PODCAST 30: THE POLITICAL PERVECAST

The unfolding sex scandal of Dennis Hastert, a former wrestling coach, ex-Speaker of the US House of Representatives, and–until recently–prominent lobbyist, serves as a point of departure for a wide-ranging discussion between Andy Nowicki and Colin Liddell on the the eternal synergy between politics and perversion. Other sex scandals touched on include Jeffrey Epstein, Cyril Smith, Lord Janner, and Clarence Thomas.

"THIS IS THE ELITES CIRCLING THE WAGONS!"

That face!

by Andy Nowicki

Folks on the "hard right" tend to regard commentator Ann Coulter as a GOP shill. While there is indeed much to justify such a perception of this photogenic motormouth pundette as displaying altogether too much partiality to Republicans and their agenda through the years, most infamously taking the form of overt praise for neocon-instigated bellicosity (e.g.: "Bomb their countries, kill their leaders, convert them to Christianity"), I have nevertheless always recognized in her a kind of brusque integrity, or maybe a certain relentless fury of temperament, an untamed intellect which cannot settle comfortably into any prescribed ideology.

Take, for example, this little segment (posted below), in which Ann speaks with certified GOP shill Sean Hannity and talks about the quite alarming case of Jeffrey Epstein (the name itself no doubt "triggering" to many of our readers!) Epstein, a billionaire banker, apparently "owned" a bevy of underage sex slaves, which he pimped to various high-profile friends, allegedly including former President Bill Clinton, hotshot law mogul Alan Dershowitz (double oy double vey!), Prince Andrew, and others. But being high-placed and well-connected with a legal "dream team," Epstein was generally able to evade the strong arm of the law, and got off (cough) with little more than prissy little slap on the wrist, and no charges have been brought against any of the other supposed malefactors.