Avenging Eliot Finally Notices Air Scamerica

Well, I guess it's a case of better late than never.

New York State Attorney General [and prohibitive 2006 gubernatorial favorite] Eliot Spitzer has opened a preliminary probe into a suspicious loan obtained by the left-wing radio network Air America from the largely taxpayer funded Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club of New York City.

"We are looking into it in consultation with the city's Department of Investigation," Spitzer spokesman Darren Dopp told the New York Post on Saturday.

Spitzer's spokesman said the probe is examining "the conduct of the board of [the] charitable not-for-profit organization. The question is: Was their action appropriate?"

And what prompted this belated lunge of A-G Spitzer toward...oh, what would you call it - doing his job?

The Post said that the AG's decision to launch a probe was driven by "Internet bloggers and Republican critics [who] began pounding Spitzer for not intervening" since the DOI investigation was revealed last month.

Amazing what the stimulation of political ambition by a swarm of fireflies can accomplish - particularly when the grizzly bear is nowhere to be found.