SPITZER, STOP TORTURING THE WIFE
uExpress, March, 2008 by Maggie Gallagher
My husband has a collective term for the antics of men like New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer: "stupid monkey tricks."
As in, "Now there's a really stupid monkey trick," as he greeted me with Monday night.
Last week in Boston at a conference sponsored by the Marriage and Abstinence Education Partnership, presenter Rozario Slack explained that he tells each of his own kids, "You are not an animal."
Right. No animal would plan for its mate as exquisite a humiliation as Eliot Spitzer inflicted on his wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, Monday afternoon in broad daylight, in front of us all.
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I don't have a lot of hope for the public morality. I don't suspect this is the last time a man entrusted with high office will descend into a sex scandal, or even break the law (as Eliot Spitzer did) to get what he wants. (And in his former ...