Welcome back to the Buzzflash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.You might not have heard of sleaze ball GOP operative Roger Stone, a sort of combination of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove with a penchant for swinging -- of the sexual kind.
Over the years, he's shown up at the center of a lot of controversial Republican efforts to bring down Democrats in questionable ways. And that's why, it piqued our interest to read these paragraphs from a New York political reporter about a phone call with Stone concerning the unusual federal government prostitution sting operation (which ostensibly began as a money laundering investigation) against Eliot Spitzer:
"I didn't make him go to a prostitution ring," said the most famous and ruthless Republican dirty trickster who still walks the earth. "He did that all on his own." Stone said that even before I asked if his hand was somehow in Spitzer's latest trouble. I figured, somehow or another, it had to be.
"No comment on that," Stone said. "I will say I knew it was coming. That's why I wasn't too upset about the results of the special election," where a Democrat grabbed a supposedly safe Republican State Senate seat, leaving Democrats just one vote shy of control.
So an infamous Republican dirty trickster who now heads a highly offensively named and controversial anti-Clinton 527 called Citizens United Not Timid (okay if you're slow, put the four capital letters together -- and we are not making this up) happened to know in advance about the Bush partisan DOJ's unusual takedown of a rising Democratic governor over sex. And he wasn't just any governor, he was the head of the Empire State who had alienated Wall Street by aggressively taking on white collar crime when he was the New York AG.
In fact, Stone may have a larger role in the pursuit of Spitzer since he has worked for the Republican opposition in New York and was even fingered, if you can believe how low he'll go, trying to anonymously threaten Spitzer's father over the telephone.
Let's put aside the bottom feeder swamp sludge tactics for a moment. Because what makes Stone particularly hypocritical about his efforts to bring down Spitzer -- and whatever relationship, if any, he had to the DOJ investigation -- is his hypocrisy about sexual morality.
In September 2003, BuzzFlash wrote a news analysis asking this question: "Where Did A Republican Party Operative Accused Of Placing 'Swinging Couple' Ads Get $150,000 During The 2000 Recount To Finance A Campaign To Oust Florida Supreme Court Justices?" (The ubiquitously devious Stone was assisting the Bush cabal with stealing the 2000 Florida election.) As we noted then, Stone, "in 1996, was forced to resign his consulting position with presidential candidate Bob Dole after two supermarket tabloids reported that he and his wife, Nydia, had advertised on the Internet and in 'Swing Fever' magazine for couples interested in engaging in group sex. Yes, dear readers, it is. For the record, Stone claimed he had been set up, though he acknowledged the Internet advertisements were paid for with his credit card."
Another Web site is more blunt, "We've written about the GOP operative Roger Stone before, and how the charmingly amoral hedonist rolls from S&M sex party to swinger gathering in between calling Hillary Clinton vulgar names."
Ah, the stench of Republican sexual perversity emanates strongly from Roger Stone, and although we can't prove he had a role to play in the takedown of Spitzer, we'd bet better than even odds that he did.
And that is why he is the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week. A Republican swinger who parties wild is crowing about a prostitution scandal downfall of a Democratic Governor who took on the crooks of Wall Street. As you can understand from this brief article, it is Stone, after all, who is the real prostitute in this story.
Remember our motto: So many Republican hypocrites, so little time.
Catch up with you soon.
