Sometimes payback is indeed a bitch. Richard Mellon Scaife gets a taste of his own medicine.

[PA Democrat]

How rich that the man who bankrolled the effort to unearth sleaze on Bill Clinton should have all of the sordid details of his messy personal life and divorce reported by the press. I laughed out loud to read that Scaife frequented a local establishment with a very seedy reputation known as Doug's Motel to meet with his lover, a woman who was convicted for prostitution.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102101643_2.html?hpid=features1&hpv=national

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Remember him? The cantankerous, reclusive 75-year-old billionaire who's spent a sizable chunk of his inherited fortune bankrolling conservative causes and trying to kneecap Democrats? He's best known for funding efforts to smear then-President Bill Clinton, but more quietly he's given in excess of $300 million to right-leaning activists, watchdogs and think tanks. Atop his list of favorite donees: the family-values-focused Heritage Foundation, which has published papers with titles such as "Restoring a Culture of Marriage."

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Dickie, as he's known to his handful of friends, acquired a mean streak at an early age, according to his now-deceased sister, Cordelia Scaife. (She once told The Washington Post that she and her brother hadn't spoken for 25 years.) His trouble with alcohol started when he was at prep school, and he later was tossed out of Yale when he rolled a keg of beer down a flight of stairs and broke the legs of a fellow student. His father, a below-average businessman, died a year after Richard graduated from the University of Pittsburgh. His mother was "just a gutter drunk," as Cordelia put it.

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At some point in late 2005, Ritchie started having suspicions about her husband and hired a private investigator named Keith Scannell, a specialist in high-end surveillance for insurance companies. In December of that year, Scannell followed Richard Scaife to nearby North Huntingdon, home of Doug's Motel, a place where the TVs are bolted to the furniture and rooms can be rented in three-hour increments, for $28. (It's now under new management and renamed the Huntingdon Inn. Head east on Route 8, then east on Route 30.) There, according to Scannell, Scaife spent a few hours with Tammy Sue Vasco.

Why a billionaire would shack up at Doug's Motel, of all places, is a mystery. Ditto his choice of companions. Vasco is a tall, blond 43-year-old mother who in 1993 was busted in a sting operation after showing up at a Sheraton hotel and offering to have sex with an undercover cop for $225, the Post-Gazette reported.

[L. Coyote]

1. K and R for hypocra$y, plus Bush vs. Gore, the 'Arkansas Project,' .....

Just another hypocrite after all.

Bush vs. Gore, the 'Arkansas Project,' the USA firings, and the Swiftboat Admiral
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1029113

[Vinca]

2. Doug's Motel??? Wow - spare no expense. nt

[PA Democrat]

4. It's a dive. Hourly room rates is about all you need to know.

I grew up in the area and if you mentioned "Doug's Motel" everyone knew you were talking about a cheap, illicit affair.

[CJCRANE]

3. If he'd kept the $300 million

he could have bought himself a lot more fun than a two-bit liaison in a seedy motel.

[PA Democrat]

5. Also note, there is NO prenuptial agreement.

[acmavm]

6. Another display of class by our 'betters', the rich and famous.

:sarcasm:

[Gman]

7. John Bolten perjured his self during his confirmation hearing

for Solicitor General about his role in the Arkansas Project. Bolten should have been convicted and spent time in prison for his perjury.

[Steven_S]

13. Theordore Olsen...

Bolten is another puke altogether.

[Gman]

24. CORRECTION!!

It was Ted Olsen...

I'm guilty of posting before I had finished my first cup of coffee.

[begin_within]

8. So much for the "sanctity of marriage" concept...

[gratuitous]

14. Well, he wasn't talking to himself

See, the rich aren't like us. And we need an awful lot of looking after; you have no idea how much Dickie Scaife worries about us hoi polloi.

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. But now who'll bulk-buy ann coulter's books?

Dickie and Ritchie: A truly class act. :eyes:

[PA Democrat]

11. Maybe Scaife could sell those $1800 asparagus tongs.

That would cover a couple hundred of Coulter's books, maybe more if he waits until they hit the $1 book barrel.

[Buns_of_Fire]

21. Well, at least he probably won't have long to wait... (n/t)

[arendt]

10. k&R, if for nothing else, for sheer schadenfreude n/t

[BrklynLib at work]

12. Couldn't happen to a more deserving piece-of-crap person

[Freedomofspeech]

15. He owns every newspaper in our area, except...

the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. They recently bought Laurel Group Press, all the local weekly papers. It's a bitch to pay for our little local paper, knowing it's lining Dickie's pockets. What a disgusting pig.

[PA Democrat]

18. Scaife's Tribune Review is losing money big time.

He's pumped over $300 million in it so far just to keep it afloat. The current CEO projects the paper to lose $20 million per year for years to come.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

16. I think we should be supportive of the Scaife family...

At time like these families deserve privacy and consideration from the media

:sarcasm:

[progressoid]

17. Golly gee. This is shocking.

A RW hypocrite? Never heard of such a thing before.

[femrap]

19. Love those folks

with 'Family Values.'

[MODemocrat]

28. Oh yes, and their Value Voters too

That's really wild for someone with such famiy values...:sarcasm: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Stinky The Clown]

20. I'd feel even better if this became a reality TV show

I'd also like to see him filleted, but that's another story ..... and pure fantasy ..... mostly.

[Stephanie]

22. OMG he's battier than a fruitcake!

"Social Register material she is not, but Vasco and Scaife seemed to have a relationship that went beyond the purely professional. The two usually met each other twice a week, for months, at the motel, says an employee of the motel. Scaife would show up in a chauffeured car, dressed in a suit, wearing cuff links, always bearing flowers. Vasco would be waiting in same room every time, Room 5 on the ground floor, facing the parking lot, said the employee. Mr. Dick, as he was known at the motel, would stay for two hours or so, then get back in the car, which had been waiting, and leave.

"He actually seemed infatuated with Tammy," says the Doug's Motel employee, who did not want to be identified because of the powerful parties in the case. "She'd talk about trips that he took her on, to California, New York City. And it was great for her. It changed her life."

[DeepModem Mom]

23. K&R

[BornagainDUer]

25. This is total Bullshit....

A neo-con fucking the opposite sex??? I say Bullshit!...(())

Please bring back Larry Craig to ((straighten)) ol' Scaife out!

[lolly]

31. Yeah, but

They gotta pay for it when they do.

see--Vitter, Dan, Republican prostitute-chaser and diaper-wearer.

You know that's why they hated Clinton so much. They couldn't figure out how he managed to get it for free when they couldn't get somebody near them without flashing 100$ bills.

[stubtoe]

26. HA HA HA ha ha aha ha eheh heh *snort* hee hee hee...

:rofl:

[riverdeep]

27. But, but

the only rich people who are trying to force their viewpoints on a poor, unsuspecting public are George Soros, that's what O'Lielly tells me.

[baldguy]

29. He didn't so much "unearth" shit on Clinton as he CREATED it.

Or had it created for him.

[kineneb]

30. ahh, karma, sweet karma. nt.

[formercia]

32. Wouldn't it be great to have a Country

where those less fortunate didn't have to resort to crime to make ends meet?

[Ganja Ninja]

33. Republican's are just plain sleazy, every last one of them.

Their common personality traits are as follows, mean drunks, dick headed frat boys, cheating husbands, cheap lovers, compulsive liars, vindictive pricks and holier than thou ass holes!