On Eliot Spitzer: I Am Jack’s Complete Lack of Surprise

The Eliot Spitzer sex scandal is only “scandalous” if you live in a perpetual present with no memory of all the so-called scandals that came before.  A powerful politician, who has branded himself as a paragon of anti-corruption turns out to be corrupt?  To quote Fight Club, “I am Jack’s Complete Lack of Surprise.”

The obvious doesn’t just end with some cynical “All politicians are crooks” jag where I’m sitting, though.  No, that’s too easy and too pointless.  The other obvious aspects of this “scandal” to me other than the fact that Spitzer felt like he needed to pay to “get some” cuz whatever he was getting at home was not enough, is that this whole scandal looks and smells like a classic honeypot set-up.  Of course, Spitz had dirty laundry, of course.  The greater question is, who did he piss off to lead other factions of the political spectacle factory to turn on him and take him down?

There are many of obvious suspects and reasons we could point to there, too.

But, instead, I’ll refer you to an article for a beginning primer on the use of sexual blackmail in intelligence operations:

From Paranoia Magazine: Sex is a Gun: The Deeper Story of the D.C. Madam