Why is Trent Lott Retiring? Is “Rent Boy” One Word or Two?
Do we have another sex scandal in the works for the Republican Party? Man, are there going to be any Republicans running for office once they all get caught with their pants down? But WAIT! This is just a rumor, after all. I’m sure, besides, that there are a couple Republican Senators who aren’t paying for it.
Gee, I just can’t help passing along this speculation, even though it was just a couple hours ago that I speculated, along with RawStory, that Lott was cashing out in order to cash out bigtime before the Senate ethics rules prevented it. But there’s another rumor going on out there. It springs from that story a couple weeks ago where Larry Flynt was touting his next outing. . . from PageOmeQ:
“Once upon a time,” writes Big Head DC, “there was a twentysomething boy-next-door type with reddish blond hair and a brillantly white smile.”
This boy-next-door is male escort Benjamin Nicholas, whose blog 15 Minutes helped him make some connections in business and politics.
One of these connections is rumored to be Senator Trent Lott, Republican Minority Whip and former Senate Majority Leader, rumored to have planned a resignation by the end of this year to avoid being scandalized by Hustler publisher Larry Flynt.
Of course, this is still just a rumor. I couldn’t imagine, after all, a Republican Senator paying someone for sex, after all. Surely *cough* Vitter and Craig *cough* were the only Republicans who would do such a thing, weren’t they?
Looks like rentboy came out with a full and complete denial after all this let loose. Dailykos has it as one of their recommended diaries as an update.
Flynt issued an interesting response on info he has gotten on Lott, and the investigation he has been doing as a result. Not a denial, in fact it almost confirms this story is not a rumor.
“HUSTLER RESPONDS:
HUSTLER Magazine has received numerous inquiries regarding the involvement of Larry Flynt
and HUSTLER in the resignation of Trent Lott. Senator Lott has been the target of an ongoing HUSTLER investigation for some time now, due to confidential information that we have received.”
http://larryflynt.com/mycms/
Yeah, there are a couple other reports out there now, Flynt’s is one of them. Here’s the gay escort denial:http://bigheaddc.com/2007/11/26/trent-lott-fallout-the-gay-escort-who-knew-too-much/ and there’s supposedly a link on that site to Flynt’s statements. Ah, here it is. http://www.bigheaddc.com/index.php?s=larry+flynt