Eliot Spitzer, Crook
The thing is, Eliot Spitzer is a crook. I’m not referring to the current prostitution scandal. I’m not referring to the scandal last year involving his senior aides and the leaking of confidential...
View ArticleLost In The Scandal
In the blur of yesterday’s news about Eliot Spitzer’s self-destruction came two unrelated comments that should have gotten more attention. First, there was the latest Michelle Obama utterance, this...
View ArticleWhy So Mum?
For a candidate who runs against old-style politics, who needs to make inroads with women voters, and who might do well to show a little political cunning, Barack Obama sure has been mum on the topic...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Spitzer’s Fall
The fall of Eliot Spitzer offers a reminder, after two years of tawdry Republican scandals used to brilliant advantage by Democrats, that misbehavior by public officials knows no party. Too often,...
View ArticleHe Does Not Get It, Or His Lawyer Does
Eliot Spitzer, with his wife in her new role as “sympathy prop,” has resigned. But he showed no sign that he’s aware of the depth of his offense. Twice referring to his sins as “private,” he doled out...
View ArticleShocked
When high-profile scandals break, the first reaction from elected leaders, as well as ordinary voters, is their claim to be “shocked.” Well, yes: we never imagined that Eliot Spitzer would fall from...
View ArticleHigh Moral Fiber
Eliot Spitzer’s not alone. The chief of Tehran’s police was arrested Monday when caught—literally—pants down in a brothel, in the company of six equally naked prostitutes (h/t: Gateway Pundit). As the...
View ArticleMore About the Goofball
Yesterday I wrote about Thomas P. M. Barnett, the author of the Esquire profile of Admiral Willam Fallon, head of Centcom, who resigned following the article’s publication. I have long known that...
View ArticleFreedom Fighter Called “Terrorist” by INS
Karen DeYoung published a story in the Washington Post that ought to embarrass anyone making decisions about who deserves permanent residence in the U.S. Saman Kareem Ahmad is an Iraqi Kurd who worked...
View ArticleThe Only Sin
The only mortal sin in politics is hypocrisy. Conservatives, especially social conservatives, have been easy targets for their sexual peccadilloes (which the media contrast with their public advocacy...
View ArticleThey Aren’t Thrilled With The Remarks?
Well what explanation could the Obamaphile punditocracy come up with for the Great One’s gaffe? There really is none. One gamely offers the contrite approach, as if acknowledging that Eliot Spitzer...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Uh oh: Eliot Spitzer is back in the political ring, “acting as an unofficial adviser to New York’s current governor, the hapless David Paterson, whose campaign for re-election is basically in the...
View ArticleThe Gray Lady Discovers It’s 2006 All Over Again
Even the Gray Lady must recognize the trend: The ethical woes facing Democrats are piling up, with barely a day passing in recent weeks without headlines from Washington to New York and beyond filled...
View ArticlePaterson, Spitzer, Sharpton — An Eternal Golden Braid
New York Governor David Paterson attempted to suppress an investigation into an aide’s alleged beating of said aide’s girlfriend, and lied to an ethics panel about the free tickets he scored to the...
View ArticleStrange Herring
Porn star drops out of Louisiana race, compares herself to Sarah Palin. Would have been worse if it had been the other way around. Germans fine Catholic bishop $13K for denying Holocaust. I always...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Doesn’t sound kosher: “Decoy Jews.” Doesn’t sound like a problem easily fixed: Noemie Emery on the oil spill writes, “Initially, the diagnosis was that Mr. Cool perhaps had an emotional deficit — the...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Bill Clinton sounds like he swallowed a eugenics textbook. “[T]he most delicious part of that [slur on the Russian immigrants to Israel] performance was his extraordinary—no, his fantastical, his...
View ArticleParker-Spitzer — You Gotta Be Kidding
I haven’t been motivated to watch CNN’s new talking-heads show hosted by Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker. Howard Kurtz’s column reviewing his own network’s show and the work of his colleague at the...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Stu Rothenberg doesn’t think much of the Dems’ Chamber of Commerce gambit: “This is what we call the political version of ‘jumping the shark’ — a desperate-looking charge that a campaign or a party...
View ArticleSchneiderman’s Partisan Fishing Expedition
Liberals are still seething over the way the Supreme Court reaffirmed the Citizens United decision in the Montana campaign finance law case where state restrictions on political spending were rightly...
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