{"id":458,"date":"2008-03-10T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2008-03-10T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T19:20:00","slug":"spitzer-is-sorry-about-ho-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/spitzer-is-sorry-about-ho-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Spitzer Is Sorry About the Ho Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually avoid commenting on politics — unless they are are pre-19th century politics — but I can’t resist this.<\/p>\n

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been linked to a prostitution ring<\/a> (which he has confirmed<\/a>). I encountered Spitzer in his attorney general days at various events and he was campaigning for governor from day 1. I was once at a large dinner where Spitzer speechified for so long that I threatened a New York Times reporter who was sitting next to me with physical violence if he tried to ask a follow-up question. (Afterwards, a host of the dinner came up and asked the poor reporter why he didn’t ask more questions. I don’t know whether it was chivalry or shame that kept him from confessing that I was pinching him every time he tried to speak. What? You would have wanted to leave too!)<\/p>\n

Back then, Spitzer’s love for the high-profile case reminded me of Rudy Giuliani’s U.S. Attorney days. Very showy. Spitzer was nicknamed the “Sheriff of Wall Street<\/a>,” while Rudy had a flair for bringing out the handcuffs to make insider-trading arrests that he didn’t have enough evidence to prosecute. (I’m sure only my husband and the Wall Street Journal lurkers will read this and remember the “Your Bunny has a good nose<\/a>” story.)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Bunny nose from Cute Overload<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Anyway, Law & Order’s Dick Wolf is going to be all over these developments. I can’t wait to hear what Sam Waterston<\/a>‘s eyebrows have to say. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I usually avoid commenting on politics — unless they are are pre-19th century politics — but I can’t resist this. New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been linked to a prostitution ring (which he has confirmed). I encountered Spitzer in his attorney general days at various events and he was campaigning for governor from day…<\/p>\n

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