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He-Wolf of the FIA
I do not expect to read a better lede this year:
Max Mosley, one of the most powerful men in world sport, was under pressure to resign as boss of Formula One's governing body last night after he was exposed enjoying a Nazi-style orgy with five prostitutes.
Mosley is the son of Oswald Mosley, founder of the Nazi-era British Union of Fascists. The "Nazi-style orgy" involved...well, let's go back to the story in the London Times:
The Oxford-educated former barrister, who is president of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), reenacted a concentration camp scene in which he played the role of both guard and inmate.
Speaking in German and brandishing a leather whip, he beat the women after allowing himself to be subjected to a humiliating inspection for lice and an interrogation in chains.
That's surprisingly egalitarian for a totalitarian torture fantasy. I don't think Mosley Sr. believed the guards and prisoners should have a chance to trade places. Progress!
Bingo|4.2.08 @ 11:39AM|#
I'm disappointed that Spitzer didn't do this, it seems like it would have been right up his alley.
|4.2.08 @ 11:40AM|#
I'm sorry, but a kinky orgy with five high class hookers for only the equivalent of $5,000? I'd let this man manage my organization's budget any day
thoreau|4.2.08 @ 11:40AM|#
Spitzer, with his public salary, could only afford one hooker. If you want 5 hookers you need to go to the private sector.
Episiarch|4.2.08 @ 11:42AM|#
Our politicians' kinky highjinks suck compared to the limeys. Step up to the plate, future Spitzers!
|4.2.08 @ 11:45AM|#
Aren't the FIA involved in a libel case against the Sunday Times
(News Corp), which has the same ownership as News of the Screws
(News Corp)? Humm.
Regardless, it is a shocking invasion of privacy against a guy who
hasn't broken any laws. Regarding the Nazi fetish, there was nary a
swastika in site.
Taktix®|4.2.08 @ 11:48AM|#
Regarding the Nazi fetish, there was nary a swastika in
sight.
In sight? You were there?
dbcooper, you have some 'splaining to do :)
D.A. Ridgely|4.2.08 @ 11:48AM|#
Mosley is the son of Oswald Mosley, founder of the Nazi-era
British Union of Fascists
... and better known to P.G. Wodehouse aficionados as Roderick Spode,
whom Bertie Wooster described as follows:
The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting "Heil, Spode!" and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: "Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?"
Jozef|4.2.08 @ 11:50AM|#
The original article, with a lot of detail on the orgy is here. At least Mosley got a better deal than Spitzer - 5 hookers for the price of one.
|4.2.08 @ 11:51AM|#
In sight? You were there?
dbcooper, you have some 'splaining to do :)
Heh. News of the Screws had a video and photos up on their
website.
|4.2.08 @ 11:52AM|#
dbcooper,
Seems a fair service to Formula One fans to report on why the chief
might step down.
|4.2.08 @ 11:53AM|#
It's good to know that P.G. Wodehouse fanatics have gained control of Wikipedia. Judging from the link, half the site is now taken up with Woosterian arcana. I've always wanted a reproduction of the Infant Samuel at Prayer and now I may get my chance.
|4.2.08 @ 11:53AM|#
If he had been exposed having a Charles De Gaulle-esque orgy with 5 hookers, they would be clamoring for him to run for president.
|4.2.08 @ 11:53AM|#
So as libertarians, are we for or against this?
Well, there's always the middle way of "I don't care."
|4.2.08 @ 11:55AM|#
So as libertarians, are we for or against this?
"This" being what? Prostitution? Sado-masochism? Nazi fantasies?
Formula 1 racing?
Abdul|4.2.08 @ 11:55AM|#
I met a British girl once who wondered why all men were into
being flogged.
"They are?" I asked surprised.
"You mean, you're not?" she said, just as surprised.
I blame/credit the schools.
|4.2.08 @ 11:58AM|#
So as libertarians, are we for or against this?
It's his business.
Perople are freetocomplain and boycott.
The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) is free to fire
his dumbass.
|4.2.08 @ 11:58AM|#
Let this be a lesson to all of you. For godsake, Keep your nazi-fetish orgy photos behind a firewall!
D.A. Ridgely|4.2.08 @ 12:05PM|#
It's good to know that P.G. Wodehouse fanatics have gained
control of Wikipedia. Judging from the link, half the site is now
taken up with Woosterian arcana. I've always wanted a reproduction
of the Infant Samuel at Prayer and now I may get my
chance.
Then again, it being Wikipedia, there's little reason to trust its
reliability. In the Wikipedia entry for
Bertie Wooster, for example, one finds the outlandishly false
claim, "Even so, Bertie is actually of average or slightly
above-average intelligence." However marginally brighter Bertie may
be than some of his fellow Drones Club members, there can be little
serious doubt that he is, as Jeeves candidly noted in the Junior
Ganymede club book, "mentally negligible."
Taktix®|4.2.08 @ 12:08PM|#
The original article, with a lot of detail on the orgy is
here. At least Mosley got a better deal than Spitzer - 5 hookers
for the price of one.
No wonder this guy was so into the kink-age. Did you see the
picture of his wife?
Wakka wakka wakka...
|4.2.08 @ 12:09PM|#
My TIVO is already set up to record the Friday practice session
of the next Formula One. The commentators' comments should be
interesting this week.
CB
DavidS|4.2.08 @ 12:18PM|#
I like the basis of his libel action -
"Max Mosley, the president of the FIA, has said that he spoke in
German during a sado-masochistic orgy with five prostitutes not
because he was fantasising about being a Nazi but because several
of the prostitutes involved were German speakers."
Taktix®|4.2.08 @ 12:27PM|#
Warren,
Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but saying it three times
won't make it happen.
This in not Beetlejuice.
|4.2.08 @ 12:32PM|#
Taktix®,
I know, but a thing like 'Nazi-style orgy' just can't be repeated
often enough.
|4.2.08 @ 12:41PM|#
ed,
No, we won the war. Now there's just a big hole in the Mid East
that we throw blood and money into.
|4.2.08 @ 12:57PM|#
So as libertarians, are we for or against this?
As a libertarian, I am
(1) against the state prosecuting him for having a Nazi-style
orgy;
(2) in favor of FIA making its own decision about whether to keep
him on; and
(3) personally uninterested in participating in a Nazi-style
orgy.
ed|4.2.08 @ 1:03PM|#
there's just a big hole in the Mid East that we throw blood
and money into.
Yay! Isn't there one in Iowa too? And Alaska? And New Orleans?
And.....
Guy Montag|4.2.08 @ 1:16PM|#
So as libertarians, are we for or against this?
I am all for everything in this story, except for prosecuting the
guy (if that is in there) and F1 in general (I am a NASCAR/NHRA
guy).
Nazi orgies, fine by me.
Guy Montag|4.2.08 @ 1:17PM|#
Is this what Rev. Wright was talking about when he said "ridin' dirty"?
Franklin Harris|4.2.08 @ 1:43PM|#
The president of Formula One decides to re-enact The Night Porter (or possibly Ilsa, She-Wolf of the S.S.), and the next thing you know, he's plastered all over the broadsheets, to say nothing of the tabloids. What is the world coming to?
|4.2.08 @ 2:00PM|#
Why is this even being covered here?
Because only once in a lifetime do you get to reference "Ilsa,
She-Wolf of the SS" in a headline. Thanks, JW, for making the world
a shinier, happier place.
|4.2.08 @ 2:02PM|#
Franklin Harris beat me, as it were, to the punch. Whatever... [kicks pebble, walks offscreen dejectedly]
Russ 2000|4.2.08 @ 3:07PM|#
Mosley is the son of Oswald Mosley, founder of the Nazi-era
British Union of Fascists
...better known as the subject of Elvis Costello's "Less Than
Zero".
|4.2.08 @ 3:22PM|#
The only thing I can think of after reading this article is
"Holy Shit... the guy is 67 years old, and he did 5 hookers in 5
hours!"
Isn't there a medal for that or something?
If there isn't, there sure as hell should be.
|4.2.08 @ 3:35PM|#
" personally uninterested in participating in a Nazi-style
orgy"
Nazi is such an ugly word.
I prefer "an orgy with designer fashions by Hugo Boss".
Guy Montag|4.2.08 @ 3:41PM|#
I suspect the story might have been written differently if the ladies were wearing Mao jackets or Soviet Red Army belt buckles.
Robert|4.2.08 @ 3:48PM|#
I don't think Mosley Sr. believed the guards and prisoners should have a chance to trade places.
But I don't think Mosley Sr. contemplated concentration camps,
either.
|4.2.08 @ 3:56PM|#
"I suspect the story might have been written differently if the
ladies were wearing Mao jackets or Soviet Red Army belt
buckles."
Maybe, but that could be easily spun as being part of a freaky
James Bond fantasy. "Do your worst, Pussy Galore!" A 60-something
Brit might well get away with that.
But when your dad had Hitler at his wedding, well, there's really
no good way to spin a Nazi concentration camp-themed B&D
orgy.
|4.2.08 @ 3:58PM|#
It occurs to me that a little more pop-culture knowledge would
have saved Mosley.
The whole media narrative would be thrown awry if the video showed
him wearing a 'V' mask.
Brandybuck|4.2.08 @ 5:39PM|#
Wow! Five hookers in a Nazi-style orgy! The most I've ever done was three hookers dressed as Ayn Rand with cigarette holders and latex capes. They would mock me for my irrationality.
|4.2.08 @ 5:51PM|#
Brandybuck, have you tried this script?
(Your post requires I quote a Jennifer
classic:)
"Listen, you altruistic marry-me-so-I'm-not-deported piece of shit,
I want you to dominate and subdue me, like a real man! Right now!
You've got ten minutes, loser, and if I haven't been forced to
surrender to your superior male will by then I'll fucking
emasculate you. Stop cowering like that, you pussy!"
|4.2.08 @ 7:17PM|#
Oh, I can't believe I missed this earlier! As a huge F1 fan and
nearly as huge Mosley detractor, this is just too good to be true!
My only dismay is to learn that he has stated he intends to stay on
as FIA president. I can only hope that option is denied to him or
he comes to his senses and resigns. He has been an authoritarian
prick forever in his F1 role so the Nazi bit isn't all that
surprising. Just listening to the smug arrogance in his endless
pronouncements of just what F1 "needs" is enough to make one vomit,
much less his gloating over being able to force his nonsense down
everyone's throat (was that in the video?) in F1 simply because he
has the power to do so whenever anyone dares to question the wisdom
of his edicts. He has been single-handedly trying to destroy F1 for
well over a decade with his megalomanical dictating exactly what is
needed to "fix" (read ruin) F1. Someone needs to stop this guy
before he completes his plan to take F1 from the pinnacle of racing
engineering and technology to a dumbed-down spec series. Seriously,
with Mosley I wouldn't be surprised to end up with some gawd-awful
NASCAR-esque stock push-rod, carbureted 1960's era engine
technology all in some ill-advised attempt to "reduce costs."
Libertarian disclaimer: yes, he should be free to cavort with
prostitutes dressed as Goebbels himself, if he wants, and F1 fans
should be free to ridicule him into retirement for it.
Franklin Harris|4.2.08 @ 7:44PM|#
I suspect the story might have been written differently if the ladies were wearing Mao jackets or Soviet Red Army belt buckles.
Well of course, but commie BDSM just doesn't work. The uniforms are
drab, and there's no leather involved. Face it, the only reason
people have Nazi sex fetishes is because SS uniforms are ready-made
S&M gear. The leather, the shiny black boots, the suspenders
... makes me need to take a cold shower just thinking about
it.
Um, forget I said anything.
Franklin Harris|4.2.08 @ 7:50PM|#
(Your post requires I quote a Jennifer classic:)
"Listen, you altruistic marry-me-so-I'm-not-deported piece of shit, I want you to dominate and subdue me, like a real man! Right now! You've got ten minutes, loser, and if I haven't been forced to surrender to your superior male will by then I'll fucking emasculate you. Stop cowering like that, you pussy!"
Damn, that was hot!
I mean, um, forget I said anything again.
Bernd|4.2.08 @ 8:13PM|#
Isn't it rather a Nazi-themed orgy than a Nazi-style orgy? Is it even known what made an orgy a la Nazi?
Bernd|4.2.08 @ 8:14PM|#
But maybe I'm just some sort of person who is strict about language. For lack of a better term.
|4.2.08 @ 8:57PM|#
as an Englishmen who was privately educated (as i assume this
man was) i feel this quote is needed:
"a [British] private education only gives you two things; a good
job, and a taste in perverse sexual fantasy's. thats why British
management is so inefficient, there all too busy having there dicks
slamed in draws, and playing 'Panzer commander and the milk
maid'"
- Alexi Sayle - the young ones.
|4.2.08 @ 11:53PM|#
I just want v12's and active hydraulic suspension back. 8(
And 70s-era six wheeled 1200hp turboed monsters. Add some water
injection and they ought to be able to do 1500hp with 2.5 liters
and a properly sized turbo, I recon.
That's MY sexual fantasy!
Guy Montag|4.3.08 @ 11:26AM|#
Finally saw a clip of the video. The discussion is much hotter than the reality.
|4.3.08 @ 11:28AM|#
heh2k-
They were getting 1500hp (in qualifying trim) with 1.5 liter
motors. And if the rods weren't hanging out the bottom on the
in-lap, they'd turn up the boost.
|4.3.08 @ 11:27PM|#
Well of course, but commie BDSM just doesn't
work.
Soviet-style BDSM is the worst. You have to wait in line for three
hours with hundreds of other people just to get a half-hearted slap
on the face.
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