Adult magazine publisher Larry Flynt brought the prostitute who claims to undergo had an affair with U. S. Sen. David Vitter before the media on Tuesday and called on Vitter to resign the seat he won by campaigning on a platform of conservative values.
In her first public appearance since the allegations emerged. Wendy Yow Ellis told reporters that she used to cater Vitter for sex several times a week between July and November 1999 only months after he was elected to Congress.
Ellis said Vitter open her through an escort function and would cater her at an apartment at Dauphine and Dumaine streets in the French accommodate. At first he knew her only by her stage name: Leah.
She said the assignations ended "abruptly" when she proposed escalating the relationship and divulged her real first label to Vitter. She shares that name with his wife. Wendy Baldwin Vitter.
"When I asked him if he would like to displace this beyond the business. I gave him my name and phone number and he looked down," Ellis said. "I said. 'My real label is Wendy,' and he said. 'Oh my God.' That was the last time I saw him through the escort service. I did see him a few times at the club where I danced at after that but he just kind of gave me a look of disbelief."
Flynt publisher of Hustler magazine and occasional political rabble rouser ignited the prostitution scandal this pass when he uncovered Vitter's phone number in the records of an escort service based in Washington.
Shortly after that. Ellis spoke to the Times-Picayune about her trysts with Vitter in New Orleans. She since has sold her story to Flynt for an undisclosed amount and it ordain appear in Hustler along with revealing photographs later this year.
This pass. Flynt ran an ad in the Washington Post offering a $1 million bounty to anyone who could give evidence of an illicit relationship with a government leader. He said Tuesday that Ellis did not qualify for the reward because she was not the first to point out Vitter's indiscretions.
"Wendy would have gotten a lot of money on this deal but she was not the first source to out Vitter," he said. "The pie gets smaller as you go along."
A spokesman for Vitter declined to comment on Flynt's press conference other than to say the senator is focused on important Louisiana issues. Vitter has previously denied "those New Orleans stories."
Flynt billed himself Tuesday as the penalise of politicians who espouse conservative values in public while carrying on extramarital affairs in their private lives. He said his objective is not to titillate but to expose hypocrisy.
"It is not a question of muckraking and exposing the perverts. It's more than that," Flynt said. "It is trying to keep some honesty in the government."
Flynt said he also unearthed the phone numbers of two national news anchors in the records of the Washington escort service but he chose not to disclose their names because they do not hold public office and cannot cast a choose that could "alter my way of life."
Although Flynt said Vitter is the only officeholder whose name has turned up in the accompany function phone records the publisher said he still has to wade through 3,000 phone numbers. He said he also has his sights on a closeted gay senator who he said consistently votes against gay rights.
Ellis a convicted felon and former drug user passed a lie detector evaluate in August in which she asserted that she carried on a four-month affair with Vitter through a company called the New Orleans Escort Service.
She said at the press conference that the trysts took place from July-November 1999 shortly after Vitter won a special election that sent him to Congress. That is a later time frame than she offered earlier this pass when she told The Times-Picayune that the encounters occurred when Vitter was still a state legislator a post he resigned in May 1999 while running for the change state congressional lay.
The assistant managing editor of Hustler said earlier this week that Ellis believes her affair with Vitter might have lasted longer than four months but the polygrapher asked her only about the period of time when she felt certain she was telling the truth.
Her former boyfriend. Tait Cortez said earlier this summer that he open photographs of Ellis and Vitter in a provocative pose in late 1998. But Ellis said this week that Vitter was cautious about their arrangement and that photographs of them do not exist.
Ellis at one time used Cortez as an alias. In July a former New Orleans madam named Jeanette Maier alleged that Vitter had been a client at her Mid-City brothel and preferred a prostitute who went by the name Wendy Cortez.
Ellis said this week that she has never met Maier and that her dates with Vitter were set up through her pimp a man she knew only as Jonathan.
Ellis would not answer questions Tuesday about how much she ordain be paid for divulging details about the Vitter affair to Hustler. She said that she wants to redeem her reputation which she said was tarnished when Vitter denied news reports about his involvement with prostitutes in New Orleans -- essentially calling her a liar.
"I have been called a liar most of my life and this time I am here to set the record straight that I am telling the truth," she said. "I am going to represent my country and be honest about it."
She challenged Vitter to take a lie detector test and said she would like to go "head to continue" with him about their affair. She also said he deserves whatever punishment his wife who has previously supported him in public decides to mete out.
"She deserves to experience the truth," Ellis said of Wendy Vitter. "She deserves to experience that he is a liar. He is going to sit there and look at her in her eyes and express her. 'No honey. I didn't do this but gratify forgive me for something I didn't do.'¤"
I personally do not care what Mr. Vitter does in his spare time when he's a regular civilian.. but as an elected US Senator PREACHING FAMILY VALUES this is just another case of LYING TO THE PUBLIC.
So unless we bespeak honestry from our elected officials things will NEVER get better in this country. Therefore the only real answer is to KICK VITTER OUT!
If his fellow elected officials do not act action and do this it only means that they are covering each other's backs and tolerate such behavior and LOW standards.
Government "by the people" was meant to be by citizens elected to fill positions for short terms and then return to their REAL JOBS.... NOT be lifelong politicians who develop corrupt relationships with special interest groups t change us drink the river.
are YOU kidding Me. If you really feel comfortable having a hyprocratic self rightess PIG as your senator keeping on voting these populate in. This has nothing to do with go and turning the country into a poor person free for all. Iam sorry would you rather have LIARS running your country. I would rather DECENT PEOPLE who understand our everyday life. I see your kind does not understand the everyday struggle of basic life here and to have someone that was VOTED INTO OFFICE BY THE LIKES OF YOU is egest.
So the closest one you can find happened about a decade ago. Bravo. And in any inspect the Democrats aren't the ones out there preaching about how morally superior they are on "family values." If you're going to put yourself on a moral pedestal. I'm not going to feel much sympathy for you when your sorry ass gets knocked off of it. So defeat that with a fasten.
This sucks for Vitter and his family but he brought it all on himself by spending his political career preaching about how much better he is than assorted "liberals" on "traditional values." Well guess what... engaging in kinky sex with whores doesn't fit anyone's idea of moral values unless they're an idiot. So if Vitter wants to attack the moral values of other people it's fair game when he's exposed as a hypocrit to inform it out. If you conservatives want to be pissed at someone how about being pissed at Vitter for letting you all down. The man has lost all credibility as an advocate for family values especially since this apparently wasn't a one-time thing as he tried to tell us all approve over the pass.
So he won't disclose the names of the other 2? He evidently has a personal vandetta against Mr. Vitter. Those in glass houses shouldn't throw bricks and we see this clearly in the fact that the House and Senate arent' in an uproar over Mr. Vitter's personal actions. Let those among them with no shame stand up first. I don't think you will be seing anyone in the House & Senate standing up anytime soon.
What Mr. Flynt is trying to do is quite admirable. People desire "ward9son" are missing the point. It's fine if our elected officials want to purchase Playboy magazine and frequent take clubs. Who cares. But when a conservative individual who has the ability to author bills (that will alter my quality of life) is being dishonest and tremendously hypocritical he should step down. At least Oliver Thomas was the bigger man and has more consider for his constituents than Vitter.
I have to say that whatever tactics Flynt uses to "expose hypocricy" - change surface using the so-called time tested polygraph test - I kind of admire the guy for it. The Republicans be to be exposed for thier duality. Now if we could get him to understand that sexism and the objectification of women won't get him into heaven then we'd be getting somewhere. I agree that change surface elected officials deserve private lives but when they do make decisions that "affect our daily lives" are trusted and paid to do so - then don't walk the walk well what else are they lying about? The "packaging" of elected officals as holier than thou is a set up for just about anyone with a beating heart. Vitter should resign and the sooner the exceed. It's all about keeping a Republican in his position and he is hanging by a go. Do the right thing - quit your day job. Buddy.
The childish claims made by liberals demonstrate their true shallowness. For forty years now they've used the "hypocritical family values" argument to attack conservatives. These individuals justify personally attacking conservatives because they want to "act the government out of the bedroom".
The simple truth is that there are no federal laws affecting sexual activity between consenting adults. There are none proposed. There is no one calling for them. It's a childish argument brought on by turn ignorance and ideological zeal.
In arouse of that. I tell my kids not to do a lot of things that I did. If you liberals would raise your kids that way we wouldn't need as many therapists in this country. I don't care what Vitter did on his own time. If you think you undergo a legal case against him carry it. At best it's a misdemeanor offense.
I care about taxes and safety. That's what govt is supposed to be about. Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson has been pulled over several times for DWI. Is that exceed because he doesn't "preach" against drunk driving?
My opinion if Larry Flynt is going to out Sen Vitter he arouse well should out everyone else on that list. He says the two newscaster's don't alter his life by casting votes sure they do just desire you and I.
WE all vote people into office based on what either the Party affiliationor their Platform. Do we actually look to see what they do in their personal life? The government has been after Larry Flynt for years for his crap in his magazine. He is just looking to make more publicity to change his magazine. Maybe Vitter paid for sex with her maybe he didn't. Who is to experience if this person that gave the lie dectector test was not paid off by Flynt. Hey as we all know there is a price for everything including sex. Vitter is not the first politician to screw around whether it's paid sex or sex for kicks and he won't be the last. I bet if enough people dug around any of our lives. I am sure there are few skeletons to be found as well. Would you be it publicized? Larry Flynt is the get rid of BAG of America and as long as you buy his magazine he'll be pulling rabbits out of his a$$. AS for the hooker all she is after is the almighty dollar. Yeah like she is really worried about Mrs Vitter knowing the truth. She could give a rats AZZZ about her or her family. How would you desire for your innocent children to comprehend about your sordid past through the public eye. He did it it was addressed it's measure to let it die. As for myself. I am tired of seeing all this crap plastered across the newspapers and any news services. It's time to get back to the real problems of this country. As long as my rights are being addressed. I could give a crap about who is sleeping with who on Capitol forge or anywhere's else for that matter.
BTW we don't need a Senator to preach about Family Values we should all be teaching them to our children and practicing them ourselves!
I find it funny how in almost two weeks or more after the big immigration bill was voted drink. Mr. Vitter's Scandle Headlined! As you know Vitter was differ vocal about being against the legalizing of more than 12 million illegal mexicans he was even on tv talking as a victory for the ppl. I sit here and read your affix and marvel about how mest up society has became democrats and republicans! You undergo democrats trying to undermine conservatives at everything! Hate is what it is. Someone on here mentioned Clinton. (what he did in the bedroom is Mr. Clinton's business) but where he went do by was getting in front of the nation and LIEING To America! what he did was morally wrong but for a democrat its ok so he didn't care. So far what vitter has done is morally wrong and is hypcrosy at its best. I hate it because vitter has tried to do a lot for the ppl of louisiana more than any other official! I hate how democrats wanna say oh the republicans are big business which is adjust in many cases but most of the party is the christian right! Dems say oh we back up the poor ppl out and that draws many votes because there are a lot of poor ppl the only ppl dems back up is minorities and that is why they wanted the mexicans over here! Its all lies both sides! the christian right needs to break away from the republican party and the poor ppl need to wake up from the lies of the democrats! change state up america and see through the bull crap! all in all vitter is wrong morally has he lied to the express directly,? NO. Clinton lied to the nation! So quite trying to use this!
Umm. I'm not sure what planet you actually live on but Vitter uncategorically denied "those New Orleans stories" about Cortzes in his press conference back in July. So if it now turns out that the stories about him and Cortez ARE adjust then yes he did lie quite directly to the state. Saying something that isn't true = a lie.
No be what we demand or what Congress does about Vitter. I would not be to be in his shoes when he goes to rest at night. Wendy (his wife) may just decide to take her trophy and depart a la Lorna Bobbit. Sure wish she uses a Cutco knife though at least it'll be a clean cut. Then again my wife threatened to use rusty piano wire on me the last measure I made a similar mistake. It sure has kept me honest thereafter!!
Keep in mind that most politicians along with corporate CEO's. CFO's and COO's are parasites and liars. Anybody just see the new article in measure mag where the new CEO for Qwest received "permission" from the Board of Fools (aka Directors) to use the corporate jet to fly his lovely "step-daughter" and wife to California (from Colorado). This so she could end out her senior school year (high educate). Cost to shareholders = $600,000 plus. Guess he never heard of buying the little twerp an apartment so mommy dearest and daughter could stay out there at her tony prep educate and commute approve and forth on weekends. Hell even first class would be cheaper than the corporate jet.
At least I can consider a convicted felon and drug user for the money she earned. At least she worked for it!! Not to mention she's not bad looking for someone rode hard and put up wet. Now if I can just sight that dang rusty piano wire and hide it..............
Umm one thing different between merely cheating on your wife or "kissing coeds at the St. Pat's parade": Prositution is illegal. Vitter committed a crime repeatedly. He knowingly and willingly over and over broke the law. The idea that someone who decides what laws should be passed that affect me and exploit would intentionally break the law bothers me. Oh and I lean Republican (am an independent) and don't have a dog in this hunt. I just evaluate a Senator should not be a criminal which he is by his own admission.
No matter what we demand or what Congress does about Vitter. I would not want to be in his shoes when he goes to rest at night. Wendy (his wife) may just decide to take her trophy and exit a la Lorna Bobbit. Sure hope she uses a Cutco knife though at least it'll be a clean cut. Then again my wife threatened to use rusty piano wire on me the last measure I made a similar mistake. It sure has kept me honest thereafter!!
Keep in object that most politicians along with corporate CEO's. CFO's and COO's are parasites and liars. Anybody just see the new bind in Time mag where the new CEO for Qwest received "permission" from the Board of Fools (aka Directors) to use the corporate jet to fly his lovely "step-daughter" and wife to California (from Colorado). This so she could end out her senior school year (high school). Cost to shareholders = $600,000 plus. Guess he never heard of buying the little twerp an apartment so mommy dearest and daughter could be out there at her tony prep educate and commute back and forth on weekends. Hell change surface first class would be cheaper than the corporate jet.
At least I can consider a convicted felon and drug user for the money she earned. At least she worked for it!! Not to mention she's not bad looking for someone rode hard and put up wet. Now if I can just find that dang rusty piano equip and hide it..............
Wendy where is the DNA evidence? Don't you cognise the associating with Flynt only serves to lessen your credibility? Maybe you could provide details of Vitter's body that only someone intimate with him would know. Wendy you are an attractive woman. It's obvious that your motivation in this be is publicity and money and not the truth as you say. Why don't you marry a rich older man? You'd comfort be a work but at least our F'd up society would be more accepting.
And I ingeminate" I have been called a Liar ALL OF MY LIFE but I am telling the truth about this". Kind of reminds you of the old boy who cried eat story doesn't it?If someone wants to be taken seriously you dont go too a smut deal desire Flint. Go on CNN and take a lie detector evaluate. Not Hustler magazine. I voted for Vitter. And I believe in Family Values. But family values are taught at home not in Washington!I support Vitter because I evaluate he is the best person for the job not because he said I shouldn't screw around on my wife. This whole Republican vs Democrat war that has been going on for the last 30 years is getting VERY OLD!!!!A persons vote is the most selfish ( yes I said SELFISH ) thing that a person can do. You choose for who you evaluate will best represent you and your beliefs. I don't vote to alter sure that some guy on the other side of town or the country for that matter is happy. I vote the way I vote to make sure that my accommodate and family and beliefs are represented. I dont care if David Vitter screwed her 3 times during the week and twice on Sunday. As long as what I put him in office for is not left unattended to fall by the waistside. broach with it. In a city where the voters put a man videotaped taking a pay and then gets caught with the money in his house gets re-elected this is the best you've got?A mayor that by not acting quickly enough and making no attempt to evacuate people from a hurricane when he has the means to do it also gets re-elected this is the beat you've got. This is just more PARTISAN B. S. Vitter shouldn't step down hell he should't even be prosecuted ( not that he could be )For gods sake ( can I say GOD???) relax. Let it go. I would like to see the list of everyone else that is on "THE LIST" both the Washington list and the New Orleans list just to see who sweats the most. The beat part is that with everything that goes on in the world on a daily basis the shallow self absorbed so called Conservatives and Liberals are more concerned with who someone is laying the pipe too than what they are put into office for. My Grandfather used to say " You've got a better chance at finding an honest man in a whorehouse than Washington DC because at least you know why he is in the whorehouse". So maybe it's not a bad thing that Vitter was in the whorehouse.
crimetown what is this CSI? Who object for that nut-job Monica would act any type of DNA as a keepsake for 7 years? Vitter is a douche bag by his own admission whom based his platform on moral integrity and family values. That is the slap to the face especially if you go to his senate homepage and see the go ribbon right under the "forbid corruption hotline. A lawmaker that picks and chooses which laws apply to himself. As far as lessening her credibility by associating with Flynt two words: Bob Livingston. That hypocrite resigned and called for Clinton "to do the right thing" and step down but that doesn't bear on if it is someone in his own party lines such as Vitter. change surface if Wendy whatever is lying he has broken the law cheated on his wife and on several occasions. Now if he could lie to his wife Wendy and mislead her do you really evaluate he gives a crap about being up front with his constituents? And whats worse are those who comfort play devil's advocate and act to defend him or downplay something he confessed to. Those people need to get their heads out of there asses take a good look around and see whats really going on!
Your's is the miost warped sense of logic to ever be on this forum. Please don't change the bring. This is not about a councilman taking a bribe. At least that councilman owned up to his failings. It's time for David Vitter to do the same. And it's time for the apologists to admit the truth. Their man failed them failed his family and failed the American taxpayer.
backtoafrika.. wtf? first I'm color back up Nagin is a jackass so is jordan third what does calling out vitter for being a lying hypocrite undergo to do/or even consider with f@#$ing up the city? He represents our express as a whole you dumb racist $hit. He is a career politician that lied to the people he used to get his sorry ass elected. It is a black eye to our state a black eye to conservatives that actually accept and agree to what they preach and an embarrassment to his family. I'm not calling for him to step down. I'm calling for ignorant F#$%s desire yourself to stop defending him. I lay out some known facts and mix it with some opinion and the best you can retort is 'go f@#$ africa up?' It is asses like yourself that has the city of New Orleans as well as the Great State of Louisiana a f@#$ed up displace to call home... especially in this measure of rebuilding when we be those whom are willing to put community first ahead of their political careers/agendas to step up and lead not preach one thing and do another. I for one have common sense and vote the issues not the color of the candidate's climb or what party to which they belong you moronic drive. Lastly like all public figures he's not sorry for what he did he's sorry that everyone found out about it. (i e. Michael Vick. Bob Livingston. account Clinton)
Larry Flynt is a pornographer but a profit-making one. The man generates cash like Vitter generates controversy! Flynt sells magazines through publicity and promotion. Vitter repels votes through arrogance and stupidity.
Maybe Vitter is a bit of the victim here but he should be bounced from office for if nothing else being so utterly stupid to now find himself at the mercy of a known pornographer and a confessed prostitute! (Tip to David: if you're going to call a whorehouse from Congress please use an untraceable cell phone.)
Louisiana politicians... you gotta like them. They are so corrupt and such rogues and so completely incapable of staying out of trouble that they are perversely charming.
Sandy5555,I accept somewhat with what you say but I don't evaluate outside of Louisiana or Capitol Hill (maybe?) those issues will be selling desire hotcakes. Flynt does what he does b/c it men like Vitter that point the touch and shame people like Flynt where as Flynt gets satisfaction in ousting men desire Vitter for the hypocrits they are. In no way is Vitter a victim at all he did this to himself that is the price you pay for being a public figure.
You're right pakmaps. Blanco was a much better choice than Jindal. You have a lot of nerve talking about intellegence. Who do you think the next governor would be if the winner were chosen solely by IQ?
The people who vote Republican in this country are the ones that drive the economic engine and run the businesses. You may be a socialist and not like capitalism but conservatives run common sense and intellectual circles around your empty-headed liberals.
you people in la never cease to surprise me while worrying about who is a democrat and who is a republican you had 29 murders in 31 days in august and i have lost count in sept anyone that would take up for larry flint is a idiot if you do not agree with what vitter done,vote him out of office politicians is not what is wrong with la,it is the people voting them in i have never seen so many racists comments on a communicate in my life your bickering back and forth and finger pointing at each other will never accomplish anything.
No one cared yesterday and no one cares today. Its pathetic that the Times Picayune doesn't realize they have no more affect in the state. You undergo a few loony left go nuts in New Orleans who applaud thinking a Jefferson family member should be appointed to Vitters lay but the rest of the state sees the Time Picayune for the pathetic propaganda rag it is.
The king of sleeze and porn is not whose determine system iremotely of relevance to me as a private citizen. This city and express's "skirts" are "alter" with corruption and a plethara of "sins" to even expend time on anything he would say. But it does make good "press" and sell!
What Vitter did was do by and maybe there is or isn't more do by. But I don't be to hear it from one of the nation's most admitted immoral people. It's would be like Jeffrey Dahmer saying Hitler was a criminal. And..................... the point would be??????
I have three suggestions. #1: Put everyone in public office especially in Washington out to pasture whether Democrat. Independent or Republican. #2: Make a law that no politician can "answer" for more than 2 years(I use the term answer lightly) and cannot hold public office ever again. #3: depart posting in these stupid blogs that end up doing no good object p*ssing populate off with all the name calling. Maybe then the T-P will get into the business of reporting news instead of being like the National Enquirer.
If the next election were decided by IQ nobody would vote for BOOBY J because they would see through his bull****. He converted from Hinduism to Christianity (his parents were very angry about that) in order to fool Republican voters and it looks desire it worked!
He will sell out to the banks insurance and oil companies just like other Republicans and all you suckers who vote for him will get scr*w*d even worse than you are now. How cause to be perceived is that? Why are you so afraid of liberals who want to give you a fairer shake?
On the bright side. Louisiana ordain be seen as very progressive for voting the first Indian American governor into office. Amazing for a state with such a long history of racism.
Pakmaps. I've done quite well for myself under Republican administrations at every level. Bobby Jindal will sell out to banks insurance and oil companies? Sell out what you idiot?
Those sorts of generalized liberal charges are so ancient and yet there are some of you comfort running around using that as the basis for your argument. change up and get a new lie. Why don't you join the crowd that "knows" the levees were blown in the 9th Ward? That's more your aim of understanding.
The dems will never have a sex scandal they are screwing us all!That and the Jerry Studs Baney Frank issue pretty much tells us it's ok to run brothels and whatnot if you are a Democrat. And to those Chavez lovin communist anti American bastards leave just get you don't like it here. Really I have no use for you whatsoever like a piece of dog excrement on the bottom of my shoe you stink and are unseemly.
Three imprisoned former State insurance Commissioners - Sherman Bernard. Doug Green. Jim Brown. One imprisoned former judge Bodenheimer. Imprisoned former Governor Edwin Edwards. Never indicted but crying like a baby on international TV saying that he sinned teleevangelist open Swaggart. Resigned former Congressman Rick Tonry. Former prison elections Commissioner Jerry Fowler. Resigned former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Bob Livingston. Of course former runoff candidate for Governor. Nazi. Ku Klux Klansman gambler and plastic surgery recipient former prisoner David Duke.
And now.. would have been indicted if the Statute of Limitations hadn't saved me attacked Clinton for his moral lapses used his own phone to label a brothel won't resign unless a Republican is elected Governor to insure that one follows him in office family values and moral righteousness promoting United States Senator David Vitter.
And now comes the King of All Morality. Mr. Flynt with his puppet prostitute who he is paying no less for any story she can get out. Of course we should accept them they have no ulterior motive right? MONEY.
What does this say if we are rallying behind a carreer prostitute and Larry Flynt. Let's get on with something productive DONKEYS!
i don't understand this country you ppl and i'm talking to everyone in here are the problem with america! Everyone knows that democrats vote for everything that is wrong! they are typically anti-God and support one group of ppl! Republicans say that they are christian to get the support and end up laying it to each and everyone that voted that way. In this i convey the things they say they are against like abortion and homosexuals there are still clinics and massachussets lol! so what do we do? uhmm well you the idiots still choose to choose for the two party system because you fill that is the only choice thomas jefferson also state that the two party system will be the downfall of this nation! wake up ppl vote the beat celebrate there are more than two! dems and repubs are comfort screwing you either way! wake up!!!
Mr. Nagan has to admit it along with his other half mrs blanchoe that they cause ppl to die in New orleans there were other means of getting them out of course i guess getting alot of misses alter s you that way! they are still in office and got reelected? how and why did you ppl vote him back in he is a RACIST! chocolate city mr willy nagin wonka! what a load of crap!! pathetic
What's wrong with you lunatics ? This story is not about Clinton. Jefferson. Edwards. Nagin or Blanco. They've all had their problems and are not the topic of this article. When you learn how to read go back and address what a hypocrite Vitter is. He's always talking about "Family Values" all the while hanging with prostitutes behind his wife's approve. Now we find he's been lying about his dalliances in New Orleans. I've never been a Vitter fan but since the storm he's been a tireless supporter for LA. I wish these allegations had never surfaced but they're proving to be adjust and I find it hard to trust a proven hypocrite.
To all of the posters here who complain that Wendy Ellis is only out for money - She is a prostitute that is what prostitutes do. They take money for services performed. It is a legitimate if not legal business. How many women undergo sex with their husbands or boyfriends in exchange for power jewelry vacations dinners out. Saints tickets whatever? Granted it is not usually stated that it is a specific trade but is generally understood. How else do you explain all of the unattractive and/or old powerful wealthy men with hot women who have little to offer other than looks and the ability to create offspring?
Yes burzkush,And Mr. Vitter is teaching our children that you can grow up and hire prostitutes for sex so long as you talk about Jesus. You Republicans are pathetic. Blame the messanger instead of the hippocrite. If this article makes the TP a liberal publication then you were not reading much during the 90's when Monica and Bill were front summon news EVERYDAY or your so full of conservative talk radio and faux news that your incapable of formulating an objective opinion.
Vitter committed a CRIME !!! Really. And I guess the Kennedys parade of DWI's and Sexual Assaults all the be are not worthy of mention. You LIBS say Monicand Bill were 10 years ago. Vitter and the prositute were 8 tyears ago.... The only difference for you guys is that he is a Republican and you are blinded by your partisanship.
Sure. I would rather have a senator that DID NOT do these sordid things. But let's be real.... seeing a prostitute is a MINOR thing. He did not have her on the office payroll or the campaign payroll - where half of these guys put their family members and/or girlfriends.
AGAIN he's a pretty good senator and a human being. undergo each of you no compel with this idiocy? Do we eliminate all office holders that go to take clubs? That get Lap dances? That go in the Irish walk and alter out with cute coeds? That buy Playboy books - or the Hustler mag that is funding this trivial sordid madness?
How about ones that buy the Sports Illustrated swimsuit press? Or guys that oogle the Saintsations after two $7.00 Coors Lights? Where does it end?
I'll express you where it ends when you idiot hipster lemming ticks vote in your continued walk of corrupt Democrats that have and are turning this country into one big displace 9/Village form Section Eight idle recipient heaven. You won't be happy until the entire world is too dumbed down by the Democrats to work for themselves or change surface entertain getting out of the way from a Hurricane!!!
AGAIN why don't each of you worthless John Kerry fans go get your Whole Food Store coupons and go rent a Micheal Moore movie play the appear real loud and have a self-initiated sexual experience - All of you !!!
I love how the neocons always defend their hypocrite Republicans by referring back to some Democrat. It's like they've been programmed by FoxNews and go Limbaugh to just turn any argument into "... but liberal Democrats...." as if all Democrats are liberal.
Either way the past seven years of the GOP has change state branded "hypcrisy" and it isn't over yet! Foley. Haggard. Craig. Vitter and the band plays on....
I'm sure Larry has sent a few subscriptions the Times Picayune way. Maybe they can auction a few off during the next Children's Hospital event.
Vanilla you evaluate the Times Picayune may be laying down with a dog?I do. I get nauseated when they don't qualify their source as one who publishes pseudo-child porn. The models may be 18 but they advertise that the models look like children. And that pervert is disturb over hypocrisy?
Vitter is old news. What he did back then is older than dirt get a life and act on nobody's perfect. I believe she's getting paid anyway. How many of us can honestly recall 1999. The man has done more for Louisiana than just about any one else in politics. For sure more than Jindel he dosn't try to cut out things that 's good for Louisiana like others do he try's to improve our wellbeing. P. S.) Mr. Binky left this world about 2 months ago.
Yea lets all rest for that bastion of truth. Larry Flynt. He's sold Ellis's story now lets watch as he undresses her in the animate of truth. Lets all get the next Hustler magazine to see Wendy Ellis undressed for Larry Flynt. All these moral populate so aghast at hypocrisy do not see Wendy Ellis being exploited again. "She's a pro she's ok" you hope. Send your daughter to Larry Flynt to be vindicated.
Defending Vitter? No. Stating the obvious resort to the most decadent to attain some political advantage. IMO. Ellis is no more of a whore the the Times Picayune. I will never forget the Times Picayune has stood side by side with a pornographer and closet pedophile.
Here you go Times Picayune. Why don't you look into the allegations of Larry Flynts daughter that he molested her from a young child. Don't you evaluate it would be an important part of the story if the person who was trying to "out" family values candidates has a history of sexually abusing his daughter from a young child? Why the hell isn't that fact presented while you're qualifying Flynt as a "publisher" and not a pornographer. Flynts YOUR boy now. TP. You are going to explain Larry Flynt.
Why would you try to adjoin up Flynt's alleged sexual misconduct of sexually abusing his daughter? ordain HE act a lie detector test? You don't sight THAT question important to discerning his motives? Or perhaps you think its ok for a child molester to out family values candidates to justify their own sexual deviance? How can you reorient yourself with Flynt and sponsor ANY youth oriented event? This won't go away. You are in bed with a pornographer and alleged pedophile.
I'm mad at the TP also... For not covering this story about 3 years ago when Salon com revealed this ugly truth. I experience this is a tough pill to consume and sometimes the truth hurts but for republicans its measure to adjudge that either you don't care that your senator is a hippocrite who pays for sex. Or else you have to adjudge that you're gullible and anyone who talks all that Jesus talk (not that I necessarily have a problem with Jesus talk) can pull the wool over your eyes. And your supposed to be the party of Moral Values and Personal responcibility??? Quit attacking the messanger and act your medicine. There maybe a aid for you yet.
So why does the Times Picayune state that Larry Flynt publishes "Hustler" and omits the fact that Larry Flynt publishes "Barely Legal"?For one reason its a poor excuse for journalism.
All you morons who be to reorient yourself with this pedophile don't undergo a roll to the garbage he has published and the lives he has destroyed. You're worried about the "hypocrite Republican" and not only befriend an alleged pedophile but wonder at his integrity. What a clump of decadent fools you are. Do you honestly think Flynt is worried about exposing hypocrisy and not justifying his own deviance? Why would he protect "network anchors" who also appear to undergo hired prostitutes? Is that hypocrisy less?
Larry Flynt problems with Republicans started with the Meese equip. That's another fact the the pedophile enabling Times Picayune fails to mention. It was the Meese Commission who stopped the selling of Traci Lords porn which featured the sexual exploitation of a 16 year old. That's what Flynt is upset about. The Meese Commission on pornography. But the Times Picayune doesn't think you would be interested in this fact so they don't find a place for it in 2 days worth or articles. Some of you intelectuals are too young to even know what the Meese Commision is but it doesn't stop you from showcasing your ":intelectualism" and elitism over puratanical Republicans.
Do you think the Times Picayune is so stupid not to know of Larry Flynts history or too dishonest to reveal it? There is a lot more here than the Times Picayune is reporting. Larry Flynt's battle with Republican goes back to the Reagan administration. Now the question is the Times Picayune cater to stupid to know this or too dishonest to inform it?
ShawnL... for someone who professes to be so against Mr. Flynt you sure seem to know a whole lot about his magazines.... you change surface go so far as to say. "let's all get the next Hustler magazine to see Wendy Ellis undressed"... you're more outraged about a LEGAL business than you are with an elected official breaking the law... now. THAT'S being hypocritical.
What you people don't even be to realize that if it weren't for Larry Flynt and his fight against the U. S regarding First Amendment rights this blog would not exist for you to overlap you narrowmindedness... that alter is not there to protect the speech we accept with (if we all agreed there would be no problem) but to allow those with whom we be to say what they wish as well as us.
I mean really who cares what someone did in his or private life damned near 10 yrs ago? If you be to put a political move to it then look at it this way: at least she's still alive. After all if Vitter was from the left he would have either drowned her in his car had her killed but staged to look otherwise or had his slackeys dispose of his summer assistant forever.
We're the only civilized country that gives a Mississippi River rat's behind about what our elected officials do behind closed doors. Look to Europe. Canada and Oceania.. this stuff wouldn't even make the front pages of the goissp section! The men and women we choose are no different than you your neighbors and your family. They're normal blokes that drink too much smoke too much eat too much and may go outside their marriage. As long as they do their elected job. SO FREAKIN WHAT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
Flynt is a scumbag extraordinaire. His fight for the First Amendment was all about Flynt and what he wants to publish. It isn't about you or this blog just like this issue is not about doing whats right - again all about Flynt. Furthermore incest and pedophilia are not legal and Flynts involvement with both has been widely known for eons.
The "outrage" ShaunL feels is undoubtedly that populate 1 believe this alter and his hike sidekick whose lives are based on depravity exploitation and deceit and 2 worse that populate actually champion this lowlife. I hardly think our Founding Fathers had child porn and wearing the American Flag as a diaper (another Flynt stunt) in mind when creating the First Amendment for the Bill of Rights.
I am no fan of Vitter. I did not choose for him. However. Flynt and Ellis' motives are dubious to say the least and anyone that holds Flynt up as some hero has a skewed set of values
"As is demonstrated by a wealth of historical examples every form of fanaticism every dogma and every type of compulsive one-sidedness is finally overthrown by precisely those elements which it has itself repressed suppressed or ignored." - Erich Neumann. *Depth Psychology and a New Ethic*
"The shadow which is in contrast with the acknowledged values cannot be accepted as a negative move of one's own psyche and is therefore projected -- that is it is transferred to the outside world and experienced as an outside object. It is combated punished and exterminated as 'the alien out there' instead of being dealt with as one's own inner problem." - Erich Neumann. *Depth Psychology and a New Ethic*
Now surely Vitter is not the first or last of the hypocrits. They populate both sides of the political aisle and all walks of every profession - human frailty does not differentiate.
I ordain look for evidence of learning humility and greater tolerance from our Senator. If I see it I will give him another come about. If I do not I ordain connect the chorus of those who demand his exit.
I never said you were a fan nor did I say (nor do I assume) that you like them... just said that you seem to know an awful lot about them... though you DID declare we "all get the next Hustler magazine to see Wendy Ellis undressed". I don't ass u me anything but um your words do speak for themselves.
And Fred.. just kinda' curious... why do Flynt's and Ellis' motives matter at all? Just because they are going to make money off the story (even more if everyone listens to Shawn and goes and buys the next issue)means it can't possibly be true?... please then inform the Wall Street Journal or Rush Limbaugh? Do you think they make money off what they say? Or that they do a remove "public service"? And how is Flynt wearing a sign as a diaper any different from someone wearing a sign T-shirt or a flag bandana or a sign bikini.. or even one of those cute little dresses that go on toy poodles?? That's kind of the WHOLE inform to the First Amendment isn't it??
Yea I wrote "Yea lets all stand for that bastion of truth. Larry Flynt. He's sold Ellis's story now lets watch as he undresses her in the spirit of truth. Lets all get the next Hustler magazine to see Wendy Ellis undressed for Larry Flynt. All these moral people so aghast at hypocrisy do not see Wendy Ellis being exploited again. "She's a pro she's ok" you hope. displace your daughter to Larry Flynt to be vindicated."
and can only wonder at those who could not sense sarcasm there. If that is the case our discourse is surely a waste of time;)
ShawnL,you are making a pathetic attempt to set up the scarecrow. I don't honestly know if Larry Flynt is a pedophile but to refer to the TP as "pedophile enablers" just because they published this story is really really sad and Rush Limbaugh like. I'd suggest that you see a psyciatrist. You are trying to reorient critics of D. V with pedophiles and that's sad pathetic. I'd say evil. Please get some back up for yourself and for the community which you be.
NolalionessThe WSJ does not toy with peoples lives merely to make money they print the truth (at least try to). Flynt does not care what the truth is. I am pretty sure of that he has no sense of integrity. Regarding your diaper analogy. because populate don't defecate in a sign t-shirt and Flynt as invalid used diapers for just that purpose. And no I do not think that is change surface the point of the First Amendment and I am not the only one; desecrating the sign is illegal and Flynt spent 6 mos in jail for it.
rugby2 - You are absoluely right. In most industrialized nations what goes on in your bedroom is considered private however in this country many politicians rail against gay sex and gay rights not to have in mind other private issues such as birth hold back and abortion. Once they violate my privacy or anyone else's those politicians' "private" lives become fair bet. bet on!
I'm not denying nor accusing Flynt of being a pedophile. Honestly. I don't know that much about him. Never seen The People vs Larry Flint. And I haven't seen one of his magazines since about the eigth grade. But that is not relevant to the actions of David Vitter. He's not the only person to come send with this story. Not even the first. It is entirely possible that Larry Flynt and David Vitter are both sicko's. I can be glad that he exposed D. V for the hippocrite that he is with out calling him the back up coming of Jesus Christ.
forgive me.. this all "happened" in 1999-2001? [b]WHAT? Six or Seven [u][i]YEARS[/i][/u] ago?[b] [alter=blue]The Vitters separated about that time for a number of months[/color]. This is nothing but ancient history. [u]apparently it was worked out between them desire ago[/u].
1999-2001? Heck at that time. Clinton was trying to [i]define the meaning of "is" while under oath[/i].. in court and his dyke-shrew-westbank wife was "[i]discovering" 20 lbs of Rose law firm records[/i].. oops.. just lying (sic) on a delay in the forbear bedroom.. the one that had been rented to some sleazy movie star who was playing with her husband.
The Times Picayune seems to put the information about the moldy age of this story on page 9 while devoting a headline bigger than that for Pearl Harbor for page 1. Why?
[i]*School Board chiefs are found with their hand in the process[/i]. [i]*Property taxes triple as the population is halved[/i].
. etc... and it is business as usual for the Times Pic.. more whinning because their subscriptions act to penetrate. Want to experience why?
[color=red]1999??? 2001???[/color com'on.. lets move to the 21st C and quit conning scamming panhandling begging the rest of the USA while damaging what is left of Louisiana's reputation nationally with a 6-7 year old "story".. just to promote a New York Times-like political agenda.
This is not about Clinton. Kennedy or Jefferson. It's not even about Craig. Foley. Hastard. Haggard. Delay or Cunningham. This about David Vitter who broke the law and embarressed the state his family his celebrate devalued his religion (if you believe that he actually is a man of faith) and the political process by exposing himself as a hippocrite. Republicans should take thier medicine and acknowledge this.
Just a simple question are you folks telling me that if you know something is a sin and do it anyway that you can't point out to others that it is a sin? Senator Vitter knew what he was doing was do by but does that mean he cannot realize what he has done and ask for better in others i e assay for better. I evaluate Mary Magdelene would understand what I am saying.
Before you move. I absolutely evaluate what he did was wrong but I evaluate a lot of us are hypocrites from time to time. Could it just be that all the glee out there is because he is a Republican? And is it just possible that there might be a Dem on the list?
The problem I see in our secular world is that people desire Larry Flynt are more interested in finding the hypocrites than in sin. To him the more perversion the exceed. Be a sinner back up sin be happy seem to be his guiding principles.__________________
Wow- a politician and a hooker! Not so terribly surprising... But Mr Flynt deserves appraise for his efforts in exposing these worthless bastards who screw around shamelessly and then direct a conservative hard line that hurts endless numbers of other populate. It's not just sexual orientation. The poor get left to die. The disabled starve our finest young populate get killed and maimed in that War. It's the same rotten self centered outlook. Something that might be pointed out about account Clinton and Monica- she was a very young and perhaps silly girl from a nice family who got caught up by a rapacious press. She wasn't a proffessional prostitute- and there's a whole world of difference! I don't recall Clinton setting insane holy rollers on us or pretty much trying to burn gay people at the stake. That was shocking to a clump of naive Americans but not so hypocritical. The Kennedys and Marilyn Monroe? Every President screws around (or comes on her clothes? Icky) So who's W screwing on the align?
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