All these spineless women. Hopefully her daughters won't grow up to be as dumb.

A friend of a friend had dinner at the Spitzer's right before the story broke. Silda asked Eliot if he wanted to dress his own salad or if he wanted her to toss it. Eliot said, "Oh, my lamb, you know that's not your job." They paused for a second and then they both laughed and laughed. Later, Silda cut herself and pretended it was an accident.

You wonder which one of them made her stand there.

or maybe she was crying because it's just so embarrassing?

Hopefully, Silda was having an affair herself. With Cindy McCain. On video. That they wish to share with me.

Wow, the all the fucking cunt political wives are having a banner week. Keep these bitches in their place, men, or they'll be wanting the vote real soo...um...

Maybe she thought he was soliciting sex in airport restrooms, like normal politicians.

Didn't I predict in the comments section several days ago that she probably knew about the girls and didn't give a shit?

Duh, she was crying because her husband just lost his job and she was embarrassed on national television.

I don't believe this for a second.

@drunkexpatwriter: exactly. she had a lot to lose too by this scandal which i would guess is probably why a lot of politicians' wives put up with cheating. regular wives too, come to think of it. it's embarrassing to be cheated on.

@drunkexpatwriter: yeah, I think that's probably very accurate.
Women know. They just do. They're smarter than we men-folk when it comes to stuff like that. it's like they have this 7th sense. Their 6th sense is the ability to sense fear in squirrels.
When confronted face to face though, it's a little harder to just suck it up and pop a xanax. I mean they still take the Xanny bar but their normal human emotions resurface, like a long lost set of car keys.

Eliot Spitzer is tight with Jerome Hauer, who was (maybe still is) managing director of Kroll private security.

Oddly, Hauer warned the Bush White House to go on Cipro, the anti-anthrax drug, on 9/11/01. Hauer denies this, but the White House did go on Cipro. Six days later, the anthrax attacks started--and when the government watchdog group Judicial Watch demanded to know who warned the Bush White House, but not the public, the White House stonewalled their Freedom of Information Act requests.

"I read that the White House did know, and they went on the anti-biotics," says Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman. He got involved because, "African American employees at Brentwood US Postal Facility were basically left out there to twist in the wind when the white guys up on Capitol Hill got immediate treatment."

Post-9/11, Jerome Hauer went on to be Coordinator of the National Institute of Health's investigation of anthrax deaths. His report blamed Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. That assertion has been widely discredited, since the five deaths in 2001 were from a fine, "weaponized" form of anthrax, the "Ames Strain" that only the U.S. military and U.S. federal government possessed.

On 9/11, Jerome Hauer appeared on television with Dan Rather. Rather posited that the 9/11 attacks must have had state sponsorship. Hauer urged Rather to blame Bin Laden only. When Rather voiced suspicions about the way the buildings fell, Hauer offered that they simply came down because they were hit by a plane. Without an investigation, Hauer somehow knew two major parts of 9/11's official story before it emerged.

Hauer is biological terrorism expert whose resume includes time at Science Applications International Corp (SAIC), a military contractor doing work in nuclear issues and psy-ops, and Bioport, manufacturer of the controversial anthrax vaccine.

Jerry Hauer and anthrax go way back. In May of 1998, he spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations on the topic of "Building a 'Biobomb': Terrorist Challenge." That evening Hauer co-presented on the topic Steven Hatfill. Yes, that Steven Hatfill, the one who later became the FBI's prime suspect in the anthrax mailings. A year after their CFR presentations, Hatfill and Hauer would become coworkers at SAIC's Center for Counterterrorism Technology and Analysis.

Hatfill had worked at Ft. Detrick, the U.S. Army's bio-weapons lab in Maryland. Hatfill was never convicted, nor even prosecuted, for anything. Today he's suing reporters for defamation. On Aug. 15, a judge ruled that five top national reporters would have to reveal confidential government sources who fingered Hatfill.

Spitzer's good buddy Hauer repeatedly referred to the Grand Jury as "a bunch of nutjobs" and he defended Steven Hatfill. But when asked directly if Hatfill was innocent, Hauer was less than clear:

"I think that the FBI should not have said anything about Hatfill until they knew more. I do not believe Hatfill is a murderer. And I think Steve Hatfill is very passionate, but I don't think he's a murderer, and I don't believe he did it."

Hauer was not willing to conclusively say that Hatfill was uninvolved in the anthrax attacks, stating, "I'm not going to get into those details."

Of the five people who died from anthrax exposure, one was a New Yorker. Kathy Nguyen, a hospital worker in the Bronx, was a victim of inhalation anthrax. She died alone in a hospital on October 31, 2001.

A 2004 petition gathered 100,000 signatures begging then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to investigate the real source of the 2001 attacks. A Zogby poll that year likewise found that 66 per cent of voters wanted Eliot Spitzer, to tackle these tough questions.

What those poll respondents didn't know is that Spitzer can't investigate 9/11 or anthrax. He would have to indict his friends from Kroll.

That's the real scandal.

@Dusty in the Wind: Oooo-kay, Dusty. Do you need a Hello Kitty shower cap?

The NY Post will print anything to further slag this nincompoop and his hapless family. I don't even care if it's remotely true, it's no longer news and it's the kind of puerile gossip that ruins it for the classy gossipers.

I'm thinking Johnson's "source" is the Governor of Poontown himself.

@Dusty in the Wind: tl;dr. But I gleaned enough crazy to knit me a tinfoil hat. Juicy fruit?

@Dusty in the Wind: what blog did you copy that from?

@hypocriteoath: Down the rabbithole: www.truefacts.co.uk/articles/spitzer.html

@Dusty in the Wind:
"I read that the White House did know, and they went on the anti-biotics," says Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman.

Nothing clears the sinuses and eases the pain like a good Larry Klayman quote belly laugh.

If historical precedent means anything here, can we expect Silda to run for governor after a short bout in the New York State Senate?
And, Dusty in the Wind, how can I get me a job at Kroll? I have a yen to be involved in a REAL scandal.

@dosido: Very "edgy" comment. Yep, you're living on the edge buddy...

i think she was more upset that he couldn't cover his tracks.

@dosido: to the guillotine, monsieur dosido.

I think Silda intuited long ago that Eliot was cheating. You know when your partner's not being honest. But the details — $80,000+ for unprotected sex with young hookers while on "official business" — was probably unknown to her. I think the revelation of the magnitude of his lies and disrespect, the public humiliation, having to face her daughters and family, and the disappointment of seeing her husband for what he really was probably rocked her to the core. And I don't think it's fair to criticize her at all.

@Bell County: aha! thankya.

I've been saying this since this whole damn thing started. I think I would be more appaled if she didn't know.

@drunkexpatwriter: Exactly. Wouldn't you be upset if a good marriage and a comfortable arrangement blew up on you? Good heavens, Gawkerites, I've said this before about other scandals but: Do you all really think that physical fidelity is always necessary for a happy marriage?

As a commenter from the top of the age demographic, I am shocked and disappointed. How old do you young'ns have to get before you really appreciate mature filthy behavior?

That's what happens when smart women GIVE UP THEIR JOB to be a wife and mother. Why can't we be a bitch in the boardroom and a whore in the bedroom at the same time?!?!?

Ladies, NEVER GIVE UP YOUR JOB for a man.

@Pussy Galore: Linda Hirschman?

@Nard38: I don't believe you.

@Dusty in the Wind: Rather than seeing conspiracies whenever things get fucked up in Washington, you should simply assume the default explanation of total incompetence. That always works for me.

P.S. Many people without any inside info suspected that Bin Laden was behind 9/11 as soon as the second plane hit.

@Dusty in the Wind: have I seen you holding a big sign in Union Square? maybe you could try basket weaving. :)

@Nic Fit: @bess marvin, girl detective: Do y'all even read the news? Between McCain and Spitzer it appears to be open season on these women. I'm not the one calling them cunts to the media.

@SarahHeartburn: Exactly.

My girlfirend has had several "affairs" over the five years we've been together and I've known about all of them. (Heck, she's in Rome with her ex right now.)

While I'm not upset at all over her trysts (if anything I find them exciting) I would be upset if her activities were broadcast to the world (and my family and friend) and if it led to either of us losing their jobs.

That doesn't mean I'm against extracurricular playing, it means I'm against scandal and embarrassment, which, I suspect is what was going on here.

@drunkexpatwriter: Call me old fashioned, but there seems to be a difference between trysts and FUCKING HOOKERS.

@PandoraSpocks: Like anyone with a memory of the previous WTC bombing or the 1998 African embassy bombings. (Morning Pandora!)@drunkexpatwriter: You've said it well, as usual. The point is - as it is with all human endeavor - to behave with dignity and respect for your loved ones. AND work it out talking before you get on with it.

@Helman: Lots of women who don't mind their husbands having extra nookie actually request that their hubbies only go out with escorts - because they feel like there is less of a risk of emotional entanglements.

I.E. an escort won't try to break up your marriage or stalk you, but a woman who actually falls in love with your husband might.

Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch and Ron Paul, U.S. Representative from Texas, have independently developed irrefutable evidence that Eliot Spitzer, as Attorney General, refused to wrest the investigation of TWA flight 800 from the FAA and FBI, despite the clear legal principle that the Attorneys General of New York, two other states and one commonwealth have exclusive jurisdiction to investigate tragic accidents occurring in the course of interstate commerce, as embodied in the "case or controversy" clause of the United States Constitution, Article 47 of the United Nations charter and clause 1 of the 1297 version of the Magna Carta.

Furthermore, according to evidence unearthed by respected former civil servant Pierre Salinger, Spitzer refused to investigate allegations that classmate James Cramer's stock picks were often faulty and that he was at most "excitable and at times annoyed," not in fact mad.

Also, ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross has hinted on his Blotter blog that Spitzer's wife, Silda, had full knowledge of the disgraced former governor's direct involvement in a Masonic conspiracy to obscure the true causes of the deaths of Jennifer Levin and Chandra Levy.

Neither Ross nor Salinger would comment for this report. Paul did not return phone calls before the deadline for this publication, and frankly we knew Klayman would comment and just weren't in the mood to hear it.

I think it's completely civilized. If all parties are in agreement, who cares? After popping out three girls and having to be a First Lady instead of lawyering (which is what she loved), I'd tell him to get his jollies elsewhere too. After all, he always came home and no one was the wiser. Well, until the Republicans started tailing him. Bottom line: this was likely her choice. How is that not a feminist action?

@Pussy Galore: Psst. Running a household and managing the activities and educations of three girls while simultaneously doing charity work and being a public figure... IS a job. She merely changed jobs, she didn't give hers up for any man.

It may come as something of a shock, but some women actually like doing what she does.

@M. Pompadour: It was just sex.

Conspiracy or way of the world?

So, uh... false intelligence, purposefully hyped to support a pre-determined policy, wasn't promoted through our mainstream media to create a political climate that assured congress would vote (right before November elections, strategically) for preemptive war in Iraq?

That didn't happen?

Yeah?

New York Times and others haven't apologized for flawed, false reporting based only on administration sources who turned out to be lying for a strategic agenda?

Really?

Then happy times in happy land to you.

@Helman: I agree. Also with what TheHonJudgeSmails said.

@BettyCrocker: Yeah. At least for a while, anyway. And we all know that even in a blue state like NY, a working wife gets shit for not being Saint SuperMommy and could hurt hub's chances of getting elected. She may have been waiting for him to have spent two terms in the Statehouse, then quietly gone for a lucrative divorce, and a new life. Marriage, after all, is a financial institution.

Maybe the pearls say "I'm shocked and devastated" and the Hermes scarf says "I'm sort of OK with it and ready to move on."

I didn't know that Silda bleeped. That makes all the difference.

I don't buy that Silda was happy merely employed as the household/charity manager, or that it was "just" sex and that somehow that view comes with "maturity." I don't buy that there ever comes a time when we no longer want or need to be truly loved by another person. If this is all between consenting adults, that's one thing, if it's not, that's another. But here's the issue with me - just how low have our expectations become? It calls to mind Catsoulis's movie review for Dedication in the Times: "That weird exhalation you hear at the multiplex these days is the sound of female characters settling for less than they deserve." And I think we all have different tolerance levels for being alone, and where we'll compromise (or give up who we are) so we aren't alone, but sometimes it's sad to see how much we invest in something that, in the end, not only doesn't fulfill us, but ravages us.

@bodegacat: Moral of the story, don't expect other people to make you happy. Just live with them, and do the hard work on your own.