“The girl’s butt we have on there now is pretty good, but if you can get (Dupre) to do it, and to make some personal appearances, it’s like Paris Hilton or something.  We are trying to work out a contract.”

- Martin Silver, chief executive of Star Industries — owners of the U.S. rights to the Georgi vodka brand, currently in talks to pay Spitzer hooker Ashley Alexandra Dupre more than $100,000 to be this year’s Georgi “butt girl,” the brand spokesmodel who gets a close-up ass shot on the back of taxicabs and city buses in New York City.  (source:  adage.com)

I had to change the puns. The Copolla thing was proper rubbish. So, we’ve gone to a trusted source… Girls Aloud.

Sasha Frere-Jones on popular music videos.

Offence = Condemnation from Obama?

Porn versus Prostitution. When is paying for sex okay?

I missed this a few days ago, Obama on his faith and controversial church.

Obama gained gained some Iowa delegates.

E chronicles his time on the road for The Observer.

The Ritter’s doc has been cleared.

Should we be taking cheerleaders more seriously?

Eddie Izzard is profiled on The NY Times.

Obama’s just biding his time.

Time lists its best and worst covers.

Salon comments on the spate of teen shows over the past week.

Laughing Len is back on tour. The Independent profiles.

Christian Slater is coming to a TV screen near us all.

 As a professional private investigator for over 26 years I decided to collect a few facts about the prospective Democratic candidate for the President of the United States.  This was too easy and to be honest, there are way too many things to write about.  This is a short list, but important to get out there.  I don’t think ANYONE that knows the facts about this candidate would be able to justify the lack of integrity of the Clinton family. 

 FACTS

 In the late 1970s, the Clintons and McDougals buy land in the Ozarks with mostly borrowed funds. The Clintons get 50% interest with no cash down. The plot, known as Whitewater, is fifty miles from the nearest grocery store. The Washington Post will report later that some purchasers of lots, many of them retirees, “put up houses or cabins, others slept in vans or tents, hoping to be able to live off the land.” HRC writes Jim McDougal, “If Reagonomics works at all, Whitewater could become the Western Hemisphere’s Mecca.” More than half of the purchasers will lose their plots thanks to the sleazy form of financing used.

The McDougals will be among a number of close HRC’s friends and business associates who will end up in jail. Others include her law partner Webster Hubbell and financial middle man David Hale.

 Two months after commencing the Whitewater scam, Hillary Clinton invests $1,000 in cattle futures. Within a few days she has a $5,000 profit. Before bailing out she earns nearly $100,000 on her investment. Many years later, several economists will calculate that the chances of earning such returns legally were one in 250 million.

Hillary Clinton makes a $44,000 profit on a $2,000 investment in a cellular phone franchise deal that involves taking advantage of the FCC’s preference for locals, minorities and women. The franchise is almost immediately flipped to the cellular giant, McCaw.

Jim McDougal tries to prevent state agencies from shutting down his S&L, which has been providing cash for the Whitewater operation. According to the Washington Times, Ms. Clinton is put on a $2000 a month retainer by the S&L. Ms. Clinton will later claim not to have received any retainer nor to have been deeply involved with Madison.

During the 1992 campaign, Hillary Clinton defends her role in the Madison Guarantee S&L scandal by saying, “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas. But what I decided to do was pursue my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life.” Forgotten, however, is what inspired this homily: accusations that Ms. Clinton had represented Whitewater business partner Jim McDougal’s S&L before her husband’s government. Here’s what the New York Times reported on March 17, 1992: “Hillary Clinton said today that she did not earn ‘a penny’ from state business conducted by her Little Rock law firm and that she never intervened with state regulators on behalf of a failed Arkansas savings and loan association. . . “

Records will show that she did, in fact, represent Madison before the state securities department. After the revelation, she says, “For goodness sakes, you can’t be a lawyer if you don’t represent banks.”

Susan McDougal recalls Ms. Clinton coming in and drumming up the business. Ms. McDougal tells the Washington Post: “The problem was finances, her finances.” The Washington Times quotes an unnamed Clinton business associate who claims the governor used to “jog over to McDougal’s office about once a month to pick up the [retainer] check for his wife.” Jim McDougal’s version of the story, according to the LA Times, is that Clinton asked him to throw some legal work his wife’s way to help the Clintons out of a financial crunch: “I hired Hillary because Bill came in whimpering that they needed help.”

Hillary Clinton writes Jim McDougal enclosing a power of attorney for him to sign “authorizing me to act on your behalf with respect to matters concerning Whitewater Development Corporation.” Another power of attorney is enclosed for Susan McDougal. The power of attorney includes the right to endorse, sign and execute “checks, notes, deeds, agreements, certificates, receipts or any other instruments in writing of all matters related to Whitewater Development Corporation.” This letter, uncovered in 1993 by Jerry Seper of the Washington Times, directly contradicts the claim of the Clintons that they were “passive shareholders” in Whitewater.

From a 1996 Chicago Tribune editorial: “The legal issues will sort themselves out in time. But one thing has become all too clear. Bill and Hillary Clinton and their aides have made a concerted effort to deceive official investigators and the American public with half truths and outright lies . . . It’s not clear what the Clintons want to conceal, but it’s clear that they have made extraordinary efforts to do so.”

The American Spectator reports in 1996 that on her Asian tour, Hillary Clinton told New Zealand television that she had been named after Sir Edmund Hillary. Sir Edmund, however, was an unknown beekeeper the year of Mrs. Clinton’s birth.

The Spectator also reports that HRC served on the board of a corporation about which serious questions have been raised concerning its role in the pre-Gulf War arms pipeline to Iraq.

A drug dealer donates $20,000 to the DNC, attends a Christmas reception hosted by Hillary Clinton, has his photo taken with the Clintons and Al Gore and then — three weeks later — is arrested for smuggling 6,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States. It should have come as no surprise to anyone involved. After all, Jorge Cabrera had already served two prison sentences — one for trying to bribe a grand jury witness and the other for filing a false income tax return. Later he will be back in the news when a businessman pleads guilty to laundering $3.5 million for Cabrera between 1986 and 1996.

 ”I see the White House is like a subway — you have to put in coins to open the gates.” — Clinton contributor Johnny Chung talking about the $50,000 he gave Hillary Clinton’s top aide while seeking VIP treatment at the White House.

Spilling some of the beans on her “close friend” Ron Brown, Nolanda Hill tells Prime Time Live that Brown used drugs while Commerce Secretary and considered taking a big payoff from Vietnam to get trade restrictions lifted but dropped the idea when he got a tip that FBI was on the case. Hill also says that Brown thought it was Hillary who placed John Huang in a Commerce Department job. Huang left the Lippo Group — with a golden parachute of around $800,000 — to work for Commerce. Brown orders a top secret clearance for Huang. While at Commerce, Huang visits the White House about 70 times, is briefed 37 times by the CIA, views about 500 intelligence reports, and makes 281 calls to Lippo banks.

A federal judge issues a fine for a quarter million dollars because, “The Executive Branch of the government, working in tandem, was dishonest with this court.” At issue is the composition of Hillary Clinton’s health task force, a body stacked with those from the medical industry who would gain most from its faux reforms.

Number of times Hillary Clinton says “I don’t recall” or its equivalent in a statement to a House investigating committee: 50. Number of paragraphs in this statement: 42

Starr decides not to pursue the FBI file matter after an investigation that included a nine-minute interview with HRC over tea and coffee. FBI Director Louis Freeh calls the handling of the FBI tapes an “egregious violation of privacy . . . without justification.”

“Mr. Starr also botched the investigation into the White House’s illicit use of confidential FBI files on 900 Republican opponents. He used FBI agents to probe misconduct involving the FBI itself. Needless to say, they came up empty handed. A civil suit on behalf of the victims has since uncovered evidence that the purloined files were part of a campaign of political espionage ordered by Hillary Clinton herself. The dirt in the files, including raw data on congressional leaders, was fed into computers.

Presumably it was later used for blackmail, or fed to media surrogates for the systematic smearing of Republicans.” — Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, London Telegraph.

After quitting the Justice Department and before going to jail, Hubbell is a busy man. He meets with Hillary Clinton, and follows up by getting together with major scandal figures John Huang, James Riady, and Ng Lapseng. Riady and Huang go to the White House every day from June 21 to June 25, 1994 according to White House records. Hubbell has breakfast and lunch with Riady on June 23. Four days later — and one week after Hubbell’s meeting with Hillary — the Hong Kong Chinese Bank, jointly owned by Lippo and the Chinese intelligence services, send $100,000 to Hubbell.

“Through discovery in its civil lawsuit against the Clinton Commerce Department, Judicial Watch also has found evidence that President Clinton condoned and participated in a scheme, conceived by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and approved by the President, to sell seats on U.S. Department of Commerce trade missions in exchange for political contributions. ~~~ In addition to the illegal sale of taxpayer financed services, such as seats on trade missions, for political contributions, the President and Mrs. Clinton have illegally solicited and received monies directly from private citizens and others. The creation and use of legal defense funds is not only prohibited under federal law, but they have proved to be a means whereby lobbyists, influence peddlers and foreign powers have tried to influence the Administration, contrary to U.S. national security interests. In sum, Judicial Watch has uncovered a pattern of conduct by this President and his agents that indicates he has run, in effect, a criminal enterprise from the White House to obtain and maintain hold on the Office of the President of the United States. Indeed, he is likely in violation of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). ” — Judicial Watch

“Communist Party cadres should study the speeches of Hillary Clinton because she offers a very good example of the skills of propaganda. Her sentences are short and stimulating. That’s why she gets a lot of applause. But Chinese people have a habit of giving long speeches in which the sentences are long and tedious.” — Yu Quanyu, director of the Chinese Academy of Social Studies, in Ideological and Political Work Studies.

Former White House FBI agent Gary Aldrich reports that Hillary Clinton told the Secret Service agents in public to “stay the fuck back, stay the fuck away from me! Don’t come within ten yards of me or else!” When her guards have argued with her, she had said, “Just fucking do as I say, okay?”

Hillary Clinton and David Watkins move to oust the White House travel office in favor of World Wide Travel, Clinton’s source of $1 million in fly-now- pay-later campaign trips. The White House fires seven long-term employees for alleged mismanagement and kickbacks. The director, Billy Dale, charged with embezzlement in the HRC-organized frame-up, will be acquitted in less than two hours by the jury.

White House-assigned FBI agent Gary Aldrich agrees to help trim the Christmas tree in the Blue Room. Aldrich is surprised to find a small clay ornament of 12-lords-aleaping. Among the things that were aleaping on the 12 lords are their erections. Also provided by Hillary Clinton and her staff: ornaments made of drug paraphernalia such as syringes and roach clips, three French hens in a menage á trois, two turtle doves fornicating, five golden rings attached to a gingerbread man’s ear, nipple, belly button, nose, and penis.

Hillary Clinton’s attempts to conceal the fact that she had $120,000 of editorial help in preparing a book-like substance.

Billing records documenting HRC’s work on the Castle Grande development scam are discovered in the family quarters of the White House. HRC says she has no idea how they got there.

Judicial Watch sues Hillary Clinton in a $90 million lawsuit on behalf of the 900 persons whose FBI files were taken by the White House. She is also a defendant in a shareholder suit filed against Loral and others over the sale of slots on public trade missions. The FBI files case is expected to reach trial next year.

[Compiled from The Progressive Review by Sam Smith]

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Kristen, the prostitute described in a federal affidavit as having had a rendezvous with Mr. Spitzer on Feb. 13 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, has spent the last few days in her ninth-floor apartment in the Flatiron district of Manhattan. On Monday, she made a brief appearance in federal court, where a lawyer was appointed to represent her. She is expected to be a witness in the case against four people charged with operating a prostitution ring called the Emperor’s Club V.I.P.

In a series of telephone interviews on Tuesday night, she said she had slept very little over the past week, with all the stress of the case.

“I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,” the woman said as she told the tiniest tidbits of her story.

Born Ashley Youmans but now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupré, she spoke softly and with good humor as she added with significant understatement: “This has been a very difficult time. It is complicated.”

She has not been charged. The lawyer appointed to represent her, Don D. Buchwald, told a magistrate judge in court on Monday that she had been subpoenaed to testify in a grand jury investigation. Asked to swear that she had accurately filled out and signed a financial affidavit, she responded affirmatively.

A person with knowledge of the Emperor’s Club operation confirmed that the woman interviewed by The New York Times was the woman identified as Kristen in the affidavit. Mr. Buchwald confirmed various details of Ms. Dupré’s background but would not discuss the contents of the affidavit.

Ms. Dupré said by telephone Tuesday night that she was worried about how she would pay her rent since the man she was living with “walked out on me” after she discovered he had fathered two children. She said she was considering working at a friend’s restaurant or, once her apartment lease expires, moving back with her family in New Jersey “to relax.”

She did not say when she had started working for the Emperor’s Club, or how often she had liaisons arranged through the ring. Asked when she met Governor Spitzer and how many times they had seen each other, Ms. Dupré said she had no comment.

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The death count of US soldiers in Iraq is high and the people ain’t got a clue.

Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer. Similar gents I hear.

The ten best movies about swimming, according to Peter Bradshaw.

Jason Segel and Muppets!! Awesome!!!

The AV Club has an interview with the supremely underrated Parker Posey.

Ferraro has quit the Clinton campaign. Damn straight.

Pitchfork has a guest list from Mountain Goats.

The final Harry Potter movie is coming in two parts.

Incredible Hulk trailer. Okayish.

Did Hillary really win in Texas?

Sasha Frere-Jones gives good comment on American Idol.

Ed Norton is looking for a distributor for a documentary about Obama.

Meatloaf is coming back in the summer.

SNL is back in the limelight. The NY Times studies its bias.

The New Republic has a word on the recent spate of ‘faked’ memoirs.

America’s Next Top Model is facing a lawsuit over the destruction of its apartment by ze models.

A Spitzer set-up?

(This post cross-posted at Peach Pundit.)

Exactly how was Spitzer caught? It had something to do with what’s called a PEP List, or the or the Politically Exposed Persons list.You’ll have to listen to the whole Morning Edition/NPR story to get to the serious bank transaction monitoring goodies, but be on the lookout for the part where the person from the bank talks about how politicians in particular, of any flavor, are flagged for extra-special surveillance with the PEP List.

You can see a screen-shot sample PEP List here. Or call and order your own at: 877-922-5757. Literally hundred of thousands of “politically exposed persons” to choose from! Call now. Operators are standing by! You could very well be one! And your family too! One PEP product from Choice Point gets you all this and more. From the Choice Point website:

IntegraScreen PEP provides detailed, up-to-date information on PEPs and their families, friends and close associates. With hundreds of thousands of PEP entities from more than 3,000 sources, this seamless service will help you more quickly and easily identify politically high-risk individuals and associated entities that may be hiding in your current and prospective customer base.

And you think all banking transactions under 10K are simply ignored? Hahahahahahahah. It’s all part of Your Patriot Act!

Any more questions? Just ask Atlanta’s Choice Point. They make the seriously big bucks off of Your Patriot Act.

To all you guys out there I was wondering if your wife was a major public official, i.e a Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton etc, etc..and she was caught out there cheating with a male hooker (I make the distinction because you know you guys if it’s a woman some of you claim that’s different, I don’t think so but whatever..lol)  would you stand by her side?

Why or why not?

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and the recent exposure of the scandal that he has been involved in is definitely important news that is spreading around the globe. For someone who tried to create this public image of himself as “Mr. Morality”, yet had his secret true character revealed, he is well deserving of any and all humiliation he gets as well as his subsequent resignation. However, its just as important to note that these types of scandals are not new to US politics (see Bill Clinton) or other US community leader (see Catholic Priests). They have happened in the past, are occuring in the present, and very unfortunately will again happen in the future. What the public sees is only a very small fraction of high profile cases, which will soon be forgotten when more important news of what is going on in the life of Britney Spears is revealed, or how Congress is spending most of its time figuring out how much steriods Roger Clemons juiced up on.

What I find most interesting about the current scandal is in regards to who will replace the New York Governor. Although it is interesting to note that the Lieutenant Governor David Patterson will be the first black governor of New York when he replaces Spitzer….he will be the first BLIND governor of New York! He was visually impaired as a young child, but succesfully made his way through law school and the ranks of political system.

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They’ll be hollerin’ to shut-down MySpace now. From the NYT today:

On her MySpace page, Ms. Dupre writes of her “odyssey to New York from New Jersey through North Carolina, Miami, D.C., Virginia and Austin, Texas;” public records show that she lived in Belmar, N.J., in 2001, and in North Carolina in 2003. She owns a company, created in 2005, called Pasche New York, which her lawyer said was an entertainment business designed to further her singing career.

Music is her first love, and on the MySpace page, Ms. Dupre mentions Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra, Christina Aguilera and Lauryn Hill among a long list of influences, including her brother, Kyle. (She also lists Madonna, Mary J. Blige and Amy Winehouse as her top MySpace friends.) In the interview, she said she saw the Rolling Stones perform at Radio City Music Hall on their last tour after a friend gave her two of tickets. “They were amazing,” she said.

Full story here. The NYTimes sure is outpacing the Enquirer lately!

Audacia Ray tells some MSM show, politely, that she wouldn’t be on their stupid crappy show to talk about how to hire sex workers even if they paid her.

Honestly, I don’t know about the “payment” stuff; I made that up, but Ms. Ray does lay-out what went down on March 10th with her, hopefully brief, pre-interview (guest vetting process) with the never-heard-of-it  MSNBC show, Live With Dan Abrams.

It’s all on her blog, Waking Vixen… the dubious tale of how someone from the whatever MSNBC show asked her during the pre-interview process, “Have you been a whore?”

MSNBC was only interested in having a woman who had been a prostitute talk about the mechanics of hiring a sex worker – a little salacious how-to on national television, gotta love it. They told me flat out that they weren’t interested in discussing the political interests of sex workers or the issues around sex trafficking as it is today. And while I am not ashamed that I was a sex worker, and I know sound bites are short and cannot be anywhere near as complicated as my shit it, I don’t want to be MSNBC’s whore on television. It does nothing for me personally and nothing for the movement I’m part of for me to be boiled down to the essence of “will fuck for cash. here’s how.”

If the rest of the world could also step back from media, ahem, whoredom for just a sec, we could all get something done for a change. Don’t think I’ll be much inclined to waste my time tuning-in to Live With Dan Abram’s Fucktard Producer news product now.

Eliot Spitzer resigned his governorship of New York state this morning after federal investigators revealed that he set up an appointment with a prostitute at a Washington, D.C. hotel.

Spitzer’s resignation capped the end of a two-day media frenzy after news outlets reported that Spitzer had arranged a meeting with an employee of the international luxury-prostituion ring Emperor’s Club VIP on February 13th; it was subsequently revealed that federal agents had wiretapped Spitzer’s communications with the organziation several times in preceding months.

Standing next to his wife, Spitzer apologized to his family and the public, acknowledging that he “cannot let [his] private failings disrupt the people’s work.”

Spitzer was widely seen as one of America’s most promising and successful young politicians. He was twice elected New York’s Attorney General and won massive settlements from Wall Street securities firms, earning him the nickname the “Sheriff of Wall Street.” In his press conference he indicated at least a temporary exile from public life, pledging to “serve the common good” outside of politics.

Governor Spitzer’s resignation is effective Monday, when Lieutenant Governor David Paterson takes his place.

Spitzer Resigns, Citing Personal Failings – (New York Times)

From Bill Maher writing for the Huffington Post:

I’m going to throw the remote through the TV if one more news twink says something on the order of “When we come back, we’ll look into what drives a successful man like Eliot Spitzer to risk it all…”

Oh yes, let’s convene a panel of experts for that. Let me help you: because he wants to get his nut off! Stop with all the analysis! It never ends, I hear all these people talking about how powerful people think they can get away with anything, so it’s a thrill, or that it’s for this psychological reason or this one — please, he wanted to CUM WITH SOMEONE! Stop overthinking this: people need sex, and married people generally aren’t getting it.

One must assume that the above statement doesn’t necessarily imply single people are getting it every which way to Sunday. Still, marriage remains truly the most over-rated institution, other than the Catholic Church, mankind ever dreamed-up. Just ask Mrs. Where’s My Goddamn Hermes Scarf For The Presser  Spitzer. Full post here.

Spitzer has resigned. Shocker.

Maureen Dowd comments on his leaving for The NY Times.

Bill Maher has something to say about it too, on The Huffington Post.

And Gawker says this may be the call girl.

And finally on this one, here’s his replacement.

The AV Club is liveblogging from SXSW.

Which version of Laughing Len’s ‘Hallelujah’ is the best? Buckley all the way.

Alan Dale. The segway demon and now Spamalot star.

Whitney Matheson of PopCandy fame delivers a tribute to Converse.

Trailer for unneeded sequel of the day, Lost Boys 2.

She & Him, the Deschanel/Ward project, is streaming at Merge.

Two Andrew WK stories in a week!! He’s written a song about The McLaughlin Group.

Are excessive lyrics killing pop songs?

Britney Spears is going to be on How I Met Your Mother.

Vanity Fair profiles Calvin Klein, he of the pant fame.

John Burnside contributes fiction to The New Yorker.

The final trailer for Wall-E is available. I’m still not convinced.

Barack has won two in a row. Mississippi last night.

Clarence Page comments on the drug war opinions of The Wire’s creators.

Geraldine Ferraro is not helping things for the Clinton camp. This and the Spitzer deal, could prove a meddlesome time.

Sean Wilentz comments on the op-ed piece in The NY Times by Orlando Patterson on the ‘3AM’ ad. The original article can be found right here.

Newsweek has noticed how flippin’ odd our mayoral race is.

Will we Kill the Wabbit?

A-Ha! Another wascally wabbit twying to escape the hard hand of the law. I can see Elmer Fudd running after Bugs shouting, “Someday I’ll get you; you wascally wabbit. You better wun I’ve got my Ewephant gun“. Bugs confidently turns it back on Fudd like any twiky politician would with this attack, “Fer shame, doc. Huntin’ wabbits wit an elephant gun.” So, once again I ask will the American public and press turn the other way, or is this one going to catch our attention. It seems like we have one check-out stand magazine scandal after another popping up. We decide which one is the sexiest and then we pick it up and read it. Is the Spitzer scandal sexy enough for the American scandal consumer? Is Spitzer expendable to the American voter? Are there some politicians who are not expendable and will not be judged? Will we all fall for the inevitable turn around accusatory comeback? “Fer shame going Huntin’ little ol Governors wit the big bad press.”

Conscience comes from God, curiosity about scandal comes from…

It seems my post on “Obama, Hillary, Mccain, our Conscience” is even more relevant today. I will be posting more on God, morality, and making right choices in the future. We as a nation must rethink what is scandal and what is right and wrong. If we would be outraged and embarrassed by these moral infirmities then maybe our politicians would begin to change their behavior and choose right over wrong. The question is will we stand up, be outraged, and use our moral authority to Kill the Wabbit?

Francis Ford Copolla puns!!

The AV Club’s Noel Murray takes everyone through his record collection.

The above also has an interview with David Simon.

Beyonce as Etta James. Can’t work.

Here’s an interview with someone whose job is to knock others over.

Jenna Fischer is interviewed… in Playboy.

Danger Mouse and Beck, together at last.

Is the Cloon-dog gettin’ hitched?

Sigh… The Wire is over. Slate dissects the finale.

Pitchfork reviews the Deschanel and Ward record.

The trailer for the De Niro/Pacino double header Righteous Kill is up.

Eliot Spitzer… oh, dear.

Will he resign?

Jamie Lee Curtis discusses the human condition on The Huffington Post.

Obama not too happy with the VP offer from Hillary.

Anthony Lane discusses the remake of Funny Games.