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FLYNT'S REVENGE | PAGE 1, 2, 3, 4
You came out with the two exposés on Livingston and Barr. What happened to the rest of the ones you promised? This is the exclusive part of the interview. After Livingston and Barr, the trial had started in the Senate. My initial objective was to expose the hypocrisy, and then I felt to further expose people would only be to cause embarrassment. And not only that, I didn't want to piss the Senate off, because I was in the president's corner and wanted to see him beat this in the Senate. So we just sort of sat on what we've got. We've got about a dozen active investigations going on now. I'm not sure how much of an appetite there is for what we've got, but the reason why we're continuing is -- they're all Republicans, of course -- is when the election rolls around, we're going to make sure that all the information that we have is made available to whoever they're running against. Especially Bob Barr. I think the mainstream media gave Barr a pass on this. We not only demonstrated he did not tell the truth under oath, but he allowed his own wife to have an abortion -- he even drove her to the clinic and paid for it. And he's one of the most ardent abortion foes in Congress -- he stood on the floor of the Congress to say abortion is equivalent to murder. I have all the documentation on him. So I was very disappointed in the way the mainstream media dealt with that, because we spent a lot of time in the investigation. Some of them covered it -- it wasn't across the board, because some of them covered it very well. So are you going to make the facts public? We're publishing a one-time issue -- a one-shot called the Flynt Report. And in addition to having the people who we have exposed, we are going to take other investigations that have either come out on their own or been exposed by other people and include them in the issue. The public can turn from page to page and see all the mug shots of people who have had affairs. We're working on it now. It'll probably be out in the next two or three weeks. Do you think you might go after Democrats? A friend of mine who lives in Washington told me something many years ago. He said, Larry, when it comes to scandal, the conventional wisdom is that it's sex with Democrats, and with Republicans it's money. But he said in actuality it's the complete opposite. And apparently that was evident in the ads. We only got one Democrat out of all of the 38 leads, there was one Democrat and 37 were Republicans. You've also said you might go after the media. I said recently that I would start investigating the private sex lives of media personalities. All the media moguls better look out. There are a couple of people in the media that the press doesn't lay a glove on. Apparently [one prominent anchor] is like a rabbit -- I mean, he's got a revolving door to his office. And many of them have been divorced four or five times. A lot of the divorce transcripts are available. Sam Donaldson has been married three times, OK? But Donaldson was really sanctimonious about Clinton. Clinton took the time out of his schedule to visit him in the hospital one day when he was recovering from cancer. So when Sam interviewed me for "20/20," I said, "It must be tough to be your friend." I'm not saying that we're going to do it, I'm just saying there's a possibility that's a little intriguing. According to a poll in the Washington Post recently, you're one of the most popular figures to come out of the scandal. How does that feel? I got a kick out of that. I really have been vilified for close to a quarter of a century. Things started turning when the movie came out about my life, and I wrote my autobiography. But I was not prepared for people's reactions when I ran that ad in the Post and exposed Livingstone. I have personalized license plates on my car, and people run right out in the middle of the street because they want to say hello or shake my hand. I get probably around 1,000 letters a week, and absolutely no negative mail. And every time I go out to eat at a restaurant, I have people come up to me and thank me for what I'm doing. It confirms what I always felt, that those people felt Clinton should not be impeached did not have a voice. N E X T+P A G E+| How the rise of pornography affected the public's view of Clinton
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