Goes to Radar:
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.
Jorge
Are you a hooker?
I just thought I was doing great with ya…
Dudley Moore in Arthur
maxbaer (not the original)
I thought Spitzer was a Democrat.
maxbaer (not the original)
Oh, no diapers or wetsuits. Now I see the distinction.
Dug Jay
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.”
Dennis - SGMM
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.
John Cole
WTF is an “unsafe sex practice?”
Was he asking her to have sex in a Baghdad market?
Dennis - SGMM
Playing Center on a Republican touch football team.
4tehlulz
The sick bastard wanted to have heterosexual intercourse in the missionary position.
HyperIon
um, bare-backing, like in sully’s infamous personal ad.
Ted
Sully really doesn’t like it when people bring that up.
Know Hope.
Wilfred
In all the excitement about Client 9 let’s not forget:
myiq2xu
Using the same men’s room as Larry Craig.
Ted
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.
myiq2xu
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.
TheFountainHead
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’.
Ted
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.
myiq2xu
Either that or he’s a bad negotiator. He wasn’t spending taxpayer money was he?
Jorge
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)
myiq2xu
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.
Ted
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.
Ted
One of my favorite male actors. And a one-time boyfriend of Whoopi Goldberg, strangely.
myiq2xu
He was trying to hide the salami?
KCinDC
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?
Ted
They’re desperate, wounded animals. They should be pitied, then put down.
libarbarian
you’re only 37?
I got the feeling you were older than that.
You have the crankiness of a man twice your age :)
libarbarian
Oh, and Revenge of the Nerds IS AWESOME not just cause its funny but because of its unabashed stance in favor of Nerd Pride.
cbear
Umm, I imagine for Republicans that would be NOT fucking every tax-paying American citizen every fucking day.
Krista
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.
Tsulagi
Stupid ass Spitzer. When the feds started calling, he should have used the Bush family values defense given under oath…
You know, too stupid and retarded to know she was a hooker, and too cheap to pay her. Smart, strong.
Tsulagi
But you can for $1,000 or $2,000 an hour? This is an open thread…
;-)
myiq2xu
Wow, at those rates I’d only need about $100 worth.
Malixe
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!
myiq2xu
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.
Asti
This reminds me of a great bumper sticker I saw the other day, it said: “Vote for Monica Lewinski’s Boyfriend’s Wife” ;)
chopper
according to john mccain that’s perfectly safe.
maybe he has sex surrounded by soldiers and humvees.
tBone
Good wetsuits don’t come cheap, you know.
DougJ
I think you’ve convinced everyone here that you really are a woman.
Asti
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.
tBone
Fixed to accurately reflect McCain’s innermost fantasies.
Dug Jay
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.”
Gus
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.
Asti
Did she wipe Bill’s name off the website too? Just wondering.
Mutaman
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.
jake
Are you serious? Please read this entire site before you go out on a date.
I don’t think that’s the sort of hummer he had in mind.
John S.
Wow, you worry about contracting an STD from simply going out on a date?
Those must be some pretty hot and heavy dates.
cbear
I think so. Isn’t that where one gooper shoves his hand up another gooper’s ass and trys to grab his bribe money?
TenguPhule
I thought that was the popular party game known as Dug Jaying for Apples?
Asti
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?
ThymeZone
So when somebody tells me to blow it out my ass, they are really asking me for a loan?
Asti
A loan? I think it’s more of a gift, they have no intention of putting it back ;)