WTF Is It Now?!?

From the Department of Schadenfreude . . .

. . . and from my former home state of New York:

Jeanine Pirro, Westchester County District Attorney and Repug candidate for Attorney General of New York, is under investigation by the feds. That's what you get when you try to hire serial adulterer and con artist Bernie Kerik to do your marital snooping for you.

Poor Jeanine just doesn't get it. Long known as one of the hardest of hard-assed prosecutors in New York State - and one who's eagerly trod the backs of minor drug defendants in her Manolo Blahnik'd scramble up the ladder to higher office - she's now claiming that the whole episode is merely another example of the politics of personal destruction:

There is no way — when I have the opportunity to be the first woman attorney general in the history of this state — that I am going to be pushed out of this race because somebody wants to delve into the personal lives of my husband and myself. I’m standing up for myself and I’m standing up for women.

Waaahhh!

Jeanine, honey: When Ken "Javert" Starr wastes more than five years and $40 mil in taxpayer dollars to investigate a public official who got a blowjob on the side and his wife decides to forgive him for it - that's "delving into the personal lives" of a politician and spouse. When the feds accidentally discover (by investigating another slimeball) that you attempted to hire someone to record your husband's extracurricular sexual activities - in violation of the law - that's called "investigation of [an alleged] crime."

And you, a prosecutor.

Eat it, honey.

Oh, and Jeanine: What you're doing ain't "standing up for women." Sit the fuck back down.

-- L