Citizen Flynt | "Sex, Lies & Politics: The Naked Truth."

[nostamj]

Now, in the summer of 2004, Larry Flynt has a memoir in the bookstores called "Sex, Lies & Politics: The Naked Truth." The book begins with several American soldiers selling him topless pictures of Jessica Lynch (taken at Fort Bliss, Texas) for an undisclosed amount of money. Flynt tells how he paid them their 30 pieces of silver, and then put Jessica's photographs away in his drawer forever.

I talked to wheelchair-bound Citizen Flynt by phone. I was not prepared to hear how unintentionally chilling his voice is. It is a raspy, struggling-to-breathe gargle from hell; a drawl that emits from the furthest edge of humanity.

The first thing in your book that everyone is going to jump on is your claim that young George W. Bush paid for his girlfriend's illegal abortion.

You can't stay with a story this long and not believe in it. In 2000, I got a call from a lawyer in Houston. He told me that his client, "Susan," could prove that George W. Bush arranged for his girlfriend to have an abortion back in the early 1970s. Her boyfriend at the time, "Clyde," was pals with Bush and set up the procedure. We checked up and found that indeed "Clyde" was responsible for keeping Bush out of trouble. Bush had knocked up a girl named "Rayette." We talked to the doctor that performed the abortion. We felt we really had a blockbuster story, but about two months before we were going to break the story, "Susan" disappeared. We finally found her. She was living in a half-million-dollar home in Corpus Christi, Texas. Before that she was living in a small apartment working for $13,000 a year as a cocktail waitress. I'm not saying Bush bought her off, but I'm confident that one or more of his cronies did. The only thing that interested me in this story is -- I'm pro-choice, but to have a guy who is running on a pro-life platform ... and this procedure was committed in 1971, two years before Roe vs. Wade, which would have made it a crime.

I went to two members of the national press (during the 2000 presidential campaign) and said, "Look. I don't have anyone out on the stump. You guys do. At least ask Bush the question." You know what? They refused to. One of them had the nerve to tell me that the election was too close. "We don't want to be the ones to tip it in any direction." I thought, that gives you a really great feeling about the press.

http://www.salon.com/books/int/2004/07/08/flynt/index.html

[KittyWampus]

1. Flynt Is An Interesting Fella.

Certainly consistent.

[pocoloco]

3. It wasn't the pictures that got him shot!!!

[tnlefty]

2. I wonder who all and what all else he covers in this book....

Does he slam our 'free press' for not bothering to fully inform us anymore?

[durutti]

4. Yes.

I just browsed through it at the bookstore, but that's one thing he certainly does cover.

[tnlefty]

6. Thanks and to you, too, NYC Girl. I need to go to the bookstore for the

kids' summer reading lists again and I'll make a point to try to find it and check it out. Something told me that he wouldn't give them a free pass.

[NYCGirl]

5. Sure does...

Do we still have a free press?

I don't think we have a free press by any means. Maybe the journalists on the beat think they are part of a free press, but we know the guys that sit in the ivory tower that call the shots, go to the White House for dinner, they're doing the bidding of the elite. It's getting worse. If they leave that idiot Michael Powell in charge of the FCC it's going to get worse even faster.

Aren't the people in the "ivory tower" the same people who were up there during Watergate?

It's obvious that the L.A. Times and the Washington Post are trying to keep their ships afloat, and maintain a certain degree of independence and integrity

http://www.salon.com/books/int/2004/07/08/flynt/index1.html

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

9. I think it was Watergate

that tipped the scales back the other way. My own private conspiracy theory :) says that once the power elite saw how their front man could be driven from the throne,steps began to be taken to assure the press would relienquish its traditional role as watchdog of the government.
It would appear to be the case now wouldn't it? No one wants to ask a tough question. And what they focus on is stuff not really central to the issue of being President (ie: affairs with interns).
When Nixon got his pecker caught in the wringer, it was because his guys were trying to rig an election.
When Bill got caught, what did it have to do with government?

[Ernesto]

7. Flynt was on Tavis Smiley's show the other night

The guy sure didn't look too good. What ever happened to the nut that shot him?

[Sliverofhope]

8. I just know this is what's going to get Bush

It won't be torture of children or treason or warmongering. It'll be sex. Count on it.