Posts Tagged ‘Newt Gingrich’
The Newt Pornographer Strikes Back: Gingrich Named Porn Fan of the Year by Scorned Dinner Date
Allison Vivas once thought she'd be spending Wednesday night in D.C. with Newt Gingrich. Then he stood her up.
Instead of getting mad, Vivas got even. So just as the Scandinavians were doling out the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama, Gingrich was being named "Porn Fan of the Year."
Politics played a role in both awards.
This Just In: Gingrich’s Dinner Invite to Pornographer Was Real! But It’s Been Rescinded!
I just got a note from Dan Kotman, spokesman for Newt Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future PAC, in response to my blog post about his boss naming a pornographer his choice for the "Entrepreneur of the Year Award."
After reading the City Desk post, Gingrich has officially withdrawn the award and dinner offer to Allison Vivas, president of the adult film operation Pink Visual.
Newt Gingrich Gives Award to Pornographer
Newt Gingrich knows from stimulus.
American Solutions for Winning the Future, Gingrich's D.C.-based PAC, has named a porn purveyor its "Entrepreneur of the Year" for 2009, according to representatives of the pornographer.
Allison Vivas heads up Pink Visual, a DVD production and distribution company based in Van Nuys, Ca., that specializes in adult films.
Vivas' PR representative, Brian S. Gross, is circulating a letter dated Wednesday ostensibly from Joe Gaylord, a consultant working for Gingrich, telling her "Newt's Business Defense and Advisory Council" had agreed that she was deserving of the honor in "recognition of the risks you take to create jobs and stimulate the economy."
Perhaps Newt was moved to give kudos after viewing such Vivas' titles as Anal Devastation, Couples Seduce Teens, Brazen And Unshaven, Double Penetration Tryouts, or, knowing the political visionary's past, Wife Switch Volume 7. (I could type this stuff all day...)
Election 2008 Write-Ins: Newt Gingrich, Paris Hilton, and Other People Who Are Not President
In a thoroughly predictable turn of events, Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul were the write-in champions of 2008 (by all accounts a banner year for write-ins). That makes plenty of sense, given that both Clinton and Paul boasted die-hard adherents with a bit of a disenfranchisement complex.
To paraphrase President-elect Obama: "When people get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward candidates who actually have a hope in hell."
But to assume these two were the only major write-in players would be to underestimate the imagination and pluck of the American people. As Matt Dunn of the New Jersey Star-Ledger sagely observes:
Voters in Cumberland County unsatisfied with the choices given to them on Election Day chose to vote on their own terms in this year's election. The write-in candidates stood little chance of defeating those candidates whose names were listed on the ballot, but that didn't stop voters from exercising their right to vote for whomever they saw fit.
Below the jump, some of my favorite write-ins from Ohio, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Florida, and D.C.
