Spitzer Scandal Inspires Late Night Jokes
The great tragedy in the Spitzer story, as I see it, is his wife and kids. I don’t know what kind of relationship he and his wife had (doesn’t excuse his behavior given his position), but his daughters are going to be taking some blows for this.
That ain’t cool.
Other than that, looks to me like if you’re going to walk around saying you are the moral authority, you had better have some morals. This whole thing is his own damned fault.
The greatest downfall of powerful men is that they can’t keep their dick in their pants.
That’s fucking weak. He deserves everything he’s got coming to him, if he truly is guilty.
Found this at Newsbusters…:
Perhaps New York Governor Eliot Spitzer believes he can weather the firestorm over his scandal about his involvement with a high-class prostituion ring. However, he is battling an element that will keep his scandal alive in the public more than the usual political scandal—humor. Spitzer’s breaking scandal is less than a day old and already the media and the blogosphere is filled with many jokes and parody songs about his situation. Even many liberals are laughing at Spitzer since the humor generated by a self-righteous politician involved in a sleazy scandal involving a prostitution ring is just too hard to ignore. David Letterman led off his show with several jokes on this subject:
Do you think it’s too soon to be hitting on Mrs. Eliot Spitzer?
Did you happen to see the press conference? Very dramatic. Eliot Spitzer was there. He had yellow crime scene tape draped around his pants – crazy.
The thinking now is that the governor may step down now to spend less time with his family.
Of course, Letterman later followed up with his Top 10 Eliot Spitzer Excuses. Jay Leno also joined in the joke-cracking fun:
They found the source of all global warming in America: Eliot Spitzer’s pants…
…Hillary Clinton is now only the second angriest woman in the State of New York.â€
Stephen Colbert weighed in with this:
Now, the governor was supposed to give a press conference today at 2:15 p.m. but a whole hour passed before he spoke. To be fair, it is daylight savings time and the governor usually has a prostitute change his clocks.
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