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...Larry Flynt fought for our constitutional right to parody public figures-to fabricate stories about ministers engaging in a drunken incestuous rendezvous with their mothers in outhouses, so long as it did not intend "actual malice." A decade later, Flynt is back at the First Amendment dartboard, this time aiming to accomplish some good ol'progressive muckraking...
Today marks the public release of the "Flynt Report," an 84-page, advertisement-free expose of the alleged sinful sex lives of our nation's Republican politicians. Beginning last October with his million-dollar bounty for Republican dirt, Flynt "Report" is the consummation of his vow to defend President Clinton from Sexual McCarthyism. And after spending $4 million on the project, Flynt's chief investigator Dan Moldera promised, "This is going to get dark, and it's going to get mean. We are not messing around anymore...
...really wish they were. Just as the MSNBC "talking heads" have finally shifted from discussions of sex to the military and Kosovo, the "Flynt Report" will only catapult us into another round of lies and national embarrassment-if its contents can even be believed. Indeed, Flynt's publication is nothing more than a partisan ploy to exact revenge on the right-wingers in Congress that should be ignored by both politicians and sex scandal followers alike...
...Flynt yearns to protect President Clinton from an onslaught of sexual interrogations and allegations, than his "Report" is the least likely solution. Now that the impeachment beast has finally been put to rest, the "Flynt Report" will be a stick prodding Republicans to oppose President Clinton with even more partisan hatred. Perhaps if the "Report" had been published during the impeachment trial, it would have been more effective at illustrating the hypocrisy of certain Congressmen. But now that the trial is over and the verdict is in, our nation's bout with Sexual McCarthyism has come to a close...
Regardless, Flynt will today exercise his First Amendment right and will release his one-sided, biased "Report." But according to "The Weekly Standard," which was lucky enough to view a copy of "Flynt's Report" last week, the contents of the exposure about as promising as the material of Flynt's other publication, the infamous "Hustler Magazine...