Cross-posted at DKos

Its starting to roll now. From the AP

WASHINGTON – The annual President’s Dinner, a Republican Party fundraising event featuring President Bush, could get an extra dash of spice this year with porn actress and former California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey planning to attend.

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Carl Forti, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is co-hosting the dinner, had no qualms about Carey and her boss, adult film executive Mark Kulkis, attending.

“Their money was donated to the NRCC. The NRCC’s job is to elect Republicans. We’ll take that money and use it to elect more Republicans,” Forti said.

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Carey and Kulkis said they want to prove stereotypes of porn workers wrong.

“We’re not going to show up with coke spoons around our neck,” Kulkis said.

Oh yeah baby, keep it right there…Much much more south of the border, as they say…I want you all to come…

For more in depth background go to this diary and this one, in chronological order.

Here’s the slightly altered version of the AP version on Ohio News Now:

Carey was one of 135 candidates on the ballot to replace California Governor Gray Davis in the 2003 recall election. Voters picked another actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Another actor? Do either of the two qualify? If Mary Carey is “an actor,” then Heidi Fleiss is “a homemaker.” Whore houses can be homes too can’t they?

Whose responsible for loading the batteries in this vibrating story tonight? Why Wingnut Central cribsheet World News Daily. They’ve been writing in tones of high dudgeon for a while, and were the only conservative voice crying foul. Well, it seems arms have been twisted and they have subborned American Family Association’s Rev. Don Wildmon to lash out with full vituperative force, to whit:

“The reason these people are doing this is for publicity and to embarrass Bush,” Wildmon told WND. “I think the Republicans can survive this, but they need to go public with an explanation. They need to exclude them or withdraw the invitation. Just doing nothing is the worst thing they can do.”

How’s that for fire and brimstone condemnation of this unholy alliance of porn and power? Seems like Rev. Don is distracted by the question of how close his table is gonna be to the action.

The coup de grace is delivered when WND reveals their exclusive interview with the lady in question (“that was no lady…that was my [insert demeaning phrase here].”)

Having just received her plane ticket from Los Angeles to the nation’s capital, Carey said she’s excited about the possibility of speaking personally with the commander in chief.

“It would be an honor to meet him,” she said. “I’d like to talk to him about issues like freedom of speech and the crackdown on the adult industry. Maybe he can give me some political pointers.”

The actress says it’s among her dreams to eventually become president, and that’s why she’s getting involved in politics now.

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“People can relate to me,” she said. “I come from a middle-class household and I’m very friendly.”

As pointed out in my original diary, here’s a very non-work friendly example of friendly ol’ Mary’s average middle-class point of view in a …um…nutshell:

Hey guys, welcome to my world! In case you forget I’m the 5-foot-9 blonde with the natural double D tits that everybody LOVES! Speaking of, I bet you’d love to see me get f$&#ed by some big hard c^#@s, wouldn’t you? Well, your wish had been granted! This video you hold in your hot little hands is a collector’s item. For the first time in history, you can watch my tight little p$#%y getting drilled by mucho man-meat! So pop this tape in your VCR and start stroking you own fat c&#$, sweetie. And remember – I love you!

 XXOO, Mary Carey

It’s not so much that people don’t relate to her. Oh, they relate alright. However, it may be that the precise manner of those “relations,” along with their sheer volume, might surprise certain high strung supporters of a certain sitting President.

Then Moneybags Mark Kulkis is thrown into the spotlight to face the harsh music:

Kulkis, 40, says he’ll be representing the $10 billion porn industry as well as his own company at the fund-raiser. A native of Michigan, the English literature major turned pornographer says he’d be surprised, disappointed and upset if he were somehow turned away, but he doesn’t expect that to happen.

 “I have good intentions,” he said. “We’re not out to corrupt the country. … You can be faithful to your wife and still enjoy adult movies.”

Kulkis has mixed feelings about Bush, describing himself as a fiscal conservative and social liberal. He also notes the trend of pornography becoming more prevalent and accepted in American society.

“Let’s face it,” he said. “You had [hard-core porn actress] Jenna Jameson’s book on the New York Times best-seller list for weeks. Porn now is pretty mainstream.”

Just how mainstream? Let’s ask the WND readers, shall we? Torrents of outrage, right? Uhhh…no…:

  • “The Republican tent is broad and needs to cover all people – even those with views and lifestyles with which we disagree.”
  • “Basically politicians are prostitutes anyway. Why should there be a problem associating with porn stars and entrepreneurs?”
  • “Why wouldn’t they use porn stars at a fund-raiser? Porn stars are about 10 steps above politicians. At least they are honest about what they do. The real question is why would the porn stars want to degrade themselves?”
  • “Mr. Bush brings many virtues to his job. But, he refuses to lead on important moral issues. When Janet Jackson outraged Super Bowl viewers, he professed to be asleep and ducked the issue. … [T]here is a vacuum of leadership on issues important to this country. Yes, Mr. Bush can and should speak to the issue.”

    • Oh, those sports over at World Net Daily! Such fun around the water cooler. Still, do you detect a certain lack of enthusiasm for the subject matter. At least there’s one trenchant comment:

  • “Look how far the Republican Party has come in just two decades: from Reagan’s Commission on Pornography, under then-Attorney-general Edwin Meese in 1985, to today, porn stars invited to a White House fund-raising gala. The leadership of the Republican Party has lost its mind.”

    • No arguments on that last point, Sparky. So that’s the current state of media reaction. From nothing to next to nothing. You’ll notice the unattributed passages from the WND article ripped/pushed into the AP article, which is floating out there right now in a thousand variations across the country and in the UK. Could things be heating up before the big, nasty, slurping gulpfest? By which I mean the Presiden’t dinner. Time will tell. For now the countdown continues…

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