Trust me if Eliot Spitzer is trying to distance himself from whores, he's entering into the wrong profession.

The former Governor of New York State, who was forced to resign last March after he was caught in the middle of a call girl ring, has found a new part time job; as he's be writing a biweekly column for Slate.com though not about anything people are interested in him talking about - a column on the relationship between government, regulations, and finance.  

Anyway, the editor of Slate, David Plotz, the person ultimately signing off on the hire has said quite a bit on record about Spitzer in the past, and guess what? I was able to track those comments down. 

Here's David Plotz on Spitzer from a Slate podcast dated March 14th: 

"He's in a totally pathetic state of kind of begging for sexual services and paying these unbelievably ridiculous amounts of money ... and having to skulk around and it's just it's furtive and embarrassing and humiliating for him ....and here he is, he's like the highest status person in New York City, New York state and he's most he's behaving in this absurd way" 

"Obviously the hypocrisy gives this a special frisson ... special thrill....  Makes it especially thrilling for particularly all the people he's targeted in the past, all his enemies and even for all of us who admired him ...his fall is all that more kind of dramatic and exciting to watch because he was... he is such a hypocrite."

Anyway, to Plotz's credit he never seemed to have anything personally against Spitzer but who gets hired after your boss has already publically called you a hypocrite?

Only in America, folks.