A new book about everyone’s favorite hooker fucker comes out next week. It was written by a former senior adviser of Eliot Spitzer, Lloyd Constantine, and apparently the former governor is none too pleased, describing the tome as “a fundamental breach of trust…little more than a self-serving and largely inaccurate interpretation of events mixed with unfounded speculation.” Spitzer doesn’t say specifically what Constantine got wrong, leaving us to speculate.
*Maybe it was the suggestion that Ness started banging hookers because he couldn’t play tennis anymore: “Mr. Constantine offers one diagnosis for Mr. Spitzer’s tempestuous behavior that perhaps only a wealthy Manhattanite could suggest: acute lack of tennis. Mr. Spitzer dropped his weekly game with Mr. Constantine in 2006, worried that a tender hamstring would cause him to hobble on the campaign trail. That ‘deprived Eliot of an important physical release,’ Mr. Constantine writes.”
*Or that Spitz was crying over the phone when he admitted to paying for puss, when in reality, he could’ve just had a tickle in his throat: “The book’s emotional capstone is the agonizing final days of the Spitzer governorship. There is a disconsolate Mr. Spitzer weeping into the phone the night of March 9, after telling Mr. Constantine that he was about to be exposed.”
*Or that the steamroller was going to kill himself: “There are Mr. Constantine’s unfounded fears that suicidal tendencies might overtake the governor.”
*Perhaps it was the suggestion that the fucker of hookers would deign to do something as pedestrian as pulling a Tiger: “And there were the desperate 11th-hour discussions about how Mr. Spitzer could hang on, including Mr. Constantine’s pitch that Mr. Spitzer should take a month off and go to a sexual rehabilitation clinic in Arizona.”
Whatever it is, Ness says the book got stuff wrong, and we believe him. That’s why, moving forward, whenever the mood strikes us to hear more about why ES fucks with his black socks on, we’re going to go straight to the source. Luckily, the Luv Guv has been chatting it up about the doing of prostitutes a lot lately, so we needn’t look far.
Eliot Spitzer says buying sex from hookers was less of a “violation” of his marriage than a love affair with an “emotional component” would have been.
Spitzer made the remark in a recent Time magazine interview for a piece that doesn’t delve into the current crisis roiling Albany.
Asked why not just have an affair, instead of going to hookers, Spitzer said, “I know this is parsing it very thin, but the emotional component would have in some ways been a worse violation.”
Eliot Spitzer: Why I Liked Ho’s [NYP]
Book on Spitzer’s Downfall Sets Off Angry Replies [NYT]
hoping the 6 to 1 half a dozen hookers to the other tag gets a lot of play.
Wow, two days of bad IT and the commentariat just dump you. When do you think they’ll come back? I still love you bess. The tranny sec thing was hilarious.
iphone+db+skyscraper cell reception=doublepost
‘Noted hooker fucker’ never gets old. You should trademark it, Bess.
“That ‘deprived Eliot of an important physical release[.]’”
Why didn’t he just swim? That’s both a) easy on the joints, and b) quite gentle on muscles.
-LEH Quant
Would like to make some naked fuck with HOOKER!
Maybe it was the boredom of marriage that did him in….Im actaully 100% sure of this.
Hes probably glad to be out of office, saw hi on Mahers show a few weeks back, looks like hes doing well while that blind fool makes a mockery of the office
Still lovin those Jubb Jubbs..
Nothing is “abandoned”!
Bess and DB are still the best damned financial journalists in the biz.
Hey, Steamroller Number Nine, maybe to rehabilitate your image do an appearance on the Imus program, or if The Thug gets another backup appearance on the radio, go on. Let The Thug or Imus interview you and explain how misunderstood you are.
Black socks they never get dirty
The longer you wear them the blacker the get
Some day I think I shall wash them
But something keeps telling me don’t do it yet
Not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet
Those bazookas never get old.
Holy Shit I didnt realize when you clicked the red names it actually took you to the link. FUNNEST DAY EVER
Elliot is mad because of a “breach of trust”
Hahahahha.
Hey Elliot how does my dick taste?
@12 Lucky that the mouseover shows you what website you are being re-directed to.
@13, it tastes like the summer wind mixed with peaches
@14 that needs to be changed. Russian Roulette of internetting.
I wanna play a game of pokeher.
is it safe yet?
@NS – That is our newest toy!
I have to agree with the NHF – an affair is a whole different game.
@19, Crazy? Really? Take a lap.
Now the challenge will be to come up with witty SFW links
When is the tell-all book coming out? We all know lots of big guys were clients.
Those ____ never get ____
UBS still ____
testing redness
an “emotional component would have in some ways been a worse violation” I’ll have to keep that one in reserve, just in case.
How can it be a breach of trust if it’s largely inaccurate? Doesn’t that make it more like a libel (please don’t NYT v. Sullivan me)? He’s the former AG, he ought to know.
why isn’t this asshole in jail?
I would gently pound her in the blanus, softly.
-Wyclef Greggums
@27 because there is D next to his name. If it was an R they would have gone after him in NY.
I’ll bet she could suck a ______ through a _______.
I’ll bet the Mrs. is very proud that he didn’t commit the “worse” violation. I’ll also bet she doesn’t Spitz er Swallow anymore. Ever.
@27. because no one cares that he got laid, alright? no one cares, you fucking idiot.
@31 to your second point. Isnt that why every bride is smiling on her wedding day?
@33/ns
I’m sorry for your loss
@31 what makes you say that? a lot of women enjoy giving BJ’s even, after, gasp!, they’ve gotten married. lame stereo-types = boring.
-married banker chick
I see nothing wrong with this.
cody lane is better
@Married Banker Chick
Down to prove it?