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Posted at 12:39pm on Apr. 2, 2008 Hookers again? Sen. Debbie Stabenow's (D, MI) husband / liberal radio boss caught with prostitute

By RightMichigan.com

another dog bites man story-- streiff

Oh, and he's Debbie Stabenow's husband too.

The Detroit Free Press reports:

Police went to the hotel after a detective working on Internet-based prostitution at hotels in the city came across a solicitation for sex on a Web site, backdoor.com. Plainclothes detectives went to the hotel and set up a surveillance and watched Athans drive up, go inside and then leave about 15 minutes later.

Athans is a radio producer who's spent the past several years trying to launch liberal talk shows that could counter popular conservative radio programming.

Before starting his current firm TalkUSA Radio in 2006, Athans was the head of syndicated programming at Air America, the liberal network that declared bankruptcy that year. TalkUSA launched one syndicated talk show last year.

Athans has strong ties to Democratic Party officials and liberal activists; Sen. Hillary Clinton publicly acknowledged him during her speech in Detroit last month.

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Posted at 10:16am on Mar. 25, 2008 Just stupid: the NYT editorial board

Love for Spitzer + Hatred of Bush = ?

By Mark Kilmer

On the same day when the New York Times heaps love on the corrupt, criminal pervert who once was their beloved governor, they blame President Bush for things beyond a president's control.

From the Spitzer editorial:

It is still important to separate Mr. Spitzer’s personal and political failings from the worthwhile things he did, or hoped to, accomplish. As attorney general, he worked hard to make Wall Street a safer place for the little guy and helped craft an agreement to get cleaner air in the Northeast. As governor, he was working to open one of the nation’s most opaque state budgets and reform one of the most unfair campaign financing systems.

Yeah, they did it for Like Bill Clinton of recent memory; now, it's Eliot Spitzer's turn to receive credit from the NYT for things which never happened or Spitzer did not himself do.

Meanwhile, in another of today's editorials, the doltish souls on that editorial board preach that our dependency on foreign oil is the fault of President Bush:

The Bush administration can’t be entirely blamed for the pain at the gas pump. But its shortsighted energy policies — zealously focused on increasing the energy supply, with little attention paid to conservation and greater fuel-efficiency — means the country is far too dependent on oil that is both ruinously expensive and ruinous for the environment.

They say that the White House is run by "oilmen," and they insinuate that the purpose of this administration was to protect oilmen from the dangers of Cape Cod wind farms. (No, that's Teddy Kennedy, you sillies.)

They expect that their readers, some of whom are intelligent and/or decently educated, will follow these puerile arguments and agree: "Gol, those Times guys are so smart, Oracle at 'Delphia. Yep, boy howdy, I sure agree with those observations!"

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Posted at 10:05am on Mar. 11, 2008 ...And The Poor Taste of Democratic Politicians Continues Its Downward Spiral

In other news, the Stock Market Snaps Back Nicely

By blackhedd

A gentleman who works for me, who is known for intelligence and assiduity if not for taste, points out the following historical curiosity:

John F. Kennedy canoodled none other than Marilyn Monroe, thus earning the starstruck admiration of every man of power and might in the nation.

But Bill Clinton was forced to be satisfied with Paula Jones.

Now Eliot Spitzer, aka Elliot Ness, Mr. Clean, and the man who would clean up Albany, is reduced to paying for it.

Meanwhile, the hope for a Spitzer resignation (with a minor assist from the announcement of coordinated liquidity enhancements by the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank) has the New York stock market up well over 2% this morning.

Happy Spitzmas, liberals!

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