Eliot’s Mess - Greg Palast's View

[JDPriestly]

While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an ‘escort’ $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush’s new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over $200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators.
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Up until Wednesday, there was one single, lonely politician who stood in the way of this creepy little assignation at the bankers’ bordello: Eliot Spitzer.
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It was the night of February 13 when Spitzer made the bone-headed choice to order take-out in his Washington Hotel room. He had just finished signing these words for the Washington Post about predatory loans:

“Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye.”

Please read the whole thing:

http://www.gregpalast.com/elliot-spitzer-gets-nailed/#more-1979

[L. Coyote]

1. REC. And, now the whispers of reason begin to counter the impact of the noise machines.

Once the final story is told, will it ever really alter how many perceive the story
given what the noise machine accomplished in just the first day?

[JackBeck]

2. What's that saying...

A lie will travel half way around the world, before the truth has a chance to put on its shoes.

[Klukie]

3. Wouldn't it be great if Spitzer....

decided to tell all. I bet he knows alot. K&R

[roguevalley]

4. too bad this happened to him. done in by his own hubris, he allowed

them an opening and they took it.