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Pop Culture: Eliot Spitzer likes to party
by Daniel D. Snyder
Associate Editor
Arts | 3/11/08
Posted online at 3:09 AM EST on 3/11/08
He may not be a hot young heiress or have a top-10 album, but according to an affidavit unsealed by federal prosecutors, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer still knows how to party, and pretty hard at that.
So what hip clubs is this bad boy hitting, you ask? Well, it's not really a club as much as it is a hotel of sorts. But that's okay; plenty of hotels have totally hip bars in them, don't they? What about his friends? What hot celebs is he lighting up the town with? Scarlet Johansen? Collin Farrel? Meryl Streep? No, not really. It's not so much Meryl Streep as it is just a hooker.
Now, even though Spitzer has not officially been charged, don't go calling me a dirt-digging mudslinger just yet. Last Monday, Spitzer held a press conference at which he apologized for an undisclosed "personal indiscretion." Spitzer went on to say he had acted "in a way that violates my obligations to my family, that violates my or any sense of right and wrong." Somehow I can't imagine that he's referring to a toilet he clogged in his office and blamed on his secretary. Nope, he was probably referring to the time he stuck it to a prostitute known as Kristin, an employee of the Emperor's Club whose services reportedly run between $1,000 and $5,000 an hour.
This has come as a great shock, both to the public and to other government officials who have watched Spitzer make a career out of fighting corruption as New York's attorney general. He also spearheaded a series of very high-profile Wall Street investigations, including prosecutions of (surprise!) prostitution rings. The full effect of these allegations has yet to be seen, but it will doubtless leave an ugly scar on his administration.
Now, as for my reaction, I'm going to take the same approach I did in the Clinton era and declare with great enthusiasm: "I don't care!" Why? Because, simple an argument as it may be, there are more important things to worry about. Prostitution has been around for hundreds of years. Yes, it's a horrible and abusive industry, but not to hookers like Kristin. How many of you reading this paper can make $5,000 in an hour? Anyone? Didn't think so. If we're going to make a fuss about this sort of thing, let's help the hookers who are actually suffering on the streets, not pulling high-profile jobs in the high rise hotels.
So what hip clubs is this bad boy hitting, you ask? Well, it's not really a club as much as it is a hotel of sorts. But that's okay; plenty of hotels have totally hip bars in them, don't they? What about his friends? What hot celebs is he lighting up the town with? Scarlet Johansen? Collin Farrel? Meryl Streep? No, not really. It's not so much Meryl Streep as it is just a hooker.
Now, even though Spitzer has not officially been charged, don't go calling me a dirt-digging mudslinger just yet. Last Monday, Spitzer held a press conference at which he apologized for an undisclosed "personal indiscretion." Spitzer went on to say he had acted "in a way that violates my obligations to my family, that violates my or any sense of right and wrong." Somehow I can't imagine that he's referring to a toilet he clogged in his office and blamed on his secretary. Nope, he was probably referring to the time he stuck it to a prostitute known as Kristin, an employee of the Emperor's Club whose services reportedly run between $1,000 and $5,000 an hour.
This has come as a great shock, both to the public and to other government officials who have watched Spitzer make a career out of fighting corruption as New York's attorney general. He also spearheaded a series of very high-profile Wall Street investigations, including prosecutions of (surprise!) prostitution rings. The full effect of these allegations has yet to be seen, but it will doubtless leave an ugly scar on his administration.
Now, as for my reaction, I'm going to take the same approach I did in the Clinton era and declare with great enthusiasm: "I don't care!" Why? Because, simple an argument as it may be, there are more important things to worry about. Prostitution has been around for hundreds of years. Yes, it's a horrible and abusive industry, but not to hookers like Kristin. How many of you reading this paper can make $5,000 in an hour? Anyone? Didn't think so. If we're going to make a fuss about this sort of thing, let's help the hookers who are actually suffering on the streets, not pulling high-profile jobs in the high rise hotels.
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Dale King
posted 3/11/08 @ 11:46 AM EST
You don't care because you are a Democrat. Period.
Alan Royals
posted 3/11/08 @ 2:24 PM EST
The reason people should care is because this isn't a run of the mill sex scandal where only the radical right has their undies bunched up. Spitzer was NYS's Attorney General, meaning he made a career of cracking down on prostitution rings! The significance isn't that the man used prostitutes, but instead that he's a hypocrite!
Veronica Lake
posted 3/27/08 @ 11:38 PM EST
As to Eliot Spitzer likes to party --I appreciate a more candid response to all this scandal. I'm a woman & who cares who is having sex? I mean come on, why are we all so purist about politics, when these people are no better than anyone else? Yes Spitzer is an attorney with a history of ethics & serving the people for the greater good. (Continued…)
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