May 20th, 2010
Indianapolis Escorts: 7 most ironic political scandals
High-profile conservative George Rekers recently resigned from the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, a leading force in the movement to “cure” homosexuality, after he was caught renting a young male prostitute for a 10-day European vacation. Rekers said he was stepping down “to allow myself the time necessary to fight the false media reports that have been made against me.” NARTH attached a statement to to Rekers’ announcement saying his apparent hypocrisy does not reflect on their work.
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Former New York governor — and rumored CNN host-to-be — Eliot Spitzer built his career as a “beacon of justice, the scrappy David taking down the Goliaths of Wall Street, the insurance industry, and yes, even prostitution,” says Newsweek. So when news broke that Spitzer, a Democrat, had been deceiving his wife and political allies by sneaking off to visit $1,000-an-hour prostitutes, he became a poster boy, says author Peter Elkind in Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer, for “the chasm between public image and private reality.”