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04-18-2006, 06:49 AM
Interesting how the media is able to do what it does.
Hustler Editor's Bombshell Revelation
In 1998 when then President Bill Clinton was being dragged down by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a Hustler magazine editor was able to change history by telling a lie. Or so he claims. Recall that conservative Rep. Bob Livingston had just been elected as speaker of the House. He was forced to resign when Hustler magazine threatened to go public with details of his sexual indiscretions and marital affairs. Now the former editor, Allan MacDonell, says the whole thing was a trick. They had nothing on Livingston.
CNN was there when Livingston announced his resignation after his illicit affairs were [susposedly]exposed.
At least that is the bombshell claim MacDonell makes in his soon-to-
be-published book, "Prisoner of X," reports The New York Post's "Page Six" gossip column by Richard Johnson. MacDonell confesses the ruse was created to take the heat off of Clinton. It all started when Hustler's Larry Flynt took out a full-page ad in The Washington Post, offering $1 million to anyone who could provide evidence of sexual indiscretions by top Republicans. Livingston was one of the leading proponents to impeach Clinton. "We actually had nothing on Livingston," MacDonell told Page Six. "An elected Republican office holder from Louisiana passed us the phone number of a woman who was supposedly Livingston's girlfriend. But when we phoned her, she cursed us and hung up. About a day later a reporter from Roll Call [the Capitol Hill newspaper] called and said he'd heard that we were working up something on Livingston. I thought: What would Larry do? Then I said, 'I cannot discuss any names or other details at this time.' The reporter replied: 'I'm running with it.'"
The next day, MacDonell let slip in a news interview that Hustler was investigating Livingston's sex life and "within 24 hours the speaker-elect quit Congress," MacDonell told Page Six. He was fired for scathing remarks he made about Flynt during a celebrity roast.
Hustler Editor's Bombshell Revelation
In 1998 when then President Bill Clinton was being dragged down by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a Hustler magazine editor was able to change history by telling a lie. Or so he claims. Recall that conservative Rep. Bob Livingston had just been elected as speaker of the House. He was forced to resign when Hustler magazine threatened to go public with details of his sexual indiscretions and marital affairs. Now the former editor, Allan MacDonell, says the whole thing was a trick. They had nothing on Livingston.
CNN was there when Livingston announced his resignation after his illicit affairs were [susposedly]exposed.
At least that is the bombshell claim MacDonell makes in his soon-to-
be-published book, "Prisoner of X," reports The New York Post's "Page Six" gossip column by Richard Johnson. MacDonell confesses the ruse was created to take the heat off of Clinton. It all started when Hustler's Larry Flynt took out a full-page ad in The Washington Post, offering $1 million to anyone who could provide evidence of sexual indiscretions by top Republicans. Livingston was one of the leading proponents to impeach Clinton. "We actually had nothing on Livingston," MacDonell told Page Six. "An elected Republican office holder from Louisiana passed us the phone number of a woman who was supposedly Livingston's girlfriend. But when we phoned her, she cursed us and hung up. About a day later a reporter from Roll Call [the Capitol Hill newspaper] called and said he'd heard that we were working up something on Livingston. I thought: What would Larry do? Then I said, 'I cannot discuss any names or other details at this time.' The reporter replied: 'I'm running with it.'"
The next day, MacDonell let slip in a news interview that Hustler was investigating Livingston's sex life and "within 24 hours the speaker-elect quit Congress," MacDonell told Page Six. He was fired for scathing remarks he made about Flynt during a celebrity roast.