Boy Band Guru, Alleged Pedophile, Is a GOP Donor

[RamboLiberal]

October 2, 2007 -- LOU Pearlman - the hog-fat, boy-band honcho who created *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys and launched the careers of Justin Timberlake and Nick Carter - was a pervy pedophile who preyed on the young men he mentored, Vanity Fair reports.

"I would absolutely say the guy was a sexual predator. All the talent knew what Lou's game was," Steve Mooney, an aspiring singer who was Pearlman's assistant, told VF's Bryan Burrough. "Some guys joked about it. I remember asking me, 'Have you let Lou you yet?' "

Mooney said he once asked Pearlman, who was known as "Big Poppa," what it would take for him to get into a band. "I'll never forget this as long as I live. He leaned back in his chair, in his white terry cloth robe and white underwear, and spread his legs," Mooney told Burrough. "And then he said, and these were his exact words, 'You're a smart boy. Figure it out.' " Mooney added that a singer groped by Pearlman told him, "Look, if a guy wants to massage me, and I'm getting a million dollars for it, you just go along with it. It's the price you got to pay."

But I didn't come here to tell you that tonight. I came here to share with you what I found out about the past political donations of one Louis Pearlman of Orlando, Florida:

Before he hit the beaches of Bali to scout for new talent, Open Secrets documents $16,100.00 given exclusively to Republicans between 1997 and 2003. Hoo, boy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pachacutec/boy-band-guru-alleged-pe_b_67416.html

[riverdeep]

1. The whole boy band thing is freaky.

On a lot of levels. I know boy bands have been around since the fifties, and just as phony, but something in the nineties made them even worse.

But I'm shocked a Repub is a perv, shocked.