but i don't think blupsder is the right word. there it's not like spitzer accidentally tripped and fell dong first into a prostitute on at least eight separate occasions, but spitzer made it clear that he would rather focus on what he did right. >> my name came up in a federal investigation about people who had been seeing clients of a prostitution ring, and when this became evident, i immediately resigned. i said, look, my career as attorney general was predicated on the notion of the things i'd done with wall street and elsewhere, accountability. and i said, that is a standard and something i believe in. >> john: yes, true, that really does illustrate perfectly how important accountability is to eliot spitzer, because he resigned the moment he got caught. [laughter] as soon as he realized that other people had realized he was doing something wrong, he accepted the consequences. and he fell on his sword, eight times into prostitutes. [laughter] now, spitzer's... look, clearly spitzer has got his work cut out for him here. but ma