Spitzer Mess Has Libtalkers In Difficult Position

The left is conflicted: is Spitzer's downfall all Bush's fault or should prostitution be legal? They say ... both!

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Spitzer Mess Has Libtalkers In Difficult Position


Though his resignation may ease the blow, Eliot Spitzer's political meltdown has forced libtalkers to find creative ways to spin this "tragedy" away from further damage to the Democrat Party.

Unfortunately for them, however, the scandal has created a partisan noose that hangs right over the left's fortunes in this all- important election year.

That hasn't stopped our favorite libtalkers from giving it a go, however. Can they successfully deflect the fallout of this fiasco onto others, especially Republicans? Sadly, this requires a level of skill that "progressive" talkers obviously haven't mastered, as the evidence below will demonstrate.

From Monday's Randi Rhodes Show, the Air America Radio basketcase makes a clumsy (and laughable) attempt at defending his prostitution habit. Take a look:

RHODES: I’m so pissed. My Governor just got busted in a prostitution ring. Ah come on, look at him, he had to pay, look at him. Who is gonna sleep with him?

Not one to stay out of the fray, Air America talker Lionel took his best shot at comparing the Spitzer marriage to that of the Bush family in the final hour of yesterday's show:

LIONEL: "I don't mean this to sound mean, but...if you think that George and Laura Bush have... an actual husband-and-wife existence, you're out of your mind. Bill and Hillary, Richard Nixon and Pat, at that level... it's a unit. It's a corporation."

And in his first hour, Lionel had already made another attempt to smear Bush through a comparison with Spitzer, before embarking on the prostitution- is- no- crime defense we've heard from so many on the left:

LIONEL: It's a psychopathic inability to appreciate consequence. George Bush has it... they have no feeling[s], no compassion, no conscience. (22:04)


LIONEL: There is nothing that should be illegal between two consenting adults having sex for any consideration or no consideration. (31:15)

Not to miss the party, Air America / MSNBC talking head Rachel Maddow inadvertently outed herself as a conservative during her program:

MADDOW: here's my question: In what circle of hell is the office located where the bureaucrat works who has decided that when a male politician has to give a press conference about shtupping someone who is not his wife, his wife has to be made to stand right next to him? Where does that rule come from?"

Gosh, Rachel, for someone who is so in love with big government, associating "hell" with "bureaucracy" is a big step in the right direction. When can we look forward to your defection to the conservative movement?


With these clumsy attempts to deflect the negative attention Spitzer has drawn toward hypocritical Democrats, it's once again clear liberal talk radio just isn't ready for prime time.