The Times Writes Spitzer Obit While Libs Defend

The NY Times owns the Spitzer story. They had it first and have run with this in a way that makes one remember that The Times actually was a very good newspaper at one time, and can be again. Today, they bury Spitzer unless he can rise, Phoenix-like from the ashes.

Spitzer stands accused of a crime and was busted in a criminal conspiracy. He previously investigated the exact same crimes for which he now is accused and people were incarcerated because of his efforts.

Of course, we have the heathen left led by the shameless Greenwald questioning not only why Spitzer is facing scandal but why hiring a prostitute is illegal in the first place. Well Glenn, whether it should be illegal or not is a question for another day, some with a decidedly libertarian bent would say the same thing about drugs. Yet it is illegal today and was last month when Spitzer stands accused of arranging the tryst so Spitzer has broken the law plain and simple. It's not "just about sex" as we'll hear umpteen times over the next month ala the Lewinsky affair, it's about a sitting governor doing things that he has previously arrested people for. To break it down in terms you may understand, Glenn: It's like the hypocrisy you cried about with Ted Haggard and Vitter, all they did was have sex with consenting adults but you raked them over the coals, which makes you a filthy hypocrite.

Yes, there has been some really big GOP sex scandals of late but no one can top the Dems in this department--Clinton and Lewinsky (and Flowers...), McGreevey getting hummers from anonymous truckers and now Spitzer. They own the front page sex scandals.

Note that very few liberal bloggers even mentioned Spitzer's wife and family. If it makes you happy, do it. That is the liberal mantra and Spitzer lived by it. He's now dying by it. The fact that the man broke the single greatest promise one will ever make in life--the marriage vow--is beyond the comprehension of these people. They see it as something everyone does and it's just another in a long series of broken pledges.

Believe me, there's a great many people enjoying watching Spitzer squirm and he brought it all on himself.

Update: Hamsher has donned her tinfoil hat for the occasion. It's funny that people defend this, the guy may have been caught and it may well have been a politically-motivated investigation, the simple fact is that Spitzer broke the law of his own volition. The government didn't force him to spend $4,300 on a hooker. The whole conspiracy theory idea is ludicrous on its face.

Also, when Spitzer was going after Wall St, it was 100% political. Grasso, Greenberg and the rest were quite simply caught in a web of political intrigue. It didn't bother Spitzer that he ruined lives and careers and to now defend him when these same libs cheered him while taking down capitalists shows exactly the level of shame these people have--none.

Here's another one who doesn't see the hypocrisy in his position.