{"id":473,"date":"2008-03-13T12:08:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T16:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/?p=473"},"modified":"2008-03-13T12:08:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T16:08:20","slug":"the-best-commentary-on-the-spitzer-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/2008\/03\/13\/the-best-commentary-on-the-spitzer-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"The best commentary on the Spitzer mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many, I&#8217;ve been following the Elliott Spitzer mess since the news broke Monday. I&#8217;ve restricted most of my commentary to Twitter as I don&#8217;t really have anything new to add. Others have already done a terrific job commenting and analyzing the disaster. Among others, check out Huffington Post for great columns by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/nora-ephron\/eliot-spitzer-the-short-_b_90869.html\">Nora Ephron<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/chris-kelly\/come-back-eliot-spitzer_b_91308.html\">Chris Kelly<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>But this morning, I read what has to be my favorite commentary on the whole debacle, including the inordinate amount of attention the news media paid to this story. Sure Monday was a slow news day but by Wednesday there were other events in the world. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s short so I&#8217;ll give you the whole thing. From <a href=\"http:\/\/verheiden.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/helicopter-shot.html\">Famous Mark Verheidens of Filmland<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"post-title\">The Helicopter Shot&#8230; <\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"post-body\">\n<div>\nI&#8217;m watching MSNBC as I write this, and they&#8217;re<br \/>\ntwenty minutes into live helicopter coverage of NY Governor Eliot Spitzer&#8217;s SUV<br \/>\ndriving across Manhattan so he can theoretically resign. Forget all the other<br \/>\nissues involved&#8230; my question is, do these news folks really think there&#8217;s a<br \/>\nchance Spitzer&#8217;s gonna run? (posted March 12th)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many, I&#8217;ve been following the Elliott Spitzer mess since the news broke Monday. I&#8217;ve restricted most of my commentary to Twitter as I don&#8217;t really have anything new to add. Others have already done a terrific job commenting and analyzing the disaster. Among others, check out Huffington Post for great columns by Nora [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}