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And he could have been the first Jewish president! Eliot Spitzer, (still) governor of New York State, is weighing his resignation following his tryst with a shiksa prostitute. Though the idea of a Jewish president is great, let's be real: The guy was way too bald to ever make it into the Oval Office, regardless of his foreskin status. Some have blamed the Portnoy's Complaint instinct for this mess, but honestly, if this affair shows anything, it's that Jews are just like any other politicians, only occasionally more so.
Spitzer's education, propensity to argue and dedication to fitness all made him a nice Jewish boy. But he never conflated his moralist streak with his religion the way some Jewish politicians do (cough, cough Joe Lieberman). Instead, like Michael Bloomberg, also a member of the tribe, Spitzer was a crusader. As attorney general, he went after white collar criminals, as well as prostitution rings, and created a reputation as do-gooder fighting evil. (Bloomberg, less didactic, went after smokers and fatties.) And the public loves when anyone self-righteous, regardless of religion, takes a fall.
Prostitution affairs ensnare B-list political goys like Randall Tobias, Ken Calvert and Allan Howe all the time. Eliot Spitzer proves that Jews can violate the codes of marriages just as well as any other religion, and his fall from pious grace makes it more shocking (or entertaining, depending on the observer). But only a Jew would've thought to put a down payment for future services.
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"...and for the record, there were a few Jewish cowboys. Big guys who were great shots, and spent money freely"
Why does Gawker insist on not covering the Eliot Spitzer scandal? They're ignoring it as if it never happened. For Shame!
Has anyone located Eliot's baseball glove for like forensic testing or something.
1. It's "goyim", not "goys".
2. He's already married to a shiksha, so nu, you expect him to hire a Jewish prostitute?
@BullfightsOnAcid: It's the liberal media bias.
@BOO_BOO_HOFF:
"Shiksha" is the way Liza Minnelli pronounces it.
I repeat, I believe is was Rahm Emmanuel who said of Clinton, "he had an affair with a Jewish girl and hired a Christian lawyer. He should have had an affair with a Christian girl and hired a Jewish lawyer."
Just another big-spending, big government Democrat, shelling out $1,000/hour plus for sex with pros, whereas a limited-government "man of the people" Republican Larry Craig bends over filthy toilet seats and takes it up the dumper for nothing. The total cost to taxpayers: $0. That's why I'm voting for Ron Paul.
"For the Relief of Unbearable Urges"
There was a while yesterday when the madam was being reported as "Micah Rachelle Lewis of Brooklyn" and I thought, "Great. Wonderful. A Jewish madam. Just what we needed."
When it was finally reported that the madam was Temeka Rachelle Lewis, which, frankly, sounded like an African-American name to me, I thought, "Great. Wonderful. Why are they always pitting us against each other? It's like the 1995 Academy Awards when that Anne Frank documentary went up against that Hank Aaron documentary."
Spitzer takes "cultural Jew" to new highs (or lows). The putz was never even bar-mitzvahed. Save the kvetching.
"Eliot Spitzer proves that Jews can violate the codes of marriages just as well as any other religion"
I hate to be a stickler but when was this ever unproven?
@cassandra: I actually had an arch-conservative argue that Obama is such a "cultural black". It's a water-proof line of argumentation.
This should make an interesting new verse in Adam Sandler's Hannuka song.
We can only hope his Bubbe is already dead.
Allan Howe? I didn't know anybody outside of Utah ever heard of him! Google is a wonderful thing, isn't it?
Ben Goldhirsh will win in '24.
@drugman: Insofar as one can be a "devout" black or "practicing" black or an "Orthodox" black, a little more difficult. But with Jews, not so hard. And people are judging. All the time.
Can we start a write-in campaign for Solva Spitzer? Now she has the same experience as Hillary, and she's prettier!
She could do a "listening tour" first, a la H, but given the poor choice between a novice and anoth Clinton, she's be an easy win....
@PandoraSpocks: The marriage to a shiksa probably killed her long ago.
And a shiksa named KRISTEN of all things...
Now, is paying for it an actual AFFAIr? I know you ALWAYS pay for it, regardless, but isn't this just an illegal business transaction, not an AFFAIR?
Ven der putz shteht, ligt der sechel in drerd.
@MiniMencken: Grandma? Is that you? Actually she would probably have said A volf farlirt zayne hor, ober nit zayn natur. She was a deeply suspicious woman.
Did you guys just make up this story about his Jewishness being relevant to the story? Were people unaware that Jews have affairs until now? Why should Spitzer's case even inspire comment as to the reliability of Jewish legislators or their [apparently homogenous] collective morality?
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