dirty_logo Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a wee little web site, Dirty Scottsdale.

On the site, folks sent in pics of marginal nightlife people, to which was paired commentary distinguished as much by its grammatical uncertainty as its utterly skanky content—generally asseverations about venereal disease and the like.

One of its early noted contributors was a guy named Brock Landers.

Landers was a man on a mission, namely to find Scottsdale’s First Foxy Chick.

This was in 2007.


Flash forward three years. Dirty Scottsdale is now a network of sites, all published under the name of The Dirty.

ben_quayle_redAnd meanwhile, a young man named Little Benny Quayle decides to run for Congress. This is a venue open to him if not too many other folks of his fairly undistinguished life work because he happens to be the son of a former vice president of the United States.

All is going well (well, fairly well), until a bombshell drops in a story on a national political web site.

The story says young Quayle had been a writer for Dirty Scotsdale, under the name “Brock.”

In the story, Quayle denied that it was he!

Politico: Quayle denies link to Scottsdale site

“I was not involved in the site,” Quayle said.


But the story quoted the site’s founder, Nik Richie, who would seem to have been in a position to know, saying that Quayle had posted eight to ten times on the blog.

Soon, he weighed in with his version of events on The Dirty.

The Dirty: I Think It is Time ….

He wrote:

Since the beginning (DirtyScottsdale.com) three years ago, I have gotten the same question from the DIRTY ARMY from all over the world: “Who is Brock from the Dirty Celeb Brock’s Chick?”

I have kept it a secret until right now… the mystery man is Ben Quayle aka Brock Landers, the son of Vice President Dan Quayle. If you are a DIRTY ARMY Republican, vote for Ben Quayle because he was one of the original creators of DirtyScottsdale.com which evolved into TheDirty.com.


Phoenix’s 12 News then ran this report, which features Quayle changing his story, saying:

“I just posted comments to try to drive some traffic."

KPNX 12 News: Quayle linked to thedirty.com: Congressional candidate was trying to help out



That got Politico back into the action.

Politico: Ben Quayle changes story on web site

The site took an uncharacteristically harsh tone with the political neophyte:

Ben Quayle had a hard time getting his story straight Tuesday….

And not just about writing for the site:

Richie also told POLITICO that Quayle introduced him to attorneys at the Phoenix law firm where he worked, Snell & Wilmer, so his Internet site could incorporate. But Quayle told POLITICO Tuesday morning that he couldn’t recall whether he had made the introduction.

Later in the day, however, Quayle confirmed to several Phoenix TV stations that he introduced Richie to an intellectual property attorney at Snell & Wilmer.

“He wanted an IP attorney, and I referred him to one,” Quayle told 12News. “I don’t know if they met or not.”

The story also said that “Brock”’s full name was “Brock Landers.”


At this point, the guy who founded Dirty Scottsdale and the Dirty.com is getting mad that Quayle is denying his association.

He responds:

The Dirty: Ben Quayle is Brock Landers

Richie links to what he says is some of Quayle/Landers' best work:

The Dirty: Brock’s Chick


Wondering where Quayle got the name Brock Landers?




Meanwhile, Politico gleefully stays on the story:

Politico: Quayle’s bump on road to Congress

Politico: Quayle Lashes out at political foes

Says Quayle:

“It is amazing that the media will take a casual acquaintance and turn it into something tawdry, taking the word of a smut peddler at face value."

New York Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins takes a few swipes at Quayle, too.

NYT: More American Idols:

Consider Ben Quayle, the son of the former vice president. He’s running for Congress in Arizona. He’s been accused of both using a phony family in his campaign pictures and helping to found a local porn site. In response, he’s come up with a new ad in which he announces that Barack Obama is the “worst president in history,” swiftly bemoans “drug cartels in Mexico, tax cartels in D.C.” and concludes that “somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place.”

Talk about a clear agenda for change. Although Quayle does show a terrible disrespect for the records of Warren Harding and James Buchanan.

And more locally, the right-wing blogger Greg Patterson says the game might be over for Young Benny Quayle.

Espresso Pundit: If this is true then Ben Quayle has no chance of going to Congress…:

The site is awful and if it’s true that Quayle is one of the founders and authors then his political career is over.

His prediction:

If it’s too late and Quayle’s name and money let him squeak through the primary then he will get crushed by CD 3 Democratic nominee Jon Hulburd (who will go on to be crushed in 2012 by Jim Waring or Dean Martin).


To distract attention, Quayle reveals himself as a noted presidential historian, contending, in a new TV commercial, that “Barack Obama is the worst president in history”:



Everyone chuckles for a day, and then goes back to asking about Dirty Scottsdale.


Meanwhile, on the national level, Quayle keeps lying. He tells ABCnews.com, too, that he only knew Richie through referring him to a lawyer.

ABC News: Ben Quayle Denies Blogging for Racy Website.

“I am not Brock Landers,” Quayle says.


Then, on Friday, Quayle lied a few more times on CNN’s John King show.

Amusingly, King is less interested in Dirty Scottsdale than he is in Quayle’s recent contentions about Obama. (“He’s only been in office eighteen months!”)

CNN: John King USA.

“I’ve been consistent with my story from the beginning”

“I had no affiliation with that website.”




Displaying, perhaps, his father’s way with handling a gaffe, Quayle, incredibly, keeps denying he was Brock Landers to the Associated Press:

AP: Like father, like son? Quayle stumbles in Arizona

Asked about the site this week, Quayle told The Associated Press that he “wrote a couple of satirical and fictional pieces for a satirical website” but that he quit doing so once the website shifted its editorial direction away from satire. Richie says the site’s content and tone have not changed from the days when Quayle was connected to it.

When asked if he wrote as Brock Landers, Quayle said: “There’s all sorts of posts under that alias and that’s not me. That’s really all I’ve got to say about that.”

Back in Arizona, the Arizona Capitol Times advances the story, discovering that Quayle’s involvement went back deeper than previously known:

Arizona Capitol Times: Quayle’s ties to ‘The Dirty’ founder began in 2005

Recalled Richie, referred to here by his real name, Hooman Karamian:

“There were chicks all over the place, trying to hook up with celebrities,” Karamian said. “We moseyed around the bar and casino tables, just making fun of chicks.”

Karamian, who made a comment on his website about a “crazy hooker” in Tahoe said he was referring to that night, but said he was only talking about a woman that he and Quayle had assumed was a prostitute and on drugs.

“I said (on TheDirty.com), ‘Hey, do you remember that crazy hooker?’ because we saw some hooker who was acting crazy,” Karamian told the Arizona Capitol Times. “I wasn’t implying that he had sex with a hooker at all.”

Thanks for clearing that up, Nik!


On Saturday, the Dirty bites back some more:

The Dirty: Ben Quayle is the Pinocchio of politics

… And on Sunday, a little more:

The Dirty: Brock Landers’ aka Ben Quayle’s Family Values Campaign