Larry Flynt.... “The other shoe’s going to drop any day,”

[RedEarth]

We’re getting about all the heads we can put over the mantel now,” Flynt tells me. In June of last year, he placed yet another ad in The Washington Post, again offering up to $1 million for evidence of “illicit sexual or intimate relations” with politicians and other officials; he claims the proposition has borne much fruit. Over the summer, when he began talking to me for this article, he dropped three A-list names—a Republican presidential candidate, a well-known Republican senator, and another prominent conservative official—whose peccadilloes he claimed Hustler was on the verge of exposing, hinting at hooker parties and no-tell-motel liaisons. When we sit down in the fall, these names are off the table, though investigations are said to be ongoing. The ripest target now, Flynt claims, is a closeted gay Republican senator who is not Larry Craig, though last spring Flynt’s investigators were also pursuing rumors about Craig, going as far as putting a surveillance team on him, before his arrest in June for allegedly soliciting sex in a men’s room at the Minneapolis airport.

“The other shoe’s going to drop any day,” Flynt says, speaking of the other senator. “It’ll surprise a lot of people that he’s gay. And I’ll bet you he resigns the same day and rides off into the sunset. He won’t be as stupid as Craig,” who after an initial vow to leave office changed his mind and instead fought to reverse his guilty plea to disorderly conduct.

But Flynt’s investigation of this second senator is at a tricky pass. “His boyfriend is in a quandary about selling him out. It’s really somewhat of a pathetic situation. But we also have other boyfriends that he’s been involved with.” These earlier boyfriends are apparently willing to go on the record, and have also supplied Flynt’s investigators with corroborating evidence. “We got some motel records. We got some photographs. They don’t involve sex, but sort of romantic walks on the beach and that sort of thing.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/12/flynt200712?printable=true¤tPage=all

[judaspriestess]

1. oh joy............

:popcorn:

[whatdoyouthink]

2. I'll Beleave it

as long its not in the national Enquire

[donheld]

54. Welcome to DU Whatdoyouthink?

:hi:

[tekisui]

3. Sounds good. Give us a Puke Sen., now and

let the puke presidential candidate sweat until we know he won't be the nominee.

[napi21]

16. The Pub Prez Candidate story really interests me. You know who

at least looks like a possible? Mittens. I keep thinking about the really good looking movie stars of long ago, like Carey Grant, Rock Hudson, &Montgomery Clift. All were very handsome men as is Mittens. Something isn't real about him though. Maybe this is it!

[caligirl]

50. And he would be a twisted case, mormon guilt, lieing about sex or anything done thats amoral.

[Prophet 451]

59. I'm hoping for Huckabee

I'll admit to a little glee whenever a sanctimonious preacher gets stamped by their own libido.

[napi21]

4. What a great way to start the new year! I can't wait! n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. I cannot wait! Expose the hypocrites! ALL of them!

:bounce:

GO, Larry!

[fascisthunter]

6. John McCain? (nt)

[dantyrant]

7. My guess...

Senator Byrd :)

:bounce:

[OzarkDem]

12. Trouble reading?

Byrd is a Dem, Flynt said the senator in question is a Republic.

[Bitwit1234]

27. I always thought he was a Democrat...Flynt said republican.

[NNN0LHI]

8. God bless Larry Flynt n/t

[orleans]

9. say it! say it! SAY IT!

[OzarkDem]

10. Please let it be Tom Coburn

The guy is a pox on the senate with his asinine delaying tactics.

[avenger64]

11. Let it rip, Larry! I wonder who the candidate is ...

..n/t. I know Giuliani was living with a couple of gay guys in NYC after his divorce for a while. Maybe he went native.

[MzNov]

26. It's Mittens!!!

I'll just betcha. :woohoo:

[LittleClarkie]

13. Larry's a scuzbucket

but he's OUR scuzbucket.

[mzmolly]

47. Indeed, and I'm glad he's 'our' scuzbucket!

At least at times like this I am, ehem.

[stevedeshazer]

14. Please, let it be Mitch McConnell

Ted Stevens? Jim Bunning?

Huckleberry Graham is just too easy.

[Mutineer]

18. Graham wouldn't be a surprise

Flynt says it will be a shock who the guy is so Graham wouldn't be a shock in the least for anyone with a brain

[Dems Will Win]

21. It's Mitch

[malaise]

67. I think so too n/t

[CatWoman]

15. on the second day of Christmas, Larry Flynt gave to me

a disgraced, lying sack of shit GOP boo-ty :)

[tyedyeto]

17. I'm tired of the "Larry Flynt Exposes So-n-So"

Last summer I thought he might have a good thing going, but this dragging the names on and on and on and on............gets old.

Come on.... drop the names, if you have them, then go on to the next pervert.

Why keep everyone in suspense? My guess is that he doesn't have proof.

[JohnnyLib2]

25. I agree. Wasn't this same story out weeks or months ago?

:shrug:

[tyedyeto]

29. Months but with no names or new info

But every month we keep on hearing that Flynt and/or Hustler is going to reveal names of Repug hypocrites. What is revealed? Nothing, nada, ziltch.

Craig, Vitters, Gannon, etc. don't count.

Give us something new Larry!!!!!!

[JPettus]

49. Actually, I hope it's a GOP Pres candidate

And the other shoe drops in early October 08

[havocmom]

55. Flynt did say he would not out any hypocrite who had the decency to resign

So, go over the list of sanctimonious GOP government officials who have resigned in the past year (quite a few, actually), and have a ball with speculating about who caved to save their skin.

[grasswire]

32. In a way, you are right

I have a first-hand report that someone(s) laid bait for Flynt, hoping to trap him and his team with false leads. Thus, the pulling back when the leads didn't pan out. He and his team are being extremely careful. And so, when evidence doesn't pan out, they drop that matter. As it should be. We don't need Flynt rathered.

[tyedyeto]

33. So, why does he go on the cable news circuit.....

and tell people he is going to expose a hypocrite? When it never happens, his name means less and less to those who applauded him in the first place.

[havocmom]

58. There have been resignations. He said he wouldn't out those who stepped down

Lots of big resignations from the ranks of 'values' Republican officials. Some could have been on Larry's list.

[grasswire]

61. he'd rather be right and drop it than wrong and go public

Seriously. Look at the difference between how Flynt operates and how those despicable Republicans acted who had attacked the Clintons and John Kerry and Max Cleland and so many others. They used bits of partial information to entrap, to destroy.

So Flynt has some bits of info, some trails, some evidence. It is to his credit if he refuses to take it public unless it is totally nailed down.

And look at this strategically. When he says "Some surprising exposes are coming soon" half of Washington starts quaking in their boots. And sometimes nervous people make mistakes that give them away. It's not a bad tactic.

[mitchtv]

36. Ideally, this should all break later

especially if they've declared for re election. Say in June, just before a July 4th event or something, we can't leave them time to lie their way out of it. I too, am getting tired, but give Larry the benefit of the doubt. Christmas is definitely no the time for a sex scandel .

[book_worm]

19. I'll believe it when I see it.

Hasn't he been promising something since Vitter?

[stillcool]

20. good article...

gave me a few chuckles...sign of the times...I guess.

It would take a master economist to chart the complex interplay of greed, shame, and revenge involved in settling on a price for selling out a lover or, as the case may be, a client. Or maybe—isn’t this often so where powerful men are concerned?—something in between. Not that calculations aren’t made on Flynt’s side as well. “Look,” he says, “if we can take down a well-known U.S. senator, we’ll pay the money—we’ll pay the million dollars. But when you get down to congressmen, they’re a dime a dozen. If they’re from some remote area of the country, they’re not worth very much—maybe 25, 50 grand. But presidents and senators are really big paydays.” That said, he declines to lay out a detailed price list, though he estimates that over the years he has spent in total upwards of $5 million on such matters, between bounties and investigative costs.
------------------------------------------------

“Well, I look at it like this,” he says. “The lawmakers in this country don’t deserve a break, because they have so abused their authority by trampling on our rights and constitutional liberties. It’s just unspeakable the things they’ve allowed to happen, either through their inaction or taking an action on the wrong bill. I look at it like, people go to Washington with the best intentions, and they get their pockets stuffed with money from lobbyists and then their constituents can no longer get anything from them. I’m so angry with the political system that anything I can do to cause them misery I will.”

[Cha]

40. Larry Flynt is

buying our Democracy..which only seems fair since the repukes(I certainly hope no dlcers are involved in selling out our country for profit ..yeah, right) have been selling it to the highest bidder.

[sellitman]

22. This kind of crap is a waste of bandwidth.

Our kids are still coming home in boxes , the Earth is warming and another phoney election is about to take place and all you can think about is proving the Repiggies to be hypocrites?

Sad, real sad.

[cap]

28. it's all linked together...

these hypocrites are fostering a hatred of life in all formats ... whether its because they cant come to terms with their personal life, war, global warming.

The sad thing is that the one way to put a wedge between themselves and their base is to show that these guys cant live up to the ideology that they proclaim.

[sellitman]

73. Sorry....I don't buy it.

And I don't subscribe to People Magazine either.

If the Dems have to rally around a pornographer for their jollies then count me out.

[melody]

76. Larry Flynt is one of the only reasons we continue to have mature material in media

Flynt fights a lot of fights he doesn't get credit for. He's a dirty hero, but he's a hero nonetheless.

And I hope he rats out every sociopathic, hypocritical one of them.

I edited to remove the easy one-liner.

[trumad]

30. So nailing a repuke isn't important?

How do you figure that?

[NNN0LHI]

31. Its enough to make one ask them self WTF?

Even got some knuckledragger above "guessing" its a Dem. Crazy stuff around here.

Don

[sellitman]

74. See post 73. N/T

[Double T]

23. The list of closeted rethug hypocrites may be endless.

[fascisthunter]

24. The Problem is They Keep Denying What's Natural

Their expectations are what is unnatural.

[whistle]

34. At least 20%

[mitchtv]

35. 'A Dime a Dozen' n/t

[QC]

37. "It’ll surprise a lot of people that he’s gay."

Definitely not Graham, then.

[porphyrian]

38. Dammit, Flynt, this isn't a fucking ketchup commercial...

Anticipate this, ya bastid.

[dysfunctional press]

39. trent lott- gotta be.

nt

[eridani]

62. Maybe that's why he resigned

Flynt sez no outing of senators who resign.

[TwilightGardener]

41. Come on, people--who would REALLY surprise you as being gay? Not Lott, not McConnell--

Not Graham. If it's any of those three, I'd be bored and sorely disappointed. I want it to be someone like Cornyn, or Kyl, or Ensign, or DeMint, or Sessions. Or McCain--boy, that'd be interesting.

[mwb970]

70. I was going to suggest Cornyn as well.

But Sessions is a good possibility too.

[alfredo]

42. Kay Bailey Hutchinson.

[caligirl]

51. OMG. yes that would surprise even me.

[alfredo]

53. I would be surprised that anyone would want to. Same goes for McConnell.

[Postman]

43. Lindsey Graham?

Every time his name is mentioned on the Sam Seder Show the soundclip of a creaking "closet door" opening is played...

[nashville_brook]

56. that was my first thought too -- the part about being too smart to pull a larry craig...

just made me think of him.

[K Gardner]

44. Romney: Well, when I said I had gay sex, if you look in the dictionary,

I just meant I was there, in spirit, sort of like I marched with my Dad and MLK.....

[pitohui]

45. i'm tired of the tease

just spill it larry

[pepperbear]

46. Oh PLEASE let it be Huckabee.....

after all, maybe he lost all that weight to look good in Key West for swimsuit season.

[Catherine Vincent]

48. It's RudyG!

nt

[LeftCoast]

52. No offense, but I'm calling BS on this. Larry Flynt has played this game too many times

I have yet to see him actually come through on any of these numerous 'pending scandals'. Flynt has moved firmly into the unreliable category as far as I'm concerned.

[cherokeeprogressive]

60. I wonder how these little "teases" have helped the bottom line of "OUR SCUZBUCKET" n/t

I'm sure mr. flynt isn't in this for his own benefit AT ALL. :sarcasm:

[Judi Lynn]

63. Don't you remember Congressman Bob Livingston, who got completely huffy

when it was revealed he was a wild and crazy guy, and resigned, and, from his new high horse, indicated he thought it was the RIGHT thing to do at the time the Republicans were gumming Bill Clinton to death. He sorely attempted to "guilt" Clinton into resigning before he went back to Louisiana, but it didn't really work out for him.

I thought I remembered Flynt as the agent behind this so I googled it and found this:

The most prominent mounted head on his trophy wall is Bob Livingston, the GOP Louisiana Congressman who was about to become Speaker of the House when Flynt revealed that he had been involved in an extra-marital affair years before. Livingston resigned his seat just as the House prepared to vote on President Clinton's impeachment. It was a foolish response by Livingston that played into Flynt's hands and further confused the public about the reasons for impeachment, which was based on a president manipulating the legal system and his administration to hide his affairs and serial sexual harassment, not the adultery and harassment themselves.

The latest trophy is Republican Senator David Vitter, also from Louisiana, whose phone number appeared in the records of the D.C. Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey. He denied allegations that he frequented prostitutes in New Orleans as Palfrey claims, but admits to "sin" and "mistakes" in the past. Was Vitter, who has always been an anti-gay, "traditional values" stalwart of the extreme Republican Right, a hypocrite? Certainly. But is he now? Not necessarily. His prior conduct reflects on his credibility, and obviously diminishes his persuasiveness as an advocate. Nonetheless, Vitter has both the right and the responsibility to advocate societal conduct that he believes is best for the country, even if he fell short of it in the past. Whether those failings by his own standards make him an ineffective advocate is a practical consideration, but his advocacy does not become wrong because of Palfrey's revelations unless his position is a sham.

In contrast to Livingston, Vitter's past conduct is inconsistent with his policy positions and the social philosophy he routinely supports as Senator. Because of this, the public and his constituency have a right to know about it, private or not. Flynt's determination to bring Vitter's past to light then is not, by itself, unethical, even though his method of doing so----essentially posting a bounty---is unsavory.
(snip)

http://www.ethicsscoreboard.com/list/flynt.html



Bob Livingston, David Vitter
Larry Flynt projects.

[MonkeyFunk]

64. Did you see in 1998 when

he exposed Speaker Bob Livingston's affair, thus leading to his resignation?

[dorkulon]

68. uh... David Vitter?

[AZ Criminal JD]

57. Flynt has a long, long history of these promises

Almost none of them come true and they are used for publicity for his magazines.

[malaise]

65. Bring em on!!

:popcorn:

[mtnester]

66. Since this article is from December 20..may I mention that Tom Tancredo just dropped

out of the race?

Only saying...

My gut tells me it is Mitt...cause Karl gravitates toward those he can control through whatever means necessary, including blackmail I am certain.

[deacon]

69. He says this every 6 months. n/t

[MiniMe]

71. Larry, stop teasing

It makes me wonder if Flynt puts this out there hoping that a gay Senator will resign.

[SpiralHawk]

72. OMG - are all republicons into deviant sex?

Why do republicons have so much trouble with normal, healthy, adult sexuality?

Apparently, as they prove to us over and over and over, republicons are all twisted...

[Catherine Vincent]

75. Any day now as in 2007? nt

[ecstatic]

77. It's gotta be Romney. That guy is hiding something. He's also a chronic liar

So he definitely fits the profile of one who might be leading a double life.

[Hoof Hearted]

78. I'm sick of waiting for Larry to make good on things like this. n/t

[MilesColtrane]

79. Larry Flint and Sibel Edmonds...

...the two biggest teases in American politics.