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10 July 2007

Weird day at the office See this story? I was the "witness" to the phone call that prompted Vitter's press conference.

(The whole Hustler office is cheering and calling out every outlet that picks up the story. It's kinda odd.)
You work for Hustler? If so, that's dang interesting.
posted by jrossi4r 10 July | 13:25
Hooray for you. He is "my" senator by I never voted for him.
posted by govtdrone 10 July | 13:31
You work for Hustler? If so, that's dang interesting.

Yeah, what's Larry really like?
posted by jonmc 10 July | 13:40
Well, I work for Barely Legal and Taboo, which shares an editorial office with Hustler.

And what's Larry really like? He's really, like, ensconced on the 10th floor, so I've never met him. We just occassionally get weird decrees like not to flush paper towel in the toilets, signed by Larry Flynnt (though I assume that's some secretary).
posted by klangklangston 10 July | 13:54
I'm seriously intrigued, klang. Is it like being a doctor? Do you just get immune to seein' the beav after awhile?
posted by jrossi4r 10 July | 14:07
Oh yeah, that took me about a day and a half. Sometimes the porn's still hot, but most of the time it's "Goddamnit, they didn't attach the right 2257 form so now I have to call the fucking Czech Republic and see who I can rouse in the middle of the night."
posted by klangklangston 10 July | 14:14
Sounds just like production night at the magazine I used to work for. Only nakeder. (Although if we were running an article on say, self exams for testicular cancer, I might get treated to an intriguing diagram or two.)
posted by jrossi4r 10 July | 14:25
Huh. Back in the 80s, the only job offer I ever turned down was an Accounting job with a San Fernando Valley porn distributor. I didn't have any 'moral' qualms about the business, but it seemed too risky. Reagan & Company was threatening the x-rated industry so I wasn't sure if the company had a future AND the ownership was dicey - organized-crime-connection-wise (many legal pron businesses at that time were doing 'money laundering' for other mob enterprises and my job would've been in Accounting). I ended up taking a job with a financial firm that went under on Junk Bonds four years later (I've told stories about THAT before), and the pron house is still in business. So much for judgment.
posted by wendell 10 July | 14:38
But what role did Hustler play in the release of the phone records? Come on, that's the interesting bit!
posted by mudpuppie 10 July | 14:39
"...now I have to call the fucking Czech Republic and see who I can rouse in the middle of the night."

klang is surely jaded. Others would be saying: "...now I have to call the fucking Czech Republic and see who I can arouse in the middle of the night."
posted by ericb 10 July | 14:44
I believe we were a party on the FOIAs over the phone records; I know that there was no plan for Vitter to give a press conference yesterday at 5pm EST (when we called), and once they figured out who was calling and what it was about, we got a mighty stonewall from a flustered secretary. And this morning, the AP, ABC and a handful of other outfits have been jamming our phone lines trying to figure out what we knew. (There's a little bit more, but I can't tell y'all— partially because I don't know all of it, and partially because we're gonna go to press with it).
posted by klangklangston 10 July | 14:46
Cool to be one of the seminal actors in this little drama. Your testimony has been really great to have. You've got me ovulating with curiosity.

Wait, I lost that somewhere.
posted by omiewise 10 July | 14:53
TPM's got our official statement.
posted by klangklangston 10 July | 14:55
Oh yeah, turns out that we got his direct antecedent in the House, Livingston, for essentially the same thing. Hustler busted him in 98 when the Clinton debacle was on.
posted by klangklangston 10 July | 15:36
Yeah, I expect we're gonna hear a lot more announcements like this from politician AND preacher alike.

Altho IF this guy truly repented, it's a shame it's getting exposed NOW.

posted by bunnyfire 10 July | 18:15
Eh. If this guy truly repented, he'd have remembered that Christianity requires service and charity toward those you consider the lowest of the low, not agitating for further persecution. Vitter's been a shit in the Senate for a while, and though it might be a bit of the ol' True Scotsman, I have a hard time believing that a real Christian would act like he has.
posted by klangklangston 10 July | 19:29
Is it like being a doctor? Do you just get immune to seein' the beav after awhile?

beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeea-ver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver

(yawn)

beaver beaver beaver beaver bea-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

If you're feeling this jaded looking at the stuff, I wonder how jaded the actual participants get. I mean, most people go off to work 9-5, get home to their honeys and make a little love. Now, porn stars, on the other hand, what do they do for fun when the shift is over?

Do they go home and play endless rounds of Scrabble?
posted by jason's_planet 10 July | 19:30
The accompanying picture on CNN is crying out for an "INVISIBLE TITGROPE" macro.
posted by CKmtl 10 July | 20:55
Why is it that whenever these so called Christians get caught doing these things, they say that they’ve “asked for the Lord’s forgiveness AND that he’s ‘forgiven them’”. How the hell do you know if the Lord’s forgiven you? What, do you have a direct line to GOD too, other than prostitutes?
posted by hadjiboy 11 July | 01:14
This line really had me in jitters:

After being contacted by the news station, Mr Tobias claimed he used her services for massages and not sex.
posted by hadjiboy 11 July | 01:17
"How the hell do you know if the Lord’s forgiven you?". hadjiboy, they get a call each day at 4:18 PM.
posted by arse_hat 11 July | 01:20
How the hell do you know if the Lord’s forgiven you?

I suppose if they're operating under the premise that god can and will smite those on his shitlist... if they ask for forgiveness and do not get immediately smotten, then they've obviously been forgiven. Or something.
posted by CKmtl 11 July | 10:16
Why is it that whenever these so called Christians get caught doing these things, they say that they’ve “asked for the Lord’s forgiveness AND that he’s ‘forgiven them’”.

Yeah, I always think it's a little rich that they claim to know their god's mind.
posted by gaspode 11 July | 10:27
I always figure they're crazy. Talking to God? Some folks spent 20 years in Bellevue for less.
posted by Hugh Janus 11 July | 10:28
After being contacted by the news station, Mr Tobias claimed he used her services for massages and not sex.

And they had a pipe full of crack right there in the room.

But he didn't inhale.
posted by jason's_planet 16 July | 22:23
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