25 thoughts on “The Reviews Are In”

  2. “What would possess CNN to think that people would want to watch as loathesome and hypocritical an individual as Elliot Spitzer?”

    Just guessing, but perhaps the idiots at CNN who thought this was a good idea are just as loathesome and hypocritical as Spit.

  5. They’re two for two on the Palin bashing. I find it disgusting when Parker complains about incivility on the right and then sits there, demurely, like a 50’s southern debutante while her leftist guests trash a political opponent.

  8. Chris, I think the key aspect of Spitzer that people find loathsome is represented by Rand’s second adjective (“hypocritical.”) I don’t think people much bust his chops for seeing a hooker; it’s all the sanctimonious preaching about morality before that, and all the grandstanding about he being the big keeper of public morality.

    If Vitter held himself out as the big protector of marriage in Congress, you’d maybe have a point, but I don’t get the impression he has.

    In short, it sounds like you’re just being a partisan tool.

  13. What possessed CNN? Probably the same impulse that sees prostitute-patron David Vitter holding a solid lead for re-election.

    Actually it’s Obama that’s more relevant to his race:

    Obama is affecting the political landscape. He makes it a lot easier on Vitter.

    But I can see where a tool wouldn’t want to emphasize that.

  15. it’s all the sanctimonious preaching about morality before that, and all the grandstanding about he being the big keeper of public morality.

    Not to mention all the prosecuting of, you know, hookers. And their clients, of which he was number 9.

  16. By the way, I would find it just as stupid for CNN (or Fox) to give David Vitter a talk-show spot. So (as is often, if not usually the case) I remain unclear what Chris’s point is.

  19. Chris, I can find no substantiation for your statements about David Vitter. The most I can find is that when Bob Livingston resigned, Vitter said:

    “It’s obviously a tremendous loss for the state. I think Livingston’s stepping down makes a very powerful argument that Clinton should resign as well and move beyond this mess.”

    I don’t see any “repeated call” for Livingston to resign, and, indeed, it would seem that he regretted it, as well me might, given the loss to Louisiana of the seniority. Furthermore, if he is joining Livingston’s call for Clinton to resign, let us note that Livingston made that call because of Clinton’s perjury, not because Lewinsky sucked his dick in the Oval Office.

    Furthermore, while Clinton quite obviously lied about his pecadilloes in office, neither Livingston nor Vitter did. When Vitter was confronted with the DC Madam’s phone records, he admitted to unspecified wrongdoing, but refused to say in detail what had happened. Note carefully he did not deny any wrongdoing at all — which is what Clinton did.

    Finally, I can find no substantiation for your assertion that Vitter has made a career out of purporting to represent public morality, which is exactly what Eliot Spitzer did. To be sure, Vitter is a conservative, and therefore acts in accordance with those values, but he has lots of other things that demand his attention as a Senator, and many aspects of being conservative that have exactly nothing to do with condemning extramarital sex.

    On the other hand, Spitzer was well known for preferring “moral” cases over the grubby day-to-day operations of a prosecutor. He went out of his way to file those cases, he made it his signature.

    I don’t deny, however, that persecuting either man for failing to live up to his own morals is in its own way hypocritical. We are all of us sinners, and should practise Christian humility. I dislike Spitzer for his morality and behaviour — and my dislike of him was neither increased nor decreased by his being caught in the fornicatorium.

  20. “What would possess CNN to think that people would want to watch as loathesome and hypocritical an individual as Elliot Spitzer?”

    Why shouldn’t CNN put on it’s cable network an individual widely admired by its staff and widely regarded as the paradigmatic. Democrat?

  22. Spitzer committed a crime (hiring a prostitute) and resigned. Vitter committed a crime (hiring a prostitute) and is running for re-election.

    When I point out the double standard, I’m “derailing the conversation” or “damaging my credibility.” Got it.

    It’s Okay If A Republican Does It.

  23. Chris, can you please point out all the posts in which I have defended or praised David Vitter? Do you really fantasize that I wouldn’t have said exactly the same thing if Spitzer was a Republican?

    If not, then please stop trolling with irrelevancies.

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