Comments on: “Disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer to lecture at ethics center”

By: William Nuesslein

William Nuesslein — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:26:05 +0000

For A.W.

There is a matter of forests and trees. Going after people just to have scalps in your pouch was the immoral act. The side result of Spitzer’s going after Hank Greenberg was the near destruction of world finances. There was a $150 billion bailout just of AIG.

Access to females would select for those seeking to lead. It is biologically natural for politics to be full of cheating folks. People would have interest in the sex lives of their kings as contested inheritance of the crown can be bloody awful.

By: A.W.

A.W. — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:23:00 +0000

William

> On the other hand, Mr. Spitzer’s involvement with a consenting adult is nobody’s business.

Sure. who cares if a criminal has blackmail material on the governor or a state? what could go wrong?

And that is forgetting the moral angle here. no, it is our business.

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:29:03 +0000

Well, I don’t think it should be. But we will all agree, I’m sure, that it’s the two-faced attitude that galls.

Bob

By: William Nuesslein

William Nuesslein — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:20:52 +0000

It is my understanding that Spitzer had the greatest culpability of all in the economic woes that hit the world recently. Hank Greenberg understood AIG and the London operations, his successor didn’t. Spitzer went after Greenberg to enhance his reputation. Fairness and ethics were not considered. The man is a creep.

On the other hand, Mr. Spitzer’s involvement with a consenting adult is nobody’s business.

By: Todd Rogers

Todd Rogers — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:49:35 +0000

Disgraced? That would require certain emotional components – those which are absent in no one…save sociopaths.

By: A.W.

A.W. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:21:20 +0000

btw, as a point of order, is it possible to say a man is disgraced if he doesn’t actually feel shame? just curious.

By: A.W.

A.W. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:27:59 +0000

now see i could imagine a very good lecture being given by him or jayson blair on journalism ethics, using their stories as a cautionary tale. i mean when i begin my training, i start with some horror stories to get people’s attention.

the problem is that you know they won’t be getting that.

and no, i was not joking about blair. they have him keynoting, if memory serves, some kind of journalistic ethics thing. next i suppose David Duke will teach a class on diversity. oh wait, maybe i shouldn’t say that. it might give them ideas.