Comments on: Two faces? http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2008/03/13/two-faces/ Back once again with the renegade master. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:04:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dixie http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2008/03/13/two-faces/comment-page-1/#comment-55077 dixie Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:40:36 +0000 http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2008/03/13/two-faces/#comment-55077 I think there's a distinction between politicians (or anyone) who are merely hypocritical (one who facilitates a homophobic agenda while admitting to having a lesbian daughter) and those who really go crazy (building a career on uncovering and prosecuting moral corruption while engaging in the illegal sex trade during one's downtime). I don't think it's noteworthy that people are outraged; it really is that funny. <a href="http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/" rel="nofollow">Twisty Faster</a> would certainly agree that the only reason the media is worrying the story like a dog with a favoured bone (haha, there, I said it, "bone") is that there are many opportunities for titillation. I think there’s a distinction between politicians (or anyone) who are merely hypocritical (one who facilitates a homophobic agenda while admitting to having a lesbian daughter) and those who really go crazy (building a career on uncovering and prosecuting moral corruption while engaging in the illegal sex trade during one’s downtime). I don’t think it’s noteworthy that people are outraged; it really is that funny.

Twisty Faster would certainly agree that the only reason the media is worrying the story like a dog with a favoured bone (haha, there, I said it, “bone”) is that there are many opportunities for titillation.

]]> By: uber http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2008/03/13/two-faces/comment-page-1/#comment-54546 uber Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:27:25 +0000 http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2008/03/13/two-faces/#comment-54546 It's really hard to imagine the psychology of someone like Eliot Spitzer, the contrast between his public image and private self seems to reveal a deep cynicism. He's obviously not the first hypocritical politician, but it is interesting to note our capacity to be outraged remains. Curiously, a case like this is much more interesting to the media, because it has a strong element of sex, than a purely financial scandal. It’s really hard to imagine the psychology of someone like Eliot Spitzer, the contrast between his public image and private self seems to reveal a deep cynicism.

He’s obviously not the first hypocritical politician, but it is interesting to note our capacity to be outraged remains.

Curiously, a case like this is much more interesting to the media, because it has a strong element of sex, than a purely financial scandal.

]]> By: Dad http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2008/03/13/two-faces/comment-page-1/#comment-54207 Dad Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:15:18 +0000 http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2008/03/13/two-faces/#comment-54207 Rarely is a political scandal and destruction of a career as richly deserved as in this case. It is interesting to note that while he was busy deposing innocent men looking for various ethical and moral lapses, including looking for non-existant mistresses and a "love child" of various Wall Street executives, he was spending his nights partaking in similar activities. To quote more than a few Wall Street traders: "There *is* a God!" Rarely is a political scandal and destruction of a career as richly deserved as in this case.

It is interesting to note that while he was busy deposing innocent men looking for various ethical and moral lapses, including looking for non-existant mistresses and a “love child” of various Wall Street executives, he was spending his nights partaking in similar activities.

To quote more than a few Wall Street traders: “There *is* a God!”

]]> By: evilgm http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2008/03/13/two-faces/comment-page-1/#comment-54204 evilgm Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:06:13 +0000 http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2008/03/13/two-faces/#comment-54204 "in nearly a century" Almost got a full century DAMN YOU SPITZER!!!! “in nearly a century”

Almost got a full century

DAMN YOU SPITZER!!!!

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