Vitti-cent Hooker-Fest Continues
Jul. 13th, 2007 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
infrogmationFor the 4th day in a row, the Senator David Vitter prostitute scandal is on the front page above the fold of today's Times-Picayune. Alas, none of the headlines has read "Vitter Resigns" yet.
Additional revelations have appeared each day, confirming Vitter's involvement with prostitutes both in the D.C. area and Louisiana going back to the '90s, including stories which came out as allegations before elections years ago and which Vitter denied. Once the first story became significant news, reporters apparently started doing a bit of investigating on some of the older stories.
I haven't seen some of the more sorid details confirmed in the mainstream media yet, though Vitter's diaper fetish, a few days ago dismissed as a rumor on the blog-0-sphere, was referenced by Jay Leno on the Tonight Show last night.
Some of the local Republican Right have been defending Vitter. I'm all for the proposition that what adults do with their genitalia is nobody else's business, but that's exactly contrary to what Vitter and his supporters have been pushing for years. I think it would be on the whole better if prostitution were legalized and regulated, but the fact is that in pretty much all of the USA other than some counties in Nevada, it's illegal. Vitter pledged to uphold the law, but Vitter is a criminal.
Vitter's been absent on the Senate floor, and is said to be in an undisclosed location (hiding in the Cheneybunker?). One internet rumor I'm not putting any stock in at this point is that he's in the hospital after his wife really did follow through with her threat to his Senatorial Staff. Though of course Vitter's real problem is between his ears, not his legs.
Speaking of COX (Haw!) I'm supposed to get cable hooked up today. I thought I was done with ATT years ago, but they bought out my local phone company, so I'll shell out some more money and get high speed internet and transfer my phone to Cox Cable. While I'm at it, I'm finally stepping boldly into the 1980s and getting a cable tv hookup as part of the package. Broadcast tv already had more television than I cared to watch, but now Ms. Hollie and I will be able to watch "Countdown" or "The Daily Show" together rather than on YouTube.
In other news, City Council member Shelley Midura has called on District Attorney Eddie Jordan to resign. Give 'em hell, Shelley.
Additional revelations have appeared each day, confirming Vitter's involvement with prostitutes both in the D.C. area and Louisiana going back to the '90s, including stories which came out as allegations before elections years ago and which Vitter denied. Once the first story became significant news, reporters apparently started doing a bit of investigating on some of the older stories.
I haven't seen some of the more sorid details confirmed in the mainstream media yet, though Vitter's diaper fetish, a few days ago dismissed as a rumor on the blog-0-sphere, was referenced by Jay Leno on the Tonight Show last night.
Some of the local Republican Right have been defending Vitter. I'm all for the proposition that what adults do with their genitalia is nobody else's business, but that's exactly contrary to what Vitter and his supporters have been pushing for years. I think it would be on the whole better if prostitution were legalized and regulated, but the fact is that in pretty much all of the USA other than some counties in Nevada, it's illegal. Vitter pledged to uphold the law, but Vitter is a criminal.
Vitter's been absent on the Senate floor, and is said to be in an undisclosed location (hiding in the Cheneybunker?). One internet rumor I'm not putting any stock in at this point is that he's in the hospital after his wife really did follow through with her threat to his Senatorial Staff. Though of course Vitter's real problem is between his ears, not his legs.
Speaking of COX (Haw!) I'm supposed to get cable hooked up today. I thought I was done with ATT years ago, but they bought out my local phone company, so I'll shell out some more money and get high speed internet and transfer my phone to Cox Cable. While I'm at it, I'm finally stepping boldly into the 1980s and getting a cable tv hookup as part of the package. Broadcast tv already had more television than I cared to watch, but now Ms. Hollie and I will be able to watch "Countdown" or "The Daily Show" together rather than on YouTube.
In other news, City Council member Shelley Midura has called on District Attorney Eddie Jordan to resign. Give 'em hell, Shelley.
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Date: 2007-07-13 01:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-13 03:09 pm (UTC)The neocons are big on this sort of thing (witness Sean Hannity suddenly becoming a Paris Hilton believer) unless of course the redeemed sinner is someone like Marion Barry. In other words, not white.
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Date: 2007-07-13 03:29 pm (UTC)You'll get an idea for how non-evil they are after you've spent a year listening to everyone else describe how much trouble they're having with Comcast.
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Date: 2007-07-13 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-14 01:29 pm (UTC)Ah well, welcome to Louisiana politics, check your moral at the door. At least Edwin Edwards and Earl Long were honest with their sexual activities in office...
Wendy Cortez
Date: 2007-07-15 09:50 am (UTC)What if she was involved with David V? What in the hell does her PAST have to do with it? People change and I know this woman that everyone is persucting for having an alleged "Affair" or what ever yall want to say...yes, she has a past that most would run from...but today she is a professional business woman with a Associates Degree working on her Masters. She cleaned up her past and is living a productive life today. Noone has taken into account that she has children that are teenagers and that they read and listen to the shit that yall are saying about their mother...
Someone get her side of this...evidentally Vincent Bruno needs to be the first of many suits filed against for putting her name out in public when it was very clearly a confidential interview...