{"id":827,"date":"2008-03-10T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=827"},"modified":"2008-03-10T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T22:18:44","slug":"spitzer-is-to-clinton-as-vitter-is-to-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"Spitzer Is To Clinton As Vitter Is To McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York governor Eliot Spitzer has blown it in a big way. Anti-corruption crusaders ought not to be dallying with call girls. Ordinarily I don’t like to assign much importance to personal and\/or family matters. But when a personal act is both illegal and hypocritical, it becomes a hurdle that is very difficult to get over.<\/p>\n

That said, the media is demonstrating its customary tunnel-blindness in reporting this story. The news is less than two hours old and I have already heard reporters on CNN, Fox and MSNBC asking about the impact on Hillary Clinton’s campaign.<\/p>\n

Why would this have any impact on Hillary Clinton’s campaign? It is unrelated to policy matters. It is not something she could have known. There is no connection to her whatsoever other than the fact that Spitzer had endorsed her.<\/p>\n

Well, I haven’t heard anyone ask John McCain about whether he has the support of Sen. Larry “Wide Stance”<\/em> Craig (R-ID). And Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), an admitted patron of Washington’s DC Madam, endorsed McCain<\/a> just yesterday. Neither Craig nor Vitter have resigned their seats in the Senate.<\/p>\n

I also have to wonder if Dick Morris, a frequent guest on Bill O’Reilly’s program, and the subject of his own prostitution scandal<\/a>, will appear on the Factor tonight to discuss the Spitzer affair. While he obviously would have no moral authority to criticize Spitzer, he could at least speak from experience. Knowing Morris and O’Reilly, they would probably not even bother to disclose it.<\/p>\n

Here’s your homework for today: Anyone who reads or hears a reporter ask Clinton about Spitzer should demand that they also ask McCain about Vitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York governor Eliot Spitzer has blown it in a big way. Anti-corruption crusaders ought not to be dallying with call girls. Ordinarily I don’t like to assign much importance to personal and\/or family matters. But when a personal act is both illegal and hypocritical, it becomes a hurdle that is very difficult to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[253,254,252,31,103,193],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-david-vitter","tag-dick-morris","tag-eliot-spitzer","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-john-mccain","tag-larry-craig"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":872,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=872","url_meta":{"origin":827,"position":0},"title":"Hillary Clinton’s Strange Bedfellows","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/21\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Last month Hillary Clinton met with the editors of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review to discuss her campaign in the Pennsylvania primary. 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