March 11, 2008
Blogger Tony Sachs of the Huffington Post writes: I didn't think this year could get any more exciting politically, but Eliot Spitzer just took it up a notch. For the next several days, at least, Hillary and Barack will be the second most riveting story in the news.
It's like I'm a kid playing a video game, and I'm avoiding being killed for way, way longer than I've ever managed before, and then at some point, I hit a level and get some crazy bonus that I never even knew existed, like my ship all of a sudden gets twelve guns or an impenetrable force field or something. It's that cool.
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Then I realized that he brought it on himself, he made hypocritical statements that he apparently thought he was either above, or just kinda brushed them off to the side in his mind, and he acted incredibly self-righteous about it.
And it's even more fun that he brought this on himself no only through his own choices, but by cleaning up corruption and crime in his state as hard and best as he could.
You reap what you sow, Mr. Spitzer. You wanted to clean up your state? The Governor's office isn't exempt from that. Meanwhile, I'll keep playing my video games while I don't commit crimes or cheat on my spouse.
This keeps getting better and better.
Either way, seeing this hypocrite go down in flames is soooo much better than a bonus round. It would be just nice to see justice done after he's hounded so many for the same 'crime'.
http://www.theagitator.com/2008/03/11/great-moments-in-sex-scandal-press...
and SOOOOO appropriate.
It's only slightly related to gaming in that he was down on a game that has prostatution in it. However, I don't mind keeping these games out of childrens hands. I just don't want them categorizing games the same way the categorize pornography. There shouldn't need to be a back room or special business or license to buy games. They should be handled like beer, not like whiskey.
I 100% agree with you.
This guy should be out of office due to the hypocracy of his stance on prostitution not his engaging in it. I don't feel prostitution should be illegal, but it is. He obviously doesn't have a problem with it so he should have been for legalizing it rather than prosecuting people for it.
I wonder if his wife will kill him before he's prosecuted for his crimes. Anyone? She looked PISSED yesterday.
If only more politicians would live by that.
zero times 3 is still zero
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Is that the new Dem talking point?
Wasn't trying to flame the Dems, just making a funny.
UNFORTUNATELY, this will probably spawn an even nastier governor. The new one (whenever that happens) will have to take a platform of strict law and order. A candidate like that is likely to get legislation happy on "protecting the children" from games.
Note 'almost'.
But the 'ship just got 12 guns' reminded me of games I used to love to play... Games that don't exist any more. Games that SHOULD exist!
THAT would be funny.
Wonder if JT stays warm enough at night sleeping in that glass house of his? Maybe if he didn't throw stones he'd keep warmer, you think?
So...much...irony. First, we have a guy fighting against violence and sex in the media in all it's forms getting busted for prostitution. Now, we have a lawyer facing a seemingly ever increasing mountain of disciplinary problems probably resulting in his own disbarment calling for the disbarment of another lawyer.
In the words of Bill Engvall "You can not make this stuff up!" or "Here's you sign!". Whichever you think fits the situation best.
Oh, what I would give for an edit button of some kind ;)
Funny thing is, he hasn't claimed innocence in any of his filings or arguments. Regarding the charge that he made statements which were knowingly false, acted in a way not appropriate to a member of the bar and disobeyed several judicial orders, his response has been to attack all the people accusing him of this. Not once did he say he has not done those things, his only answer to the charges is that everyone is out to get him. It's like a murderer when asked if he killed someone replies with "There is a conspiracy between the police and the courts and the victims family to get me arrested and I'm suing them all!"
I suspect that Jack hasn't gone anywhere near the substance of the allegations against him because he can't. For example, his claim that Clatus Junkin told him that Judge Moore was a "case-fixer" has been publicly and repeatedly refuted by Mr. Junkin. I assume Mr. Junkin testified to as much at Jack's hearing. So it isn't surprising that, rather than squarely address the charges of the Florida Bar, Jack's apparently decided it's a better strategy to just blow the Florida Bar to smithereens. Unfortunately for Jack, the fuses of his dynamite sticks aren't long enough to prevent them from going off in his hands before he has a chance to lob them at the Bar (figuratively speaking).
By the way, he just resigned.