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Hobbit
01-08-2009, 04:13 AM
Larry Flynt ('Hustler') and Joe Francis ('Girls Gone Wild') have pulled up to the trough to ask for a bailout from the federal government to the tune of $5 billion. I don't know if they're really serious about it, as they admit that they're in no danger of collapse, but given the track record of these two, I have no reason to doubt their sincerity.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/07/campbell.brown.porn.bailout/index.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4165049/US-porn-industry-seeks-multi-billion-dollar-bailout.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/07/porn-bailout-larry-flynt_n_155878.html
http://www.tmz.com/2009/01/07/porn-kings-help-us-through-hard-times/
http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=8212062&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1

I only post so many links because I didn't believe it myself until I saw it linked so much. It could still be some kind of hoax (fact-checking isn't what it used to be and if a story appears in one place, it will appear everywhere), but it looks legit.

moon
01-08-2009, 08:09 AM
Give them government-issue burkhas and plenty of free disinfectant.

red states rule
01-08-2009, 08:10 AM
Here is the press release

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- As the 2009 AVN Adult Expo opens in Las Vegas this week, Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis and HUSTLER magazine publisher Larry Flynt are petitioning the newly convened 111th Congress to provide a financial bailout for the adult entertainment industry along the lines of what is being sought by the Big Three automakers, a spokesperson for Francis announced today.

Adult industry leaders Flynt and Francis sent a joint request to Congress asking for $5 billion in federal assistance, "Just to see us through hard times," Francis said. "Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation's most important businesses, we feel we deserve the same consideration. In difficult economic times, Americans turn to entertainment for relief. More and more, the kind of entertainment they turn to is adult entertainment."

But according to Flynt the recession has acted like a national cold shower. "People are too depressed to be sexually active," Flynt says, "This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex."

While not to the degree felt by banks and automakers, the Adult Entertainment industry has been hit by the effects of the economic downturn. DVD sales and rentals have decreased by 22 percent in the past year as viewers turn to the internet for adult entertainment. It is estimated that roughly half of all internet users visit adult sites, with the number of unique visitors to adult websites (including GirlsGoneWild.com and Hustler.com) has grown to more than 75 million per month.

But the "saltpeter" effect remains.

"With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind," Flynt says, "It's time for congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America. The only way they can do this is by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly."

"The popularity of adult entertainment in America has grown steadily for the past half century," Francis says. "Its emergence into the mainstream of popular culture suggests that the US government should actively support the adult industry's survival and growth, just as it feels the need to support any other industry cherished by the American people."

http://sev.prnewswire.com/entertainment/20090107/LAW03007012009-1.html

red states rule
01-08-2009, 08:33 AM
Looks like Larry Flint's Palin look-alike films must not be paying off.

Maybe he should try some other political look alikes.

Anyone have any ideas?

avatar4321
01-08-2009, 08:46 AM
Why does Larry Flynt seem to think that people arent having sex unless they purchase his products? Why does he seem to think they are having sex if they are?

Seems to me that his products cause more problems in the sex lives of people than solving them.

red states rule
01-08-2009, 08:51 AM
I don't know if Larry Flint was just making fun of the bailout insanity or not. If it's satire, it's good satire

I would think that that would be the one industry that wouldn't ever be hurting.

PostmodernProphet
01-08-2009, 11:20 AM
I would think that that would be the one industry that wouldn't ever be hurting.

I can't imagine you can make money with porn....there is so much free stuff available on the internet, why would you need to give anyone money?.......

red states rule
01-08-2009, 11:22 AM
I can't imagine you can make money with porn....there is so much free stuff available on the internet, why would you need to give anyone money?.......

I was think about the bars, shops, pay TV, and other sources where the industry makes thier money

I have a friend who is from Chicago, he said the town is full of clubs - and they take in alot of money. It is mostly an all cash business

Mr. P
01-08-2009, 01:04 PM
Sex, drugs and alcohol will ALWAYS sell. I think this is an attempt to point out just how "ridiculous" the bailout stuff has become. I may be wrong.

manu1959
01-08-2009, 01:24 PM
Give them government-issue burkhas and plenty of free disinfectant.

why.....your muslim buddies won't have anything to read or watch when they travel to england and the states......

red states rule
01-08-2009, 01:30 PM
http://www.strangepolitics.com/images/content/12433.jpg