READER COMMENTS ON
"Hustler Finally Runs Raymond Lemme / Clint Curtis Photos, Story"
(79 Responses so far...)
COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 7/6/2006 @ 10:08 am PT...
Now...maybe my wife will believe me, that I buy Hustler for the informative articles, only! Great job, Brad, as usual.
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Joan
said on 7/6/2006 @ 10:26 am PT...
The "pornography-free PDF of the article" link didn't work for me...neither did the "Death of Democracy" link.
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Jeff J.
said on 7/6/2006 @ 10:32 am PT...
Brad:
The Hustler PDF file link gives you the following message when you click it:
"The page you requested is no longer here [error 404]"
Congratulations on getting this story in print (finally!).
Jeff J.
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Floridiot
said on 7/6/2006 @ 10:37 am PT...
About time Larry, Geez
Now all we need is you to show up with a Flag or Constitution diaper to get the attention
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Brad
said on 7/6/2006 @ 11:00 am PT...
Broken PDF link now fixed! Sorry about that!
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Agent99
said on 7/6/2006 @ 11:42 am PT...
Oh how I would love to see justice for Ray Lemme, and oh how nice it would be to have a congressman who had helped that happen.
(You guys get your Hustler issues TWO MONTHS in advance now? Eager, or something?)
COMMENT #7 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 7/6/2006 @ 12:03 pm PT...
(You guys get your Hustler issues TWO MONTHS in advance now? Eager, or something?)...no, married
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Michael
said on 7/6/2006 @ 12:29 pm PT...
This sounds scary. Hope it is credible enough to make it beyond Hustler. Not knowing of Hustler's credibility, but I think MSM might be a little more influential.
Am living in Mexico, and watching this voting fiasco unfold. What is the world coming to?
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davek
said on 7/6/2006 @ 12:29 pm PT...
Any chance the article can appear elsewhere Brad? I am proud to spread this info far and wide but don't like to be associated however tenously, with porn. We had a 14 year old neighbor girl kidnapped into the sex industry...bad taste.
COMMENT #10 [Permalink]
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Joan
said on 7/6/2006 @ 12:39 pm PT...
Much as I agree with the distaste expressed here re porn, let's not forget how Larry Flynt stood up to the blatant republican hypocrisy in '98 when they were raking clinton over the coals!!
I'd LOVE to see Brad's story elsewhere in the media, but given their recent deaf, dumb & blind act in regard to so many major stories in recent years, how realistic is it to expect that?!
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Robert Lockwood Mills
said on 7/6/2006 @ 12:40 pm PT...
The hardest part will be buying the magazine while trying to convince people we're only interested in the Lemme article.
Better Hustler than nobody. If Police Gazette and True Detective were still in business, they'd have printed it two years ago. The impossible timeline of Ray Lemme's last 48 hours alive should convince most people he was murdered. But the real smoking gun is that the Valdosta P.D. first reopened the investigation, then shut it down immediately at the request of someone at the Florida D.O.T., the gang Lemme was investigating when he died. But farmers never shut down a henhouse at the request of a fox.
No explanation from the cops for this. Nada. Prediction: If push comes to shove, and the Florida D.O.T. is forced to comment, they'll plead "national security" on account of the Yang/NASA connection.
COMMENT #12 [Permalink]
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Agent99
said on 7/6/2006 @ 12:42 pm PT...
davek
Understandably, Hustler has long been known for its love of the Bill of Rights, so I think it's pretty wonderful that they decided to run something that the whole American media, and all our law enforcement, should have been on from the git. I'm thinking that plenty of the men who "read" that magazine will be incited to see to it that it comes out in a more "respectable" venue.
Truly, though, which is more respectable: a girly magazine that tells the truth, looking out for our constitution; or a MSM magazine, newspaper, or tv sation that won't mention it?
Maybe you could cut out the pertinent pages, cover the "incriminating" or "inflammatory" content, and show it around your neighborhood that way. OR, just print Brad's coverage of it.
COMMENT #13 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 7/6/2006 @ 12:44 pm PT...
I didn't think the $100 fine was an attention grabber either, Brad
Good job, Larry is another good freedom (of speech) fighter
COMMENT #14 [Permalink]
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MMIIXX
said on 7/6/2006 @ 12:58 pm PT...
what a shame that America has a multi-tier legal system, with the elite only meting out justice when a cover-up is impossible. while the under class can get 5 years of hard time for selling a joint !
the killing of one investigator is nothing if you compare it to other events on "bush's watch", explain the story in the following link
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MMIIXX
said on 7/6/2006 @ 1:02 pm PT...
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MMIIXX
said on 7/6/2006 @ 1:07 pm PT...
Mineta: "During the time that the airplane was coming into the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President...the plane is 50 miles out...the plane is 30 miles out....and when it got down to the plane is 10 miles out, the young man also said to the vice president "do the orders still stand?" And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said "Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary!??"
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Robert Lockwood Mills
said on 7/6/2006 @ 1:11 pm PT...
For MMIIXX: It isn't just the killing of the investigator here, it's the stuff he was investigating that necessitated the killing. The other stuff on Bush's watch that you refer to is why he was murdered.
Posthumous justice for Ray Lemme, yes, if/when the truth comes out. But justice for us, too.
COMMENT #18 [Permalink]
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MMIIXX
said on 7/6/2006 @ 1:24 pm PT...
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Dredd
said on 7/6/2006 @ 1:33 pm PT...
Wow, anyone remember the hundreds of posts on some of the Lemme threads?
Nothing quite like them since, in terms of number of posts ...
Seems like ages ago ...
COMMENT #20 [Permalink]
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MMIIXX
said on 7/6/2006 @ 1:35 pm PT...
the internet has surprised the "a-holes of evil" and they have been slow to counter its effect but they are moving to counter its power as the following link shows ...
COMMENT #21 [Permalink]
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MMIIXX
said on 7/6/2006 @ 1:36 pm PT...
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brock samson
said on 7/6/2006 @ 1:55 pm PT...
could we maybe get a little better context here - maybe a few pages before and after
COMMENT #23 [Permalink]
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Winter Patriot
said on 7/6/2006 @ 2:00 pm PT...
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Floridiot
said on 7/6/2006 @ 2:05 pm PT...
Here we go, Mexican Ballots found in dump in Obrador stronghold, and he loses the election, imagine that!!
Link
Link
COMMENT #25 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 7/6/2006 @ 2:06 pm PT...
If the Hustler article has any effect on the 15 House and 6 Senate elections, and the dems take control, and the president and vice president are IMPEACHED, this is the old presidential succession list:
1 IMPEACHED Vice President
2 J. Dennis Hastert Speaker of the House of Representatives
3 Ted Stevens President pro tempore of the Senate
4 Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State
5 Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Secretary of the Treasury
6 Donald H. Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense
7 Alberto Gonzales Attorney General
8 Dirk Kempthorne Secretary of the Interior
9 Mike Johanns Secretary of Agriculture
And this is the new presidential succession list:
1 Richard B. Cheney Vice President
2 Jack Murtha Speaker of the House of Representatives
3 Ted Stevens President pro tempore of the Senate
4 Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State
5 Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Secretary of the Treasury
6 Donald H. Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense
7 Alberto Gonzales Attorney General
8 Dirk Kempthorne Secretary of the Interior
9 Mike Johanns Secretary of Agriculture
There folks, I gave you an impeachment path that makes some sense.
Now we know why Murtha wants to run for Speaker of The House ... upon impeachment of the president and vice president, he would become president.
There it is folks, a way out before '08.
Clint Curtis for Congress!!!
COMMENT #26 [Permalink]
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Agent99
said on 7/6/2006 @ 2:30 pm PT...
Floridiot #24
Damn, dude! I was just getting myself packed up to move to Mexico, where they actually count ballots. I hope the dumped votes end up holding the day!
COMMENT #27 [Permalink]
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Brad
said on 7/6/2006 @ 3:08 pm PT...
Michael #8 said:
Hope it is credible enough to make it beyond Hustler. Not knowing of Hustler's credibility, but I think MSM might be a little more influential.
I wrote the story. So I can tell ya, it's credible
While I'd be delighted for the story to run elsewhere, it's Hustler who has stepped up and invited me to submit it to them. So I have. They will also be running additional related stories that I've written for them in the coming months (a piece on Diebold Whistleblower Stephen Heller is scheduled to run next month).
I'm happy to write for anybody and everybody who cares to publish it. But I have no control over who that is, essentially.
Brock, see the links in the story here for additional context on the Ray Lemme 'suicide'. Or just search BRAD BLOG for "Raymond Lemme" and you'll get more context than you can shake a stick at!
COMMENT #28 [Permalink]
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Charlie L
said on 7/6/2006 @ 3:08 pm PT...
BTW, Ted ("I'm as dotty as old Aunt Mildred") Stevens would NOT be President Pro Tempore of the Senate if the Dems won back that House, and if they did NOT win it back (with some extra cushion for the DINO's like Nelson) then the chances of a conviction in the Senate are slim at best.
Before all that could happen, GWB would implement the "Quayle Defense" in which Cheney would resign and a squeaky clean but absolutely insane and/or stupid and/or dangerous VP would be confirmed. Say, VP Pat Robertson, or VP Condi.
Charlie L
Portland, OR
COMMENT #29 [Permalink]
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MMIIXX
said on 7/6/2006 @ 3:20 pm PT...
what are they hiding this time ?
this crap never ends (:
July 4, 2006 --- Even Bush's crap is classified top secret. According to our Austrian sources, Austrian newspapers are currently abuzz with special security details of George W. Bush's recent trip to Vienna. Although the heavy-handed Gestapo-like security measures meted out to Viennese home owners, business proprietors, and pedestrians by US Secret Service agents and local police before and during Bush's visit received widespread Austrian media attention, it was White House "toilet security" ("TOILSEC"), which has Austrians talking the most. The White House flew in a special portable toilet to Vienna for Bush's personal use during his visit. The Bush White House is so concerned about Bush's security, the veil of secrecy extends over the president's bodily excretions. The special port-a-john captured Bush's feces and urine and flew the waste material back to the United States in the event some enterprising foreign intelligence agency conducted a sewage pipe operation designed to trap and examine Bush's waste material. One can only wonder why the White House is taking such extraordinary security measures for the presidential poop.
http://waynemadsenreport.com/
COMMENT #30 [Permalink]
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Laura
said on 7/6/2006 @ 3:26 pm PT...
Way to go Brad. Congratulations! You deserve it. You're a great writer! This is the only Blog that I read everything that's posted on it. I'm not offended by the magazine it's in, I'm proud of you that you've been published. This is one sordid tale and I'm glad it's getting coverage. Don't a lot of rednecks and nascar fans read these magazines? Will there be another orange revolution, in Mexico this time? I certainly hope so. We need Obrador to win or we're in for the intra-continental highway that Bush wants to put thru, to bypass our long shoremen and our security checks. Nice guy we got running this country, but then again you all know that.
COMMENT #31 [Permalink]
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Agent99
said on 7/6/2006 @ 3:29 pm PT...
Laura
Bunch of "nice" guys running this country.
COMMENT #32 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 7/6/2006 @ 4:20 pm PT...
COMMENT #29 [Permalink]
... MMIIXX said on 7/6/2006 @ 3:20 pm PT...
I saw that yesterday, the photos are something else
Turd in the punchbowl and the scowl on the face makes it look like he's laying one down
The part that got me was the famous warlords of all times that did this too...
Agent 99, yes ain't that a kick in the shorts, or what
COMMENT #33 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 7/6/2006 @ 4:27 pm PT...
Agent99: As I stated in comment #1, I only purchase Hustler for the informative articles, such as Brad's.
COMMENT #34 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 7/6/2006 @ 4:30 pm PT...
Dredd: The reason I first came here, was because of the Lemme/Clint Curtis articles.
COMMENT #35 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 7/6/2006 @ 4:36 pm PT...
Agent99: I am a conservative, and I drape curtains over the pictures of the women's breasts in Hustler, if I "by chance" come across any, ala Ashcroft.
COMMENT #36 [Permalink]
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Agent99
said on 7/6/2006 @ 4:40 pm PT...
Oh, sure you do, Big Dan!
COMMENT #37 [Permalink]
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Agent99
said on 7/6/2006 @ 4:43 pm PT...
Feels like a kick in the head to me, Floridiot.
COMMENT #38 [Permalink]
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MMIIXX
said on 7/6/2006 @ 5:15 pm PT...
Floridiot
maybe they take "them" home to polish ,they seem pretty good at that !
somebody should contact Ray's brother re. re-openning the investigation ,I remember he disagreed with the suicide claim .
COMMENT #39 [Permalink]
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Cyteria
said on 7/6/2006 @ 5:34 pm PT...
This takes me back to the presidential and vp debates between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. Carter had just had an interview in Playboy in which he said he "lusted after women in his heart." VP candidate Bob Dole replied, "Well, he'll get the PLAYBOY vote!"
The sidebar on Clint Curtis prompts me to update that remark: "Well, he'll get the HUSTLER vote!" Well, good luck anyway, Clint. Maybe it will bring in some contributions.
Brad, do I recall reading an implication that you WROTE that article for HUSTLER? I didn't see an attribution.
COMMENT #40 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 7/6/2006 @ 5:54 pm PT...
Palast has an update from Mexico now,
Link
I think they're hiding Bush's turd because if someone analyzed it, they would find heavy booze or drugs, or even find out its not human
COMMENT #41 [Permalink]
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MMIIXX
said on 7/6/2006 @ 6:03 pm PT...
COMMENT #42 [Permalink]
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Laura
said on 7/6/2006 @ 6:19 pm PT...
Cryteria, if you look at the Pdf you'll see in the upper right hand corner : By Bred Friedman. It looks real good. I hope to see many more articles by that investigative journalist! Yeah 99 Bunch is right,like a "bunch of lunatics". Big Dan I don't believe you and I bet your wife doesn't either.
COMMENT #43 [Permalink]
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Cyteria
said on 7/6/2006 @ 6:44 pm PT...
Thank you Laura. I missed that.
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Truth Seeker
said on 7/6/2006 @ 7:47 pm PT...
President Murtha? I'm OK with that.
COMMENT #45 [Permalink]
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Robert M
said on 7/6/2006 @ 7:54 pm PT...
Brad, I've tried to raise hell with this in my own small way since the beginnining of this stink. When you first posted a link to the photos way back when, the very first thing I saw was a bruise in the carotid area on the right side of the neck. A bruise very similar to one that would be caused to a forearm strike to the carotid (similar to the Captain Kirk bull except this really works if you're a pro). Hopefully it will get the attention it deserves. If you need someone to do legwork, let me know.
COMMENT #46 [Permalink]
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Miss Persistent
said on 7/6/2006 @ 8:09 pm PT...
I was recently lamenting on the lack of follow-through on the Ray Lemme case by Valdosta's Best! We worked very hard on it here at Brad's and dammit if we didn't shred the freaking "suicide" story to pieces! No one in their right mind could think it was a suicide --- just by studying the photos! Somewhere like 800 "comments" cracking away at it --- we even had to move threads a couple of times. All we didn't come up with was the name(s) of the killers and those who hired them. We needed help then. We didn't get it. But we spintered the suicide theory at least. And with fact.
COMMENT #47 [Permalink]
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Brad
said on 7/6/2006 @ 11:02 pm PT...
Laura - Thanks for pointing out the citation to Cyteria.
They actually had a very nice "About our Contributors" layout in the front of the book with photo of me (fully clothed you'll be happy to know!)
I'll see if I can scan a copy and post it if I can remember. They said some nice things in the copy.
Can't recall if I mentioned it already, but next month they'll have another piece I wrote for them on Diebold Whistleblower Stephen Heller (www.HellerLegalDefenseFund.com)
COMMENT #48 [Permalink]
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Laura
said on 7/6/2006 @ 11:35 pm PT...
Sorry Cyteria for misspelling your name. No problem Brad, that was the first thing I noticed when I pulled up the Pdf. Again Congratulations on all the GOOD press, you deserve it.
COMMENT #49 [Permalink]
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Laura
said on 7/6/2006 @ 11:38 pm PT...
By the way I posted last month about the changes I made in my reading material in my waiting room, How do you think Hustler would do? I think the guys would like it but I'm not so sure about the Ladies!
COMMENT #50 [Permalink]
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Agent99
said on 7/6/2006 @ 11:53 pm PT...
Laura
You could print up big stickers for the covers and say that you have it there because it seems to be one of the few publications that takes our Constitution and the resolution of our real problems seriously.
WARNING! NAKED WOMEN AND PATRIOTISM INSIDE!
COMMENT #51 [Permalink]
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Laura
said on 7/7/2006 @ 12:38 am PT...
Agent 99, Yes you are so right, It might even give rise to new business! Talking about stickers, I printed some address labels up with "Impeach" on them and I have been putting them all over public places. Gas pumps when I fill up the car, Handicapped parking signs, Even the drawer at the bank that you slip your business in, shopping carts at the supermarket and the corrals for the carts. Some have stayed up a long time. When I go back to check it out and they're still up I have to laugh out loud, Somebody must agree with me.
COMMENT #52 [Permalink]
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Agent99
said on 7/7/2006 @ 12:54 am PT...
Ha! Laura! Freeway Blogger would love your ass to pieces. Way to go. I know Joan, here, would go for crates and crates of ITMFA stickers. So would we all. Maybe I'll just go around with a roll of masking tape around my wrist and a Sharpie behind my ear, and keep tearing off little strips and writing in my sentiment of the moment to attach to vending machines, parking meters, ladies room walls... wherever.
I'm to bed friends! Be good, and dream well.
COMMENT #53 [Permalink]
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molly
said on 7/7/2006 @ 4:18 am PT...
Wonder what happened to the editor of the magazine, I forget the name Insider something, who was detained for 12 hours and received brutal treatment from Fla. police...he uncovered the Lemme murder initially. The editor was asking for public records and was investigating Jeb Bush. Then I read on Raw Story that Jeb had a law passed so that he didn't have to release public records. Wayne Madsen is saying today that Fitzgerald's investigation is probably called off. If this is true and RFK Jr's lawsuit is coming out this week...fats gonna; hit the fan. The democracy thing...or fascism.
COMMENT #54 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 7/7/2006 @ 5:24 am PT...
Charlie L #28
Yes, good eye, if the dems take the Senate, then the presidential succession list as effected by the Senate change could be:
1 IMPEACHED Vice President
2 Jack Murtha Speaker of the House of Representatives
3 R. Byrd?? Pres. pro tempore of the Senate
4 Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State
5 Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Secretary of the Treasury
6 Donald H. Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense
7 Alberto Gonzales Attorney General
8 Dirk Kempthorne Secretary of the Interior
9 Mike Johanns Secretary of Agriculture
Which corrects the Ted Stevens entry. The R. Byrd entry is a guestimation, since he is he longest sitting incumbent.
See, I am open minded. Now are you impeachment folks happy ?
COMMENT #55 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 7/7/2006 @ 5:36 am PT...
All I can say about the "The democracy thing…or fascism."
It was the 2000 (s)election that we have to thank ?
It woke millions up to the Fascism thing (myself included)
And thank God or Gore for the "Internets"tm., otherwise resistance would be futile
And thank Brad for the Brad Blog too, he is a great porno mag artical writer (just kidding, Larrys magazine was one of the only places you could find out what was really going on, in all its gorey details, before the internet)
I forget now, I think it was ass of the month, or something like that, used to be my favorite, Reagan was on it alot back then...oh, maybe it was beaver of the month, oh well
COMMENT #56 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 7/7/2006 @ 5:37 am PT...
Truth Seeker #44
You said "President Murtha? I'm OK with that."
Notice that I corrected it per Charlie L's astute observation about Ted Stevens.
The impeachment movement has been hampered by fears that impeaching Bush would render Cheney as president. That would be worse that Bush ... it at least would be a major risk.
But if the Senate and House are controlled by the Democratic Party after the November election, then the risk evaporates if both Bush and Cheney are impeached.
Then the Speaker of the House and Pres. pro tempore of the Senate are then next two in line. They would both be democrats if the dems take the House (15 additional seats) and the Senate (6 additional seats) in November.
Note that Pelosi may be a contender alongwith Murtha, and the R. Byrd entry may also have a contender.
Bottom line, if impeachment were to happen to the president and vice president, essentially, the democrats would be selecting the next president when they select the next Speaker of the House.
This is a major election coming up, and that is why Brad is wise to focus all energy on that issue NOW.
COMMENT #57 [Permalink]
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Robert Lockwood Mills
said on 7/7/2006 @ 5:43 am PT...
One word of caution regarding presidential succession in the event the Democrats get control of Congress:
If Cheney were to resign first, before he and Bush were impeached, Bush could nominate a new vice president (as Nixon replaced Agnew with Ford). In order for Murtha to be first in line to succeed Bush, that nomination would have to fail, unless I'm misreading things.
COMMENT #58 [Permalink]
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Larry Bergan
said on 7/7/2006 @ 5:47 am PT...
Do you think this TRUE story might FINALLY disgust the Republicans? Or are they, as usual, going to be more disgusted by the pornography and dirty words?
No Really, seriously?
I'm serious!
COMMENT #59 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 7/7/2006 @ 5:57 am PT...
Larry, they will feign disgust... do not forget Neil Horsely, he and his type are regular Hustler readers(?), you can take that to the bank
I really do think that most of the "perve" in this country are Republicans
COMMENT #60 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 7/7/2006 @ 6:03 am PT...
...most of the neo-con types are sociopaths, I didn't add to my above
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TLV
said on 7/7/2006 @ 6:21 am PT...
Laura - You would have loved Tampa a year and a half a go. Our family was vacationing in the area and there were thousands of anti-Bush/Cheney and Impeach Bush stickers everywhere we looked. They were on city street signs, buildings, everywhere! It was heartening, considering there were also so many pro-Bush/Cheney bumperstickers on a lot of the Florida-registered "gummer" cars.
And this Lemme case - it sure makes me think that this must have been Jeb's entree into the "club" his brothers George and Neil and father George, Sr. are members of...the "have someone killed and you will win endorsements from the world's biggest crooks club."
COMMENT #62 [Permalink]
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Robert Lockwood Mills
said on 7/7/2006 @ 6:23 am PT...
If the White House is ever moved to comment on Brad's article in Hustler, here's my prediction of how the press conference will sound:
Tony Snow: "No, Helen. The president hasn't read the article. Mrs. Bush doesn't allow him to bring that magazine into the house (laughter all around)."
Helen Thomas: "Is he aware of the allegations?"
Tony Snow (turning serious): "As I understand it, Helen, the local police investigated and determined that Mr. Lemme committed suicide. The president has confidence in law enforcement. Yes, Jeff?"
Jeff Gannon: "How does the White House cope with all the conspiracy theorists around these days, causing trouble and interfering with the government?"
Tony Snow: "An excellent question, Jeff. It's hard."
Helen Thomas: "Tony, do you know who at the Florida D.O.T. requested the Valdosta Police to shut down the investigation just after it had been reopened?"
Tony Snow: "Fill me in. What's a D.O.T.?"
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Floridiot
said on 7/7/2006 @ 6:40 am PT...
Florida 2000, old memories...a Government report I was glancing thru and I was astonished what the findings were vs what the MSM spewed out (not)
Quote from the findings section,
"Despite the closeness of the election, it was widespread voter disenfranchisement, not the dead-heat contest, that was the extraordinary feature in the Florida election. The disenfranchisement was not isolated or episodic. And state officials failed to fulfill their duties in a manner that would prevent this disenfranchisement."
Link for Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election
COMMENT #64 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 7/7/2006 @ 6:55 am PT...
If only Hustler had printed Brad's article immediately, and Lou Dobbs and the MSM had picked up on it sooner, we could have avoided all these bumper stickers actually found on vehicles nowadays:
*BLIND FAITH IN BAD LEADERSHIP IS NOT PATRIOTISM
*IF YOU'RE NOT OUTRAGED, YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION
*IF YOU SUPPORTED BUSH, A YELLOW RIBBON WON'T MAKE UP FOR IT
*POVERTY, HEALTHCARE & HOMELESSNESS ARE MORAL ISSUES
*OF COURSE IT HURTS. YOU'RE GETTING SCREWED BY AN ELEPHANT
*BUSH LIED, AND YOU KNOW IT
*RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM: A THREAT ABROAD, A THREAT AT HOME
*BUSH SPENT YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY ON HIS WAR
*PROAMERICA, ANTI BUSH
*WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB?
*FEEL SAFER NOW?
*A PRESIDENT SCREWED HIS INTERN ANOTHER SCREWED HIS COUNTRY
*JESUS WAS A SOCIAL ACTIVIST - THAT IS A LIBERAL
*MY VALUES? FREE SPEECH. EQUALITY.LIBERTY. EDUCATION. TOLERANCE
*IS IT 2008 YET?
*DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM --- Thomas Jefferson
*DON'T BLAME ME. I VOTED AGAINST BUSH --- TWICE!
*ANNOY A CONSERVATIVE; THINK FOR YOURSELF
*VISUALIZE IMPEACHMENT
*HEY BUSH! WHERE'S BIN LADEN?
*CORPORATE MEDIA = MASS MIND CONTROL
*STOP MAD COWBOY DISEASE
*BUSH: MAKING TERRORISTS FASTER THAN HE CAN KILL THEM
*KEEP YOUR THEOCRACY OFF MY DEMOCRACY
*CORPORATE MEDIA: WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION
*DON'T CONFUSE DYING FOR OIL WITH FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM
*HATE, GREED, IGNORANCE: WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
*HONOR OUR TROOPS - DEMAND THE TRUTH
*REBUILD IRAQ? WHY NOT SPEND 300 BILLION ON AMERICA?
*FACT: BUSH OIL
1999 - $19 BARREL
2006 - $70 BARREL
*SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY
*HAD ENOUGH?
COMMENT #65 [Permalink]
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JUDGE OF JUDGES
said on 7/7/2006 @ 10:05 am PT...
#64 Dredd :
That's a Tall order that I agree with But. . . what if . . . what if . . . what if
Do you really think if Larry F. published this article immediately it would have made a difference ? ? ?
I'm of the think'in this may be the right time.
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Robert Lockwood Mills
said on 7/7/2006 @ 10:15 am PT...
I agree with Judge of Judges. The Bilbray-Busby debacle, on the heels of all the failed tests and the Lou Dobbs series, makes the Hustler article timely. The biggest problem will be overcoming Hustler's image and the name itself.
Fifty years ago we had magazines like True Detective and Police Gazette, whose names were suited to coverage of unsolved crimes. Aside from the photos of female genitalia, the name "Hustler" connotes the opposite of truth-telling. So the focus should be on Brad's credibility, not the magazine's.
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Dredd
said on 7/7/2006 @ 10:38 am PT...
RLM #66
You said:
"So the focus should be on Brad's credibility, not the magazine's"
With all the evidence I would urge a focus on the facts in place of a focus on the folks.
RLM #62
Well said.
Take a joke JOJ #65, I learned that principle from another JOJ, (Joker of Jokers) .
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JUDGE OF JUDGES
said on 7/7/2006 @ 11:01 am PT...
RLM - I only Remember those provocative covers on those "MAGS"
Brad's credabillity may have suffered from an . . . earlier release.
Larry Flint has already taken a Bullet (still unsolved) for his 1st Amendment right & is in wheelchair for Life 4-it !
As faw as I'm concerned that make him A Real American Patriot . . . . . He AIN'T Stupid Either. . .
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Robert Lockwood Mills
said on 7/7/2006 @ 11:35 am PT...
I have nothing against Larry Flynt. He has fought hard for the First Amendment; usually in self defense, but hard nonetheless.
But we're up against a perception problem here. Don't get me wrong; it's great that Brad's article is reaching print. But Republicans are spinmeisters of the first rank, who will attempt to discredit the article by drawing attention to Hustler itself. And whether we like it or not, that's a problem.
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JUDGE OF JUDGES
said on 7/7/2006 @ 11:52 am PT...
RLM - Exactly! Hustler doesn't Fly, in the Fly-over states . . . . . EXCEPT when it's in a plain Brown wrapper. . .
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JUDGE OF JUDGES
said on 7/7/2006 @ 12:48 pm PT...
Dredd - I think I get it . . . LoL
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Larry Bergan
said on 7/8/2006 @ 3:09 am PT...
I was amazed to be able to find this on the net! I wonder if Larry King�s audience laughed as hard as I did at the last comment by Larry Flint.
This text is from a joint appearance of Larry Flint and Jerry Falwell on the Larry King show from 1997 just prior to the release of "The People Vs. Larry Flynt" (great film). I never saw the exchange, but caught Mr Flint on another show recanting it. Just reading the text does it no justice. I hate to say his being so horribly crippled and speech impaired added to the humor, but I think it did. Use your imagination. I deleted a portion of the show as indicated by the hashed line.
KING: Were you at the Supreme Court the day of the arguments?
FLYNT: Yeah.
FALWELL: Yes.
KING: You both were there, saw each other in the court.
FLYNT: Yeah, but we weren't in the mood to talk.
KING: What are your feelings right now, Jerry, toward Larry Flynt, today, right now?
FALWELL: Well, I have never had any ill feelings toward him. I think that his business is sleaze and garbage, and I think that it's demeaning to women and children.
KING: No ill feelings toward him?
FALWELL: Of course not.
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FALWELL: You can't scream fire in a crowded theater. In other words, my First Amendment rights and yours end where the welfare of the little people begins, and there are laws about that. It would not have been unreasonable for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule as the fourth circuit court of appeals did, that there is a sensible line where that a garbage magazine like "Hustler" can go so far but cannot demean and attack, even in a parody or whatever, innocent, nonpublic figures...
KING: Like the mother of a public figure.
FALWELL: ...children, that kind of thing. That's just mean. Like he said, he doesn't mean to demean women and dumping here on Gloria Steinem. What about feeding a nude woman through a meat grinder on the cover of his magazine? What about strapping a woman to the front of a hunting truck coming out of the woods nude and so forth.
KING: Bad taste.
FALWELL: It's worse than bad taste. It reflects a hatred for...
FLYNT: Jerry, when you call me garbage, call me Mr. Garbage.
Entire Show
COMMENT #73 [Permalink]
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Larry Bergan
said on 7/8/2006 @ 3:15 am PT...
I think It's very interesting that Democracy For America has decided to endorse Clint Curtis. It has to mean they have NO DOUBTS as to the validity of his story.
I'm definitly going to request the national endorsement from both groups!
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Larry Bergan
said on 7/8/2006 @ 3:23 am PT...
By the way, in talking about Jerry Falwell's phony gift of Forgiveness, whoever committed this heinous and evil crime has me hating the sin and the sinner! May they forever burn in hell for not just taking a man's life, but trying to destroy the meaning of my country at the same time!
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Floridiot
said on 7/8/2006 @ 3:56 am PT...
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KestrelBrighteyes
said on 7/8/2006 @ 5:33 am PT...
What I need to know is, what are the copyright laws regarding reprinting and distributing the pdf form of this article (sans photos)?
I know a LOT of people who would never buy the magazine, but who would definitely be interested in reading the article. (In fact, I don't think there's anyplace in my town where you can buy ANY men's magazines.) What I'm thinking is along the lines of "Whispering Campaign" - printing out copies to leave in public places (with complete attribution, of course).
re: #69 Robert Lockwood Mills - I know what you're saying, the perception of the magazine itself really is a problem for a lot of people, especially here in the Bible belt. Where I live, the local library doesn't keep art books with nudity on public display, and the art galleries don't put nudes on the walls or allow them in festivals - I know, I know, it's sad, and as an artist and photographer it drives me NUTS sometimes to have to be so careful, but hey, it's home, we adapt)
You also have to consider that mere possession of a magazine at work that contains nudity can be grounds for dismissal under company codes of conduct - ESPECIALLY if you work at a place that does business with the government.
I was kind of disappointed to find this morning that although a google search of "Ray Lemme" turned up 2,780 hits, a google NEWS search turned up nothing. So, I'll take what we can get at this point as far as getting it out into the public eye, and hope for a followup report from a mainstream news source or a publication with a wider demographic - hopefully BEFORE the next election cycle.
Wonder if there's any chance that Lou Dobbs might be interested in this story as part of his coverage of election fraud?
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Dredd
said on 7/8/2006 @ 5:46 am PT...
Probably the most absolutely hilarious talking point fostered by Diebold, or perhaps fostered by the GOP directly, is this:
Yes, the electronic election machines are insecure, however, it takes a bad person to misuse the machines and commit fraud, and that is a felony. We do not believe that such people exist.
Yes, that hilarious statement was made by a Diebold warlord.
The fact of the matter is that election felonies are being directed from the White House itself:
The fourth man indicted in a New Hampshire phone-jamming scheme --- in which Republican operatives jammed the phone lines of Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts in a 2002 Senate race --- will argue at trial that the Bush Administration and the national Republican Party gave their approval to the plan, according to a motion filed by his attorney Thursday.
(link here, bold added).
The election fraud reality is so blatant in America today that it is hard for honest people to believe. That is what the crooks are counting on ... the disbelief of the people.
But the people show in the polls that they think this republican dictatorship is a ship of liars. And they want that ship to sink during the November storm.
Hand counts are the only safe harbor for America ... and if the republican dictatorship gets its way, even that harbor is going to be sold to Dubai/UAE.
COMMENT #78 [Permalink]
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Robert Lockwood Mills
said on 7/8/2006 @ 6:05 am PT...
For K.B.: I believe Larry Flynt may grant permission for Brad's article to be reprinted elsewhere. Once Hustler has gone through its monthly readership cycle and the next month's edition is on the stand, I can't see any reason why Flynt would refuse.
If it were reprinted, say, in Vanity Fair, that would add a lot to its credibility. I hope it happens.
COMMENT #79 [Permalink]
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oldturk
said on 7/22/2006 @ 8:07 pm PT...