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http://katrinya.livejournal.com/365814.html
(Note to self: Must learn to spell French)
Day 1: Governor gets caught with fly down. Is massively mocked by world's media.
Reaction: News is news and you can't stop people from printing it, and you probably can make a legitimate case that people deserve to know... even if the whole thing has a distinctly slimy feel.
Day 2: Various details about prostitution + governor are published by press, including his "client designation" and how many times he's made use of their service.
Reaction: Okay, not entirely sure I or anyone else needed to know how many times he saw his hooker. Goddamn media.
Day 3: Governor resigns. More utterly unnecessary details published by an increasingly jubilant media.
Reaction: Um, gross. I really don't want to imagine him... yuck! Yoda say, "Out of hand, this is getting."
Day 4: An enormous picture of Governor's call girl is plastered as CNN's headline. Three of the "top news stories" are about Spitzer's inability to limit his wick-dipping, including one entitled "Spitzer's fall- were there early signs?"
Reaction:
Okay, hold the fucking phone, people! I don't care what his prostitute looked like. I don't care what her MySpace page says. I don't care what Spitzer's reaction was when he first saw her. I'm willing to concede that Eliot Spitzer is apparently a real sleazeball, but for the love of god, I'd never heard of him until he came on the Colbert Report all of two weeks ago (at which point he was simply NY's governor stumping for Hillary). I do NOT want to know the details of his love life, I can't imagine there are more than about 2 perverts out there who do, and I don't understand why all I've been hearing for the last couple days is "Spitzer Hooker- Press Want More!"
The state of our media is disgraceful, the people who buy into this garbage are disgraceful, and it's disgraceful that I can't even check the news without being bombarded by the Governor of New York's ugly mug. And not that don't think he deserves his 15 minutes of humiliation, but this whole thing has got to be absolute hell on his poor wife (and kids, if he has any).
Really, America, we're supposed to reserve the worst of our voyeurism for presidential sex scandals. It wasn't until this week that I realized how very desperately the media must miss Bill Clinton.
Published by :katrinya 2008-03-13 16:24:06.0
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