July 11, 2007
Will the D.C. Madam Get Larry Flynt's Bounty?
After Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) issued a statement of apology for using her escort service Monday night, and with the potential for more high profile names to be revealed from her phone list, so-called D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey is finally making the sort of splash Washington, D.C. had been dreading (or desperately praying for, depending on your point of view). While we all patiently wait for the 46 lb. phone list to live up to its promise, today the Madam headlines are focused on the announced partnership between Palfrey and Hustler magazine impresario Larry Flynt. In a statement Tuesday by Hustler, the publisher took personal credit for the Vitter confession, saying it was the result of "a multi-pronged investigation launched and run by Larry Flynt."
In June, Flynt took out an ad in The Washington Post offering $1 million to anyone who could provide proof of illicit sex with a member of Congress "or a high-ranking government official." Of course, this isn't the first time Flynt has offered such a bounty: in 1998, Flynt made a similar offer during the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, and netted former House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde, former impeachment prosecutor Bob Barr, and of course, the almost-Speaker Bob Livingston.
So a few obvious questions arise from this marriage of convenience. First, will Flynt offer Palfrey, who has over and over publicly declared that she is broke since the government seized all of her assets pending trial for running an illegal escort service, part or all of that $1 million bounty? And second, given the reason he did this in the past, does the fact that Flynt has once again gotten into the business of soliciting Republican sex scandals mean that the publisher is convinced that Sen. Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for president?
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Word choice: elicit is not the same as illicit.
Whisky!Tango!Foxtrot! Does Hillary Rodham-clinton have to with this story? Srsly reaching peeps.
Whisky!Tango!Foxtrot! Does HRC have to do with this? You are seriously reaching for something here.
aside from guest's egregious use of "srsly" (note: this is not a web site for tweens, and shouldn't you be waiting in line for tickets to the Bratz movie?), I would agree that you're going to have to explain your leap from Flynt's ad to Mrs. Clinton.
- the english major
Taken in by the tween! Went back and now I see the connection... who cares if elections are coming or going, I love sex scandals of all political orientations!
- the english major
Eng. major... I am slow... what is the connection to HRC? I still don't see it!
Dames and Gents,
In times unprecedented and tinged with despair, it is appropriate to reflect on the founding of our great nation. It was not with George Washington, but with Brutus, and not the one who killed Caeser. There was another who rebelled against the tyrant monarchy of Rome, The Tarquins. He wrote the Roman Constitution that would stand for 500 years. His sons sided with the monarchy. The monarchy lost. So to punish his sons and found a perfect union, he immolated his own sons.
Machiavelli speaks fluently and voluminoulsy and voiciferously on this subject, in ‘The Discourses’, and yet is proved wrong on several counts by the miracle of America.
He says that a nation founded in servitude, as America was a colony, will never win its freedom. He also says that a nation founded on fertile soil that is easily defended, will in time loose all of its freedoms because it will become, eventually, inevitably, sloth and sated, and will forget to protect them.
As regards 'The DC Madam', I am personally involved. You can view my involvement at http://www.maytheygetwhattheydeserve.com/KAT.html
Sometimes a mouse will lead you to a kat, and a kat can lead you to a rat and a rat, ironically, can lead you to the truth.
And the truth, as they say, and as it is written, will set you free.
May all those who sincerely and patiently wait for freedom be free and may all those who desire to steal those freedoms find instead the dire consequences that accompany contempt for a great man like Brutus.
As regards Machiavelli,
eram sapiens tamen nefas
And again,
vox vocis publicus est vox vocis deus
May The Republic stand forever and bring the Glory of The World, with Dignity, into Its Treasury.
Purple