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Boy Quayle, Republican Party Animal?

Posted on | August 11, 2010 | 12 Comments

TheDirty.com says the Arizona congressional candidate wrote for the site under the porn-star name “Brock Landers” and adds:

We met in Tahoe at a CBS celebrity golf tournament where we partied until 6 AM. How could you forget the crazy hooker?

Here’s video of a local TV news report on the story:

Quayle at first denied to Politico that he wrote for the site, but has now ‘fessed up (although nothing about a “crazy hooker,” yet) and Talking Points Memo has more.

Not that there’s anything wrong with getting rowdy, but next time Boy Quayle wants to fake fatherhood or smear other Republicans, he ought to consider that glass house he’s living in.

UPDATE: It’s funny, because it’s true.

UPDATE II: Yeah, you knew Gawker would love this:

Ben Quayle‘s been the subject of a bizarre mini-scandal for the past couple of days, after gossip/sex site TheDirty.com revealed that he’d been a “contributor” in the site’s early days as DirtyScottsdale.com, about trashy Scottsdale nightlife. Site founder Nik Richie claimed that Quayle had written under the pseudonym “Brock Landers,” which he used to “document his quest to find the ‘hottest chick in Scottsdale.'” (Landers is the name of one of the characters from the movie Boogie Nights.)

I think he should hire Eric Stratton, GOP spokesman. You got to admit: Ben’s doing a great job of making everybody forget about Rand Paul and Aqua Buddha.

Category: Arizona, Republicans, Scandal

Comments

12 Responses to “Boy Quayle, Republican Party Animal?”

  1. jefferson101
    August 12th, 2010 @ 1:10 am

    What is it with Republicans and youthful indiscretions?

    I expect my elected officials to have learned better than to act the fool, but many of them don’t seem to have done so.

    What’s the problem here? Kind’a like Rand Paul. If they’d just come out and say “Yeah. When I was 19 or so, I wasn’t very smart or discreet. I learned from it.”

    That I could deal with. The denying of provable facts? Dumb. Very dumb.

    Actually, what really concerns me is that I begin to suspect that a lot of them haven’t learned anything. I think that the Scripture notes something about “putting aside the things of a child…..”

    Those who deny that they were children once worry me, because I wonder if they got over it yet.

  2. jefferson101
    August 11th, 2010 @ 9:10 pm

    What is it with Republicans and youthful indiscretions?

    I expect my elected officials to have learned better than to act the fool, but many of them don’t seem to have done so.

    What’s the problem here? Kind’a like Rand Paul. If they’d just come out and say “Yeah. When I was 19 or so, I wasn’t very smart or discreet. I learned from it.”

    That I could deal with. The denying of provable facts? Dumb. Very dumb.

    Actually, what really concerns me is that I begin to suspect that a lot of them haven’t learned anything. I think that the Scripture notes something about “putting aside the things of a child…..”

    Those who deny that they were children once worry me, because I wonder if they got over it yet.

  3. just a conservative girl
    August 12th, 2010 @ 1:19 am

    Hey Smitty and Other McCain –

    I got Right Klik to add Patrick Murray onto this coming week’s poll for Ten Buck Friday’s. Please spread the word once the poll comes out on Sunday afternoon.

    Thanks,

  4. just a conservative girl
    August 11th, 2010 @ 9:19 pm

    Hey Smitty and Other McCain –

    I got Right Klik to add Patrick Murray onto this coming week’s poll for Ten Buck Friday’s. Please spread the word once the poll comes out on Sunday afternoon.

    Thanks,

  5. Estragon
    August 12th, 2010 @ 5:34 am

    The thing about the modern interweb age is that nothing really completely disappears. There are caches of almost everything, and even stuff that might normally disappear is likely to have been saved by someone who was amused at the time.

    Blog or message board posts, emails, text messages, twitter stuff . . . it’s all forever, baby. And it all can be traced back to a source if someone is determined enough.

    Now that everyone has a phone and nearly every phone is a camera with video capability, people should never assume they can act without personal consequences – immediate is possible, but also years after the fact.

    For my part, if it is out there, better we should hear about it during the primary campaign than, say, the weekend before the general election.

  6. Estragon
    August 12th, 2010 @ 1:34 am

    The thing about the modern interweb age is that nothing really completely disappears. There are caches of almost everything, and even stuff that might normally disappear is likely to have been saved by someone who was amused at the time.

    Blog or message board posts, emails, text messages, twitter stuff . . . it’s all forever, baby. And it all can be traced back to a source if someone is determined enough.

    Now that everyone has a phone and nearly every phone is a camera with video capability, people should never assume they can act without personal consequences – immediate is possible, but also years after the fact.

    For my part, if it is out there, better we should hear about it during the primary campaign than, say, the weekend before the general election.

  7. Victor Morton
    August 12th, 2010 @ 12:57 pm

    What I want to know is …. where is Chest Rockwell???

  8. Victor Morton
    August 12th, 2010 @ 8:57 am

    What I want to know is …. where is Chest Rockwell???

  9. Ben (The Tiger)
    August 12th, 2010 @ 1:59 pm

    Well, you guys _did_ want more “Animal House” antics…

  10. Ben (The Tiger)
    August 12th, 2010 @ 9:59 am

    Well, you guys _did_ want more “Animal House” antics…

  11. Kojocaro
    August 12th, 2010 @ 5:15 pm

    btw i refuse to vote for rick ”the right to privacy is not in the constitution” santorum in 2012

    btw where is gg to tell us to stop playing the race card like the hypocrite he is

  12. Kojocaro
    August 12th, 2010 @ 1:15 pm

    btw i refuse to vote for rick ”the right to privacy is not in the constitution” santorum in 2012

    btw where is gg to tell us to stop playing the race card like the hypocrite he is