A Nov. 15 Newsmax article by James Hirsen touts how a new documentary on the downfall of Eliot Spitzer as New York governor in the wake of a prostitution scandal “causing embarrassment to the brass at CNN,” where Spitzer co-hosts a show. But Hirsen gets a key fact wrong and ignores a blatant bit of hypocrisy.
Hirsen writes that “Robert Stone, a GOP consultant, reveals in the film how he, via a letter, informed the FBI of Spitzer’s unusual affinity for the world’s oldest profession.” But Hirsen gets the name wrong — it’s Roger Stone. And Hirsen doesn’t tell you anything about why Stone might know such a thing about Spitzer.
Well, Stone reportedly calls himself the sleaziest man in American politics. Indeed, as we noted the last time Newsmax referenced him, Stone has a decidedly outside-the-GOP lifestyle, most recently marching in the New York gay pride and exchanging licks with a fellow participant.
It seems Hirsen may be as embarrassed by having to tout Stone as he claims CNN is over Spitzer.