Eliot, you were arrogant, nee stupidly arrogant, but you've always been an incredibly stupid egotist. It never endeared you to anyone, not even your overpaid hookers, but it has warmed the hearts of those you've dissed off as they watch your fall into a pond of slime of your own making.
He that may have the warmest heart is the Rog. The Rog is also known as Roger Stone, the elegant badboy who loves his work. The Spitzer and those like him hate Roger's work, but those that love creativity love Roger's work and Roger pin-pricking the Spitzer's bubble with unshorn mid-calf socks worn in mid-sex activity as corroborating evidence to the FBI is indeed creative.
Eliot's ego was and is too stupid to screw with Roger.
Stone, known for shutting down the 2000 presidential election recount effort in Miami-Dade County, is a longtime Spitzer nemesis whose political experience ranges from the Nixon White House to Al Sharpton's presidential campaign. His lawyer wrote the letter containing the call-girl allegations after FBI agents had asked to speak to Stone, though he says the FBI did not specify why he was contacted.
''Mr. Stone respectfully declines to meet with you at this time,'' the letter states, before going on to offer ''certain information'' about Spitzer.
''The governor has paid literally tens of thousands of dollars for these services. It is Mr. Stone's understanding that the governor paid not with credit cards or cash but through some pre-arranged transfer,'' the letter said.
''It is also my client's understanding from the same source that Governor Spitzer did not remove his mid-calf length black socks during the sex act. Perhaps you can use this detail to corroborate Mr. Stone's information,'' the letter said, signed by attorney Paul Rolf Jensen of Costa Mesa, Calif.
The letter also notes that while Stone believes the information is true, he ''cannot swear to its accuracy'' because it is second-hand.
Alas, poor Eliot, you thought yourself wonderfully vicious in your vengeance, but it is Roger who is smiling at your mid-calf blackies now.
The letter was written several months after allegations were leveled at Stone that he had left a threatening phone message at the office of Bernard Spitzer, the ex-governor's father, regarding ''phony'' campaign loans involving his son's unsuccessful 1994 bid for attorney general. Stone denied making the call but resigned as a consultant for state Senate Republicans in Albany.
Never screw with Roger.
''We trust this information was helpful to federal authorities in making their case against Mr. Spitzer,'' Buschel said.
Never.
