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2007-05-07 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Network refuses to name clients of 'DC madam'

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Posted by gorb 2007-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 ~~Mr. Smith~~ Heidi Fleiss Goes to Washington.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-07 04:35|| 2007-05-07 04:35|| Front Page Top

#2 National Review:

Washington Post today, as posted in the Corner:

In one case, a man who told the escort service he was a White House economist turned out to have engaged in résumé inflation. He actually works across the street as an analyst for the Office of Thrift Supervision, Ross said.

"One guy swore to me up and down it couldn't have been him, he loves his wife," Ross said. The man, a well-known member of a conservative think tank, was right: Palfrey, Ross said, had repeatedly misdialed his number by confusing the 202 and 301 area codes.

Unbelievable. Here's the transcript from 20/20 with no mention from Ross of his errors. And what's worse, he kept silent prior to the airing of his segment because without his two top outs, a Bush admin. economist and the head of a conservative think tank, nobody would have watched

Posted by Mike 2007-05-07 06:28|| 2007-05-07 06:28|| Front Page Top

#3 The last two or three paragraphs are the most distressing to me. One gal was a professor and divorced mother of two. She commited suicide because she was outed as a prostitute. Shouldn't need to happen. Some day people will look back at this attitude of shame as crap. It didn't change who she was or how she did her job. If it did, it was because of the shame thing.

There's a reason this is the world's oldest profession. And it will probably be the last, too. I don't see why people need to try to make it go away. Legalize it, regulate it, and tax it. Be done with it.

Posted by gorb 2007-05-07 07:30|| 2007-05-07 07:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Sharia should eliminate the prostitution problem. Who needs prostitution when for practical purposes rape is 'legal.'

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-05-07 07:37|| 2007-05-07 07:37|| Front Page Top

#5 It's a lot like abortion. It's not something society should promote, it's not something society will eradicate. So society makes it illegal and puts the burden on the woman. If Ms Palfrey is going to be put through the wringer like this, then so should the Johns.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-05-07 07:37|| 2007-05-07 07:37|| Front Page Top

#6 One gal was a professor

"You want flies with that?"

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-07 08:22|| 2007-05-07 08:22|| Front Page Top

#7 No names? Then who the hell cares?
So your blockbuster story turns out to be a non story? Crack investigative unit you've got there ABC...

Posted by tu3031 2007-05-07 10:05|| 2007-05-07 10:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Zen don't pick on the nice lady professor. We all make our compromises.

I didn't bother to watch 'cos I figgered it was a big fat nuthin'. But it *would* be fun to see the internal ABC memos on this thing, would it not?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-05-07 10:14|| 2007-05-07 10:14|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Pappy 2007-05-07 10:14|| 2007-05-07 10:14|| Front Page Top

#10 One gal was a professor

I guess what I meant by this is that chances are she doesn't have a huge host of mental problems that may lead to suicide no matter what. Nobody knows for sure, but I think it would be over the line when people with well-developed mentalities are pushed over the edge by this.

And no, as a society I don't think we should help this along, but I don't think we should be actively harming people either, which I think the present system does. It will be there in one form or another regardless of you opinion, so why not at least clean it up? The cost to society is too great. If somebody's spouse finds out they haven't been coming home for dinner, that's where you don't have to help. But don't harm. What a mess.

Posted by gorb 2007-05-07 14:15|| 2007-05-07 14:15|| Front Page Top

#11 I hate the double standard and think prostitution should be legalized to protect the women and tax their services. I think Palfrey is smart and there may be a little more to it for ABC to air this, other than to humiliate innocent people. I heard Dick Morris was one she wanted called to trial, hinting that contracted services went back to '93 and included a very prominent private citizen. Also, it wasn't a protitution crackdown per se, but came out of the Abramoff and Cunningham corruption investigations.

Posted by Danielle 2007-05-07 14:57|| 2007-05-07 14:57|| Front Page Top

#12 prostitution should be legalized to protect the women and tax their services

Legalizing prostitution, like legalizing abortion, will be a net loss for women because all it will do is validate the use of women by certain men (we generally call them "pigs" in these parts) as disposable sex objects.

Posted by Mike 2007-05-07 18:00|| 2007-05-07 18:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Disposable ? Why didn't I think of that ?

Posted by wxjames 2007-05-07 20:13|| 2007-05-07 20:13|| Front Page Top

#14 I've had good relations with call girls and prostitutes during my younger years mostly. No one was hurt and everyone was a winner... and It never stopped me from having girl friends and a wife either!

lotsa booze and sex -->releases bad spirts, It is good medicine for horned dawgs!

Posted by RD">RD 2007-05-07 22:43|| 2007-05-07 22:43|| Front Page Top

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