Flynt Says He Has Dirt On Congress -- 80% on Republicans

[AtomicKitten]

San Francisco Chronicle
Flynt says he has dirt on Congress under covers

Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Thursday, June 7, 2007

"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."

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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.

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Livingston, he recalled, publicly called him a "bottom-feeder."

Flynt's response: "Yeah, that's right -- and look what I've found when I got down there.' "

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/07/MNGBVQAMEO1.DTL

[YDogg]

1. let's hear it, then

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3. Screw that!

When is he going to dig up some dirt on Paris Hilton?

:smoke:

[Little Star]

4. For the sake of this country he needs to speak up! n/t

[salin]

5. If I recall correctly - during the 'last round' of Flynt dirt

back in 1998 (or thereabouts) - he took the time to be able to verify - and only released info on those folks who a) fit his "hypocrisy" definition and b) whose stories were verified and thus certain to be real and not able to be discredited (the story - not the individual). I would guess that he is working from the same principles this time. IOW - be patient - and the bombs he will throw will come - and not be easily dismissed by the actors.

[jobycom]

2. Then fling it out there for the world to see! Shake things up, they can't get any worse. nt

[radfringe]

6. all he needs is any photo of bush standing with anyone

afterall bush has been screwing us all for the past 7 years

[Totally Committed]

7. I say show us all the goods and let "God" sort it out....

The religious Right needs to know exactly WHO they are supporting when they support the republican Party, and we need to know the same about exactly WHO we support.

I say, let's see it all, Larry!

TC

[AtomicKitten]

8. The GOP has been showing a certain willingness to

abandon their strident tenets with their candidates, mostly because they have no other choice. The GOP line-up is shall we say flawed? Hee-hee. But Flynt could provide the incendiary device that causes a campaign or two to implode. An, good times.

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