I Tell Ya What... Elliot Spitzer Is Kicking Ass Filling In For KO On Countdown Tonight...

[WillyT]

I know... West Coaster watching the rerun, but...

Spitzer is PERFECT tonight...

Current should consider filling another slot with Spitzer as a sort of Wall Street/CNBC type of show...

Would be eye opening while Occupy Wall Street reignites, and would definitely piss off the PTB...

Imagine the guests...

Just a thought.

[msongs]

1. too bad he liked hookers more than he liked being a politician nt

[MrMickeysMom]

3. Actually, I don't believe that at all...

I think I can tell the difference.

[babylonsister]

4. Too bad that's more important to you than it is/was to cnn, or

wherever he winds up. Who cares, besides you? I've seen him as a talking head on m$nbc.
I couldn't care less.

[Fawke Em]

7. It's very important to women.

Too bad you can't accept that's IMPORTANT to US.

[WillyT]

16. LOL !!! - "babylonsister"...

You can actually look it up.

[Fawke Em]

34. Don't care.

:lol:

and all that shit.

[markpkessinger]

38. He was actually a much better attorney general than governor...

...Don't get me wrong -- I think he's one of the sharpest minds around. But his elbows are also rather sharp. Wall Street HATED him ss attorney general because he was so good. But when it came to the kind of coalition building necessary to be an effective governor of New York, he had two things going against him: an enormous ego (something which serves one well as AG, but not so much as governor), and a really abrasive style better suited to a courtroom than to drumming up support for a program as governor.

That said, I ALWAYS enjoy his commentary!

[WillyT]

6. Still Pissed, Eh ???

let... it... go...

[Fawke Em]

8. Nope.

You STILL don't get it. We're not asking for puritanism. We're asking for RESPECT.

[WillyT]

10. Question: How In The Hell Did Eliott Spitzer Disrespect YOU ???

Or is there some other pathology at work here ?

Seriously ???

[Fawke Em]

11. No pathology.

I don't like people who disrespect people they VOWED to respect.

Seriously?

Stop telling me to Sit Down and Shut the Fuck Up.

Women don't like it when men cheat. Hell, we don't like it when other women cheat.

[WillyT]

15. Nobody Does... And Don't Give Me The Sit Down And Shut Up Shit Either...

The whole point of the Sexual Revolution (the pill, abortion, women in the military, hell... the right to vote) was a nod to the independence and adulthood of women.

Guys (and gals) that fuck around are idiotic,and possibly injurious...

But THAT was the thing we signed up for when it comes to adulthood, equality, and choice...

If somebody does not want to be around me... is "finished with me"...

They are free to go... in fact... encouraged to do so.

[JDPriestly]

24. Fawke Em. We don't like it when men cheat, but it happens all the time.

As long as my man is not cheating, what other men do is between them and their wives. There are always two sides to a story. And male philandering is so common that it is not worth getting in a tither about it.

The philandering you know about is less harmful than the philandering you don't know about.

[Fawke Em]

30. And you're OK with that?

The rest of what you said is "blah, blah, blah..."

Seriously, you're OK with men cheating?

[JDPriestly]

39. I don't have any choice.

Men are probably not OK with a lot of things we women do.

I'm not OK with my husband cheating, and he knows it, but I can't do anything about other men who cheat.

If we women don't want men making decisions about our uterus, then we should not go around making decisions about their sex organs either.

[crunch60]

42. You should use "I" and not "We" because I don't share your views on this issue. In other

words, always speak for yourself and not all women in general.

[The Doctor.]

18. Okay, then you shall have that RESPECT...

Once women stop cheating on men.

Until then, it's a two-way street love... get used to it.

[FarPoint]

22. I respect hookers.

I know a lot of them...it's their job as I have my job...we respect one another. Accept each other without judgment.

[Fawke Em]

31. I don't respect them.

They make ANY job I have harder.

God, I thought this was a liberal board.

[jberryhill]

45. So, the woman in question was, what?

I'm sure you have some choice terms for women like her. Let's hear 'em.

[Fawke Em]

48. Why are you following me?

Are you going to shoot me next?

[jberryhill]

49. Wtf?

It's a public discussion board. There are a lot of people on DU who have asked me a question more than once.

[Rosco T.]

14. so frigging what...

.. was his money, his time, nothing to do with his job.

[Fawke Em]

32. I have no respect for him.

Has everything to do with his job.

So much for women's rights on this board.

[crunch60]

41. As a progressive, I am more worried that the right wing nuts, both Men and Women, who want

to take over my body sovereignty on every level. We are seeing the erosion of Roe v Wade on a massive scale. This issue concerns me much more than what Eliot Spitzer does with his wee wee and as long as he uses all his own money and own time, to engage in his liaisons. not my business, I am not the moral police.

[sabrina 1]

20. Too bad that his enemies were spying on him, thanks to our new laws that force your bank

to tell the Feds when you spend a little more than Big Brother thinks you ought to be spending of your own money. Frankly I could care less what people do in their private lives, but I care an awful lot about the laws that made it possible for them to know what he was doing with his own money. THAT affects every American.

Republicans who are supposed to be the Party of Family Values, protect their own at least. Democrats can't wait to dump even their best Party members as soon as there is any sex mentioned in connection with them. Sometimes I can't tell the difference between the two parties.

We lost a great politician who might have held some of the real criminals on Wall St. accountable. But then, that is probably why they went after him. Had he been a good little soldier for Wall St. they never would have mentioned his personal sex life.

[FarPoint]

21. You may be watching too much Foxx News

You abruptly switch topic and marginalized, then ignore the OP talking points. Why do you do this?

[Fawke Em]

33. Haven't watched Fox in 10 years.

What's your excuse? Anti-feminism?

[thesquanderer]

23. Who wouldn't? (nt)

[MrMickeysMom]

2. I was telling my hubby the same thing...

He was just so right, don't you think?

I think the subject matter lit him on fire. Here's a guy who caught Wall Street breaking all kinds of rules, gets set up to be fired by the likes of them, only to point out the ridiculous JOBS bill.

It was a great segment with him talking about that, plus, he's got great timing in what he does.

[Fawke Em]

5. He kicked ass until he brought up women's issues.

A prostitute whore should refrain from those.

And, yes, he probably hurt his family sleeping around. So, let's not get into an argument. He either DID or he's in a loveless marriage.

Yes, gentlemen of DU, MOST women don't want you dippin' your wick somewhere else. Period.

[WillyT]

12. So That Is More Important Than The Knowledge Base And Spirit Of His Fight For The 99% ???

Because he reminds you of some kind of heartbreak ???

We ALL got wounded in the sexual revolution.

But I wouldn't change a thing... the pill for instance.

[ljm2002]

19. You do not speak for MOST women...

...not even MOST women on DU.

You are of course free to state your opinion and if you feel that strongly about someone whom you do not even know who betrayed his marriage vows, so be it. Personally, the only part that frosted me was that he had been aggressive about prosecuting others for similar behavior. Other than that, people's sex lives are their own, as are their marriages and their marriage vows. It's up to his wife to be pissed at him over it, not up to me. His political career is over. So now you think he should just crawl away and never show his face in public again, something like that?

Spitzer is a strong liberal voice, and you seem to want him to STFU forever, because he is a flawed human being. Well guess what? We are all, every single one of us, flawed human beings. It's just that most of us do not have our flaws exposed so publicly.

[Fawke Em]

27. No.. He's a freak.

We are flawed and those of us who find the flaw DIVORCE THEM.

I'd never stay with a cheater.

[jberryhill]

46. Were you married to him? No? Problem solved

So, you spose Hillary should have dumped Bill, eh?

[JDPriestly]

25. Do you think he might have made a mistake?

Do you think his wife and he have worked out whatever happened?

Personally, I think if she has forgiven him and they are still together that we should be thankful that yet another couple has not divorced and broken up their family over a sex scandal and just let this be their private problem.

[Fawke Em]

28. Yes.

I can't imagine staying with a cheater.

Personally, I think his wife stayed with him for money.

P.S. The more women who divorce an ass like this, the less it will happen. Men: STOP cheating on your spouses. IT HURTS!

[JDPriestly]

40. My experience is that infidelity is rarely the real reason people divorce.

Rather the person cheating did it because there was some other problem in the marriage such as that one partner was mentally too unbalanced or was taking drugs or the couple had serious financial problems or had simply grown apart.

For example, one partner has an affair, but the real problem is that the couple cannot agree on how to handle their finances. In another example, the wife is a meth addict.

Infidelity can be dealt with through various means including therapy if both spouses want to deal with it, but other, more serious problems cannot be dealt with. Often, an affair is a means to tell the spouse who is "betrayed" that there is a problem when other means of communication have broken down.

I recommend that people look into non-violent communication. http://www.cnvc.org/

[The Second Stone]

26. I don't require my politicians to be free from sin

nor my friends, women or men. People break the rules. As for people who require perfection in others, they strike me the same way Rick Santorum and Ted Haggard do: some are still waiting their comeuppance, some have met it. You are welcome to your opinion. But I don't value it.

[Fawke Em]

29. I don't value yours.

I'm glad I'm not married to you.

This isn't about Santorium. It's about marriage. People are fallible and I don't have to forgive you, nor would I. Don't cheat. I'd not forgive a cheater and didn't. Lived through that. Won't do it again.

Women do not "deserve" this.

[crunch60]

43. Now I can understand your rant about Spitzer, it's because you have a personal problem in you

relationship, hence your anger about cheater's. Remember, it's a reflection on them and not you.

[Bohunk68]

44. Right on!

After reading "Fawke em's" posts, it is painfully obvious that there is an uptightness that some wimmin out there would fawke someone. It almost always comes down to if someone is getting at home what they need/want they will not go elsewhere for it. Fawke em isn't ready to accept that maybe part of the failure was on their own part. And I think that the accusation that the behaviour is very similar to Santorum and co. is right on the mark. She really hates sex-trade workers.

[Old and In the Way]

35. I agree.

I think he was set-up by the banks/Bush administration. They traced his cash flow.....Elliott Spitzer? Why, running narcotics, guns? No, they had the tools to use his weakness to take him out. The real crime was abuse of power by those that weren't doing their job of regulating the financial institutions. But the media spun it as a sex story. And 2008 financial meltdown never happened.

[bbgrunt]

9. I think Spitzer would be terrific as a host of his own show on Current!

[JI7]

13. CNN should have given Spitzer his own show

rather than pairing someone on the right with him. now they have that horrible erin burnett show which is painful to watch.

Spitzer in control of his own show would have been something that got ratings.

[Suich]

17. Where are you watching it?

I used to get it live on my computer on RTV.eu but the feed is down.

[nenagh]

47. My Justin.tv link is down..

But the RTV.eu is working for me...maybe you could try again.

[Cass]

36. He is terrific. I loved his show on CNN once they got rid of the right winger.

Giving him a show on Current is great idea, hope they do it!

[JHB]

37. Clip from that, on the pro-Wall Street anti-accountability "JOBS" Act

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/robert-kuttner-excoriates-creators-and-sup