Hot Potato Mash

You Won't See This On Fox

  An on air apology by a news anchor. WOW!

'BLOGGERS (Including HPM) HUNT FOR NAMES ON US ESCORT LIST'

HOTPOTATOMASH gets a mention in an AP story about the DC Madam titled, “Bloggers hunt for names on US escort list”:

Other websites are casting a wider net than just public officials.

The blog Hot Potato Mash is collecting and publishing a list of names and numbers, including the results of calls made to the phone numbers in Palfrey's files. So far the search has uncovered numbers for hotels, businesses and homes. Several numbers were out of service or appeared to have been reassigned over the years to new phone customers.

Alan Breslauer, a Los Angeles man who runs Hot Potato Mash, said most people he has contacted by phone have been friendly, and some are appreciative when he tells them their phone numbers are linked to the scandal.

“It is public record. It is unfortunate. I think these people are going to have to change their numbers, no matter what,” he said. “I think the information is important enough that we have to go through it and find out.”

The article also quotes Lori Price of Citizens for Legitimate Government, who has been working tirelessly on this story for the last week, stating:

“Some top-level Republicans are making statements about lifestyles and family values. We want to see if they are, in fact, living their lives based on what they are preaching and forcing us to comply with. We see some hypocrisy.”

Read the entire article at Mail & Guardian Online

New Commercial By Committee To Save David Vitter's Penis

Stop Senator David Vitter's wife from chopping off his penis!

Read about the video at Double Speak Show

Larry Flynt: “Payback Is A Bitch”

VIDEO: Tucker Carlson vs. CLG's Rectenwald on DC MADAM SCANDAL

 

Michael Rectenwald of Citizens For Legitimate Government appeared on Tucker Carlson's new show.  Unfortunately, despite getting rid of the bow-tie, Tucker is the same old Republican toady and hypocrite as Rectenwald repeatedly points out. Tucker conveniently tries to take the moral high road now that he fears Republican politicos are in the cross-fire. Yet, when it's Democrats like Bill Clinton caught with their pants down, Tucker is at the front of the line screaming for the firing squad. Typical mainstream media corporate media rubbish.

UPDATED DC MADAM PHONE LIST INVESTIGATION

   

Updated as of 3:00pm Wednesday

Please add notes in comment sections. Will be adding more numbers from other billing periods tonight. Thanks.

Be sure to check out CLG for the latest.

D.C. MADAM PHONE RECORDS ONLINE

UPDATE: NEW UPDATED LIST HERE

Citizens for Legitimate Government is posting the D.C. Madam's phone list online as I write this.  I have already gone through the first set of numbers but everyone should do the same!  This is the time for all citizens and citizen journalists to step up! Here are my results from the first page of billing period 08/22/06 (also see 12/22/05 here and a new Cingular/AT&T one here):

UPDATED LISTS:

BREAKING: JUDGE RULES IN FAVOR OF D.C. MADAME

This is oh so strange. You might recall the case of the D.C. Madame who threatened to release the phone numbers of all her clients which was said to include some rather prominent members of the D.C. establishment. Then Brian Ross of ABC News was given the list and was going to reveal some of the blockbuster names in a Friday show. But the outrage from Fox “News” and others - how could ABC destroy so many families? - seemed to get to Ross whose blockbuster airing came and went with a whimper as he revealed no new names.

Now it turns out “The Government has twice applied to this Court ex parte for Temporary Restraining Orders (”TROs“) preventing Defendant from selling the List or from distributing copies for free.” You may be asking, as I am asking, what the hell is the Government doing getting involved in this case apart from the regular prosecution of Palfrey and why do they give a crap about her list? Actually, the judge wanted to know the same thing:

At oral argument, the Government was asked whether the List contained the telephone numbers of unindicted co-conspirators. After a significant silence, Government counsel agreed that the answer to the Court's question was “yes.” One cannot help wondering why the Government has exhibited such a strong interest in protecting a list containing the telephone numbers of unindicted co-conspirators, i.e., the women who the Government alleges provided the illegal sexual services and the men who the Government alleges sought and obtained such illegal sexual services.

As the Government was unable to answer this question and kept changing its legal argument for why the judge should keep the list under seal, the judge ruled in favor of the Defendant's request to quash the TROs.  Surely, she threw the Government a bone by publicizing her ruling on July 5, during the holiday week. Still, now Palfrey is free to make the lists public.

Hence, the only remaining question is how many days it takes the prosecution to make her case go away. As there is no way the Government goes to all the trouble it did, inventing phony arguments and all, if it were not protecting someone of significant import. And the Dick Cheney in me says that it would just be easier to make the whole case disappear.

The Court's Ruling (PDF)

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