So basically this is what's going down. Larry Flint (I think) owns Hustler magazine. In 1998 he had an ad in the paper saying "1,000,000 dollars if you can give any information on a congressperson, senator, or other high ranking official involved in a sex scandal with some sort of documentary proof."
In 1998 this forced Speaker-Elect Rep. Bob Livingston (R-LA) to resign. At the time it was used as a tool to weed out hypocrisy. They were on the hunt for Clinton, meanwhile similar things were going on behind closed doors.
What this ammounts to is trying to draw out reporters who know the good stuff but don't report it for whatever reasons.
However, it is happening again. The ad is back, with the incentive of 1,000,000 dollars. Rather enticing. Larry said on MSNBC's Hardball today that they have recieved 200 e-mails and are looking into them. Usually around 2% will actually pan out into something he added. (That seemed more like an on the spot guess to me though).
I didn't see a diary on it, so I thought I'd throw it out there to keep our eyes on in case if something good comes out of it.
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