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I’m amazed that there hasn’t been further speculation as to what he was getting in the way of services for $5,500. Normally, for that price tag, you’d expect something extra, like drugs, to be included
He was snorting monolines.
The guy takes on the Street – both Wall and K – and you think he is not going to have some big guns out to get his skin??
Max,
That was great.
About the Spitzer affair; without getting into gratuitous conspiracy theories, there are several unanswered questions as to how and who started this sting.
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/03/hbc-90002589
francois,
Actually, the Harpers article you cite goes pretty deep into gratuitous conspiracy theories.
Supposedly the Bush administration was out to get Spitzer, but Spitzer himself was very much out to get Joseph Bruno (Republican majority leader of the New York State Senate), and improperly involved the state police in his attempts to do so. Spitzer’s reputation was tarnished by this tawdry affair and his governorship was already a train wreck, with low approval ratings in the polls (33% as of November).
It would be quite nauseating if this story was given a revisionist spin to make Spitzer some kind of victimized noble crusading martyr. His chickens came home to roost, that’s all.