”I’m deeply saddened by this turn of events and my thoughts are with Governor Spitzer’s family during this painful time,” Clinton said in the statement.

The L.A. Times even reported that Spitzer’s name was removed from Clinton’s website within the hour after the news initially broke.

Already the media has begun seeking out any and all connections possible between Spitzer’s situation and his support of Clinton, the most common being to President Bill Clinton’s sex scandal.

“There on cable television again were pictures of Bill Clinton hugging Monica Lewinsky,” said Washington Post blogger Peter Baker.  “And the image of Spitzer’s wife standing painfully by his side while he acknowledged unspecified wrongdoing could not help but remind some viewers, and voters, of Hillary Clinton’s own stand-by-her-man moment.”  

And, according to Jason Linkins of The Huffington Post:  

“Nobody can place Clinton inside that room at the Mayflower. Which isn’t to say that nobody’s trying to do so: yesterday afternoon on the Fox News Channel, the network carefully unwrapped some B-roll of Clinton and Spitzer yukking it up. Subliminal connection? Maybe not. But it only took a New York minute before the blogosphere picked it up.”  

Obviously, just because Spitzer supports Hillary Clinton does not mean she supports his dealings, especially when they come as such a shock as Spitzer’s did.  The actions of one of Clinton’s prominent supporters should not be taken as a reflection of her or her campaign.

Right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4pcZ2u8h_g

At the Ohio debate last month, Clinton called out Barack Obama, now somewhat famously, to both “reject and denounce” Louis Farrakhan’s support of the Illinois senator, implying that should Obama not do so, he would approve of Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic remarks.  Should Clinton, therefore, reject and denounce the support and actions of Gov. Spitzer, revealed not only as a client of prostitution but as a man who violated the very laws against prostitution he sought to install? 

What about statements made by many Clinton supporters that Barack Obama has the support he has only because he is a black man, such as those made most recently by former vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuSqUnx78g0