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Feds Embarrassed Spitzer With Gratuitous Details

Ryan Tate — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:47:59 EDT

If you missed the prior leaked stills in the Post or Orlando Sentinel, Girls Gone Wild's video of Eliot Spitzer hooker Ashley Dupre may contain some revelations; otherwise you'll feel like you've already seen it. The video is excerpted by the Post here and for sale here.
Obviously, someone has already stolen the door number off the room where Spitzer allegedly did his whoring. [Times]
Old people are often caught whoring because they don't understand technology and the internet. Young people are often caught whoring because they understand the internet too well and post pictures of themselves whoring. [Times]
The Times investigated whether federal agents were overzealous in their prosecution of Spitzer and found that, yes, they probably had to go after a governor whose banks reported suspicious activity and who was very obviously whoring. But they so didn't have to include juicy sex details in their affidavit for the news media to find. [Times]
Because Gov. David Paterson was kind of cheap about conducting his affairs, he will be a more fiscally responsible governor. [Times]

Male Escort, Homeless Guy Now Defining Governor Sex Discussion

Ryan Tate — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:08:37 EDT

If it sometimes seems like every American will be talking constantly and forever about politicians whoring and cheating and having threesomes, until, within our sad lifetimes, the political fabric of the nation turns to ashes and our economy is paralyzed and society burned to the ground, it's because that is probably what is going to happen. In the meantime, let's all read and think about these important sexual issues some more. Here is what everyone is saying about governors having sex with people other than their wives:

The Times cast a wide net to gather reaction to all the recent kinky governor action going on with Eliot Spitzer and his whores, David Paterson and his mistresses and Jim McGreevey and his driver and his wife. A male escort said we're cheapening politics and keeping otherwise brillitant johns from running for office. A homeless man said something on a cardboard sign, and the newspaper was amused but criticized his syntax. [NYT]
In the same story, the Times pointed out that adultery is actually illegal in New York. So why isn't Paterson gone yet?
Paterson is so not worried about that supposedly dirty tape of him talking to one of his mistresses. [Post video]
Playgirl, assuming this is really the porn magazine's blog, would like to cut a deal with Spitzer. Somehow I doubt it will involve as many digits as his whore's deal. [Playgirl]
DC's Mayflower Hotel is basically the Grand Central of whoring and debauchery, having hosted not only Spitzer and his hooker but also JFK's mistress, Clinton hookup Monica Lewinsky and former mayor Marion Barry and his crack pipe. "We are in the business of selling rooms... And the escort services are in the business of keeping our guests happy." [NYT]
Spitzer hooker Ashley Dupre may turn against two of her lesser pimps and rat them out in court. [Post]

Call Girl Will Probably Get Rich While The Wife Gets Blamed

Ryan Tate — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:00:33 EDT

In America, when two adults have consensual sex, and the circumstances are just right, they give birth to a vibrant media subeconomy, and this is the continuing miracle of the story of disgraced Gov. Eliot Spitzer and admired prostitute Ashley Kristen Alexandra Nina Vanetta DiPietro Dupre. There is money, attention and even political opportunity swirling around Dupre, so of course Mayor Michael Bloomberg is on the scene, along with Laura Schlessinger. Here is a roundup of all the new and exciting things about "that whore chick:"

New York magazine said Dupre is rich based on this formula: her songs cost $1, they have been downloaded 2 million times and Dupre gets to keep 70 percent of the profit. But it looks to me like the song has around 200,000 listens, not 2 million (see bottom left corner of this page). Also, you can listen to a song without buying it, and that's what the vast majority of people are probably doing.
The real money, of course, is in Playboy and Penthouse nudie pic deals and in a book contract, as noted in the same New York mag post.
Now that Spitzer is gone, Bloomberg is getting all excited about becoming the first Robot Governor of New York even though he JUST PROMISED US ALL he would stop doing things like this. But he probably doesn't want to be a rich white technocrat running against a blind, black, relatively poor emergency governor, so he secretly prays Andrew Cuomo will destroy new Gov. David Paterson in the primary.
The public will soon callously toss aside Dupre, just as it did the high-priced Brazilian hooker who was once on the cover of the Daily News but just got deported and nobody cared.
Fake psychologist Laura Schlessinger said spurned hottie Silda Spitzer has "responsibility for mistreating her man."
The Eliot Spitzer story leaked, eventually to the Times, when people started asking why the Feds' chief corruption guy was so interested in this whole prostitution case.
It has been reported that Spitzer knew he was in trouble starting Friday, but he did not start looking for a public relations firm until Tuesday. At that point, even the flithy flacks (or at least one filthy flack) wouldn't touch him.

Your Afternoon Spitzer Update

Pareene — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:46:07 EDT

If Spitzer doesn't resign, the Republicans will try to impeach him.
The evolution of New York Times headlines: we've moved on from "weighing" and are on to "expecting."
Spitzer got caught after the IRS noticed odd financial transactions. But is taking a couple grand out here and there really that odd? Or is it the further politicization of Bush's Justice Department? Did Cheney do 3/10?
Spitzer could be prosecuted under the Mann Act! He "trafficked" his lady across state lines (ironically, considering that Spitzer signed New York's landmark anti-trafficking law last May) because he was too snobby for regular DC prostitutes.
All the New York papers called for Spitzer's resignation. Except the Times!
Does this mean we'll never get a Jewish President?
Our NSFW brothers at Fleshbot take the pro-high-class prostitution position.
Spitzer's alias: George Fox. The name of a major Spitzer findraiser, a Quaker theologian, and a "ho-bustin' Wild West Rabbi."
Meet our first blind black governor!

In Which Eliot Spitzer Does Something He Shouldn't — With a Lady!

Sheila — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:19:33 EDT

Spitzer paid to see a lady and he's sorry. He said so on the TV.
Who else has done bad things with fast girls? Everyone, pretty much.
Will his wife handle the news with stoic grace, as is the custom?
If not, at least she can retreat to their eco-friendly Governor's Mansion. It's "green."
Unless he resigns? Which he shouldn't.
Is this the tryst-hotel room? Omg omg omg.
Hillary Clinton is taking back all the nice things she said about him.
Need informed cocktail party chatter? Here it is. Now don't you get caught doing whatever bad things you're doing!