CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Mike Spears Challenges Vitter… To A Mixed Martial Arts Cage Match

    I know some people thought that floating the candidacy of Baton Rouge native porn star Stormy Daniels for the United States Senate was a hilarious way of undermining David Vitter. Ms. Daniels seemed flattered by the so-called grassroots support, and she earnestly pretended like she was taking the whole thing seriously. But clearly, the whole thing was absurd. An adult film star running for Senate against Vitter would remind voters of Mr. Vitter’s admitted affairs with prostitutes. Therefore voters will vote for the porn star? What? Ms. Daniels’s “campaign” attempted to position her as more “honest” than Vitter, but even…

  • Manufactured Intolerance

    Yesterday, as a friend and I drove back to Alexandria from Houston, we passed by a large, handwritten sign reading, “DON’T BLAME ME. I VOTED FOR THE AMERICAN,” proudly displayed in someone’s front yard, near the border of Rapides and Vernon Parishes. I’ve been writing about smear campaigns against Barack Obama from, what seems like, the very beginning. I wrote my first post in January 0f 2007, a month before then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy, about an article by right-wing pundit Debbie Shlusser that claimed Obama was a “secret Muslim.” The bizarre stories about his birth certificate hadn’t yet surfaced,…

  • Louisiana Democratic Party Launches Blistering Attack Against Vitter

    H/t to The Daily Kingfish. A couple of months ago, the Louisiana Democratic Party quietly created ForgottenCrimes.com, a website that is dedicated to one particular “cold case”: Senator David Vitter’s admitted dalliances with prostitutes working for Deborah Jean Palfrey, the so-called D.C. Madam. Yesterday, the Louisiana Democratic Party launched this blistering video attack against Senator Video, by way of ForgottenCrimes.com: They obviously don’t intend on pulling any punches. The video was slickly-produced and well-scripted. And it accused Mr. Vitter of lying about having an affair with Wendy Cortez, who was subsequently made famous by none other than Larry Flynt. I…