Scott Brown Wins BuzzFlash Award For Being a Naked Hypocrite

Scott Brown

Welcome back to BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

You may be thinking, Scott Brown is your GOP Hypocrite of the Week? Already? Yes, as some Dems are still licking their wounds after Brown won what was once the seat of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy in a special election in the state of Massachusetts, we realized we had to act. Sorry guys, this hypocrisy is too intense and multifaceted to wait.

Much has been said about his opponent's personal shortfalls. But more than anything, the Democrat in this race was unable to point out the hypocrisy of the image Brown painted of himself. He told voters he's a hard-working, middle-class dude with a truck.

A truck and five properties, as Christopher Beam points out in this piece on Slate.com. He noted that Brown opposes taxing the big bailout banks, in order to get some of the taxpayer money back from them, as well as the fact that Brown -- who ran against the healthcare bill as much as he did his actual opponent -- did not offer healthcare insurance to his campaign employees. And though Brown portrayed himself as the all-American bootstraps puller-upper, he may not have had that chance had his mother not had access to welfare.

Oh and that whole thing where Brown ran his campaign based on public opposition to the healthcare bill in Congress? Yeah, well, it turns out that Brown voted for universal healthcare as a state lawmaker when it was pushed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney.

Finally, our very favorite part about Brown, his nudity in a 1982 edition of Cosmopolitan, is surely an affront to the family values image Brown would like to cultivate for himself. Yet, so was his acceptance speech in which he appeared to be auctioning off his daughters as sex slaves to the highest bidder.

And his wife doesn't far much better. Gail Huff has been revealed by the Huffington Post to have been the star of the music video for Digney Fingus' 1984 song The Girl With the Curious Hand. The song may be suggestive, but Brown's wife-to-be leaves little to the imagination when she strips off her bikini top in the video.

Still, it bears noting the double hypocrisy here: Brown's candidacy was hardly tarnished by the widely-circulated Cosmo photos. In fact, his reputation may have actually been burnished with some conservatives. And what, pray tell, would have happened if a Democrat or a female candidate for U.S. Senate had been found to have posed nude in a national magazine? Yeah, thought so. So the media and conservative voters alike bear some responsibility for this double standard as well.

Still, that doesn't make Brown any less of a naked, two-faced hypocrite. It just makes him the naked, two-faced hypocrite representing Massachusetts. What -- too soon?

Remember our motto: So many Republican hypocrites, so little time.

Catch up with you soon.

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This is Scott Brown's first GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award. Welcome to the club (and the Senate)! You can see a list of all previous nominees here.