Posted on 06/07/2007 7:50:55 AM PDT by SmithL
"Hustler" publisher Larry Flynt -- just days after posting a $1 million bounty for verifiable information on the sexual exploits of U.S. Congress members and political leaders -- says he's already been deluged by more than 200 leads pouring in from around the country, "80 percent of them on Republicans."
"I'm not interested in exposing anyone's sex life," Flynt said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "It's the hypocrisy I'm after."
The California-based porn king, who heads up a profitable empire that includes the infamous skin mag Hustler and edgier publications such as Barely Legal -- as well as a thriving Hustler Club and casinos chain -- started a stir this week in political circles.
He posted a full-page ad in the Washington Post on Sunday that offered a cool $1 million for any "documented evidence of intimate relations with a Congressperson, Senator or other prominent officeholder," information that must be verified and published in Hustler.
In the run-up to the 2008 elections, Flynt's campaign to urge Americans to drop a dime on dallying politicians could get interesting because he's got a track record.
In 1998, he made a similar offer when former President Bill Clinton faced impeachment by outraged Republicans after the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
The result: GOP House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston resigned after Flynt prepared to go public with an informant's details of his illicit affair. Flynt also released an affidavit by the wife of then-GOP Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia -- an anti-abortion conservative -- in which she said her husband paid for her abortion and then took on a mistress.
"Everybody -- because I'm a civil libertarian -- thinks I'm going after Republicans.
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Just die already, Larry.
“Everybody — because I’m a civil libertarian — thinks I’m going after Republicans.”
And they are correct in thinking that he goes after Republicans. Where are the philandering, hypocritical Dumbocrats on his list?
Damn shame the mob blew the hit on him.
He will sell to ABC and they will bury in a cover up like last month with the DC lady.
Maybe the next guy will be a better shot.
Flash! Republicans copulate too. Flynt’s research indicates that contrary to public perception, republicans enjoy sex more than democrats do.
So what is Flynt’s point here? That if he can find 200 republicans that have cheated on their wives, the entire country has to adopt the Hustler code of ethics? He has basically published all the vile garbage he has wanted to for 40 years and is a millionaire many times over. How oppressed can he actually be?
At least he is honest about why he is doing it. The MSM is not.
Flynt is disgusting, but so are the hypocrites who mislead and lie while keeping mistresses and paying for abortions
For some reason Orrin Hatch looks like the type that would don leather and use whips.
The fallacy is that he presents hypocrisy as discrediting the message rather than the messenger.
“Flynt says he has dirt on Congress under covers”
Does anyone really care anymore? I mean really, Dim or Repub who gives a sh*t?
80% Republicans? Sounds like an agenda here......
“80 percent of them on Republicans” .............Front Page News for the MSM, It’ll be the topic until election day.
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