The Daily Background

Through July, September and October, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has been teasing how he’s going to “shock us all” and reveal that a Republican senator who nobody expected– is gay. So far, nothing has materialized, despite Flynt’s consistent promises that his magazine would publish the news imminently. Well, here’s a little more teasing of the yet-to-materialize-supposed-bombshell:

Flynt also claims he now has evidence about a closeted gay Republican senator who is not Larry Craig. “The other shoe’s going to drop any day,” Flynt says. “It’ll surprise a lot of people that he’s gay. And I’ll bet you he resigns the same day and rides off into the sunset.”

“Over the summer, when he began talking to me for this article, he dropped three A-list names—a Republican presidential candidate, a well-known Republican senator, and another prominent conservative official—whose peccadilloes he claimed Hustler was on the verge of exposing, hinting at hooker parties and no-tell-motel liaisons,” Handy notes. “When we sit down in the fall, these names are off the table, though investigations are said to be ongoing.”

The magazine’s Deputy Editor Handy adds, “But Flynt’s investigation of this second senator is at a tricky pass. ‘His boyfriend is in a quandary about selling him out. It’s really somewhat of a pathetic situation. But we also have other boyfriends that he’s been involved with.’ These earlier boyfriends are apparently willing to go on the record, and have also supplied Flynt’s investigators with corroborating evidence. ‘We got some motel records. We got some photographs. They don’t involve sex, but sort of romantic walks on the beach and that sort of thing.’”

Yeah well. After almost six months of Flynt’s bragging about how he’s going to throw the GOP into chaos with new revelations of a closeted gay senator, I’m not exactly holding my breath. Still, this is more detail than he has given to the situation previously…

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