-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: Bill Nalty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater Date: Sunday, January 24, 1999 7:25 AM Subject: "We're hoping to do two at once ... one bigger one and one smaller one" >http://www.nydailynews.com/1999-01-24/News_and_Views/Scandal_Sheet/a-17435. asp > >New York Daily News >January 24, 1999 > >Hustler Chief's Ready to Roll > >By DAVID NOONAN >Daily News Staff Writer > >If all goes according to plan, smutmeister and self-styled Washington >sex detective Larry Flynt will soon serve up a double helping of >Hustler-style political news when he exposes the illicit sexual >escapades of two more of President Clinton's Republican critics. > >"We're hoping to do two at once," said Hustler executive editor Allan >MacDonell. "One bigger one and one smaller one. Smaller but louder." > >In fact, not much has gone as planned for Flynt and his team of >investigators in attempting to orchestrate a series of exposés intended >to embarrass the GOP and impede the impeachment process. > >First, in December, House Speaker-designate Robert Livingston stole >Flynt's thunder by outing himself as a multiple adulterer. Then, two >weeks ago, Flynt's widely trumpeted revelations about Rep. Bob Barr >(R-Ga.) — including charges that abortion foe Barr did not discourage >his second wife from ending a pregnancy in 1983 — generated about as >much heat as a routine Barr denunciation of Clinton. > >Aside from Livingston's decision to resign from the House — a decision >Flynt actually disagreed with — the skin-mag maestro's fat checkbook and >gleeful disregard for the rules so far have generated a lot more >publicity than actual news. > >Flynt has contributed two unforgettable scenes to the seemingly endless >impeachment movie that has been running in America's head for the last >year. One is the comically repulsive image of Livingston having phone >sex. The other is the bleak, sad vision of Barr driving his second wife >to an Atlanta abortion clinic — three years before their divorce and >nine years before Bill Clinton was first elected President. > >But the chief product of the pornographer's controversial campaign has >been talk about the pornographer's controversial campaign. > >"This created an opportunity for Larry Flynt to be on the lips of >everyone in Washington," said former Clinton adviser James Carville, who >has denied Republican charges that he is Flynt's link to the White >House. Carville described Flynt's campaign as the "logical and >inevitable result of the right wing and the mainstream media's obsession >with sex." > >"Adultery and sex are gonna be with us for the foreseeable future in >American politics," Carville said. "And it's not Larry Flynt's fault. He >is not the disease; he is the symptom. I know everybody is worried about >Larry Flynt paying somebody $100,000, but what about the $70 million we >spent investigating the President?" > >Flynt is anxious to come up with some genuine sizzle in the wake of the >Barr fizzle. > >"Yes, there is pressure," MacDonell said. > >But while the boss has proclaimed that his investigations of at least >eight more right-wing conservative Republicans could leave the GOP "in >shambles," his No. 2 man tells a different story. > >"We don't really think it's going to have any influence on how the >senators vote," said MacDonell said. "But we just want to give the >public insight into who it is that's doing this convicting [sic]." > >Unlike his counterparts in mainstream media, MacDonell — who has >overseen the handling of thousands of tips generated by a full-page ad >Flynt ran in the Washington Post last October — isn't interested in the >political implications of his work. > >"I look at the Republicans and the Democrats as being like the Crips and >the Bloods," he said. "They're the same people, and yet they are killing >each other." > >With the clock ticking on the Senate impeachment trial, Flynt and his >team, which includes journalist-for-hire Dan Moldea, are running out of >time to deliver the dirty goods he has been promising for so long. > >A nasty bout with double pneumonia that's left him incommunicado since >the Barr outing hasn't helped matters. Neither has a messy obscenity >case pending against Flynt in Cincinnati that he literally dared >officials to bring against him. > >In a classic example of colliding crusades, Flynt's scheme for raising >hell in Ohio seem to have bollixed his plans for raising hell in >Washington. > >"Why don't they just charge me with obscenity, and we'll go to trial?" >Flynt asked last January on Court TV. > >The challenge was the culmination of a year-long campaign by Flynt to >reintroduce Hustler magazine in Cincinnati, where he was convicted in >1977 of peddling obscenity and engaging in organized crime. > >Twenty years later, he flew into town and handed out free copies of >Hustler, creating a mob scene in a local park. > >Flynt was indicted last spring on 15 counts, including three counts of >selling obscene material to a minor. He had fun with the case for a >while and even sued the prosecutor for defamation of character. > >When his trial date arrived Tuesday, however, Flynt was in the middle of >his GOP outing project. Publicity overload was averted by Flynt's >pressing need for urological surgery. The judge reluctantly granted him >a delay until April 5. > >While Flynt's Cincinnati attorney said the judge doesn't expect Flynt to >stop speaking out, another member of Flynt's camp said there was concern >about how the judge might react if Flynt quickly staged another of his >anticipated outing extravaganzas. > >And if Flynt does present more documented cases of sexual shenanigans >among the anti-Clinton forces, will it have an actual effect on >anything? Or will he merely be guilty of a Washington sin even more >common than adultery and perjury — repeating himself? > >Original Publication Date: 01/24/1999 > > DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. 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