Diaperman Vitter has some 'splaining to do.

Diaperman Vitter + prostitute + denial + 2002 radio interview = hosed.

From Raw Story:

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) made a potentially Freudian slip-up while taking part in a New Orleans radio interview five years ago.

MSNBC's Dan Abrams, who hosted New Orleans call girl Wendy Cortez and Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt on his program Tuesday evening, played an excerpt from a July 2002 broadcast of Ringside, a political radio show during which Sen. Vitter was confronted by a caller to the program about a possible relationship with Cortez.

The caller, identified as "Flaming Liberal," challenged Vitter to “sign under the penalty of perjury an affidavit saying you have never had an extramarital affair and you have never known, met or been in the company of one Wendy Cortez.”

"Thank you for repeating all these vicious rumors that my political enemies are trying to bandy about," Vitter had responded on the show, adding, apparently mistakenly, that "those rumors are absolutely true," and continuing,"they really don't belong in any political campaign and I've stated very clearly that they're lies..."

"Wasn't so clear, based on what he just said," Abrams remarked after playing the clip, as Cortez, who has accused the Louisiana senator of having a sexual relationship with her, laughed. Cortez and Flynt appeared with Abrams following a Tuesday press conference announcing that a polygraph test had confirmed the call girl was telling the truth.

In another clip from the same radio show available at Ringside's website, a caller named "Tom" asked Vitter to appear on air with Vincent Bruno, a Republican State Central Committee member from Louisiana who had earlier alleged that the senator was involved with Cortez.

Vitter responded by making clear that he would not appear with Bruno, and called him a “thug and a liar"--a charge for which senator formally apologized the next day after Bruno threatened a lawsuit, Jeff Crouere, who conducted the interview writes.

Call girl is '100 percent positive'

"It was purely a sexual relationship," Cortez told Dan Abrams, adding that her interaction with Vitter spanned four months. "[Vitter] came to the escort service which I was working for at the time, and the appointment was set up and that's how we met," she said.

Asked by Abrams if she was sure it was the senator, she replied "100 percent positive."

Here is a link to the audio of the interview

Excerpt of the radio interview transcript:

Flaming Liberal: Thank you Jeff for taking my call, always a pleasure to talk to the Congressman. Congressman, since spokesperson for the Republican Party William Bennett has said character counts. I would like to put the same challenge to you that I put to Representative Perkins and he accepted. Would you be willing to sign under the penalty of perjury an affidavit saying you have never had an extramarital affair and you have never known, met or been in the company of one Wendy Cortez.

Jeff Crouere: Are you finished Flaming Liberal?

Flaming Liberal: Yes Sir

Jeff Crouere: Ok sir.

David Vitter: Flaming Liberal thank you for repeating all these vicious rumors that my political enemies are trying to bandy about and those rumors are absolutely true and they really don’t belong in any political campaign and I’ve stated very clearly that they’re lies, but I’m not going to start jumping through hoops and taking orders from my political enemies who have absolutely no credibility. So, I’ll speak very clearly about that. I have in the past; I’ll continue to do so.