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Wynn on Spitzer via Dodd on Clinton

by Steve Friess

Sure, the whole Eliot Spitzer-prostitution thing is very over, but this was such a funny little nugget popped up during an interview I had with Steve Wynn during that debacle. I was curious about his take on Spitzer, whom Wynn said he hadn’t ever met, and he offered this anecdote about Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd. I asked him why powerful men with everything going for them do stupid things.

Wynn paused, took a deep sign and said: “I think, truth be known, Steve, that on the subject of sex, that one subject, there’s more hypocrisy in this world than anybody ever dreamed.... Everybody lies about sex. This is a crack that Chris Dodd made when we were playing golf at Shadow Creek one day. We were talking about Clinton. I said, ‘America’s got to get over vetting politicians by checking their sex life. Everybody lies about sex. Don’t go there. Men and women don’t tell the truth about the subject. Sex is sort of a weird area of human behavior.’ And then Chris Dodd, it is on the 18th green, made the funniest remark. He said, ‘Steve, most people lie during sex!’ That was a good one, wasn’t it?”