Boviosity!

Prominent Clinton Administration Operative To Publish Topless Photos of Rape Victim

Vile.

UPDATE: The story has now been changed, with no indication of the former status of the story. And now the original satiric headline above doesn't make any sense. The original story was about Flynt's insistence that he would publish the photos.

Guess I should've gotten a screen shot. The link now shows a story about how Flynt bought the photos but won't publish them because "she is a good kid[...]."

What a prince.

Screen prints are your friend! Wish I'd taken one.

Here's the story I originally read at ajc.com, as seen at antimusic. And I have a screen cap, although I know that an antimusic screencap isn't quite as good as an AJC screencap:

Hustler magazine claims that it has topless photos of Jessica Lynch. Lynch, an Army private, became a media sensation after she was rescued from the hands of pro-Saddam forces that were holding her as prisoner of war. Hustler reportedly has photos taken of Lynch “frolicking topless with male soldiers before she went off to war”, according to a New York Daily News story published today (Nov 11).

The only word from the Lynch camp came from the publisher of her new book, "I Am A Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story". Paul Bogaards of Alfred Knopf told the New York Daily News, "Jessica Lynch was left for dead and left as a prisoner of war. If she can survive that, she can survive anything."

Larry Flynt the publisher of Hustler said that he plans to run the photos in the magazine’s February issue. According to Flynt, the magazine got the photos from two soldiers that used to serve with Lynch.

When the subject was broached that the photos might not really be of Lynch, Flint said that he hired an outside photo enhancement lab to verify that the photos were of the 20-year-old private. "You think I'm going to publish nude pics that aren't her?" asked Flynt, "I like owning my company."

Flynt apparently sees this move as a strike against the war in Iraq. “I'm not interested in bashing Jessica Lynch, who really was a victim in this," Flynt said according to the New York Daily News. Flynt feels that the TV movie that aired on Sunday and the new book "should have been an honest portrayal of her role in the war. Everyone wanted a hero from this war."

Really, it looks to me like Flynt changed his mind in mid-story and the bigs are scurrying to cover his tracks for him. I can't think of any other way that the original quotes, which sound like Flynt in full anti-Republican belligerent-mode, got out.

PROBABLY FINAL UPDATE:

Here in the New York Daily News is what seems to be the story in its entirety, documenting Flynt's change of mind.

Again, I have kept a screen shot.