First of all, he doesn't want to libel someone if his source does not pan out. Second of all, I would think such ominous but vague pronouncements might increase his aura of menace in the minds of the Republicans he targets. That itself could prove useful in the future if someone merely suspects the noose is tightening, they might bolt, even if in reality Flynt has nothing solid.

Now, what statements has the escort made that says “he’s never met Lott.”
I have only read the BigHeadDC story so there may be other quotes out there, but the quotes from the escort at BigHeadDC were amusingly vague to me. I would NOT categorize any of those quotes as denials!

The escorts quotes that I have seen:

“Here’s my public comment, on-the-record: Sen. Lott and I have no current affiliation with one another. I’m sure he would appreciate no further scrutiny,”
(The word “CURRENT” sure seems odd to me in this quote!)
“All I can say at this point is no comment.” “It’s the professional thing for me to do.”
“As I said before, Lott has quite a bit on his plate right now and I don’t really want to add fuel to the embers,”

I just came across the Huffington Post story on this with outright undisputable denials from the escort.

I can also see why Larry Flynt is being discrete. If Flynt indeed has lots of dirt on other people, the last thing he should do is damage his credibility by running with a speculative story. One false story, and anything else he says will be hand-waved away as a lie.

Perhaps the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, signed into law by Bush and enacted on 9/14/2007? New provisions in this law greatly affect the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Now the LDA has some teeth: civil penalties to the tune of $200,000, along with criminal penalties. Now there will be filings under the LDA every three months. Currently lobbyists listed by their employers as holding legislative positions were only required to file for the last two years. It will now be the past 20 years. Perhaps most damning for the revolving door employment track of senior position legislators/high-level executive jobbers to lobbyist is the new two-year waiting period.

If Sen. Lott becomes Citizen Lott before the New Year, he will escape all of this and more. There may be many more skeletons in the Lott closet far more damning than a tryst or two with a hunky escort.

For the sake of argument, mind you...

Perhaps you should speak to Mr. Feit about the post on the Showbox right below this one, Mr. Savage.

and why would that be a positive? neutral yes but positive?

Has he?

According to the Cleveland Leader, he's said: “Here’s my public comment, on-the-record: Sen. Lott and I have no CURRENT affiliation with one another. I’m sure he would appreciate no further scrutiny.” (emphasis mine)

No "CURRENT?" What could that POSSIBLY mean?

should've read your post first, markpat.

this is the same escort that spoke out against Ted Haggard's boy toy, Mike Jones, for breaking the Escort Code OF Silence.

and, as the CL says, "consider this: who, after spending millions of dollars seeking re-election, leaves in the middle of their term for any reason other than a scandal, health condition, or personal situation?"

and he's so far mentioned NO medical or family situation.

Damn hippie Communists.

But doesn't this apply to this whole Lott thing, too?

"someone involved in pushing this...needs to put up or shut up."

Et tu, Slog!

Jack Jett

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There's no way he wrote that. That's inside-the-beltway-ese. Someone wrote that for him, probably Lott's communication director.