On yesterday's post about the New York Post's "coverage" of Eliot Spitzer's questionable use of the "gremlins" that led him to solicit prostitutes, a commenter asked that the newspaper "get out of Spitzer's pants." Instead, today the Post's controversial cartoonist Sean Delonas has done just the opposite, and given us a bird's eye viewinside the pants of "The Steamroller." Poor Gizmo: first modeled into the Furby, now drawn into the territory of street walkers. The Post also uses Spitzer's return to the spotlight and attempt at contrition as an opportunity to wring his neck over the current state of the state. The paper says that instead of apologizing solely for his prostitution scandal, he should pay some lip service to the fact that "his fundamental failure was in putting Paterson on the ballot." They call out his transgression of "making a play for black votes by placing Paterson just one hooker hook-up from the Executive Mansion. It was an act of political cynicism with ramifications that are only now becoming clear."
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