was doing great with ya…

    Dudley Moore in Arthur

  2. 2.

    maxbaer (not the original)

    March 10, 2008 at 6:09 pm

    I thought Spitzer was a Democrat.

  3. 3.

    maxbaer (not the original)

    March 10, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    Oh, no diapers or wetsuits. Now I see the distinction.

  4. 4.

    Dug Jay

    March 10, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    An interesting sidelight…the NYC NBC affiliate is reporting that Spitzer used the name, “George Fox.” It’s not known if this name was selected as an homage to FOX News.

    Also, they report that the full text of the discussion captured in the wiretap (but not included in the criminal complaint filing) has Spitzer asking for an “unsafe sex practice,” with Kristen, the hooker, saying “No way, Jorge.”

  5. 5.

    Dennis - SGMM

    March 10, 2008 at 6:17 pm

    If Spitzer had endorsed Obama, Hillary and her surrogates would be braying to everyone who would listen how this demonstrates Obama’s lack of judgment.

    Spitzer had already done some shaky things before this broke. He managed to go from being elected with 70% of the vote to enjoying a 44% approval rating.

  6. 6.

    John Cole

    March 10, 2008 at 6:18 pm

    WTF is an “unsafe sex practice?”

    Was he asking her to have sex in a Baghdad market?

  7. 7.

    Dennis - SGMM

    March 10, 2008 at 6:22 pm

    WTF is an “unsafe sex practice?”

    Playing Center on a Republican touch football team.

  8. 8.

    4tehlulz

    March 10, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    WTF is an “unsafe sex practice?”

    The sick bastard wanted to have heterosexual intercourse in the missionary position.

  9. 9.

    HyperIon

    March 10, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    John Cole Says:

    WTF is an “unsafe sex practice?”

    um, bare-backing, like in sully’s infamous personal ad.

  10. 10.

    Ted

    March 10, 2008 at 6:38 pm

    um, bare-backing, like in sully’s infamous personal ad.

    Sully really doesn’t like it when people bring that up.

    Know Hope.

  11. 11.

    Wilfred

    March 10, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    In all the excitement about Client 9 let’s not forget:

    BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber killed five U.S. soldiers as they chatted with shop owners while on a foot patrol in central Baghdad on Monday, the deadliest attack on American forces in the heavily fortified capital in more than eight months.

    The bombing, just four days after nearly simultaneous blasts killed scores of people in a vibrant Shiite commercial district, again showed the insurgents’ ability to strike inside a capital secured by hundreds of security checkpoints, U.S.-funded neighborhood watch groups and hundreds of miles of blast walls that surround buildings and cordon off districts.

  12. 12.

    myiq2xu

    March 10, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    WTF is an “unsafe sex practice?”

    Using the same men’s room as Larry Craig.

  13. 13.

    Ted

    March 10, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    Why do guys with perfectly attractive wives do this crap? Spitzer was being groomed as a viable future Dem presidential candidate, and he blew it all away (no pun intended).

    Besides, he could have just done what plenty of other politicians do to prevent scandals like this: do it out of the country.

  14. 14.

    myiq2xu

    March 10, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    Why do guys with perfectly attractive wives do this crap?

    According to the wiretap transcript he paid “extra,” so apparently there’s something the wife won’t do. Or perhaps it’s more like Robert DeNiro in Analyze This.

    Billy Crystal tells him he should ask his wife for what he wants instead of using a prostitute and he replies “With the mouth she kisses my kids with?”

    From the look on Mrs. Spitzer’s (spitter?) face I hope the hooker was worth it, cuz it don’t look like he’ll be getting any for a while.

  15. 15.

    TheFountainHead

    March 10, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    I don’t want to make myiq’s head asplode, but I’m just gonna come out and say that it would not be at all fair to let any of Eliot Spitzer’s fuck-ups and lies spill onto her campaign. For one, what’s another stain? For another, everyone has secrets, and clearly this was one of Mr. Spitzer’s, and our friends secrets should not be allowed to haunt us. Her scrubbing him from her website, while comical, perhaps, is more an indictment of the predicament he put her (and every Democrat, for that matter) in with his poor choices.

    Just sayin’.

  16. 16.

    Ted

    March 10, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    According to the wiretap transcript he paid “extra,” so apparently there’s something the wife won’t do. Or perhaps it’s more like Robert DeNiro in Analyze This.

    Perhaps. But if David Vitter didn’t have to pay nearly that high a price for what he needed out of a hooker, Spitzer’s got to have some very fine/very weird tastes.

  17. 17.

    myiq2xu

    March 10, 2008 at 7:09 pm

    Spitzer’s got to have some very fine/very weird tastes.

    Either that or he’s a bad negotiator. He wasn’t spending taxpayer money was he?

  18. 18.

    Jorge

    March 10, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    From what CNN is reporting, these were $1,000 – $3,000 an hour prostitutes. Similar to the kind of girls enjoyed by Vinnie, Drama, Turtle and Bob Saget on Entourage (for the sake of accuracy – Vinnie didn’t have to pay)

  19. 19.

    myiq2xu

    March 10, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    Her scrubbing him from her website, while comical, perhaps, is more an indictment of the predicament he put her (and every Democrat, for that matter) in with his poor choices.

    At times like these I always am reminded of the movie Dave, where Frank Langella’s hosting an announcement party and then suddenly he’s all alone.

  20. 20.

    Ted

    March 10, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    Either that or he’s a bad negotiator. He wasn’t spending taxpayer money was he?

    I believe it was his own money. But apparently the investigation started when his bank was obligated under some regulation to report some weird things regarding his accounts to the IRS. The FBI then thought they had a case of someone trying to hide bribes, but they eventually figured out what was really going on.

  21. 21.

    Ted

    March 10, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    At times like these I always am reminded of the movie Dave, where Frank Langella’s hosting an announcement party and then suddenly he’s all alone.

    One of my favorite male actors. And a one-time boyfriend of Whoopi Goldberg, strangely.

  22. 22.

    myiq2xu

    March 10, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    The FBI then thought they had a case of someone trying to hide bribes, but they eventually figured out what was really going on.

    He was trying to hide the salami?

  23. 23.

    KCinDC

    March 10, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    I understand why the NRCC might be feeling desperate, after the embezzlement and after losing Dennis Hastert’s seat despite dumping $1.2 million into the race, but this is just stupid. Because Spitzer hired a prostitute, his money suddenly becomes sleazy?

  24. 24.

    Ted

    March 10, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    Because Spitzer hired a prostitute, his money suddenly becomes sleazy?

    They’re desperate, wounded animals. They should be pitied, then put down.

  25. 25.

    libarbarian

    March 10, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    you’re only 37?

    I got the feeling you were older than that.

    You have the crankiness of a man twice your age :)

  26. 26.

    libarbarian

    March 10, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    Oh, and Revenge of the Nerds IS AWESOME not just cause its funny but because of its unabashed stance in favor of Nerd Pride.

  27. 27.

    cbear

    March 10, 2008 at 7:32 pm

    WTF is an “unsafe sex practice?”

    Umm, I imagine for Republicans that would be NOT fucking every tax-paying American citizen every fucking day.

  28. 28.

    Krista

    March 10, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    From what CNN is reporting, these were $1,000 – $3,000 an hour prostitutes.

    I’m pretty imaginative, but I cannot imagine any sex act (or combination thereof) worth $3,000 an hour.

    For that price, I could buy myself a week in Paris with enough left over for a Rabbit Pearl.

  29. 29.

    Tsulagi

    March 10, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    Also, they report that the full text of the discussion captured in the wiretap (but not included in the criminal complaint filing) has Spitzer asking for an “unsafe sex practice,” with Kristen, the hooker, saying “No way, Jorge.”

    Stupid ass Spitzer. When the feds started calling, he should have used the Bush family values defense given under oath…

    The women, he said, simply knocked on the door of his hotel room, entered and had sex with him. He said he did not know if they were prostitutes because they never asked for money and he did not pay them.

    “Mr. Bush, you have to admit it’s a pretty remarkable thing for a man just to go to a hotel room door and open it and have a woman standing there and have sex with her,” Brown said.

    “It was very unusual,” Bush said.

    You know, too stupid and retarded to know she was a hooker, and too cheap to pay her. Smart, strong.

  30. 30.

    Tsulagi

    March 10, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    Krista Says:

    From what CNN is reporting, these were $1,000 – $3,000 an hour prostitutes.

    I’m pretty imaginative, but I cannot imagine any sex act (or combination thereof) worth $3,000 an hour.

    But you can for $1,000 or $2,000 an hour? This is an open thread…

    ;-)

  31. 31.

    myiq2xu

    March 10, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    From what CNN is reporting, these were $1,000 – $3,000 an hour prostitutes.

    Wow, at those rates I’d only need about $100 worth.

  32. 32.

    Malixe

    March 10, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    At least it was a good old fashioned call-girl in a good old fashioned commercial transaction, not some ‘wide stance’ proposition in an airport men’s room or using the power of the office to facilitate chasing after underage male congressional pages.

    I mean it’s good to see a Democrat standing up for the old fashioned, traditional way of doing things for a change!

  33. 33.

    myiq2xu

    March 10, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    Also, they report that the full text of the discussion captured in the wiretap (but not included in the criminal complaint filing) has Spitzer asking for an “unsafe sex practice,” with Kristen, the hooker, saying “No way, Jorge.”

    According to ABC they were watching him, not the Emperors Club, because they had a tip from his bank that he might be hiding bribes. Hiding bribes? He was making payments, not deposits. Well, not cash deposits.

    I hope this isn’t another Rovian prosecution like Siegelman.

  34. 34.

    Asti

    March 10, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    This reminds me of a great bumper sticker I saw the other day, it said: “Vote for Monica Lewinski’s Boyfriend’s Wife” ;)

  35. 35.

    chopper

    March 10, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    WTF is an “unsafe sex practice?”

    Was he asking her to have sex in a Baghdad market?

    according to john mccain that’s perfectly safe.

    maybe he has sex surrounded by soldiers and humvees.

  36. 36.

    tBone

    March 10, 2008 at 8:19 pm

    I’m pretty imaginative, but I cannot imagine any sex act (or combination thereof) worth $3,000 an hour.

    Good wetsuits don’t come cheap, you know.

  37. 37.

    DougJ

    March 10, 2008 at 8:20 pm

    I’m pretty imaginative, but I cannot imagine any sex act (or combination thereof) worth $3,000 an hour.

    For that price, I could buy myself a week in Paris with enough left over for a Rabbit Pearl.

    I think you’ve convinced everyone here that you really are a woman.

  38. 38.

    Asti

    March 10, 2008 at 8:20 pm

    Re: unsafe sex practices –

    Despite what you might think John, I can think of some. There are certain things that some perverted men do like to do that can create some real problems in the space/accomodation area. Not that I’ve ever been subjected to such myself, but, I do know some who have been. Of course, since you have one of those and not one of these, you probably wouldn’t consider such things. Have you ever heard of fisting? That’s pretty unsafe.

    Then again, maybe she was just a very smart prostitute who refused to have sex without a condom, and he wanted none of that.

  39. 39.

    tBone

    March 10, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    maybe he has sex on a giant pile of lobbyist cash, surrounded by soldiers and humvees .

    Fixed to accurately reflect McCain’s innermost fantasies.

  40. 40.

    Dug Jay

    March 10, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    In other unrelated news, the AP reports: “Democrat Mike Ciresi dropped out of the race for U.S. Senate Monday, giving comedian-turned-candidate Al Franken a major boost in his own Senate bid.”

  41. 41.

    Gus

    March 10, 2008 at 8:38 pm

    Shit, I don’t blame Hillary for throwing him under the bus. In a close election, you can’t afford to take chances. He fucked up. I don’t see how she owes him unqualified support.

  42. 42.

    Asti

    March 10, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    Did she wipe Bill’s name off the website too? Just wondering.

  43. 43.

    Mutaman

    March 10, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    One who spends their time purusing the Clinton websight to see if any references to Spitzer have been removed is entitled to permanent membership in the GET A LIFE club.

  44. 44.

    jake

    March 10, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    WTF is an “unsafe sex practice?”

    Are you serious? Please read this entire site before you go out on a date.

    maybe he has sex surrounded by soldiers and humvees.

    I don’t think that’s the sort of hummer he had in mind.

  45. 45.

    John S.

    March 10, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    Please read this entire site before you go out on a date.

    Wow, you worry about contracting an STD from simply going out on a date?

    Those must be some pretty hot and heavy dates.

  46. 46.

    cbear

    March 10, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    Have you ever heard of fisting?

    I think so. Isn’t that where one gooper shoves his hand up another gooper’s ass and trys to grab his bribe money?

  47. 47.

    TenguPhule

    March 10, 2008 at 11:35 pm

    Isn’t that where one gooper shoves his hand up another gooper’s ass and trys to grab his bribe money?

    I thought that was the popular party game known as Dug Jaying for Apples?

  48. 48.

    Asti

    March 11, 2008 at 12:54 am

    I think so. Isn’t that where one gooper shoves his hand up another gooper’s ass and trys to grab his bribe money?

    They hide money up their asses? Is that why they’re tightwads? ;) Can they get away with that when boarding planes? Is there a limit to how much they can carry?

  49. 49.

    ThymeZone

    March 11, 2008 at 1:03 am

    They hide money up their asses? Is that why they’re tightwads? Can they get away with that when boarding planes? Is there a limit to how much they can carry?

    So when somebody tells me to blow it out my ass, they are really asking me for a loan?

  50. 50.

    Asti

    March 11, 2008 at 1:09 am

    A loan? I think it’s more of a gift, they have no intention of putting it back ;)

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