Whoa! Spitzer caught

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  1. Spencer

    Spencer Active Member

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  2. pettyfog

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    HookerGate: Just a nudge.. to let you know the BIG Spitzer news is NOT about hookers and adultery.

    That was just incidental.

    Look it up for yourself.

    Once you've found that: Heres your self-delusion for the day, Why Spitzer isnt a Hypocrite

    Summary: Because he isnt Republican.
     
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  3. Lyle

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    His wife is hot and better looking than him.

    Maybe she is cool with it though, kind of like like Hillary Clinton's open marriage with Bill Clinton. To each their own.
     
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  4. HatterDon

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    The Greeks had a word for it ... and now we do:

    hubris [hew‐bris] or hybris, the Greek word for ‘insolence’ or ‘affront’, applied to the arrogance or pride of the protagonist in a tragedy in which he or she defies moral laws or the prohibitions of the gods. The protagonist's transgression or hamartia leads eventually to his or her downfall, which may be understood as divine retribution or nemesis. Hubris is commonly translated as ‘overweening (i.e. excessively presumptuous) pride’. In proverbial terms, hubris is thus the pride that comes before a fall.

    Albany's "moral steamroller" New York's "wiretapping maven" brought low by a wiretap on immoral activity. Forgive me if I don't weep.
     
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  5. Clevelandmo

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    Just the same old train wreck
     
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  6. Lyle

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    The three rising Democrat stars all cheated on their wives in the last year-and-a-half: Mayor Gavin Newsom (sic?) in San Francisco, the Mexican-American mayor of Los Angeles, and the now soon-to-be ex-governor of New York Eliot Spitzer.

    Republicans have David Vitter (Rhodes Scholar turned adulterer) of course.

    Powerful men, still haven't learned to control themselves.
     
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  7. pettyfog

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  8. pettyfog

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    Self-Correction.

    The Feds were looking at considerable sums of money being moved around by His Eminence, thinking it might pertain to bribery. But all of it was apparently just to buy tail.

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    A Bill Clinton impersonator made a phony phone tape which said in summary: "What an idiot, I could have hooked him up for free!"
    - I was wondering about that.

    Human foibles ! 'Cavorting with a hooker isnt as bad as having an affair. ' Wonder how many wives think that way.
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    This comes on the heels of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick having been caught by his wife with a few hookers in the manse. And her getting in a fight with one of them, who later ended up dead according to reports.

    And it's NOT just here:

    Teheran Police Chief/Moral Enforcer caught with six naked prostitutes

    Apparently he liked to pray with them while they were nude.
     
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    pettyfog, Mar 12, 2008
  9. Clevelandmo

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    My brother called me up last night to try to convince me to feel sorry for the guy. He said he was a great DA and governor who went after corrupt big business/banks/financial institutions, and he is now paying the price. He says the FBI's investigation was illegal.

    Does anyone know what that law says about wiretaping?
     
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    Clevelandmo, Mar 12, 2008
  10. Lyle

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    Wiretapping is entirely legal as long as law enforcement follow the required steps. There doesn't seem to be any information to suggest this FBI investigation was unconstitutional (illegal).

    This starts to explain how he got caught:

    http://www.volokh.com/posts/1205209162.shtml
     
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    Lyle, Mar 12, 2008
  11. HatterDon

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    and nobody would ever suggest that this Justice Department would target someone for political reasons. Not THIS Justicce Department; not in THIS administration.

    Glad the guy got caught; glad he's gone. I've had enough of self-righteous self-important lawyer-politicians. He's roasting, but it's on a fire he built. Let's all join hands and forget the fecker breathes air.
     
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  12. Lyle

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    True, but it started with the IRS looking for money launderers. They then tipped off the FBI, who then discovered he wasn't taking bribes, but was moving money around for sex.
     
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    Lyle, Mar 13, 2008
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