Letters to the Editor
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To show her contempt for the blood sucking hordes
I have only perused the numerous headlines about Mrs. Spitzer, but read little of the articles as they seem absurdly inappropriate.
If she wasn't standing there she would have been hounded to death by photographers stalking her everywhere she went. In spite of everyone saying this was humiliating for her, it allowed her far more dignity and control than being chased down the street by the media whores.
To journalists everywhere: stop poring over this woman's life and intentions. It's none of our business. It's unseemly, pathetic and unprofessional.
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Dignity
I admire her dignity. I liked when Dina Matos McGreevey said she stood there to support "her daughter's father". I admire those who display the concepts of "commitment" and "forgiveness". And I feel empathy for her suffering during this ordeal.
I feel I have no business opining about her marriage. But as a citizen I can opine about Eliot Spitzer, the public servant. Today I was moved to wonder where the greater damage to the public is when I heard Chris Wallace call Spitzer "The Bully of Wall Street". The people he was "bullying" were top investment banks and mutual fund brokerages who were breaking laws to give unfair advantage to their friends. They were cheating. They were unfairly and illegally taking money from the ordinary investors. Their illegal profits didn't come from thin air - they came from ordinary, less powerful people's pockets. He prosecuted several cases and many of the top firms.
He also cracked down on unfair practices in the insurance industry. (Do you feel like you should pay more in insurance rates because some insurance executive wants to make even more money than he already does?)
So he bullied rich powerful executives and Wall Street and insurance firms telling them that if they tried to cheat and illegally take money from ordinary people - he would stop them.
What a bully. So question:
Who is happiest to see him humiliated and to see his career ended?
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Smoke and Mirrors
Is it possible that there is more to this story than meets the eye? Maybe something both sinister and threatening? Sptzer did not just carve a career out of being a hardliner against prostitution and the mob. Spitzer just also happens to be the man who placed himself at the center of the looming sub-prime lending debate. "The high court is being asked to decide whether federal oversight of Wachovia and other national banks extends to their state-chartered subsidiaries, immunizing them from state regulation of their mortgage businesses."
And to think that the Fed just pumped another $200 billion into the people who made out like bandits by charging front end points on subprime loans, clearly made loans to people who wouldn't be able to afford the reset mortgage payments and then recoup the property to resell.
Might I suggest, in my very humble opinion, that there is something far greater behind Sptizer's undoing than just sexual pecadillos?
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Avoiding "The Probe"
Given the obvious dysfunctional nature of most of these relationships, I'd wager most of these wives have other "boyfriends" themselves. Therefore, any action condemning their husbands philandering would only add to the shame and hypocrisy as the truth of their affairs came to the fore. It's best to be quiet and not raise any red-flags. "Stand by your man" and no one will be suspicious.