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Eliot Spitzer continued its comeback tour with an appearance on Fareed Zakaria's CNN show yesterday. While most of the talk about about the economy and Spitzer's former target (back from his Attorney General days) AIG, Zakaria got to brass tacks:
ZAKARIA: You know that a number of people watching you are going to say, "Eliot Spitzer doesn't have credibility to talk about these issues" because of what happened over the last year with your own behavior. What would you say to them?Here's the full video:SPITZER: I would say to them that I never held myself out as being anything other than human. I have flaws as we all do, arguably.
I failed in a very important way, with my personal life and I have paid a price for that, with my family and with my wonderfully, amazing, forgiving wife, and with my three daughters. And we'll rebuild those relationships and hopefully as time goes on.
I also feel that to the extent that I am asked that I can contribute to a very important conversation that I will do that as well. That is our right, arguably our obligation to our citizens. I will do what I can, and with full awareness and heaviness of heart about what I did.
Spitzer also has a column in Newsweek, "The faux surprise emanating from Washington—does anybody else think 'gambling in Casablanca'?—is generating proposals that are emotional retorts, not wise policy. The economic cataclysm we are living through now is the consequence of 30 years of intentional destruction of the rules needed to keep capitalism on track."
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I would just ask him "Well, then, doesn't Ashley the 22-year old hooker who you planked also have a place in this vital conversation about our nation's future and will you come on the show with her?"
I would just ask him "Well, then, doesn't Ashley the 22-year old hooker who you planked also have a place in this vital conversation about our nation's future and will you come on the show with her?"
And he should answer, "No because she was a prostitute with absolutely no relevant experience, and while I did hire prostitutes, I was also the AG that prosecuted cases related to corporate white collar crime, and securities fraud. I also pursued cases against companies involved in computer chip price fixing, investment bank stock price inflation, predatory lending practices by mortgage lenders, fraud at American International Group, and the 2003 mutual fund scandal. So I have some experience in this field." (lots stolen from Wikipedia.)
Reading his columns makes me even more dissapointed in Spitzer. He'll most likely always be known as a "What if..." in NY and national politics during the Great Recession.
Lets hope Andrew Cuomo can keep his di*k in that box.
Wow.
So, what we have learned from all of this is that Spitzer is not superhuman. That's all. He is not a super hero. Damn. Bummer. But ok, right?
Yeah, right.
This idiot needs to shut up and disappear. I don't want to know about him or hear from him ever again.
Well, after watching how The Watchmen tore apart the idea of superheroes, along with Dark Knight, Iron Man, Spiderman, etc. I'm willing to say that Superheroes are flawed too
Zakaria: What qualifies you to speak about AIG?
Spitzer: Well, for starters, I'm sure they had their socks on when they collected those bonuses.
I watched this interview over the weekend. You get an idea why he's no longer governor by his views of what the financial services industry should be. He's right about AIG committing fraud. But, because the financial services industry generates wealth, it makes him bitter. Weird.
If only those Wall St. execs knew that they could soften him up with spicy talk about "karate class"...
Spitzer had a lot of interesting, insightful points to make, unlike most of what's been puked up on this thread. Which once again demonstrates that Gothamist's comments section remains about as useless as ever.