Former Pawlenty, Huckabee Spokesman Caught In Sex Sting
A two-day prostitution sting in St. Paul netted 35 men, including a longtime Republican operator in Minnesota politics.
Peter Hong, 41, of Minneapolis, was one of 19 men picked up Wednesday afternoon after police say he responded to an ad for sex put out in newspapers and online by the St. Paul Police Department's vice squad.The Carleton grad was a campaign spokesman for Gov. Tim Pawlenty in 2002 and congressional press secretary to Sen. Rod Grams, R-Minn., for much of the 1990s. He also served as the Bush-Cheney Minnesota campaign spokesman in 2004. His most recent political stint was as presidential campaign spokesman for Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Hong is currently self-employed and "Always Searching for the Next Big Thing!" according to his profile on the business-networking Web site LinkedIn. Read on...
Another loyal Bushie goes down in flames. It appears Mr. Hong has indeed found the next big thing.
Oh those republicans. Always searching for the next big thing.
"Another loyal Bushie goes down in flames. "
Nah.. just give him time, he'll be back denying the whole thing and blaming what didn't happen anyway on the liberals!
Looks like they found it!!!!!
Two things,
1) Will this be "handled" by the justice dept?
2) Not that it matters really but does anyone see if it was a male or female prostitute?
I wonder if he ever helped hookup his buddy Huckabee.
There must be Viagra in the Koolaid.
I still don't see the words female or woman prostitutes in this article.
So ...he wanted to have sex.....
Jeez...the puritanical nonsense that people respond to ...whether it's Clinton or some Republican...
I really have to wonder why you people put this on the front page.
I'd be more interested in why a police department looks for men who want to buy sex....there's nothing wrong with that except in the idiotic American puritannical mind...than looking for people who are killing and stealing.
This is nothing stuff.
Who cares?
Makes sense. Watch the Documentaries. Study Alberto Gonzalez in Texas.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3395321338401208062
Considering Huckabee's background, I'm not surprised.
Ewwww, another nasty republican. BIG BIG BIG surprise.
Prostitution is the combination of sex and free enterprise. Which of those are people opposed to again?
As soon as "sex with prostitutes" becomes part of the GOP's platform, adventures like this (as well as hooker romps with Haggard and Vitter) will be on the front page.
So what. Nobody cares what spokesmen, staffers, aides, etc. do.
Larry Craig is still in the Senate talking about our gas nozzles and Diaper Dandy Vitter is getting standing ovations. They are hypocrites, everybody knows it. and nobody does anything about.
Their policies are failed and that is what is holding back the country. That is what we should be talking about.
So, when he's not getting paid to fuck people, he pays people to fuck him?
Marshall @ 11:
I'm opposed to hypocrisy and abuse. The Republicans stand for plenty of both.
The GOP: A bottomless pit of slime balls.
Stu Piddy @ 7:
exactly. I've never seen a society more ashamed of its sexuality than America. And all the paradoxes. Why is it legal to pay TWO people to have sex, film it, and sell it to thousands but illegal to pay ONE person for sex in private?
Thomas Stone @ 17:
It's often referred to as "piling on"(not in the sense of sex, but partisian politics). I agree; nothing here, let's move on.
Stu Piddy @ 7:
You're correct, but of course the irony is that he works for "Family Values, Christian-Nation" Republicans...
The big difference is that professional pornography is a heavily regulated market in terms of safety. There's a reason there's been so few break-outs of STDs from it over the past few decades. There's also a reason why there's so many safeguards and tests for the few places here that allow prostitution legally.
That's at least partially why there's a "paradox".
doesn't look good for carleton college which is considered
a mini harvard in the mid west......very expensive tuition........
I agree with comment 7...
SEXCRIME... Don't even thhink about it.
On the other hand, I do appreciate the irony of the "family values" party being obsessed with the durdy secks...
constituent @ 21:
If that is the case, EVERY college/university throughout the entire U.S. "doesn't look good".
Stu Piddy @ 7:
I agree with you. This really annoys me and seems really lame to create false prostitution opportunities just to bust potential johns. Perhaps they are lonely. It begs the questions: Ever heard of legalized prostitution? Ever heard of harm reduction? Typical US Law and Order Crap.
Mr Wong? Looks like a typo. Should be Mr. Hong.
Another loyal Bushie goes down in flames. It appears Mr. Wong has indeed found the next big thing.
Sad in a sense especially getting caught in a sting and possibly with an element of entrapment. Oh well "That's a great two day's work." quote the police spokesman.
Stu Piddy @ 7:
It's exactly because of this ridiculous puritanical society we endure todday that this hypocrisy needs to be revealed and remarked upon. The Republicans have always pandered to a religious minority that dearly would like to tell us all what to think and how to act, and it's those folks who most vigorously promote these repressive puritanical viewpoints. Anytime we can point out that the anti-fucking fuckers were fucking it weakens their overall platform, and brings us a step closer to that enlightened moment when we can all admit that everybody fucks.
I love the sound of Republicans falling like trees in a forest being clear cut. Couldn't happen to a truthierish (or something) bunch of people.
Aww come on, guys. Take a look at that fugly mug
How will he ever have a sexual experience if he doesn't pay for it?
OOOOOhhhhhhhhh NASTY! NASTYYYYYY!!!
bigbrother2084 @ 22:
And that's just the point... these hypocritical ba$tards spout their party line of being so much above anyone else when it comes to sanctimonious aspects of their person only to be exposed for the lying mo-fos they really are. Honestly, this stuff just writes itself. Glad to see another one outed for who he really is...
Stu Piddy @ 7:
i don't really care.........but i live in las vegas where prostitution is Illegal......and it's all over the place and
it leads to other problems and behaviors....drugs,not
paying taxes,communicable disease....trust me i see a lot of it....it's in your face here.....they run that same ad here....and they will have to build a new jail
Merkin @ 19:
Exactly where would this "family" thing be without sex? It seems to me that the whole "Family Values" idea couldn't even get off the ground without sex. Well, unless your Jesus, then I suppose sex is optional.
Stu Piddy @ 7:
other than the fact that he was the spokesman for those who wish to keep it illegal
ya...nothing there
he is a perv
hope he gets raped in lockup
VeeKaChu @ 26:
I'm somewhat inclined to agree w/your comments; but in fairness, if this is not a
truly partisian kind of witch-hunt, then let's have the Police release the "party affiliation"
for the other 18 men who were arrested. Seems only fair....
I'm more pissed that this sting was set up by the police. What's wrong with a man paying to have sex if it's between consenting adults? If there were kids involved, that would be a complete different story.
It's not about sex as much as it is about hypocracy. When another Greedy Old Pervert gets caught with his pants down, it just helps show how the "family values" part of the Republican agenda is nothing but a farse.
Stu Piddy @ 7:
I think maybe Hong was just interviewing male and female workers for the republiscum Convention. Larry Craig's episode at the airport has made republiscums wary of the airport (where convention attendees could have made 1st contact with a "date" for their time there).
I'm waiting for Bill O'lielly and Sean Insanity to start a campaign against the police for being againt republiscum free enterprise (well maybe not so free).
Although I agree that the arrest of this individual has no real interest or value here, the point remains that reslug/conservotard males seem to think it's within their right to control a woman's personal health and reproductive choices but they've got no problem running around with their dicks out all the time.
It's ok for them to act like rutting dogs but women had better be saving sex til marriage because the imaginary high holy whatchamafuck demands it.
Yeah whatever.
doggiebobo @ 34:
Oops, I see that there were actually 35 arrested/picked up, so the number needed
to be identified by "Party" (excluding Hong) is really 34.
“Always Searching for the Next Cheap Sexual Encounter!”
Productconsumer @ 40:
I don't know from personal experience, but from what I've heard, it's NOT "cheap".
i just thank dog that we dont have sex perverts or sex mad fiends in our democtatic party, thankya dog , er jasus
In all fairness, there should be a link somewhere to the John Edwards overnight tryst that the National Enquirer published the other day.
swampfox @ 42:
Well, what u thank(think) and what you no(know), juss mite b 2 differant tings.
scruzman @ 43:
Yeah, the national enquirer... the magazine of record for batboy...
doggiebobo @ 44:
i said thankyah jasus !
Nada @ 38:
Rock on, Nada. Also to Jo @ #5: That made me laugh out loud.
Orangutan. @ 15:
Amen; it's like a Missionary being caught doing it "doggie-style."
swampfox @ 46:
And dundt fourget 2 thank Bill Clinton two.
Stu Piddy @ 7:
There is nothing unworthy about revealing that members of a philosophy (which in this case just happen to advertise, promote and establish that idiotic puritanical mindset that you protest so much) are in fact, full of shit.
doggiebobo @ 49:
of course why would i not , he got his nob polished praise dog!
swampfox @ 51:
doggiebobo @ 49:
swampfox @ 46:
doggiebobo @ 44:
I think you fellas need a crash course in spelling 101. It might make your posts legible and other people might actually give a shit about you two masturbating to each other.
General_Rennenkampf @ 52:
of course ,im sure you could recomend the high school you went to as a way to get as smart as you are, thanks for your observations , i shall take it under advisement and get back to you in due time!
swampfox @ 53:
I can spell. You forget that in English "I" is capitalized, that run-ons are a no-no, and that starting a sentence with "of course" is an incomplete sentence, and you wonder why I don't take you, or quite a few commentors on this site seriously? Dude, please, get over yourself. I at least bother to sound intelligent.
If this sounds insulting, I apologize, it was meant to sound arrogant.
General_Rennenkampf @ 52:
Sorry about all that nonsense General...Just having some fun w/Swampfox since he
initiated that kind of "foreign language',and I was attempting to play along. First(and
last) time I'll get caught up in that kind of dialogue...
I bet he was selling GOP trade mark 'family values' before he got caught.
General_Rennenkampf @ 54:
sorry general arrogence becomes you!
Stu Piddy @ 7:
Total agreement.
The only person to whom this should be important is the guy's family. Other than that, total waste of time. There are far worse people doing far worse things in the world.
swampfox @ 57:
doggiebobo @ 55:
'Tis OK, and I was acting a bit tongue in cheek myself. Ich kann ein bis Deutsch gesprochen, und Deutsch ein foreign sprochen bin.
Well you spelt his name Wong up there when actually it's Hong
General_Rennenkampf @ 59:
sorry but us cherokees never learned german just broken engish !
How predictable. Guilt by association, and the tired "Republican family values" meme. As if all Democrats are on board with their "mission statement," much less able to live up it personally.
swampfox @ 61:
'Tis OK. And you're a Turtle Island Native, huh? Sorry about the business with President Jackson.
I guess "Always looking for the next big thing" means Mr, Hong was looking for some wong dong.
With the endless stream of GOP sex scandals, it's too bad we couldn't catch McCain in one. Unfortunately, he's already married to a prostitute.
General_Rennenkampf @ 63:
its ok old hickory was change we could believe in!
swampfox @ 66:
Yeah, and look how well that worked out for ya'll. Obama would have to be Stalin in an American guise to be as bad as Ol' Hickory.
The Dude @ 45:
No that's the weekly world news which I think went under not long ago. However their credibility is the same.
I read an article from some reich wing blogger [can't remember which one] wherein the author complained that Edwards was getting a "free pass" on his "scandal" as reported in the enquirer. Literally every single comment to the post was "Dude, it's the fucking enquirer. Get a life"
Talk about desperate.
cubiclegrrl @ 47:
Everyone in that photo looks like a pervert.
General_Rennenkampf @ 59:
Your German, at least in the written form, is not very good....as sent, your sentence
structure is incorrect. Should be "Ich kann ein bisschen deutsch sprechen" ( and I too
can speak some German since my daughter resided in Berlin for over 8 years.) Have
a good day..
peaceful easy feeling @ 62:
It's not a tired meme, as much as you'd like to portray it as such, but rather an integral part of the Republican party's web of deceit, and they crawl about on it daily. But you're right on one point, a republican operatives behaving in grossly hypocritical manners is quite predictable.
Oh, and please point us to this so-called Democratic "mission statement"- oh wait, you can't. Nice strawman there, but that's always the fallback of the apologists.
General_Rennenkampf @ 67:
cant figure out whats the difference in some jerks stealing your oil wells in iraq or stealing and murdering your peoplefor oil wells in oklahoma , but im working on that!
doggiebobo @ 71:
I haven't spoken any German in about two years, so I'm sure the grammar's rusty. Thank you very much for correcting me, and you too.
Jillian @ 65:
Leaving your first wife and kids for a younger, prettier, richer woman would be considered a scandal if McCain were a Democrat.
swampfox @ 73:
The answer: none. My white ancestors should have been able to see that letting you guys co-exist with us was preferable to ethnically cleansing you and then stealing your land again, to boot, but we were too greedy for land and wealth instead.
hey neat!
i just looked up "spokesman" in my handy fox snooze republithugspeak - english dictionary and it says "spokesman(person) == pimp" (see chelsea clinton reference).
good to clear that up huh?
so according to the gop huckabee's hong is a pimp?
swampfox @ 73:
As I undestand the law, at least the native Indians residing in parts of Oklahoma
(toward Barndall/Bartlesville/Tulsa) have retained their inheriant privilege to the
"mineral rights".
Republicans seem to have their brains between their legs
Ruthless People @ 75:
If the media wanted too, there is lots to dig up on McCain
He still is known as a womanizer in some circles.
This guy isn't so bad. At least he wasn't caught with an 8 year old.
My only question is, was he looking for a male or female hooker? Sadly, you have to ask this for any GOP scandal involving the morally pure.
Wait..... FEMALE prostitutes!? Is this the GOP?
doggiebobo @ 78:
It means nothing, those "privileges," if the US had kept the original treaties, the Tsalagi would still be living in Georgia to begin with, not out in Oklahoma.
scruzman @ 43:
Why? Edwards doesn't align himself with the party of holier than tho moralists, homophobes, Christo-fascists and family values hypocrites. I only care if happens to a Republican. If it's true about Edwards that's between him and Elizabeth as far as I'm concerned....as it should be.
scruzman @ 43:
Indeed, all "news" from the National Enquirer should be viewed as equal to a story on a police sting operation.
When Tim Russert died, in all fairness, there should have been a link to the National Enquirer's latest story on Elvis being alive and well.
General_Rennenkampf @ 84:
We agree totally and completely. I just happen to have some outlaws/relatives living
in the Bartlesville/Miami(far northeaster corner of Okla) and they had told me that
even tho the land had been taken from the native Indians in that region, they did
fortunately retain the mineral rights. NOT good, but I guess better than nothing.
ashton @ 86:
...which would be opposite the page with photo of the Alien sitting at the breakfast table with a farmer in Oklahoma eating scrambled eggs that appears to have the face of Jesus in them.
doggiebobo @ 78:
wich is why the whites went to a white court and got custody of the indians children then poisoned or orphaned the children and took possion of thier property and useualy poisoned the children instant oil millionares, as a kid my father told me never take food or treats from a white person the past is not forgotton by the cherokees !
swampfox @ 89:
Nor by many of us white folks.
General_Rennenkampf @ 52:
You took the prize General. Most of these nested comments usually resemble the space shuttle, but this reminds me of something that hangs from the ceiling. (OT I know, but it is an achievement.)
stu piddy @ 7:
i have to agree w/stu on this one. prostitution should be legalized as a matter of progressive agenda. seriously.
if it were legal and dragged out of the dark alleys into the hygenic space of respectability (mandatory check ups, no pimps, no forced sexual trade) then there would be no downside beyond what individuals do w/each other, in the same manner as legalized alcohol use.
it would also empower women and their bodies. but of course the patriarchy can't stand for women to control their bodies, so prostitution and abortion are considered morally corrupt.
cut the guy some slack. he wanted some nookie, he wanted the hassle-free experience of paying for it, he got stung.
the cops put an ad in the paper and he responded to it. how is that not entrapment?
what a screwed up system. the government tells consenting adults they're not allowed to exchange sex for money, then tempts people by offering sex for money, then puts those people in jail when they accept. does anyone else see that as wrong? not to mention a huge waste of money and resources. what does this accomplish?
skippy @ 92:
The late great George Carlin on prostitution http://youtube.com/watch?v=73hnG_JfJ_k
swampfox @ 89:
doggiebobo @ 87:
It's good you don't forget the past. However, my "race" assigns ya'll to the past instead of figuring out a way ya'll can keep your traditions and still be modern. And Doggiebobo, I think if the Bush Administration could figure out ways to screw over Indians specially, they would, unless ya'll know about stuff like that that I don't.
You guys should check up on the infamous Alabama Sex Toy Ban Attorney General Troy King. Seems he brought home the Prom King from Troy University home without letting his wife know beforehand.
Gotta love Karma......
I luv their toe tapping family values. Pawlenty has been a naughty boy, a very naughty boy.
it sounds like entrapment to me. it is an unsavory police operation.
VeeKaChu @ 26:
Exactly. Calling out the hypocrites (which is the media's job by the way) is the only way the sexual mores can be redefined by showing the low-info peeps how ridiculous they look by looking up to these guys.
i really wish C&L would stop posting stuff like this.....
bryancri @ 100:
WHY?? Afraid you'll be caught too?
Great. Out of this article I got a new descriptor. Republiscum! I like it! I really like it!
A right-winger brought down by a right-wing policy to have government agents create a crime to catch "criminals". Will they change the policy?
Ruthless People @ 85:
If you don't see the blatant hypocrisy in John Edwards' actions, Ruthless, you are as blind as blind can be. Everyone here knows he was caught red-handed but they hide behind the fact the story is coming out of the National Enquirer. The same outfit that brought them the Rush Limbaugh oxycontin story, for which every sanctimonious and well-intentioned lefty suspended their misgivings about journalistic integrity.
Man named Hung Peter caught in sex ring.
That is a poetically beautiful headline.
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 33:
thats a bit harsh, these people were fools for responding to a sting.
yes some of them are Repugs and we can laugh at their moronic behaviour regarding this,
but wishing violence on them isnt nice and not something we should condone.
Is it just me or does Mr. Hong look *exactly* like the crazy guy who hits on Frances McDormand in "Fargo"?
Ditto
Well what the hell was this guy supposed to do?? He looks like Sammy Alito and "George" from Seinfeld had a love child.
Seriously- what is it with conservatives and these sort of kinky sex things? Are they all just perverts trying to overcompensate?
The only thing surprising is that a Republican got caught in a HETEROSEXUAL sex sting
Different Anonymous @ 107:
I was thinking an Asian George Costanza.
dennis @ 104:
You're kinda slow aren't you dennis? Blindness has nothing to do with it. Edwards isn't a family values crusader hypocrite like Larry Craig or David Vitter. So I don't care if Edwards has a mistress or not. I would think even the most dimwitted of conservatives wingnuts such as yourself would have been able to understand that was the point of my post on the subject. It seems though I gave you too much credit.
I am Just surprised this didn't occur in the stall of a men's room. No wide stance defense here
girls or boys?
doggiebobo @ 23:
that deserves a little john........whhatt
Isn't Minnesota the "Land of 10,000 Foot-Tapping Republicans"?
Saint Augustine @ 101:
actually, yes. i heard today that a guy was arrested because he shot his lawnmower in his own yard. if that is the kind of society live in nowadays, f*ck knows what we can be caught for.
in this case, it looks like this is just a dude caught up in a sting. the only reason his image appears here is because this is a liberal website and he is GOP.
if you find amusement when some other person is held up for example, as is the case here, you need to question whether you are in fact are the real perv.
that goes especially when the guy has foreign roots and you can play around with the spelling of his name. our democratic nominee obama knows that scam well.
it looks like C&L is helping crucify a guy because he doesn't belong to the same political party we do. i can understand that when you are going against people like vitter and craig who are on the record saying they support "family values" when they have been caught red-handed practicing something entirely different. as far as i can see, notwithstanding this man's guilt by association with the GOP, that is not the case here.
VeeKaChu @ 72:
Nothing but labels, talking points and logical fallacies.
For a political hack he wasn't smart enough to realize St. Paul has a Democratic mayor now?
Stu Piddy @ 7:
The inquisition continues -- Be careful not to spit on the street!
NoGWBpolicyleftinplace @ 121:
dennis @ 104:
Was it just a tryst or has Edwards unceremoniously dumped his wife and family to take up with the young lady? I'm interested to know whether Edwards has merely had a single transgression or whether he has fallen to a McCain-like level of immorality.
At least he wasn't shtooping underage congressional interns. Going after prostitutes of majority-age is a step up for these guys.
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