Spark It Up!!!: Porn Tycoon Larry Flynt to out Three Republicans

Vanity Fair has the story here. Many will say Flynt is blowing wind about this, but I am not so sure. Flynt has always made waves and he is not afraid to put the money up for the info. I think he is a degenerate scumbag, but I never underestimate him. Here is a piece of the story. Underlined for emphasis.

We’re getting about all the heads we can put over the mantel now,” Flynt tells me. In June of last year, he placed yet another ad in The Washington Post, again offering up to $1 million for evidence of “illicit sexual or intimate relations” with politicians and other officials; he claims the proposition has borne much fruit. Over the summer, when he began talking to me for this article, he dropped three A-list names—a Republican presidential candidate, a well-known Republican senator, and another prominent conservative official—whose peccadilloes he claimed Hustler was on the verge of exposing, hinting at hooker parties and no-tell-motel liaisons. When we sit down in the fall, these names are off the table, though investigations are said to be ongoing. The ripest target now, Flynt claims, is a closeted gay Republican senator who is not Larry Craig, though last spring Flynt’s investigators were also pursuing rumors about Craig, going as far as putting a surveillance team on him, before his arrest in June for allegedly soliciting sex in a men’s room at the Minneapolis airport.

“The other shoe’s going to drop any day,” Flynt says, speaking of the other senator. “It’ll surprise a lot of people that he’s gay. And I’ll bet you he resigns the same day and rides off into the sunset. He won’t be as stupid as Craig,” who after an initial vow to leave office changed his mind and instead fought to reverse his guilty plea to disorderly conduct.

Let the speculation begin! He says he has the dirt on a GOP presidential candidate. Which one? He also offers this tidbit in the five page Vanity Fair article. Flynt says:

“Let me ask you something,” he says in a voice that might best be described as a slurred croak. “As mayor of New York, would you live in an apartment with three gay guys?” Flynt’s facts aren’t entirely in order, but his train of thought won’t be derailed. “I’m not gay,” he continues. “I don’t hate gays. But I don’t want to live in an apartment full of them. They’ll bitch and cry and all. That doesn’t bother Giuliani. It doesn’t bother Giuliani to put a dress on to do Saturday Night Live. I don’t trust him. I don’t think he’s electable.”

Um, I ask, what exactly is he trying to suggest? That Giuliani, famous for his three marriages—to women—and for his taxpayer-subsidized philandering, is in fact one of the political world’s most successfully closeted homosexuals? “I don’t know whether he’s gay or not,” Flynt replies with a hint of exasperation, “but I’m saying, if you got four friends, all gay, living in the same apartment, how are you going to know which one’s gay? I’m surprised no one’s even asking that question. Why do you break up with your wife and move in with gay guys?”

I hope this is all Flynt blowing smoke. Can we be sure after the men's room Craig, Larry McDonald and David Vitter ordeals? Flynt is as dirty as they come. He hates moralists and hypocrites. He proudly published nude photos of first lady Jackie Kennedy. He published a story that linked JFK and the death of Marilyn Monroe. This guy loves the spotlight.

This is very disheartening stuff for conservatives. On the one hand I despise Flynt for digging into this. On the other hand I also despise two faced politicians pretending to be something they are not. This behavior is killing our party.