Stateside Hooker Fingers Menendez

The DC Caller reports that an American prostitute has contacted them and identified photos of Sen. Menendez (D, New Jersey) as one of the men who paid her for sex.

The escort, who earns money having sex with men in upscale hotel rooms, said during an in-person interview that many of her wealthy and powerful customers use pseudonyms when arranging for her services, and when meeting her in person...

Menendez, she said, is “quite a hobbyist. He sees a lot of girls and doesn’t seem to have the skills to have a relationship.”

“Hobbyists,” she explained, are men who “‘hobby’ in seeing many girls, as many as they can,” referring to escorts who offer companionship and sexual favors in exchange for what they euphemistically call financial “donations.”

Well, it might be a cheaper hobby than fishing, but less remunerative than coin collecting. Something on the line of bird watching, where some people spend enormous amount of money and travel vast distances to spend a few minutes with a rare bird.

Stacy McCain, in a show of  uncharacteristic charity towards Menedez, urged caution:

I would be cautious about a source like this, who contacts reporters after reading coverage of a scandal. Not to say that I doubt Senator Menendez patronizes prostitutes, just saying that without some corroborating evidence — a credit card receipt, a hotel bill, etc. — I’d be cautious about the source. Perhaps the Daily Caller has such corroboration and is witholding it.

Ace, on the other hand, concludes "Guilty!"

I wasn't sure until he played the Race Card. Now I know for certain.

At a Black History Month event held at a Trenton, N.J. church on Sunday, Democratic Senator Bob Menendez blamed conservatives for his ethics scandals, framing them as a racial attack on him because of his Hispanic heritage. “I have felt the sting of discrimination,” he told approximately 300 worshipers, according to the Bergen Record. ”It has never been easy.” “Now we face anonymous, faceless, nameless individuals from right-wing sources seeking to destroy a lifetime of work,” Menendez said at Shiloh Baptist Church.

I think he's due the presumption of innocence, just the same as "The Juice."