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Eliot Spitzer, Client 9: Doomed by the 'Lucky Sperm Club'?
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyIn an interview early in Alex Gibney's recently released political documentary, "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer," a member of Spitzer's inner circle tells Gibney that the former New York governor and disgraced Democrat hails from "the Lucky Sperm Club." (Poor Spitzer can never completely redirect his image away from lurid sexual tawdriness. His cooperation with film producers about the scandal merely moves it to the background.) The film tracks the period between Spitzer's successful campaign for governor in 2006 through the Emperors' Club VIP prostitution ring bust in 2008 (but ...
Wronged Wife of Chilean Miner Out-Classes Jenny Sanford
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyMarta Salinas, the Chilean miner's wife who stayed home to watch her husband Yonni Barrios' miraculous rescue on TV (so he could greet his mistress), out-classed Jenny Sanford in the cheated-on-wife category. Senora Salinas' husband was the 21st in the line of men who one by one came up a straw tube Wednesday to a very different world than the one they tunneled away from last August. Television crews, book agents, long lost family members and a watching world were there to greet them. Their extraordinary grace after spending more than two months trapped half a mile underground (the first 17 ...
Mother's Day? No, Try Goddess Day
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThat's what my husband has nicknamed Mother's Day. He takes me out to eat and he calls me a goddess, since we have no children. Before you start retching, let me add that it's a miracle we made it to 33 years. Marriage is hard, as my colleague Delia Lloyd eloquently explained in her post, More Wives Should Dump Their Husbands. Delia was moved to write by the sad tale of Silda Spitzer, who literally stood by her man when her husband Eliot Spitzer resigned his post as New York governor. ...
More Wives Should Dump Their Husbands
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyI've been thinking a lot about marriage lately. Or, more precisely: unhappy marriages. And I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't time for more women to -- as we say in politics -- "throw the bums out." I got to thinking about this after my colleague, Melinda Henneberger, wrote a post last weekend about one of those marriages about which we know just a bit too much: Silda and Elliot Spitzer's. You may recall Spitzer as the former governor of New York who stepped down when it was revealed that he'd been patronizing a prostitution service. And you will certainly recall his wife, Silda, who stood ...
Silda Wall, a.k.a. Mrs. Eliot Spitzer: 'I Wasn't Adequate'
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyEliot Spitzer's possible political comeback is way down the page on my list of alliterative alternatives about which to worry; I do not give even a tiny little half-hoot. Still, this line in a Washington Post story about "Rough Justice," Peter Elkind's new book on New York's former governor, does make me want to fix Mrs. Spitzer up on a date: "The wife is supposed to take care of the sex. This is my failing,'' Silda Wall is quoted as saying, in reference to her husband's hooker habit. "I wasn't adequate." Of course, right-thinking feminists know that's not true – and though it's ...
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