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Little Elliot Spitzer likes to go shopping with his mother.

In France he'd only have to quit if he were cheating on his hooker.

France OK: Wife --> Mistress --> Regular Hooker

France not OK: Wife --> Mistress --> Regular Hooker ---> Hooker

What are the odds that he'll survive five days in the same house with Silda? Maybe he's hoping to die in office.

Jezus! Did you read Dana McGreevy's piece in the NYT today? She's needing a whole lot of therapizing. Just like Silda. My dear wife would cut off my balls--again--if I did this. And then my mother would have me strangled for getting caught.

The New York Times has a great/awful piece this morning[www.nytimes.com] about how Silda never liked being a political wife anyway. And this is before she had to stand next to her husband while he basically confessed to using $4300 hookers.

I really want to know what the difference between a free vagina and a $4300 vagina is. I'd start saving, but as Lieutenant Governor of the state of New York, I just can't risk it.

This severely diminishes my dream of having 4,300 billion consecutive Spitzer-related posts... oh well, I'll have to console myself with the Rockets going for 20 straight against the always-dangerous Atlanta Hawks tonight.

@freshyill: he apparently spent $80K on vaginas, so you better save a lot.

Am I completely provincial rube for saying that I don't give two shits about this story at all?

Other than the (admittedly awesome) "whore diamonds ranking system," not one detail of this story has been interesting for anyone other than Albany beat reporters/cable news anchors who have to fill time.

Obviously they need 5 days so they can convert everything to braille.

As my dyke roommate (from Chicago) asks "Is DC pussy so bad you got to import pussy from elsewhere?"

Any comments. Im not really qualified to answer that one.

The Spitzer catastrophe, following in the wake of the disasters involving luminaries such as Bill Clinton, Larry Craig et al., reminds us again of an important fact: a politician's dick is his worst enemy. This was actually well known back in the days of the Byzantine Empire, when aspirants to high office were required to get rid of the thing. Consider chemical castration, guys--it's less painful than the "clean slice" favored by Arab eunuch purveyors in days of yore!
Unfortunately, that would still leave us with Hillary.

Well, he had bills to pay. That's why effective monday. If I were him, I'd make it effective, say next month. Still close enough to avoid impeachment, and you probably stil get enough govt. paycheck for a couple 4-diamond whore nights.

Can't we at least get a Congressional Hearing out of this? With detailed testomony from Kristen and Clients # 1-9 of course. I mean, CSPAN ratings have been in the crapper lately . . . come on, this is too good a story to just let it die. Screw the Olympics & Pres election we need REAL entertainment this summer.

BTW, before Spitzer posts and lame recurring jokes go completely by the wayside, I finally figured out a celebrity (loosely defined) look-alike for Eliot: you remember when, in Miller's Crossing, two goons try to take out the Dane (one is shot through the doorway). The remaining goon is asked for information, and says "How do I know you won't kill me?" to which the Dane replies "Because if I find out you're lying, I won't get to kill you then." Well, that actor's name was Charles Gunning. [www.lifeinlegacy.com]

It's a good thing John McCain only cheated on his wife with strippers, not hookers, so he can still be President.

can I hit on Silda now?...definitely a GWILF...

@Serolf Divad: Ah, well, in France you don't have to R-word your O-word when you put your D-word in the wrong P-word. Also, your W-word wouldn't file for (the other) D-word. N'est-ce pas?

What a freakin dork! I know it is very easy to score a mouth watering drop dead gorgeous lady for 200 bucks all night and she will hang out the next morning if you give her Frosted Flakes. These dudes who pay big bucks are cluless suckers. Also Vegas call girls are way over rated and too expenisive. Jeez do these guys realize that the women compete like farmers at the market and try to under sell each other. Spitzer was sold the golden magic pumpkin, what a doofus, good pussy is not that hard to come by, no pun intended.

Paterson's not worried about an orderly transition. He just needs time to consult with his events planner cuz they're gonna party like there's no tomorrow in Albany and Harlem Monday night. Actually, there is no tomorrow in Albany because the state is virtually bankrupt.

Word of advice to Mrs. P.: Keep it simple. (Here and here.) Your second cousin, the budding designer, is not doing you any favors.

Were I in "Gay France" right now, I'd sleep in until 8 or 9, go down to the cafe and have a calvados in the morning, go to a cider farm, drink more there, then go back to town, have a long lunch, take a swim, a nap, then eat dinner w/ the crew, drink more, smoke a lot, then hit the sack and repeat. But then again, that's because "Gay France" is pretty much paradise, and living in Washington is hell. Maybe, in the end, ol' Spitzer is getting a chance we'll never get - to take his bags full of money and move to a permanent suite in the San Simeon and never think about our stupid politics ever again.

@palmbeachmaven: I think you're right, it was like looking into the monolith and beyond the infinite with her fashion choice in the second picture.

@Botswana Meat Commission FC:
"I don't give two shits about this story..."
Yeah, I don't live in NY or care what goes on there, but I agree that the whole online, high-priced hooker thing is fascinating. I've looked at the screen captures of The Emperor's Club VIP site, and I'm dumbfounded by, not only that such beautiful women are hookers, but that anyone short of the Sultan of Brunei would pay those outrageous prices! Maybe I'm sheltered but I didn't know shit like this went on!

There's obviously some kinda dig at the beginning of holy week going on here with the monday resignation. Either that or Spitz just wants one more good foot washing with whore tears.

@Doglessliberal: I'll decide if I want to keep spending *after* the first $4300. Who knows, maybe it'll turn out to be a regular ol' vagina.

@chapka: Yeah, but let's recall that McCain's strippers would have been of the style and vintage represented by Angela Lansbury in 'The Harvey Girls.'

Before Spitz, in law school, Silda was married to some other guy. The marriage lasted 29 days. I'm in flyover country, and I can smell the burning rubber from here.

@donocaster: I want to know who is so rich and so disgustingly foul that they can't find a regular gold digger mistress to waste that kind of money on. I mean, you can easily find someone just as hot as these girls, and it'll cost you a lot less than $4300 a pop.

Maureen Dowd this morning hints that maybe Ol' Eliot was being a little scammed price-wise with his hookers:

"(A friend of mine who knows the ways of the wayward, explained that the flesh-peddlers no doubt had a shell game as well as a shell company: "They say, 'You can have Jane. She's $1,000 an hour. Or, you can have Tiffany for $5,000 an hour.' The client doesn't know that Jane and Tiffany are the same girl...)"

@norbizness:

What about the first photo? She looks like she is wrapped in a piece of her great-grandmother's funeral crepe.

@Mo MoDo: We at GHOPAC support the 'All the traffic will bear (or bare)' business model.

Shit, I can hit up downtown Lawrence just about any night, drop $30 on cheap beer and/or watered-down cocktails in plastic cups, and score a hot college chick for the night. Spitzer went about this all wrong.

@Mo MoDo:
Well then the agency would be in a bit of a bind if he said "I'll have them both" wouldn't they?

$80 K says that Eliot certainly suffers from an impulse-control disorder. Some people cut themselves, some people gamble too much, but his thing was overpriced pussy. Why, Eliot, why? You are too smart to be so stupid, and there is something else going on here.

I hope he gets some good antipsychotics out of it.

@freshyill: Yeah, but even if you set your mistress up in a $4,300/month apartment, no guarantee she will not be all over GMA, CNN, MSNBC, etc. as soon as the story broke detailing your specific pecadillio's. Girl's like "Kristen" know how to keep their mouth shut and thus command a high fee.

Is this Russia, Danny? I don't think this is Russia.

When a pompous hypocritical douchebag has to resign due to a prostitution scandal, the terrorists have won.

The worst part of this mess is watching all the self-righteous, thuggish, scumbag Repubs (there but for the grace of God, guys) with their "prayers" in one hand, and impeachment threats with the other.

@freshyill: not that there's anything wrong with regular old....

@donocaster:
I just hate all the "I can't believe he would pay for sex" media hysteria. Didn't people catch Deadwood? This country has always been knee deep in retail pussy.

@ae38: right. The WaPost had a story this morning about what your $4300 buys you. Silence is one thing, yes. Plus, they leave when you are finished. No complications. And often, apparently, no sex actually occurs. These guys are paying for the illusion that they have a companion who is delighted to spend time with them. That is sad.

If the fact that there are enough people out there who can blow $5+k on hookers (hookers!) doesn't justify substantially higer marginal tax rates on the super-rich, I don't know what will. /Euro-style Social Democrat

Why can't all these d-bags just man up and do the press conference on their own, instead of dragging their wife into it? Assholes.

@DemmeFatale:

The Republicans are shocked that someone could have a sex scandal involving an adult, consenting female with no diapers involved.

Dear Eliot,

I am willing to offer you a discreet, very, very, special fleshlight for $1,200. It's the best you'll get for about 5 years. No, it's not an ordinary fleshlight. It's very, very special -- very hush, hush.

xoxo
Omnilation

Dave Letterman asked if it was too early to hit on Silda Spitzer.

Now it appears Spitzer may have spent some $80,000 with this one outfit. And that only makes him Client #9? Client #1 must doing nothing else.

@Doglessliberal: Didn't we see all this in the first season of West Wing? The hooker had more ethics than Sam and Josh combined.

@Doglessliberal:
Oh, I can believe he would pay for sex. I just have a hard time understanding the PRICES and people's willingness to pay them, and why women of apparent education and beauty would fuck an old goat for money. Can't these women find a sugar daddy to sponge off without becoming LITERAL whores!.
Also, his wife is not a half bad looking cougar type, so why cheat?

@donocaster:
They don't fuck old goats for money. They fuck old goats for a nice evening on the town and a shitload of money.

Gack! Compare the pic on this thread with the one on the obnoxious Harvard grad magazine. Poor Silda.

@Mo MoDo: Um... Is it Bill Kristol? I'd wager that he probably knows the way of the flesh-peddlers as well as anyone.

Dear Eliot,

Please go to google, type in "craigslist erotic services" and only go for the ads that have phone numbers spelled out, dumbass.

@thefrontpage: Ok... we get it.

Democrats feel betrayed - turned out Spitzer was secretly a Reaganite practicing trickle down economics.