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That’s not irony. It would be ironic had he been meeting with an anti-abortion group. Irony is when the opposite of what you expect happens; an incongruency. Not trying to be a pedant, but this isn’t surprising or ironic. It’s par for the course.

Andrew, you’re looking at this wrong.  The unexpected part was that he got caught on the hooker thing.  The abortion part was expected.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Yeah, I guess from that perspective it is a bit ironic. Don’t think its the best example of irony,though. Now if you were to argue that it was ironic that he was caught for this prostitution scandal even though he campaigned on ending political corruption, I would definately agree with you that it’s very ironic. The fact that he was meeting with an anti-abortion group when the story broke… not so much. But the important part is that a scumbag was exposed for what he is.

No, Andrew got it right.  He beat me to the punch.  You don’t know what irony is Rob. 

The unexpected part was that he got caught on the hooker thing.  The abortion part was expected.

Hmm.  But in your post you said:

So it’s ironic that Sptizer was meeting with a pro-abortion group the morning the shoe dropped on his prostitution scandal, but not all that surprising.

So how can something be unexpected, but not all that surprising?  That is a blatant contradiction.

You used the word wrong, just admit it.  Nobody is going to hold it against you.