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I watched Washington Post's Sally Quinn compare Silda Spitzer to a Muslim woman in a burka.

I'm going to put aside the fact that many Muslim women wear burkas of their own free will and there is nothing wrong with that, so I can focus on the fact that Sally Quinn just doesn't understand the situation.

Quick review: Eliot Spitzer, then-governor of New York, had sex with a prostitute and got caught. His wife stands next to him at the resulting press conferences. Sally Quinn went on NBC's Morning Joe and basically said Mrs. Spitzer is a total wuss and she should not have stood with her husband. She asked why the wives of unfaithful male politicians always stand by their husbands when this comes out.

I'll tell you why, lady. I'll tell you why Hillary Clinton and Mrs. McGreevey did it too. Because intelligent women tend to make intelligent choices. Why is it intelligent to make a show of solidarity after being publicly humiliated by one's spouse? First off, when a guy cheats on his wife, that should be a private family issue, and I'm sure she's giving him hell for it - in private, which is the appropriate place to give the idiot hell. Second, and more importantly, the Spitzers have three kids. Did Eliot Spitzer harm the people of New York by extra-marital sex? Of course not. (See: Rudy Giuliani) The people he hurt are his wife and his kids. And the man's kids don't deserve further damage from a messy, very public separation.

(If Mrs. Spitzer chooses to divorce her husband at a later date when the media stops paying attention, I support her one hundred percent.)

Furthermore, Sally Quinn went on to say Mrs. McGreevey - who made a kind statement of sympathy towards Mrs. Spitzer - had a different situation because her husband turned out to be a homosexual.

Listen, Sally? Shut up. Cheating is cheating. Shame is shame. And you are almost as much of an idiot as Eliot Spitzer.