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**littlePen** · 07-12-2007, 02:55 AM

Flynt and DC Madam Target Political Sex Scandals
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
DC Makes for Strange Bedfellows

By Jeffrey Jolson

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 7/11/07 — “D.C. Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who has been looking for a way to make up some of her legal bills, has a deep-poecketed new partner: Hustler publisher Larry Flynt.

He is always on the lookout for Washington sex scandals and says he wants to expose Washington hypocrites, and Palfrey has a long list of people who probably qualify. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) became their first victim when a Flynt investigator linked his name and honorable title to an old telephone number on Palfrey’s client list.

Vitter went on TV yesterday and stated he had sinned in his past and “God has forgiven me,” as if the Lord thinks hookers are ok as long you apologize to your constituency when you are outed.

“In the context of Louisiana political missteps, this is a ripple, not a wave. Let’s not forget that they have a sitting member of Congress under indictment,” said one senior Republican House aide, referring to Democratic Rep. William Jefferson and the $90,000 found in his freezer.

Vitter’s exposure on Tuesday should put any other conservative Republican with church links on notice: Start practicing your mea culpa, to cop a line from the Politco.

Flynt’s first, successful 1998 sex-scandal bounty hunt, was conducted at the height of the sex-driven impeachment drive against President Bill Clinton. With a promise of millions but a payout of less, Flynt managed to expose the sexual promiscuity of former House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde of Illinois, former impeachment prosecutor Bob Barr and — his biggest catch of all — the almost-Speaker Bob Livingston, another Louisianan, who confessed to adultery and resigned from Congress when he was on the brink of succeeding Speaker Newt Gingrich. (Gingrich’s affair was not exposed by Flynt; that came later)

But lawmakers took a similarly dismissive stance nearly 10 years ago, until big heads started to roll, the House Republican leadership became paralyzed by damage and fear of further bombshells, and then-Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson began shouting for a Justice Department investigation of Flynt’s campaign.

Indeed, one Senate Democratic office staff is said to be gleefully organizing a pool for this year’s sequel, according to Politco.

The threat this cycle is particularly potent because Flynt has two ways of digging up the dirt: He and his team are plowing through Palfrey’s client telephone list and, separately, he is once again offering a million-dollar payoff to anyone who can provide documented evidence of “illicit intimate relations with a congressman, senator or other prominent officeholder.”

And like all political scandals and porn, this is likely to end up with a voter shift and a money shot.

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littlePen Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 529 Senior Member	Flynt and DC Madam Target Political Sex Scandals Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 DC Makes for Strange Bedfellows By Jeffrey Jolson HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 7/11/07 — “D.C. Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who has been looking for a way to make up some of her legal bills, has a deep-poecketed new partner: Hustler publisher Larry Flynt. He is always on the lookout for Washington sex scandals and says he wants to expose Washington hypocrites, and Palfrey has a long list of people who probably qualify. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) became their first victim when a Flynt investigator linked his name and honorable title to an old telephone number on Palfrey’s client list. Vitter went on TV yesterday and stated he had sinned in his past and “God has forgiven me,” as if the Lord thinks hookers are ok as long you apologize to your constituency when you are outed. “In the context of Louisiana political missteps, this is a ripple, not a wave. Let’s not forget that they have a sitting member of Congress under indictment,” said one senior Republican House aide, referring to Democratic Rep. William Jefferson and the $90,000 found in his freezer. Vitter’s exposure on Tuesday should put any other conservative Republican with church links on notice: Start practicing your mea culpa, to cop a line from the Politco. Flynt’s first, successful 1998 sex-scandal bounty hunt, was conducted at the height of the sex-driven impeachment drive against President Bill Clinton. With a promise of millions but a payout of less, Flynt managed to expose the sexual promiscuity of former House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde of Illinois, former impeachment prosecutor Bob Barr and — his biggest catch of all — the almost-Speaker Bob Livingston, another Louisianan, who confessed to adultery and resigned from Congress when he was on the brink of succeeding Speaker Newt Gingrich. (Gingrich’s affair was not exposed by Flynt; that came later) But lawmakers took a similarly dismissive stance nearly 10 years ago, until big heads started to roll, the House Republican leadership became paralyzed by damage and fear of further bombshells, and then-Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson began shouting for a Justice Department investigation of Flynt’s campaign. Indeed, one Senate Democratic office staff is said to be gleefully organizing a pool for this year’s sequel, according to Politco. The threat this cycle is particularly potent because Flynt has two ways of digging up the dirt: He and his team are plowing through Palfrey’s client telephone list and, separately, he is once again offering a million-dollar payoff to anyone who can provide documented evidence of “illicit intimate relations with a congressman, senator or other prominent officeholder.” And like all political scandals and porn, this is likely to end up with a voter shift and a money shot.
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