Larry Flynt is up to his old tricks and I, for one, am amused. If you aren’t familiar of Larry Flynt you probably were never a 14 year old boy in the 70s, 80s or 90s. He is the publisher of HUSTLER Magazine (porn) and quite possibly the most despicable person to ever appear before the U.S. Supreme Court. Today with his equally despicable friend Joe Francis (Girls Gone Wild peddler and Vegas degenerate gambler) Larry asked the U.S. government for a $5 billion to bail out . . . for (wait for it) . . . the porn industry. What I find hilarious is that throughout the blog/commentary universe there are actually people that think this is a serious request.
My dear friends, this is a joke to make a point.
“The take here is that everyone and their mother want to be bailed out from the banks to the big three,” said Owen Moogan, spokesman for Larry Flynt. “The porn industry has been hurt by the downturn like everyone else and they are going to ask for the $5 billion. Is it the most serious thing in the world? Is it going to make the lives of Americans better if it happens? It is not for them to determine.”
Again Mr. Flynt, in all his vulgarity, is challenging the American people and U.S. government to take a look at itself and identify the hypocrisy. Those of you who are familiar with Mr. Flynt (not his magazine) or took Constitutional law will remember he was sued for libel by Jerry Falwell for printing a mock advertisement of Falwell having incestuous sex with his mother in an outhouse. Flynt argued because Falwell was a public figure and the ad was an obvious parody, the ad, even if it may be in terrible taste, was protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The case made it all the way to the Supreme Court and low and behold Mr. Flynt won and is cited as one of the most important legal precedents for free speech.
Mr. Flynt is now calling out the American government. His point is not to get money but to remind everyone that the bailout of automakers and the financial industry is only the beginning. Who is worthy and who isn’t of a bailout? Or should we be bailing out anyone at all? I don’t know but I am concerned what precedent these bailouts have set. Where do we stop? Who determines the worthiness of a business or an industry? Congress? The Secretary of the Treasury? Or should the government get out of the bailout business altogether and let capitalism run its course?
What I find most ironic are those staunch house Republicans which were so opposed to both bailout plans are more in line with Mr. Flynt, the porn king, than they are their own party’s leader, President Bush.
As much as it pains me, Mr. Flynt’s vulgarity will once again make us all take a second look at society, our government and ourselves and hopefully force the issue.
My dear friends, this is a joke to make a point.
“The take here is that everyone and their mother want to be bailed out from the banks to the big three,” said Owen Moogan, spokesman for Larry Flynt. “The porn industry has been hurt by the downturn like everyone else and they are going to ask for the $5 billion. Is it the most serious thing in the world? Is it going to make the lives of Americans better if it happens? It is not for them to determine.”
Again Mr. Flynt, in all his vulgarity, is challenging the American people and U.S. government to take a look at itself and identify the hypocrisy. Those of you who are familiar with Mr. Flynt (not his magazine) or took Constitutional law will remember he was sued for libel by Jerry Falwell for printing a mock advertisement of Falwell having incestuous sex with his mother in an outhouse. Flynt argued because Falwell was a public figure and the ad was an obvious parody, the ad, even if it may be in terrible taste, was protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The case made it all the way to the Supreme Court and low and behold Mr. Flynt won and is cited as one of the most important legal precedents for free speech.
Mr. Flynt is now calling out the American government. His point is not to get money but to remind everyone that the bailout of automakers and the financial industry is only the beginning. Who is worthy and who isn’t of a bailout? Or should we be bailing out anyone at all? I don’t know but I am concerned what precedent these bailouts have set. Where do we stop? Who determines the worthiness of a business or an industry? Congress? The Secretary of the Treasury? Or should the government get out of the bailout business altogether and let capitalism run its course?
What I find most ironic are those staunch house Republicans which were so opposed to both bailout plans are more in line with Mr. Flynt, the porn king, than they are their own party’s leader, President Bush.
As much as it pains me, Mr. Flynt’s vulgarity will once again make us all take a second look at society, our government and ourselves and hopefully force the issue.
2 comments:
Good points...just one correction, it's Joe Francis, not Steve "The Franchise" Francis, one of the most referred to basketball players in Rap history, formerly of the Knicks, Rockets, Magic, Maryland Terrapins and currently the Memphis Grizzlies.
I hope you are able to make it past the 10 post "wall".
Thank you, correction made. Funny, I corrected Steve Sebelius (LV CityLife Editor) yesterday where he said Republican where he meant Democrat).
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