Heidi Fleiss calls ‘Client 9′ an ‘Arrogant Jerk’, and so do I.
‘Client 9′, it is presumed, is actually New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer is rumored to be resigning today over a scandal involving himself, a string of high-priced prostitutes, and the ethical backbone of a slug.
To catch you up; Heidi Fliess, the former Madam, is held up as a subject matter expert in an unsealed investigation into prostitution spanning from New York to Washington DC. ‘Client 9′ is a person named in the court documents, presumably to hide his (or her) identity as a public figure. Currently speculation is running wild that ‘Client 9′ is really Governor Spitzer.
Based on court descriptions of ‘Client 9′, Fliess is on the record saying that she knows this type of client well, and that he is an Arrogant Jerk. I agree with Ms. Fliess, but for different reasons…
Governor Spitzer is an Arrogant Jerk for two fairly serious reasons: First, for cheating on his wife. Silda Wall Spitzer gets extra credit for standing by her man in his hour of desperation, even though I am sure there is plenty of well deserved venom being spewed behind the curtain. Cheating happens every day, but that doesn’t make it right, and it is an awful thing to do to someone who has stood by you while you climb the political ladder.
The second reason is equally troublesome and deceitful; Governor Spitzer has built his reputation on ‘cleaning up this town’. How can you clean up this town when you are literally in bed with the ‘enemy’?
I use the word ‘enemy’ softly, and still have a hard time understanding why prostitution is illegal in the first place. But it is, and that makes the governor a two faced Arrogant Jerk. Like so many evangelists and politicians before (and around) him, Spitzer was preaching one thing from the pulpit, and doing another in the closet.
He has sent people to jail for doing exactly what he does. Talk about a conflict of interest. I can just hear him in the break room saying ‘Hey judge, when you send this guy up the river for visiting a prostitute, see if you can get her number for me. …I, uh,… want to do a little research for my next public speech…’
Great job, Governor Spitzer, you are an Arrogant Jerk. Even Heidi Fleiss thinks so.
