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March 16th, 2008

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This is the Jeff Booth Show for March 16th, 2008, brought to you by the Center for Sexual Expression and Education, and Erotic University. I’m Jeff Booth. We have an extra long political news section this week, as there was so much going on of interest. We also have lots of entertainment news, including the latest in mainstream and porn films. Finally, we have part 2 in our Whacko of the Week series focusing on the men behind John McCain. Just click on the topic on the left you want to listen to, and thanks for clicking in.

News

The big story, of course, is the rapid and dramatic fall of the now former New York Governor Elliott Spitzer. One of the things that I found unusual about the story was the headline used by almost every media outlet- Governor involved with Prostitution Ring. When I first read that, I assumed he was financially or politically linked to them somehow, or maybe he had acted as their attorney. It certainly does not sound like what really happened, that he was having sex with one of their escorts. It’s like saying that because a politician buys gas, that he’s involved with Big Oil. Technically true, but an odd way to put it. Some people are asking whether this was political. Whether this investigation, launched originally under the Alberto Gonzalez Justice Department, was a part of the well-documented efforts to prosecute Democratic politicians at a far higher rate than Republican politicians. A study showed that of the Justice Department prosecutions of political officials and candidates, a full 79 percent of those prosecutions were targeted at Democrats, including bringing down the Democratic governor of Arkansas and putting him in prison on charges that Attorney Generals across the U.S., both Republicans and Democrats, have said are hardly even grounds for prosecution and should have been thrown out. And even Reagan administration Attorney General Richard Thornburgh has claimed that the Justice Department specifically targets Democrats in his home state of Pennsylvania for political purposes. The connection between Spitzer and Hookers was leaked during the hard fought Democratic primaries, a leak that would clearly harm the Democratic Congresswoman from New York. Was Spitzer guilty? Absolutely. Was he a hypocrite for prosecuting prostitution while also making use of their services? Absolutely. And has the Justice Department gone aggressively after the allegations of prostitution against the equally hypocritical Senator David Vitter that are also part of the investigation of a prostitution ring? Uh, apparently not. Vitter’s link to prostitution came from the Madame herself, yet he is still a Republican hero. It is almost unheard of in a big prostitution sting to ever reveal the names of the rich and powerful who use their services. And are we to believe that no Republican politicians, maybe even Vittter himself, never used the services of the Emperor’s Club? And why is it that Republicans seem to feel that the only impeachable offensive is having sex outside of marriage, and then only if you are a Democrat?

So do I buy the claims in the media that this was all just a happy coincidence for the Justice Department that they stumbled upon this information? Not really. And does their explanation that they happened upon this because of banking reporting laws mean that the Feds are tracking our even relatively small transactions? Pardon me for not giving the most corrupt Justice Department in our history the benefit of the doubt about a prosecution managed by the notorious Public Intergrity Section, whose mission in life seems to be to target Democratic officials with prosecutions, often thrown out of court with prejudice, that just happen to be timed with election cycles. Remember, this information was leaked, and Attorney General Mukasey stated Friday that the Justice Department currently has no case against Spitzer. My prediction is that the Justice Department will go after Spitzer hard closer to the Presidential election, including taking the unusual step of charging him with violation of the antiquated and seldom used except for political reasons Mann Act, also known as the White Slave Traffic Act of 1910. It was the Justice Department that brought up the Mann Act. In the Bush Justice Department, it is less about justice than it is about politics.

So, whose fault is it that Elliot Spitzer had sex with a prostitute? Our take is that it is no one’s fault, that monogamy is an artificial and unnatural artifice difficult to maintain and that most people don’t, and that prostitution should be decriminalized. Dr Laura Schlessinger has a different take. It’s the wife’s fault. She said on the Today show, “The cheating was his decision to repair what’s damaged and to feed himself where he’s starving” “But, yes, I hold women responsible for tossing out perfectly good men by not treating them with the love and kindness and respect and attention they need.” “The point is, what he’s done is wrong. The point is, what she’s done is wrong,” “I have kept marriages together after affairs because I have reminded women that you have the power to turn this around. He had his children with you. He has his future life plans with you, his dreams, his whole mind, body and soul was wrapped up in the promise of you. If you now turn that back on, all that stuff you turned off because ‘I’m busy’ or ‘I’m irritated’ or ‘I’m annoyed’ or ‘I’m self-centered’ — if you turn that around, you have that man back.” “I would challenge the wife to find out what kind of wife she’s being,” she said. “Is she being supportive and approving and loving? Is she being sexually intimate and affectionate? Is she making him feel like he’s her man? If she’s not doing that, then she’s contributing to his wrong choice.” Both men and women have sex outside of marriage in significant numbers, and some of that is driven by the evolutionary fact that monogamy is not a great reproductive strategy. Yes, if you are withholding sex and intimacy from your partner, man or woman, they may well look for it elsewhere. But there are so many other reasons that people have affairs, and sometimes affairs can even reinvigorate sex in the marriage. The irony of it is that if Dr. Laura is right (and that is almost certainly not the case, as her advice is what you would expect from a woman whose doctorate is actually in physical education), but if she’s right, then that would mean that because of the way she treats her husband as has been reported in so many first person accounts, he has had sex with hookers from Rodeo Drive to Hollywood Blvd.

The award for worst attempt to back away from a mysoginistic statement award goes to Marc Rudov, who appeared on the O’Reilly Factor. No stranger to mysoginistic statement, Rudov is author of Under the Clitoral Hood, How to Crank Her Engine Without Cash, Booze, or Jumper Cables, which wins our award for one of the most mysoginistic book titles. For some reason, he is a popular commentator on conservative talk shows. His latest comment had to do with the topic of “what is the downside of a woman president?” His response- “You mean besides the PMS and the mood swings, right?” He quickly backtracked, though, explaining that he was just kidding. “The main problem, he explained, was if a woman has a female agenda. Nice try, but you are still a mysoginistic asshole.

Arizona Representative Rick Renzi faces 35 felony counts for a series of land swap deals he facilitated. But he is not just a scam artist. He is also a common thief. The pro-life Congressman stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from, wait for it, pro-life organizations. In fact, this former owner of an insurance firm apparently misappropriated funds from pro-life insurance payments to fund his first run for Congress. Organizations such as Arizona Right-to-Life, the Hope Crisis Pregnancy Center and the Wickenburg Pregnancy Resource Center paid insurance premiums to Renzi's insurance firm, Renzi & Company, but received notices that their insurance coverage was going to be cancelled for nonpayment. Whoops.
What dark secret urges fuel Oklahoma state representative Sally Kern? She is a pretty loathsome piece of work, unrepentant after her hate filled speech was recorded and wound up on YouTube. Of course, she says she is practicing free speech, not hate speech, but what else do you call it when you single out a group, lie about them, and claim that they are going to destroy us all? Here are some examples from what she considers simply free speech: Studies show, no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted for more than, you know, a few decades. . . Well, that would be true, Sally, because they would no longer be breeding, but that’s never really happened. I honestly think it's the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam. Except that gays are blowing each other. Not blowing up buildings with fucking airplanes. They want to get them into the government schools so they can indoctrinate them. I know, its all about earning the toasters. ...They are going after our young children, as young as two years of age, to try to teach them that the homosexual lifestyle is an acceptable lifestyle. This women is on the educatin committee and she thinks two year olds have any idea what you mean by the gay lifestyle? You know, gays are infiltrating city councils...did you know that the city council of Eureka Springs is now controlled by gays -- they are winning elections. My god- its just like what the blacks did- and then the women. Representation will destroy us all. One of my colleagues said We don't have a gay problem in our community...well you know what, that is so dumb. If you have cancer in your little toe, do you just say that I'm going to forget about it since the rest of you is fine? It spreads! This stuff is deadly and it is spreading. It will destroy our young people and it will destroy this nation. So inferring that gays are like a cancer that should be cut out, and if we don’t, they will destroy us all, is not hate speech. And Hitler was just a passionate misunderstood guy.

A lot of police officers have been subjected to having civilians give them the finger. Officers in Albany, New York apparently decided to return the favor. They gave a woman they pulled over for not using her turn indicator the finger. The finger they placed into her vagina. They claimed that they were looking for drugs. They did it on a public street. No ticket was issued. The alleged victim, Lisa Shutters, claims that an officer from internal affairs told her she shouldn’t report the incident to the civilian review board, a board formed in 2001 because of allegations of ineffectiveness in internal police investigations. They even told her that one of the officers was suspended, even though both officers involved are still on the job. Shutters wants nothing to do with the internal affairs investigation- she claims they twice told her to wear the same clothes so that they could reenact the search. She refused. Backed up by a witness, the officers apparently violated other constitutional rights, including an illegal search of her cell phone and vehicle. They had absolutely no probable cause to stop her car or do a search, which was more akin to a form of rape than a search. We wrote just a few weeks ago about another similar incident with an unwarranted and unconstitutional strip search of a woman and similar abusive and intimidating treatment from another police department. It should be prosecuted as rape. Instead, in both cases, and in other similar incidents, officials acted to cover it up. Maybe the Feds need to step in and do something, when they are not too busy prosecuting Democrats.

And finally, although it has nothing to do with sex, it is very pertinent to me in that it is about a man who is anti-women and anti-sex, Republican presidential candidate John McCain. He claimed Friday that in the Senate he is doing the Lord’s work, and pointed out how “how hard it is to do the Lord’s work in the city of Satan.” This arrogant man was not elected to do the Lord’s work, he was elected to do the people’s work. If he is not willing to do that, then he should drop out of the run for president, get ordained, and work in a church. Perhaps one of the ones not run by scam artists like his official endorser John Hagey profiled in last week’s Whacko of the Week, or official endorser and personal spiritual guide Rod Parsley, profiled in this week’s Whacko of the Week.

Entertainment

Putting mention of Christopher Hitchens in the entertainment news is in no way meant to infer that he is funny. A sad fat feminine looking little man is closer to the mark. The big question is why in the world Vanity Fair would publish his commentary on comedy. Maybe it was to get several female comedians to rebut him in the current issue. His contention is that women, essentially, are not funny. I’m sure that the endless rejections he has received after women got a look at his mug and heard his prattle made them seem a lot less funny. Oh sure, there are a few exceptions, he writes, but in general, there are far more terrible women comedians than men. The ones that are funny, he says, tend to be hefty, or dykey, or Jewey. I guess he is a fan of Roseanne, Ellen Degeneres, and Sarah Silverman. Oh sure, he has all sorts of reasons, such as that women don’t need to impress men so they never bother to learn how to be funny, or that women aren’t funny because it is a sign of intelligence and men don’t like that. I’ll have to check, but this rant reads like it was plagiarized from a 1920’s book in my collection, although he left out the part about how women should also be beaten regularly. Ultimately, all you have to do is apply the race test. Substitute race for gender and see how offensive it is. An article headlined Black Men are Not Funny would never see print in Vanity Fair, or most anywhere else except the White Supremacist Weekly. And maybe not even there. But sexism is enormously alive and well in the U.S. And I think Nation columnist and former Hitchens colleague Alexander Cockburn summed it up nicely when he wrote “What a truly disgusting sack of shit Hitchens is.” The difference is, a sack of shit, lit on fire, and put on a doorstep after ringing the bell, can be funny. Hitchens isn’t.

In Milford Massachusetts, the family outing now involves hanging around strip clubs. Bring the kids. Okay, they don’t hang around inside, and it technically is not a strip club as they don’t have the permit yet. They hang around outside protesting. The protest is organized by Pastor Peter Lopez, who does not think that Doc’s Sports Bar should be allowed to have adult entertainment. They held a protest yesterday, with rain forecast. Nothing healthier for children than standing out in the rain holding anti-stripper signs. The real fun has to be explaining to the young ones why naked ladies are so gosh-darned bad and evil.

Here in the U.S. we have dancing with the Stars. In the U.K, they have Dancing on Ice. But contestant and actress Zaraah Abrahams makes it a lot hotter than it sounds. She is a finalist for tonight’s show finale, and normally, I could care less who won on a British dance show when I won’t even watch the U.S. ones. But Zaraah is gorgeous, and she has offered her fans a very specific reason to cheer her on. She offered: "I'll do a classy nude shoot if I win. I'm proud of my body and happy to show it off at the right time and place." Then she added a little icing on the cake: "If I was given a good script I would do a lesbian love scene, even if it meant shoving my tongue down a woman's throat.” I so hope she wins. I watched a clip on Youtube and she is really good, hula hooping on the ice in the traditional short skirt, and what impressed me the most is how she could skate and dance so well on the ice when she is hot enough to melt it.

I’ve never been a Jenna Jameson fan, and never really got why she was so popular. Now that she has officially retired from porn, and, as she said onstage at the AVN Awards, will “never spreads my legs for this industry again” she is now trying to make it in the mainstream as an actress. Good luck with that. She does get top billing along with Robert Englund in the upcoming mainstream film Zombie Strippers. With the tag line “They’ll dance for a fee, but devour you for free” I’m guessing they are still going to expect a tip. And I’m also guessing straight to DVD.

We have a bunch of mainstream movies coming out on DVD this week featuring sex and nudity. The first, though, is in theatres in limited release. In Mother of Tears, life is tough for ex-prostitute Sandra, played by Asia Argento, who flees from London to Hong Kong after and an S & M scene turns ugly, where hooks up with an attractive young couple. And no, this is not mixed up from our porn film section.

An orgy, a threesome, a foursome, and the requisite nudity. Wrestlemaniac is out on DVD, and it also sounds more like a porn film. In fact, the original title was The Mexican Porn Massacre. It follows the adventures of six amateur porn makers traveling in Mexico. But of course, in mainstream you have to pay for your sex, in this case, being ruthlessly pursued and slaughtered by a masked wrestling maniac. A sort of Nacho Valdez meets Jason.

In Senior Skip Day, a nerdy student must throw the world's coolest party to redeem himself. Of course, he hires a stripper, and she encourages one of the students to summon the courage to do her own striptease at the party. Do these directors realize they are basically porn directors who don’t know how to shoot sex scenes?

Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation is a direct to DVD sequel to the 1984 Tom Hanks film. Or rather, a rehash of essentially the same plot. It features strippers, female nudity, and a surprising amount of male nudity. All it is missing is the comedic skills of Tom Hanks, basically the only thing the original had really going for it.

Moving on from mainstream films with plots that seem more like porn films without the explicit sex, to porn films with plots that seem more like mainstream films.

Dark City is Adam and Eve’s first big budget release of the year. It’s a film noire style murder mystery, directed by Ethan Kane, and starring Ava Rose, Tommy Gunn, Paulina James, Maya Hills, Marie Luv, with a special guest appearance by Ron Jeremy. The mystery, at least to me, is why they need a special guest appearance by Ron Jeremy.

Rise, from Wicked Pictures, stars Randy Spears, Evan Stone, Kaylani Lei, Brooke Banner, Hollie Stevens, Kendall Brooks, Roxy DeVille. The David Stanley directed pic follows Randy Spears into the afterlife, and a fairly surreal landscape it turns out to be. It has both English and Spanish audio.

Vivid contracter Sunny Leone goes straight, doing her first scene with a guy. The guy in question is Matt Erickson, hence the title, Sunny Loves Matt.

When last we saw director Matt Zane, he was hanging from hooks piercing his skin at the AVN Convention in Las Vegas. That might be a clue that his productions tend to be on the unusual side. His latest is Tattooed and Tight 3, with girls who are very tattooed, and I am assuming, way tight. It stars Tera Wray, Jandi Lin, Tricia Oaks, Scarlett Pain, and Nadia Styles. It was shot at actual tattoo parlors all over the west coast. It follows in his alt-porn tradition of mixing hard core sex and alternative music.

Whacko of the Week

This is part two of our series of Whackos of the Week that looks at the people behind presidential candidate John McCain. This particular Whacko, Rod Parsley, McCain has called his personal spiritual advisor. Parsley is a televangelist who runs the World Harvest Megachurch, which means that he is very wealthy and powerful. Parsley is not as easily ignored or innocuous as his bit of greenery on the plate namesake. He is a very influential political figure in the religious right. He is considered one of the most blatantly political preachers in America. And he is nuts. And dangerous.

He preaches the prosperity doctrine like the other McCain pastor endorser Hagee does, a huckster doctrine that says even if you can’t afford to give money to my church, do it anyway, as God will pay you back many fold. The more you give, the more you’ll get. Unless, of course, your faith is somehow flawed, probably because you did not give enough money. . He lives in a million dollar home in Ohio in a 21 acre compound. He has expensive cars, company provided private airplanes, and an extremely comfortable lifestyle provided by his tax free organizations.

Parsley believes that America’s divine purpose, the very reason it was founded, was to destroy the false religion of Islam. 9-11 was a generational call to arms. He is not concerned about how many have to die to destroy Islam. That is because Islam is an anti-Christ religion predicated upon deception. The prophet Muhammad actually got his divine revelations straight from Satan. There is little difference between terrorists and followers of Islam. Allah is a demon spirit. Parsley has said ““I came to incite a riot! Man your battle stations. Ready your weapons.” Holy war is not just fun, it is what God wants. He clearly shares McCain’s enthusiasm for bombing Iran. Remember, John McCain has called this man his spiritual advisor.

His Center for Moral Clarity front organization would put a large portion of the population in prison. That is because he advocates prison for people who commit adultery, and life in prison is apparently not too long. I’m assuming getting ass raped in prison is not adultery in his book. He calls adultery just as big a sin as murder. Which is why it is odd that he would so enthusiastically support the self-confessed adulterer John McCain. No word from Parsley on how he would treat swingers and polyamorists.

He is no fan of Planned Parenthood, but then again, neither is McCain, who seems to be against both abortion and contraception. Parsley compared Planned Parenthood to the Nazis, and supports prosecutions against them. When a judge refused to allow Planned Parenthood patient medical records to be released in a case many consider politically motivated, Parsley called it judicial activism. He claims that reproductive health-care providers, which is not just about abortion but also about contraceptive services, are trying to systematically eliminate African Americans from the fabric of our nation, and he claims they are the preferred prey of the abortion industry. He opposes abortion even in the case of incest or rape. And he told an unmarried caller on CNN’s Larry King show to not have an abortion and don’t worry- God will provide. That’s good, because Tod Parsley certainly isn’t going to. He also opposes embryonic stem cell research.

Not unexpectedly, he hates pornography. In a 2006 joint letter to the current President, he wrote begging the president to more vigorously enforce obscenity laws, seemingly unaware of the difference between obscenity and pornography. Hint: one of them is still legal.

Of course, he does not love the gays, and by that I mean he opposes gay rights, not that he has never had sexual relations with a man. So many anti-gay rights activists have, that it would be premature to make a claim like that. But he of course opposes gay marriage, and gay relationships, and anything gay or even cheery. He spouts the typical made up statistics, such as the life span of the average gay man is 30 years shorter than average. Of course, a lot of young gay men do commit suicide in the hate-filled environment created by the lies of people like Parsley. That is one way to get out of the gay lifestyle Parsley so despises. He says that gays are anything but happy and carefree. They might be happier in a world without anti-gay dicks like Parsley, though. His political machine helped pass Ohio’s anti-gay marriage amendment. He claims that homosexuals are waging a war against his belief system, part of a pattern of disturbingly violent rhetoric that is par for the course for Parsley. Gay marriage is part of a brutal attack by the forces of darkness. In his opposition to Hate Crimes legislation that would include hate crimes against gays, he falsely stated that the legislation would be used to go after churches for thought crimes, and prevent ministers from speaking out against gays. He called the legislation a conspiracy against Christians and compared it to the Orwell book 1984 (which might more accurately be called the Bush presidential blueprint), and said, “The next person charged with a crime could be me, or your pastor, or your grandmother, or maybe YOU.” That would be true if any of them went out and beat a gay man to death, but the legislation specifically only applies to violent crimes. Its just another case of a little lie in the name of doing the Lord’s work. You know, the kind McCain just recently said is what he does.

Parsley hates the popular media. He even wants to see the return of the Hays Code, which heavily censored the movies for over thirty years. He wrote that “Our culture seems to be obsessed and possessed with crass barbarism--with the most blasphemous, relativistic, humanistic, sexually perverse, violent, occultic and profane forms of entertainment imaginable.” I’m guessing he prefers to reserve the violent perverse barbarism for the pulpit and his anti-Islam rants. He claims that television is about “Sex, dysfunction, perversity, cynicism, skepticism, and anything and everything but moral clarity.” Like, you know, his moral clarity about a war on Islam.

I love the FAQ on his Center for Moral Clarity site. He has frequently been charged with using his non-profit status to advocate for specific candidates. Question Number 10- Does Pastor Parsley endorse candidates for public office? Answer- No, because that would be illegal. On February 26th, Pastor Parsley endorsed John McCain for president as a strong, true consistent conservative.

McCain called Tom Coburn, the craziest most ill-informed and anti-sex man in Congress on sexual issues, his sex advisor. It should not be surprising that he names one of the most rhetorically violent, other religion hating, and craziest pastors in the nation as his spiritual adviser.