Posted on 06/04/2007 5:35:36 AM PDT by GFritsch
Larry Flynt’s last effort to buy dirt on Washington politicians was what you might call a bust. But the Hustler publisher launched a new effort Sunday, offering $1 million for provable Potomac sleaze.
Readers of the print edition of Sunday’s Washington Post, will have seen the all-type, full-page ad as they turned from “Russia’s Champion of Hopeless Causes Is Targeted for Disbarment” to “U.S. Warship Fires Missiles at Fighters in Somalia.”
“Larry Flynt and Hustler Magazine announce a cash offer up to $1 Million,” the headline on page A17 says.
The ad explains: “Have you had a sexual encounter with a current member of the United States Congress or a high-ranking government official? Can you provide documented evidence of illicit sexual or intimate relations with a Congressperson, Senator or other prominent officeholder?
“Larry Flynt and HUSTLER Magazine will pay you up to $1 million if we choose to publish your verified story and use your material.”
It’s not clear from the ad if Flynt has anything particular in mind.
The offer is a reprise of the approach Flynt took in 1998, at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, when he bought a full-page ad in The Washington Post with a similarly worded offer. Flynt later said on CNBC’s “Rivera Live” that he had turned up information showing hypocrisy by a Republican congressman from Georgia, but the project never created the splash some in Washington had expected.
Flynt, who has called himself a “smut peddler who cares,” launched fringe candidacies for the Republican presidential nomination in 1983 and for California governor in 2003.
The new ad includes a toll-free number (800-251-2714), which answers with a recorded male voice saying: “Thank you for calling the Hustler Magazine hotline. Please briefly describe the information you would like us to consider, along with information on how we may contact you. We will get in touch with you if we are interested in your information.” The ad also lists an e-mail address, hustler@lfp.com.
The bottom of the ad says: “Paid for by Larry Flynt and Hustler magazine.”
If Flynt has better luck this time offering cash for trash, that announcement may apply to an article, not just an ad.
If this amnesty bill passes we should claim our president teamed up with Teddy Kennedy to screw us all.
A bad investment. Sex scandals are a dime a dozen.
see also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844285/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844223/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844221/posts
Interesting, I read your comment (re: immigration) and it didn’t seem to match the topic of the article you posted (i.e. Hustler’s offer). You might want to ask that your error be corrected.
You beat me to it!.......
uh,.....let me re-phrase that...........
He ONLY wants REPUBLICAN NAMES!!! That little bit of info is missing in these articles. He is EVIL and VILE.
“Flynt later said on CNBC’s “Rivera Live” that he had turned up information showing hypocrisy by a Republican congressman from Georgia, but the project never created the splash some in Washington had expected.”
Sounds like a partisan witchhunt on the order of “McCarthyism”. Someone should do a modern staging of The Crucible with the partisan media trying to convict those of the Republican Party.
See, while Arthur Miller talked a good game, in the end the girls in The Crucible WERE playing at being witches and there WERE Communists in America (and still are) who sought to undermine this nation for Mother Russia.
Now the question remains, should it be CRIMINAL to serve Stalin’s USSR as an agent of Communism? Rephrased, should it be CRIMINAL to serve the GOP? Politically Correct intellectuals say yes.
Have a tall drink first...
You ARE an easily ExcitableBoy, evidently. I would take a Hillary Survival Kit. Includes a fifth of Jack Daniels, three Valium, two bags, and a monkey with a penchant for big butts and cankles to swing from.
No amount of money.....
The MSM must want Flint to get his lurid story otherwise his seach would have been ignored and only Hustler readers would have known it existed.
Paging Web Hubbel...
Oh no. He's not one of the 60 or so dead bodies that the Clinton duo have left in their wake...yet!
NO. It’s rather obvious that Larry the Lech isn’t interested in long distance swimming.
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