Eliot Spitzer, former 54th governor of New York state

Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced New York governor, didn’t attend the documentary that had his blessings.  Spitzer had agreed to extensive interviews for the movie along with outside promotions, but he was conspicuously absent from the screening of Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.  One line teased that the film investigated the limits of hubris, sex, and power.

The governor had the cosmos by the tail after winning governor by the biggest margin in NY history, even more popular as a fighting liberal, and seriously thought of as the 2008 shoe-in democrat president.

That same year, the married, wealthy Spitzer resigned after the political sky fell on him from revelations that he was a prominent client of a pricey hooker call-out service.

Just so happened that the feds were investigating the bordello where the good governor was caught in the net.  Bad luck that.  The New York Times reported on the particulars and two days later Spitzer quit his job, citing “private failings.”

Without a crying tour, Spitzer has been trying to rebuild his image, with his side of the hooker story from Client 9 and a CNN discussion show title Parker Spitzer.

But Spitzer may have revised his opinion of Client 9.  The limits of hubris, sex, and power.  The documentary that was suppose to have slanted his way may have had the opposite effect.  Maybe because he told the truth.