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Countezero said:
The irony here is too rich, Tiassa, and were this a Republican you would be doing a dance and running off at the gob about this episode showing how someone critical of something shouldn't denounce it, attack it etc. Yet here, when a Democrat, something most of the stories have chosen NOT to mention, you prevaricate, post links that make insinuations about the hand of the Bush administration and begin talking, one imagines breathlessly, about a comeback for Mr. Up-and-Coming.
Dude, he
banged a hooker. He didn't claim he was
just getting a massage. He wasn't a
paid abstinence advocate. He wasn't a
goddamned priest fiddling with the choirboys.
What? Marion Barry got away with
smoking crack with a prostitute. I
might be able to care less what happens to Spitzer after this. All he ever had going for him in my book was that he went after payola. Aside from that,
he was a prosecutor, and
if you don't know how I feel about prosecutors, you're not paying attention.
And this is too rich to pass up: "Regarding all of the breathless moralizing from all sides over the "reprehensible," outrageous crimes of Eliot Spitzer: are there actually many people left who care if an adult who isn't their spouse hires prostitutes?"
To which I would answer, 'Yes, there are.'
"Are there really people left who think that doing so should be a crime, that adults who hire other consenting adults for sex should be convicted and go to prison?"
Again, 'Yes, there are.'
Well, duh. Doesn't change the fact that those people are shameless perverts who would be better off paying attention to their own sex lives instead of other people's.
And that's kind of the point. Welcome to the twenty-first century, Counte. This is the United States of America, and in case you weren't aware, we Americans like to pretend we're smart, sophisticated, worldly people. We have opinions about everything. Yet, for some reason, those opinions are often really childish. Case in point:
Seriously. Perhaps your commentator should reconnect with the rest of America? The part that lives in flyover country? Or read up a little about how sordid prostitution is and how it takes advantage of/abuses young women?
Perhaps the people in "flyover country" ought to wake up and realize the damage of prohibition. You know, like—
Not to mention, for those of us who don't really care about prostitution, the whole rule of law thing.
—thanks for helping make prostitution so sordid.
That is, the powerful should be held to account like the little people, and if I'm going to jail for doing something like this, so should the Gov
Well, that remains to be seen. What, have you done time for banging a prostitute? Your lawyer couldn't keep you out of jail? Get a new f@cking attorney, mate.
Seriously.
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A note for Asguard
The point is that prostitution is illegal and Spitzer's a professional moralist. Therefore:
illegal + professional moralist = big f@cking deal
What, banging a prostitute? Who cares?
Oh, right, my bad. A bunch of nosy prudes in "flyover country" apparently care. You know, the same bunch that think gays are the end of civilized society, want their women to be baby factories, and can't tell the difference between a scientific theory and a goddamn fairy tale?
But, yeah, mate, I hear ye.
