The Headline for Spitzer's Obit

Wednesday March 12, 2008

On Monday afternoon, the bloggers at New York mused about what headline the Post would splash across its cover the next day to describe the Spitzer prostitution scandal—”Screwed” and “Nailed” were a few of the obvious guesses. The Post wound up surprising them by going goofy with the brilliantly concise “Ho No!” (While the Daily News went with the more verbose “Pay for Luv Guv.”) What I’m wondering is why no one has trotted out “The Emperor Has No Clothes.” It’s obviously too wordy and pretentious for the tabloids, but it describes the situation on so many levels! Maybe it’ll be the title of the tell-all book? Or the movie?