The IMs and phone calls began rolling in early this afternoon:  Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring.  That’s right, the same guy who ran rampant through the music industry on his high horse, telling everyone how “dirty” it was and how he was going to clean it up — and oh, by the way, did the same thing with a couple of prostitution rings! — has a bit of dirt himself.  Hang on a moment while I react to this… AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

The jokes were flying fast and hard today:  “I guess he condones ‘pay for play’ after all.” “First he screwed the industry, then he screwed a call girl.” “Spitzer got screwed by a prostitution ring.” “Definition of ‘karma’: See ‘Spitzer, Eliot.’” Yes, I realize that a number of people (including Spitzer’s 20-plus-year wife and daughters) will be hurt by this, but he reaped what he sowed, and to many people in my industry whose way of life he either dramatically altered or completely destroyed, he got what was coming to him.

You ever notice how it’s the people who are high and mighty are the ones who usually fall hard from grace?  It’s always the ones who openly preach punishment and repression and morality who are suddenly discovered to be embroiled in these scandals that go against everything they’ve been screaming about.  Ex-Senator Larry “Wide Stance” Craig:  called Bill Clinton a “bad boy, a naughty boy” for the Lewinsky episode and went after Representative Barney Frank for supposedly being involved in a gay prostitution ring.  Ted Haggard, reverend of that megachurch in Colorado who was accused of having gay sex and using drugs with a male prostitute:  openly condemned homosexuals and encouraged his congregation to engage in “cultural warfare” against gays and those who would have abortions.  Jimmy Swaggart:  revealed Jim Bakker’s affair on TV, then was discovered to have had committed adultery with a prostitute.

Maybe it’s worth not trying to impose your own morality on others, lest they find that it mirrors their own.