Courtesy of a link from Elizabeth Benjamin at her Daily News blog, we can now bring you links to audio files of that message left on Gov. Spitzer’s voice mail. And it ain’t looking good for Roger Stone.
Here’s the call.
And here’s a recording of Stone from a recent TV appearance.
As we explained last night, Stone is claiming that unnamed Spitzer operatives broke into his New York City apartment, presumably with a voice impersonator, and placed the threatening message to Spitzer’s father from Stone’s phone.
As Benjamin also notes, this is an interesting defense as it appears to closely mimic the defense Stone proferred during his last scandal. Back in 1996 the National Enquirer claimed that Stone (then a Bob Dole spokesman) and his wife Nydia (whose phone it appears to have been that placed the offending phone call) were practitioners of what I guess as Republicans they would call the ‘swinger’ alternative lifestyle and routinely placed ads looking for “muscular, well hung, single men” to join them in expanding the bounds of traditional marriage.
Stone denied the reports and claimed that a disgruntled domestic employee had stolen photographs, sexual descriptions and checkbook information to mimic the Stones and set up impersonating them as a wife-swapping sock-puppet in Swinger publications up and down the East Coast.
Meanwhile, we’re interested to know whether Stone has or plans to contact the NYPD to commence an investigation into the alleged break in to his New York City apartment. We’ve contacted Stone for a statement and we are eagerly awaiting the response.
