February 27 turned out to be a very lucky birth date for the Washington reporter who helped Hustler’s Larry Flynt uncover Sen. David Vitter’s sexual sins.

We spoke this afternoon with Dan Moldea, the famous DC-based investigative reporter who does contract work for Flynt, and he detailed how he was able to so quickly hit Congressional sex scandal pay dirt soon after a government restraining order was released on Deborah Jeane’s Palfrey’s phone records on July 5.

That day, Moldea rushed to his house with a CD filled with the phone records given to him by Palfrey’s lawyer Montgomery Blair Sibley, and he then began the daunting task of reverse checking thousands upon thousands of numbers through several search engines.

His eyes soon grew tired, and he might have given up for another day’s work, if not for an arbitrary goal he set for himself. He would get through his birthday.

Bingo! February 27 was coincidentally a day that Vitter was shown to have made a call from his home number in Washington to Palfrey’s escort service, Pamela Martin & Associates.

Soon, Moldea placed a call to Flynt, and the team had uncovered its first political hypocrite of the season.