Posted on 02/01/2010 5:13:28 PM PST by presidio9
Newly-elected Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown on Sunday defended his nude photo spread from his college days - and said the racy pictures helped get him where he is today.
"If I hadn't done that ... I never would have been sitting here with you," said Brown in an interview with Barbara Walters on ABC News' "This Week."
"It's all connected," added Brown, a Republican who was elected to fill the seat of the late Ted Kennedy in an upset that has put President Obama's agenda in turmoil.
Brown, who took it all off for Cosmopolitan magazine in 1982, said the steamy shots gave him the exposure he needed to launch a public career.
"I was 22 years old there and thrust in the spotlight because of what I did with the Cosmo thing," Brown said.
The hunky lawmaker joked about the photos and offered to autograph a copy of the magazine for Walters.
"Oh, yeah. The good old days. Do you want me to sign it?" he said to laughs.
Brown's comments came a day after his racy pictures were lampooned in a "Saturday Night Live" sketch.
The skit depicted Democratic heavyweights Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and others dreaming of Brown's beefcake body instead of getting to work salvaging stalled health care reforms.
During yesterday's interview, Brown shot down critics who have said the photos would have torpedoed a female politician's career.
He even said he wouldn't be against his own daughters posing nude.
"I would leave it up to their discretion," said Brown, who raised eyebrows during his victory speech for introducing his college-age daughters as "available."
On weightier matters, Brown suggested he would vote with Republicans on fiscal matters but not necessarily social ones.
He said he would've voted to reappoint Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and shrugged off rumors of a future presidential run.
"I don't even have a business card. I haven't even been sworn in," he said. "It's overwhelming, and it's extremely humbling. I don't know ... what else to tell you."
LOL...doomed to be bit by moose...
LOL. So true.
Why did your post bring up a vision of the wattles around McCain’s neck are actually upper foreskin?
Oh dear God, if Sarah had a photo like that with Willow and Bristol in circulation, she would be cast as the madame from Wasillia in a NY minute.
Scott Brown would be much better off if he were a little more circumspect in his comments to the MSM. Stuff you say on film has a way of coming back to bite you in the rear unless you are BHO.
The skit depicted Democratic heavyweights Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and others dreaming of Brown's beefcake body instead of getting to work salvaging stalled health care reforms.
"Others"?? Why not just say Barney Frank?
You shouldn't have done it, Scott.
He even said he wouldn't be against his own daughters posing nude.
Nothing like having dad pimp for you.
We.Are.So.Screwed.
Hmm, he said he would leave up to their discretion, which doesn’t mean the same as saying ‘he wouldn’t mind’. I wonder if he actually said he wouldn’t mind if they posed nude.
Having done it himself, he couldn’t very well tell them not to do it. I could just hear the argument, ‘but dad,you did it, you’re just being a hypocrite’.
Of course. Since man has evolved out of the need for the backbone, I guess we're being dogmatic to expect anything in the way of convictions (read: leadership) from fathers and self-styled political leaders.
"Oh, dearest, it's up to you if you want to sell your soul or not -- I wouldn't dream of interfering with your choice."
Then, too, is the more obvious take on his comments: "Now that I'm famous, my daughter can namer her price. What a great dad I am."
I see. So you're of the school that says, nobody who has ever done anything stupid has any moral authority to tell anyone else they ought not do something stupid.
It's hard enough living in a world where people think like that. I can at least take comfort that I'm not a fellow traveller.
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