Spitzer Prostitution Scandal Reveals Ring of Message Control

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  farango

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  Bad Post

  This is a terrible politically motivated post.

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  pwescott@...

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  RE: Spitzer Prostitution Scandal Reveals Ring of Message Control

  It's Hillary's "Vast, Right Wing Conspiracy" at work again ? No, not really. It's Spitzer's arrogance at work here.
  
  Po'k Blicket

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  hdc77494@...

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  RE: Spitzer Prostitution Scandal Reveals Ring of Message Control

  Your republican conspiracy theory aside, Mr Spitzer controlled the message for the past few years, holding himself up as the Ethical Beacon of New York and won a 70% of the vote landslide victory to become Governor.
  
  Be demonstrating such blatent hipocracy and disregard for his own carefully crafted message, he will fall even further than a regular guy that did the same.
  
  To solicit a prostitute across state lines, and wire payment across state lines is probably the "association" spoken of. Both are federal crimes. Mr Spitzer was aware of this when he prosecuted prostitution rings in New York as Attorney General.
  
  The NY Times broke the story and chose the headline. They are certainly not a bastion of conservativism. As discussed on Rush today, USA Today doesn't mention his party affiliation, but does mention Republican's doing the same thing, and identifying them as such.
  
  There is a lesson on messaging here. When you set yourself up as a beacon of virtue, you better live up to your own message.
  
  The Feds were looking at money trails for payments out of the Governors office funding a dirty tricks team used to undermine republican opposition. They stumbled across the larger payments to an unknown corp and found something they were NOT looking for.
  
  Dave

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  Harry@...

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  RE: Spitzer Prostitution Scandal Reveals Ring of Message Control

  Not only did Spitzer "simply hire a prostitute", he violated the Mann act, and as a prosecutor he took on prostitution with zeal. To you it may be about spin, to me it's about breaking the law.

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  shelleylynnk

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  RE: Spitzer Prostitution Scandal Reveals Ring of Message Control

  The headline didn't matter in the least, it is the content of the story and the fact that it is true (as evidenced by the lack of denial)that damns Spitzer. I would not have felt any differently about Spitzer's actions if it had said "Spitzer hires prostitute" instead of "prostitution ring". Maybe I'm just a simple Midwesterner, but I don't see where the semantics means much at all.

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  mgarren

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  Judgement

  I think most people could actually care less about Eliot Spitzers personal life until the guy who placed himself on the moral pedastal falls face first due to a supreme lack of judgement. What else can you say? Sure, the press are having a field day, but who wouldn't. Probably one of the reasons politics is viewed as it is.

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  Tom_Nicholson@...

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  RE: Spitzer Prostitution Scandal Reveals Ring of Message Control

  Sorry, but it's not the message that was lacking control here.

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  georgebigger@...

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  RE: Spitzer Prostitution Scandal Reveals Ring of Message Control

  Nice 'ring' - wrong 'number' -
  Either the writer is suggesting that - the FEDeral crime fighting unit becomes an arm of the political party in power at the time - or that the spin was not the perpetration of already suspicious journalism practitioners that while being overcome by the truth-finding aspects of the WEB stoop to survive by becoming carnivorous to those they could(/should?) be serving with un-manuFACTured information. There is enough blame - starting with the perpetrator himself, got his 'number'...?

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  jhoffmansf

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  RE: Spitzer Prostitution Scandal Reveals Ring of Message Control

  Great post! I especially love the naivete of posters who think that there is no
  political spin machine set in motion when these scandals break. "The federal
  government? Politically motivated? How dare you suggest such a thing!"
  
  Do you think the Democrats sat idly by when the Craig scandal broke? I think
  the real marketing lesson here is that when the stuff hits the fan, it doesn't
  matter how you spin it, you're man is going down. When politicians are
  caught, they should immediately fess up and step down: ALONE -- I thought
  it was pathetic that he dragged his wife into the picture... talk about ugly!
  The one who did the crime should face the music.
  
  Once you hit the late-night talk show circuit, it's all over.

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  jhoffmansf

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  oops...

  "your man"