Monday | March 10, 2008

"Facing the Music...and Dragging Your Wife Along"

The American media-oh hell, ALL MEDIA just loves a good sex scandal. New York State has a real corker right now: The Governer of New York, Eliot Spitzer, got connected -thanks to federal wiretapping- with a prostitution ring.

Now Sex and Government is nothing new, just ask the former First Groper (and possible First Husband) Bill Clinton.

What Makes Spitzer's fall so spectacular is that this is a former District Attorney who ran for public office with a kind of holier-than-thou zeal about how he was going to clean things up in Albany, the New York State Capital. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/10/spitzer/index.html

When I was working out today, the gym where I was at had TV's on showing Gov. Spitzer with his very pissed, dejected, and unhappy-looking wife.

Why is it, that every time a politician gets busted for doing something stupid, they feel compelled to wheel their wife in front of the press and the cameras? Why can't they face the music alone and leave their spouses out of it? "Well, she is just standing by her man!" Oh, give me a BREAK. These guys like Spitzer, the Ex-gov  of New Jersey who got busted having a gay affair, the Senator from Idaho who got busted right here in Minnesota of tryinig to solicit sex in the bathroom of Twin Cities International Airport, ALL of these schmucks decided to wheel their wives out under the uncomfortable glare of the press corps. If these guys really cared about their wives, 1. they would not have had the affair, and 2. They would have had the decency to leave them at home, be real men and face the music alone instead of trying to hide at the sides of their wives.

All I can say is that I would have LOVED to have a been a fly on the wall hearing the Spitzer family on their way home from  this press conference.

Posted by Nursedude at 20:22:41 | Permanent Link | Comments (3) |
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1 - I've always thought a book or made for TV movie from the vantage point of the political spouse (wife more often then not) would be very interesting and intriguing. These women are not so much dragged out as needing to play their role in good times and in bad. The unfortunate part of being a first-spouse is your life becomes a mere extension of your spouses. If their career falters due to scandal so does your own; buh buy White House/Governor’s Mansion.

But like you I would love to be a fly on the wall to see the utter drama that cannot be seen on camera. (Comment this)

Written by: Explosive Bombchelle at 2008/03/11 - 12:38:25
2 - As a New York-stater (adopted) I voted for Spitzer, but his behavior since he took office showed more arrogance than anything else. I just wondered why he thought he would get away with this: a. someone f*rts in the rainforest in Brasil and it will be on YouTube in 3 days, b. the people he prosecuted were powerful and not to be reckoned with - he didn't even fathom that some of those folks would go after him?
And then to subject your wife to the task of standing by him? Arrogance, pure arrogance! Nanou (Comment this)

Written by: Nanou at 2008/03/18 - 20:15:27
3 - I do have one "feel-good" story to come out of this political mess. A friend who has been down on his luck awaiting his big break finally caught it through this scandal; he was the director of the Mysterious music video that the call girl appeared in. He went from starving artist to "it" director overnight and it couldn't have happpend to a nicer guy. (Comment this)

Written by: Explosive Bombchelle at 2008/03/26 - 18:56:40
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