Posted on 09/10/2007 9:51:28 PM PDT by George Maschke
Weeks after U.S. Sen. David Vitter tried to discredit her allegations, a woman who used to work as a prostitute in New Orleans passed a lie detector test averring that she had a "sexual relationship" with Vitter that lasted at least four months.
Magazine publisher Larry Flynt paid for the woman to take the polygraph test, and he plans to hold a news conference with her at his Beverly Hills office today to unveil the results and challenge the senator to submit to a polygraph.
The woman, Wendy Yow Ellis, claims that she had intercourse with Vitter in a French Quarter apartment at Dauphine and Dumaine streets in 1999, the year the Metairie Republican was elected to Congress.
Ellis, whose maiden name is Wendy Yow, said Monday that she took the polygraph test because Vitter tried to impugn her credibility at a news conference in July, when he denied news reports about his involvement with prostitutes in New Orleans without being specific.
"I have been called a liar all of my life," Ellis said. "This is one time that you can't call me a liar. I have admitted my wrongs. I am not proud of myself for my past, but my integrity and my self-respect mean more to me today than anything."
Flynt paid for Ellis to fly to California to take the polygraph, which was administered by Edward Gelb, a past president of the American Polygraph Association who also gave lie detector tests to the parents of JonBenet Ramsey, the child beauty queen who was found murdered in her family's basement in 1996.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.nola.com ...
Also worth noting, although all polygraph "testing" is pseudoscience, the polygrapher who conducted the "test" in this case has an ethical cloud hanging over his head. American Polygraph Association past president Edward I. Gelb is a phony Ph.D. (And the American Polygraph Association doesn't consider his masquerading as a Ph.D. to be a violation of its ethical standards.)
Vitter admitted visiting prostitutes. Who am I to doubt his sincerity. I do find it amusing that prostitutes today see fit to take lie detector tests to prove they aren’t lying.
Who cares?
means nothing. A pathological liar can easily beat a polygraph.
Who cares is exactly right. Vitter being repentant and remosrseful is acceptable to evangelicals like myself and most likely other Republicans. I am far from perfect. Lying and denying is not ok.
my cousin passed a lie detector test...
“Ellis, whose maiden name is Wendy Yow...”
I bet her parents and husband are so proud of her.
Newt screwed anything that had a pulse while in the House. And GOP’ers fawn all over him.
As did Clinton with his wife-enabler while he was the President. What’s your point?
According to the article, Vitter tried to discredit Wendy Yow Ellis. Since Vitter talked up "family values" even as he consorted with a prostitute, I think there is good reason to doubt his sincerity. In any event, the point I hope to make with this post is that in assessing the credibility of Ellis's claims, no weight should be given to the polygraph results.
I’d trust a whore more than a poltician, any day of the week.
If a brothel is where whores hang out, then easily the biggest brothel in D.C. is at one end of Pennsylvania Ave.
I don’t care if he burned the cat-house down,,,much less been in one !!!!!!!!!
If he quits Gov.BlankStare Blanco gets to put who she want’s
in his seat !!!!!!!!!
We’ll deal with him later...
Do Not Shoot Foot !!!...;0)
FRisco, baby!
Not this one.
Newt’s name is mud as far as I am concerned.
Vitter is a Republican, which means the MSM will hammer it until he is dead.
From Delay’s interview with Matt Lauer:
LAUER: I think you mentioned William Jefferson. There was an awful lot of coverage of William Jefferson when that story broke, congressman.
DELAY: Yeah, for just a couple of days and then we went on. In the case of a Republican, believe me I’ve experienced this, it’s day in and day out in the media, and they write this story over and over and over again. We all know the double-standard in the media — it’s amazing.
LAUER: I’m not going to let it, you know, end with that assumption, congressman, because I clearly don’t agree with it, but why don’t we just say . . .
DELAY: You exhibited it, Matt!
LAUER: You know what, congressman? I think it’s unfair. Because I listed a list of problems and then immediately —
DELAY: All Republicans.
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