Forgive and Forget

By GAIL COLLINS
NYT

Should we forgive Eliot Spitzer?

New York’s most prominent disgraced public official is on a rehabilitation tour. Doing TV interviews, writing for Slate, confessing his sins on the cover of Newsweek.

And as a New Yorker, I am rather proud of the way this is going. You don’t see Eliot volunteering to appear on “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here” like some other ex-governors I could mention.

Although if you want to avoid the humiliation of asking a judge for permission to do a reality TV show in the jungles of Costa Rica like Rod Blagojevich did, being heir to a real estate fortune does help. And really, I would not rule out a future role for Spitzer as celebrity judge on “Top Chef” or the person who pulls out the winning lottery numbers at night on TV.

Whatever he’s doing, it’s working. New York is pretty clearly ready to let Spitzer move on. Although he is not the most sympathetic personality in the world, as he’s re-emerged, new information keeps coming out that makes you feel a little warmer about him.

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