Sunday, July 08, 2007

Salacious

Far be it from me to assert that Andrew Sullivan's gaydar is malfunctioning, but -- as many of you know -- he has alleged that Fred Thompson is homosexual. Wonkette claims to have heard similar rumors.

Uhhhh...no.

Once again, I take the liberty of showing you Fred's former girlfriend, Lorrie Morgan, and his current wife, Jeri. What I'm about to say may strike some people as boorish, but I don't care: Women who look like that have better things to do than to provide a closeted gay guy with the illusion of heterosexuality -- especially when the ladies in question are independently successful, as these two are.

On a more serious note: As many of you know, the "DC Madam," Jeane Palfrey, is releasing the phone records of her clients, thanks to the lifting of an injunction. I wrote about the matter for BradBlog, and should soon address the topic in that forum once more.

Please understand that these are phone numbers, not names. Palfrey herself usually had little or no idea as to the identities of her clients. Rumor holds that Dick Cheney is on the list -- but so far, no public facts back that rumor. That story, which David Letterman publicized, appears to trace back to Wayne Madsen, whose reputation is, shall we say, a bit iffy.

Madsen has privately assured me that he has top sources -- in the CIA and elsewhere -- for this assertion. We shall see.

Attaching names to those numbers will require detective work, especially since the list goes back more than a decade. If neither Brad nor I can manage the trick, someone else will. Rest assured: The job will be done.

I personally have no interest in any "Charlie Nobody" types who have used Pamela Martin & Associates. The same probably holds true for any other blogger who receives the data. So if you are a former client of that escort agency -- and if you have never held a Cheney-esque position of governmental responsibility -- you are in no danger of public exposure.

At least not from me.

Some have wondered if the list might have been "scrubbed." As I understand it, we are talking about the hard copy records one receives from the telephone company.

Personally, I don't care what men and women do sexually, a long as all parties consent and are of age. Handcuffs, blindfolds, deerskin floggers, exacto blades, Dave's Insanity Sauce -- hey, whatever gets you through the weekend is fine by me.

But people with access to classified information should understand the potential for blackmail. Randall Tobias, one of Palfrey's few known clients, was the head of the Agency for International Development, which provides cover for CIA agents around the world. With a little imagination, once can see the potential for a "Plame-times-20" scenario.

Palfrey had no way of checking the backgrounds of her women. A lady working in an illegal profession is open to pressure and manipulation.

The real question, as I see it, is this: Why did the Feds target Deborah Jeane Palfrey? Sexually speaking, D.C. does not resemble a small town in Utah. There are other escort agencies, and they advertise openly.

11 comments:

gary said...

So maybe he's bisexual. A lot of people have apparently heard the rumors, some going back years. Also let's not forget Buell's Law: if a prominent male politician is accused of some sort of sexual shenanigans--he did it.

Anonymous said...

uh, Tom Cruise?

SteveAudio said...

Hey Joseph,

the other pertinent issue is hypocrisy: Republicans who vote against their own interests in re: personal matters.

It doesn't have to be Ted Haggard bellowing against gays, but it can be a "family-values" type who uses hookers.

We know they exist, hopefully this list will prove it.

Anonymous said...

Tom Cruise kept his good-looking, independently successful women with him via air-tight contracts, iggy. Oh, and brainwashing.

I don't know FDT's financial situation, (though I assume he's made at least a few million in Hollywood) but I doubt he has Cruise's resources.

I'm kinda with Joe on this one, although it's for my own set of purely personal reasons (among them--Thompson simply doesn't ping my gaydar). Still, I've known several attractive, successful women who got duped into relationships with gay guys and at least one or two who volunteered for such arrangements. Looks and professional success don't necessarily equal emotional maturity, self-esteem, or decent observational skills. Nevertheless, I don't think FDT has been "passing" in sham marriages.

Am I the only one not really that excited about the thing with the phone numbers? I just...don't see it becoming the One Scandal to Rule Them All.

Anonymous said...

"Personally, I don't care what men and women do sexually, a long as all parties consent and are of age. Handcuffs, blindfolds, deerskin floggers, exacto blades, Dave's Insanity Sauce.."

I agree with you 100% Joseph, but when it comes
to the GOP's
proclivity
to (allegedly)
get freak-y
there really oughta be
some payback, a la lewinsky!

...especially since they're the party who convinced the voting lemmings that "Family Values" are a) able to be seen through 30 sec sound-bites and mudslinging and b) actualy make a difference when it comes to governance ....afaic, any freak on the right ought to be outed like a cumstained cigar! They often are the most publicly anti-gay, anyway.

...but personally, I wont hold my Guckerts-- hey, you ought to know Joe, any truth to that story about 41 when he was just a veep having overnight male-ho guests in the white house? I've only ever seen one newspaper headline about it (and that was online, could have been photoshopped...)

And as far as if he's Bi or gay there are so many other options.. could be he's on the Down Low (or is that just bi and secretive) and yes it's the 21st century, so just like Tom Cruise, nowadays a gay man (gay to the point of being disgusted by female genitalia) can totally get it up and take one for the team, even to the point of knocking up a disgusting un-chiseled feminine she-thing like katie holmes. All it takes is a little vardenafil, tadalafil, or the campus favorite, Sildenafil citrate, right? In this day and age, it would be hard for his present companion to know anything he didn't want her to know about (and maybe his er, lack of attention led to the breakup with his previous trophy babe?

Anonymous said...

It might be the case that bisexual men go for boyish looking women, rather than these brickhouse types, but if so, I'm not aware of even that assertion, still less its truth.

Even if that were the truth, it would probably be more a 'mainly true' than 'always and absolutely true' sort of truth, leaving open the chance for the occasional exception (even if that proved the general rule).

So, despite the intuitive appeal of the notion that a man who is with such specimens of femininity could not be bisexual, I think that is naive.

Surely, the list of Tom Cruise's paramours (ex-wives Mimi Rogers, the other redhead whose name escapes me just now, his current wife, and interim paramour Penelope Cruz) includes some hot physical specimens.

sofla

Anonymous said...

This should be worth following up on.....directly related.....

http://www.blogactive.com/2007/07/interesting-evening.html

Anonymous said...

Madsen has privately assured me that he has top sources -- in the CIA and elsewhere -- for this assertion. We shall see.


Has Madsen ever broken a story that turned out not to be crap (i.e., that was later verified by other sources)? Not that I know of.

If this story turns out to be crap, can we finally write the guy off for good as a charlatan who "fills in the blanks" with bogus evidence that people want to hear?

Anonymous said...

joe, you surprise me. it's fairly well known that closeted gay men (and some out, as well) make a point of hanging with gorgeous women, precisely because they attract men, especially gorgeous men.

hence the plot of suddenly last summer.

not saying this in itself incriminates freddy boy, but it helps us not rule it out, either.

gary said...

Didn't Lorrie Morgan used to date Troy Aiman, also rumored to be gay?

Anonymous said...

But Andy *didn't* claim that Thompson was/is gay. He said "The man has had a colorful and wide-ranging sex life, as I'm sure we will soon find out." Where do you (or WOnkette) read gay out of that?