Ethically challenged lecturing us on ethics

There’s a disturbing trend in the land. Some of the most notoriously unethical people are being trotted out to lecture us on ethics.

First, Jayson Blair, the infamous New York Times dissembler, spoke recently at the Journalism Ethics Institute in Lexington, Va. If you don’t remember Blair, he’s the reporter who made so much stuff up it cost NYT editor Howell Raines his job.

Now we learn that Eliot Spitzer, the hooker-loving Client No. 9 and former governor of New York, is to speak at the center for ethics at Harvard University.

Next are we going to learn that Sen. Chris Dodd, D-CT, the ethically challenged Countrywide mortgage customer and recipient of the sweetheart deal on Irish real estate, is going to be in charge of financial reform? Uh, too late.