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Republican Senate Candidate Scott Brown Posed Naked In Cosmo

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Cosmopolitan dug through their archives to find a June 1982 issue featuring a very naked chap by the name of Scott Brown playing centerfold model. Flattering, in a certain light, but possibly problematic for Brown, who is running for Ted Kennedy‘s United States Senate seat in Massachusetts. “Vote for Brown. He Has One Hell of a Stimulus Package,” the lady mag suggests as a slogan.

The appearance was part of that summer’s “America’s Sexiest Man” contest, which Brown won as “a 22-year-old law student at Boston College who was cramming for finals just days before stripping down for our photographer.” He’s a bit Tom Selleck, a bit Scott Baio, by our estimation.

Via Cosmo:

“Here at Cosmo we’ve had bachelors go on to be actors, models, and reality show stars, so we’re thrilled that one has gone on to become a politician,” says Kate White, Cosmo’s editor in chief. Obviously we know how to pick ’em. This particular bachelor has always had political ambitions and even admitted to being “a bit of a patriot” when we interviewed him.

Thoughts, Mr. Brown?


Go get ‘em, stud!

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  • http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

    And this matters why?

  • TfT

    LOL at Cosmo and the left smear machine. They are desparate to make sure “Teddy Kennedy’s seat” (shame on Gergan for his ridiculous moderating last nite) stays in dem hands.

  • http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com LNSmithee

    Well, we know what Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas are going to put on the cover of Newsweek next week.

  • http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com LNSmithee

    TfT wrote:


    (shame on Gergan for his ridiculous moderating last nite)

    You ain’t kidding. He knew that Brown had cleaned Coakley’s clock, and tried to make up for it by cramming as many mentions of the name “Kennedy” into his closing comments as he possible could. He was every bit as biased as I feared Gwen Ifill would be (but wasn’t). Absolutely disgraceful.

  • http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com LNSmithee

    One last thing: Whoever found this pic made a big mistake — s/he released it AFTER he kicked Coakley’s can in the debate. If this had been widely seen beforehand, Brown would have had to overcome the perception he’s a “mimbo” (or “himbo.”) After Coakley made her Gerald Ford-like gaffe regarding the Taliban and Afghan terrorists, it’s clear who was the “-imbo” on that stage if there were any.

  • http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

    LNSmithee: Gawker has used the image since September, which is the date on Joe’s link to the Cosmo “find”. IOW: It’s not really new information and any damage that it may cause has likely already been done.

  • http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

    @LNSmithee: (Correction) I just clicked the furthest back Gawker post and learned that Wonkette has had it since ’07, so they (Pareene?) should really get credit for the find.

  • felixw

    Does anyone notice a pattern?

    The week before George Bush ran against Al Gore, the media covered a drunk driving misdemeanor that had taken place decades before. Somehow the story sat around for decades and just magically appeared in the press in the final moments of the campaign…

    The week before Arnold Schwarzenegger ran against Gray Davis, the media covered groping allegations that had were decades old. Somehow the story sat around for decades and just magically appeared in the press in the final moments of the campaign…

    Now the Democrats and their friends in the media are playing the same smear game with Scott Brown. And it will backfire this time, just like it did before. People can identify Democrat dirty tricks and media complicity when they see it.

  • Rescuedog

    Dear Joe Coscarelli:

    This is not new. Not even close. And not only is it not new, you failed to add anything new to the existing story. And you failed to cite any one of the many existing links around the web that have had this for months – or even years in the case of Wonkette as Magister pointed out. Even the Cosmo story you linked was late to the party. It was posted on September 22, 2009, a full week after this Gawker post and this one in Newsweek. Jeez.

  • ImNotBlue

    I heard that Coakley decided that the best thing for her to do after the debate, was to go “campaign” in Washington DC… where she had a big “meeting” with a whole bunch of Democratic lobbyists:

    Of the 22 names on the host committee–meaning they raised $10,000 or more for Coakley–17 are federally registered lobbyists, 15 of whom have health-care clients. Of the other five hosts, one is married to a lobbyist, one was a lobbyist in Pennsylvania, another is a lawyer at a lobbying firm, and another is a corporate CEO…

    All the leading drug companies have lobbyists on Coakley’s host committee: Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Sanofi-Aventis, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Astra-Zeneca, and more. On the insurance side of things, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana, HealthSouth, and United Health all are represented on the host committee.

    But that’s not really a media story, per se.

    Lucky for us… here’s a good one! Apparently Coakley spelled HER OWN STATE incorrectly!

    Wow. In the “Worst Political Gaffe Ever” category, Martha Coakley is the winner by far. After the debate against Scott Brown last night (a debate she’d been ducking for quite some time), she quickly released a smear ad against Brown. There’s nothing shocking about that, for sure, until careful viewers were able to notice that Martha Coakley misspelled the name of the state she wants to represent in the Senate.

    I’m sure we’ll get a story on this shortly… and the media will be all over it. I mean, sure they’re still talking about Palin saying, “O’Biden” like that was a big deal… so I’m sure they’ll love talking about a candidate who can’t spell her state correctly. Right? RIGHT?

  • http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

    And again, all of this matters why?

    So Brown posed nude years ago. Who cares?

    So someone at the video production house made a typo on the disclaimer. Who cares?

    Can anyone explain what any of this means as to how either of the candidates will serve their constituents?

  • GordonBoston

    Hey if I looked like Scott Brown when I was 22, I would have done the same thing, but who really cares, now we can talk about our fearful leader Barry O, who fessed up to snorting coke and smoking weed, I think there is a bit of a difference, same as Bush snorting coke. Browns prideful moment was a college senior showing his attributes.

  • m

    Brown is a family values conservative.

    lol

  • germ

    m says:
    January 13, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    Brown is a family values conservative.

    lol

    —————————————————-

    Really? Where do you see that on his website, or are you just hating him because he has an (R) next to his name? In fact, he would be considered liberal in the midwest. Actually read up on someone before you make assinine comments that make yourself look stupid.

    Read the “Family Values” Issues below and let me know if he is still a “family values conservative”

    ———————————————————————————-

    From http://www.brownforussenate.com/issues

    Abortion
    While this decision should ultimately be made by the woman in consultation with her doctor, I believe we need to reduce the number of abortions in America. I believe government has the responsibility to regulate in this area and I support parental consent and notification requirements and I oppose partial birth abortion. I also believe there are people of good will on both sides of the issue and we ought to work together to support and promote adoption as an alternative to abortion.

    Marriage
    I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. States should be free to make their own laws in this area, so long as they reflect the people’s will as expressed through them directly, or as expressed through their elected representatives.

  • webpet

    Why do the liberals make such a big deal out of this event in this young man’s life but give a complete pass to their “Messiah” who used cocain, which was know before the election? Let’s see “naked”/ “cocain”? Or, as pointed out above:; “drunk-driving”/”cocain”? or “groping”/”cocain”? The liberal “silence” is deafening on their own, but put a conservative in front of them and look out! H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E-S!!!!!.

  • ZoneDaiatlas

    Coakley let a child rapist go! Why do liberals protect child rapists?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Glenn-Beck/100000316915842 Glenn Beck

    Why do Catholics protect child molesters?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joshua-Taj-Bozeman/661000669 Joshua Taj Bozeman

    Sorry, but if this made a difference in this particular senate seat, then people ARE idiots. I mean, seriously- at least he didn’t drive drunk over a bridge, leaving a woman to die in his car, then retreat to the hotel room for a nice sleep before alerting someone in the morning, all the while covering it up and facing no punishment.

    If the current president can attend a racist anti-american church for 20 years and do cocaine in high school, then this should be no big deal.

  • shootfromthehip

    For webpet, GW Bush also used cocaine. Obama just had the balls to admit it, Bush did not.

    Three independent sources close to the Bush family report that then Governor Bush was arrested in 1972 for cocaine possession, and taken to Harris County Jail, but avoided jail or formal charges through an informal diversion plan involving community service with Project P.U.L.L., an inner city Houston program for troubled youths at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Houston’s Third Ward.

    Sharon Bush, his sister-in-law, show,said on the record Bush did coke with his brother Marvin “several times” at Camp David during his father’s presidency.

    When W was at Yale in the mid-1960s, it was the most popular drug on campus. One contemporary, who insists on remaining anonymous, admitted years later to selling cocaine to W at the university.

    Another man who was at Yale’s graduate school recalled “doing coke” with George Bush in the late 1960s.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Poor Massachusetts GOP Senate Candidate Scott Brown – his shortcomings are so short they’re obscured by a staple.

  • Sophie

    Any woman who would have posted even scantly clad would have been vilified. Scott Brown got a complete pass. Scott brown won because Coakley was a lousy campaigner, pure and simple.

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