Posted on 07/10/2007 2:49:32 PM PDT by Baladas
WASHINGTON -- Larry Flynt is claiming credit for outing Sen. David Vitter's connection to the so-called D.C. Madam.
The Hustler magazine publisher said his staff called Vitter's office Monday, saying they knew his telephone number appeared on a list from Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service.
"Vitter ran to the Associated Press in an attempt to get ahead of the story," Flynt's office said.
In a statement released late Monday night, Vitter said he "received forgiveness from God" and his wife several years ago.
Vitter, whose telephone number was disclosed by Palfrey, said he is sorry for a "serious sin" and that he has already made peace with his wife.
"This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible," Vitter said in a printed statement. "Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling. Out of respect for my family, I will keep my discussion of the matter there - with God and them. But I certainly offer my deep and sincere apologies to all I have disappointed and let down in any way."
Vitter lives in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie with his wife and four children.
Palfrey, meanwhile, has been accused in federal court of racketeering by running a prostitution ring. Palfrey contends, however, that her agency, Pamela Martin and Associates, was a legitimate business.
Four days after a federal judge lifted the restraining order, Palfrey posted on her Web site thousands of pages of phone records dating from August 1994 to August 2006.
The list is only phone numbers -- no names.
She said she posted the records because she believed pirated copies got out, and she wanted to insure the integrity of the information.
Palfrey also said she wants to find witnesses for her trial.
Federal prosecutors claim Palfrey ran a prostitution ring that pulled in more than $2 million over 13 years.
But she said Pamela Martin and Associates was a legal adult fantasy service.
Palfrey and her attorney have said the list contains up to 15,000 people and could shake up Washington by revealing high-profile individuals.
A Harvard graduate and Rhodes scholar, the 46-year-old Vitter was elected to his current office in 2004, becoming the first Republican from Louisiana elected to the Senate since Reconstruction. He represented Louisiana's 1st Congressional District in the House from 1999 to 2004.
In the House, Vitter succeeded GOP Rep. Robert Livingston, who was in line to replace Newt Gingrich as speaker until Livingston admitted to extramarital affairs and quit Congress. Livingston had been a critic of President Clinton, calling on him to resign over his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
You write as if seeing a hooker is like cheating.
Flynt is one of the strangest, most pitiful creatures to slither under a rock.
Damn right we need another Republican President and Congress.
Vitter outed himself. This is “me too ism” and gotcha politics. A day late and a dollar short, Larry.
This is the same Larry Flynt who hired a hitman to whack Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse, a competing porn mag.
Ike's biographer said the allegation was hogwash. It was a bitter and elderly Harry Truman who put it out there. As for FDR, after he contracted polio, it's quite possible he may not have been able to consummate any illicit affair. Besides, one could hardly blame FDR for wanting to be with the woman he loved and who loved him in return (and was with her when he died in Warm Springs). After learning more about that power-hungry ice-cold lesbian bitch Eleanor, and the "deal" she made with her husband for not sandbagging his political career, it increased my sympathy for FDR enormously.
Blackmail? Like happened to Scott Ritter?
As bad as Flynt is, he makes Bob Guccione look like the pope.
What’s the scoop on that?
Could you elaborate?
Thanks...thats the best laugh I’ve had all day! ~P~
Scott Ritter got busted at least twice trying to meet underage girls that he “met” online.
There are rumors that he may have been blackmailed over some personal activity to “switch sides” in support/opposition to the war in Iraq.
He certainly faded from the limelight once these arrests came to light.
Any other laws you would so conveniently allow a lawmaker to violate then in the course of *doing his job*??
Ahhh, i didn’t know about the underage girls. I just thought he had gotten threatened with his life. He made a pretty abrubt about face didn’t he?
Sure.
After Eleanor found out about her husband’s affair with Lucy Mercer, she issued him an ultimatum. He would have to either stop seeing her entirely, allow her to “do her own thing” (meaning cavort with her own lesbian friends/pursue her radical political agenda and other pet causes WITHOUT interference), and never have intimate relations again with her... OR... she would divorce him and publicly ruin him with details about the affair and destroy his political aspirations for the future. He chose the former (but later on, secretly saw Lucy).
Worse, yet, FDR’s mother was on Eleanor’s side and was happy to see her son ruined if he didn’t stay in that sham marriage. Nice, huh ?
Look out...you are being way too rationals and intelligent. You will get flamed! ha.
Wow. AP waited untill the second to last sentence to reveal his political affiliation. Usually they put it in the first sentence of the article. I'm impressed.
I call B.S. on you, You said: “Why is it a big deal if he consorts prostitutes? Exactly how does that affect his ability to do his job?”
It is called judgement, putting ones self in risky stupid situations. I do not want our leaders handling the nation’s future with that type of thinking.
I think you might be on the wrong site.
We don't know that.
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