11
Mar
SALACIOUS SEX RAISES TV RATINGS: Are We Being HOOKERed?
Forget all the other salacious gassing for a minute. We’re being gassed? We have other things to worry about. Click here:
G O T C H A !
ANOTHER SEX SCANDAL AT LAST
THE MARKET JITTERS DON’T STOP
Whats topping the news? Oil at $108 a gallon? Another five US Soldiers dead in Iraq? A chemical link to Gulf War Syndrome? The Threat of Cllimate Change? A raid by bandits on aid for Darfur? Protests by Tibetans in India?
Nope.
The S word is back. isn’t the dish just deLISHous?
What a web we weave. Eliot Spitzer, once the sourge of Wall Street has been undone by the wages of Sin Street. Should we gloat, laugh, sneer? I am sure some of the Repugs are as they watch another big Man and a Dem go down.
The cable nets are buzzing. This is the kind of story they live for. Their pundits tsk tsk. Oh, no, not Alan Dershowitz again, with yet another Solomonic observation. It’s a big deal. It’s a small deal. Ok, lets watch a rerun of all the sex scandals of the past. Bill is waging that finger again: “I did not have sex with THAT woman” seems to be on a loop.
We condemn as we exploit. What a formula! What a circle jerk.
The NY Times alone is running six stories today, over 6000 words. They include this “affadavit.”
Having spent part of the day at my accountants finding out what I owe the war machine, I was not surprised to learn later that this whole call girl bust started with a probe by—not the FBI or CIA, gang, but the IRS:
According to the law enforcement officials, the investigation began as a money laundering probe. The IRS watched as money was taken from Spitzer’s accounts, bounced about a bit and eventually was transferred to an escort service without the governor’s name attached to it.
A BIGGER UNMENTIONED REALITY
Ironically, this IRS probe was small potatoes compared to this recent propbe one assessed by Duane Morris:
BACK TO SURREALITY
Hypocrisy is the always the worst sin in politics along with the attempts at cover-ups, but then again wiretaps to trap hookers seems like a waste of time for such a lesser crime. Where are the “Abscam-type stings and wirestaps aimed the banker that are bringing America down? Republican prosecutors won’t go after them this way, will they?.. Instead the predictable focus is on Eliot’s campaign slogan” “Bring Some Passion back to Albany.
The second oldest profession always makes great copy, especially when the Johns are the big cheese. Is this sweeps week?
Reported the NY TIMES with much gravitas:
ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a person briefed on the federal investigation.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer with his wife, Silda, made a statement to the news media on Monday.
An affidavit in the federal investigation into a prostitution ring said that a wiretap recording captured a man identified as Client 9 on a telephone call confirming plans to have a woman travel from New York to Washington, where he had reserved a hotel room. The person briefed on the case identified Mr. Spitzer as Client 9.
Mr. Spitzer today made a brief public appearance during which he apologized for his behavior, and described it as a “private matter.”
THE TIMES IS ALL OVER THIS STORY UNLIKE SOME OTHERS IT CARRIED LATELY
NY OBSERVER GOES BEHIND THE LEAK:
NYT Reporter asks, “How many Ls, how many Ts in Eliot?”
ALTERNET: Q: WHAT WAS HE THINKING? A: HE WASN’T!
AMERICA MAY BE #1 BUT SPITZER IS CLIENT NUMBER 9
Whats the significance of the number 9 in all this?
The Wikipedia explains: in case you are interested: “Nine is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1 and 3. It is 3 times 3 and hence the third square number. 9 is a Motzkin number. It is the first composite lucky number.
9 is the second non-unitary square prime (32). It has a unique aliquot sum 4 which is itself a square prime. 9 is the only square prime with an aliquot sum of the same form. The aliquot sequence of 9 has 5 members (9,4,3,1,0) this number being the second composite member of the 3-aliquot tree.”
Got it?
MAY I DIGRESS?
This is so trippy. Reading about Spitzer’s designation, and now his demotion to the 9th circle of hell, led me to another John–John Lennon’s Number 9 obsession and his songs:
“One After 909″
“Revolution No. 9″
“#9 Dream
Ironically, this song was a part of Lennon’s ninth solo album which was released in the ninth month of 1974. The song even peaked at number 9 in the charts. AND…. A verse in the song has nine syllables, “Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse.”
His album, Mind Games, contains nine letters in its title. Another of Lennon’s album names contains nine letters. The album was his dedication to classic rock and was entitled: Rock ‘n’ Roll
Dates
John Lennon was born on October, 9 1940
Some even say he was born at 6:30pm. 6 + 3 + 0 = well you figure it out.
His son was also born on the ninth
When John Lennon was shot, on December, 8th 1980, it was already December 9th in his hometown of Liverpool, England.=Miscellaneous
Liverpool has nine letters
When an engineer said “Revolution number nine” to begin the recording of the song by the same name, John loved the sound. He was lucky that it had been recorded. John looped the recording over and over again throughout the beginning of “Revolution No. 9″
Nine letters make up the most important phrase of one of John’s most important antiwar songs. All we are saying, is give peace a chance.
John Ono Lennon and Yoko Ono Lennon’s combined names contain nine O’s
John’s elementary school bus number happened to be 72. 7 + 2 = 9 (We know its a stretch)
He even lived in apartment 72 in New York. Yet another 9.”
OK, had enuff,?
Back to the big snooze.
Story was not such big news out West as DXM writes from Oregon:
Fortunately, it wasn’t such big news out here. Me dear wife tells me they didn’t pre-empt her soap, and except for cable, we’ll hafta hear all about it on the Six O’Clock news.
BLOGS GO BALLISTIC
The blogs lit up like the ball they drop on Times Square.
Fox reports: Fox: Eliot Spitzer to May Resign as NY Guv, Possibly to Be Indicted
The Fox story is about his apparently imminent resignation. It hasn’t happened–yet!(11: PM)
The New York Times, AP, and Bloomberg also have coverage. Saturation will certainly follow.
No so Kevin Drum:
As with David Vitter and Larry Craig, my official position is: who cares. This shouldn’t be illegal in the first place and I don’t care what these guys do in their private time …
NEXT?
And who will take over if Spitzer goes? Standing in the wings is a Lietenant Governor who happens to be black and blind. The Huffington Post reports:
If New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is forced to step down over his involvement in the prostitution ring Emperor’s Club VIP, Lieutenant Governor David Paterson is set to become the state’s 59th Governor — and the first African American to hold that position. Who is the man who may become Governor?
* David Paterson was born legally blind in Brooklyn in 1954 (Wikipedia)
* BA from Columbia University, JD from Hofstra Law School (Wikipedia)
* Former State Senator from New York’s 30th District
* First elected to represent Harlem in the New York State Senate in 1985 (Paterson for New York)
* Elected Minority Leader of the New York State Senate in 2002, the first non-white legislative leader in New York’s history (Paterson for New York)
* Ran New York City Marathon in 1999 (NNDB)
* Defended himself against bias claims last month after replacing white photographer with black photographer (New York Post)
* Previously tussled with Spitzer over turf wars (New York Magazine)
ITS OFFICIAL: BYE BYE TUCKER SHOW
BROACASTING & CABLE: Tucker Out, David Gregory In at MSNBC
MSNBC canceled Tucker, its Monday-Friday 6 p.m. show, NBC confirmed. In its place, the cable network will debut Race for the White House with David Gregory, a daily look at the latest presidential-election news anchored by NBC News chief White House correspondent David Gregory.
