re: #96 What, me worry?

This makes me really cranky. I have some questions.

Why should anyone believe the sordid details told by these women who would do anything, including sleeping with men, for money? How much did the TODAY show (and there were others) pay the prostitutes to give their tell-all story? And how brutal were the brutes who paid them $800? They weren’t complaining about it then. How much does $800 American buy in Columbia? A hellofa lot. How much more can they get if they “tell their stories” and who is going to say it isn’t true?

What the Secret Service did is despicable. There’s no doubt about that. It’s embarrassing to the president, to put it lightly, and to the U.S. as a whole. These guys were boneheads who jeopardized many reputations just to get a little sumfin sumfin.

But if you think I’m going to believe any word that comes out of a hooker’s mouth, I’m not.

You’re making a couple of assumptions here. One, that these woman have chosen this work out of several available to them, as the best way to support themselves and their families, and 2) that breaking a law in one area means they are unreliable in all other areas. There may be an increased disregard for honesty in these women, but that isn’t a given, and it can’t even be reliably determined without knowing more about their circumstances.