Run Out and Buy the Next Issue of Hustler, Pronto!

For the articles of course. Though not normally known for their top-notch journalism (except for that article on the Thai drug Yaba I read when I was at an all boys summer camp), I really cannot wait to read the article in their upcoming issue entitled "THE GOP DOES GOTHAM" in which a reporter went undercover to document the sleazier (though no worse) side of the Republican National Convention. Here is a link to an excerpt. And here are some of my own excerpts of the excerpt. Clever.

“Here was their archetype, the sweaty, fat-nosed lobbyist Harold Green, who long ago absorbed the lessons of crony capitalism and understood to his core that the Republican National Convention was about sex, power and nothing else,” she says.

“Harold told me he had a family, and claimed he’d slept with 50 “young” women in the past five years,” she adds later. “(Just the kind of family man championed by his buddy Tom DeLay, the born-again Christian who once said, ‘A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure—to provide stability.’)”

The clamor of parties, booze and buffets, Bartosiewicz says, made her sick – a group that made “a perfect living joke of “family values” (though faithfully attending prayer breakfasts in the morning).”

. . .“At a bowling party for [closeted] California Congressman David Dreier… a blonde in a fishnet body stocking hung from the ceiling on a turquoise scarf, twirling and contorting,” she notes. “Two nights later, at a honky-tonk salute to Texas Congressman Joe Barton, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce… a little girl rode an electric bucking bull in an inflatable farm pen, and 20-foot black cowboy boots decorated in purple and gold stood over the room.”

By the way, that gay Congressman David Dreier? Yeah, he was recently outed by gay activists in response to his tireless campaigning against gay rights. Apparently it was an open secret that Dreier was co-habitating (in multiple ways) with his campaign manager. While I don't condone the forced outing of homosexuals (it is a personal decision, no one else's), I agree that in this situation what's fair is fair. If he wants to make politicize homosexuality he better be prepared for this. Dickhead.

And since we're talking about Hustler and Rep. David Dreier, I think it's only appropriate to throw this up. How often do I get to link to Larry Flynt's blog?