Found this HERE on CNN . . . .
Ready for this? You sure?
Larry Flint and the porn industry want the US government to bail out the porn industry to the toon of $5 billion.
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis said Wednesday they will request that Congress allocate $5 billion for a bailout of the adult entertainment industry. “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.
If this goes through I hope Congress is ready to see people calling for their removal from office and a new election yesterday. . . . this is nuts.
Just when you thought you had seen it all . . . . look at what you started Dems, this bail out crap was your idea. Time to stop bailing out businesses and start cutting our taxes so the average guy actually has some money to spend. Guess what? That would be good for business all around. . ..
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Bush came up with the big financial bailout and McCain voted for it. That is why Obama won. Both parties have lost their freaking minds.
This is pretty funny. Leave it to Larry Flint to point out the stupidity of our government.
I think they are specifically trying to make the point about how ridiculous all the bailouts are.
I doubt that they are actually expecting to get a bailout.
But I'd be willing to bet that shortly after they are denied any bailout money, they will file a federal "equal protection" lawsuit against the government.
Again, not really to get any money out of it, but to illustrate the ludicrous nature of this whole thing.
'course I could be wrong...it could just be a way for reknowned attention-whore Larry Flynt to get himself into the media again.
Either way, I think this could be interesting as it plays out.
I think Bush and Congress both should get credit for coming up with the bail out.
I think McCain killed himself politically by voting for it. If he had the guts to vote NO he might have made enough difference to win. . .
Too bad because now we all get to pay. And so do our kids, their kids, their kids kids. . . .
Sailorcurt - You may be right, I don't think they really expect to get anything but they do show they have quite a set of brass ones by trying. I agree that Flint may be doing it for the press time but if he can get money too it is a win win for him. That and I wish I thought Congress had the brains to say no but I am not so sure. They do a lot of dumb shit and hope we forget it by election time. . . .
I can hear it now - "do it for the Silicone - we don't want that working the streets now do we? Don't take their jobs. . . ."
Anytime you talk about government and porn, you should mention that delicious urban legend about the government not being able to run a brothel. It's not true, but it's o-so-happy:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/government/a/mustang_ranch.htm
Lissa - if anyone could loose money running a brothel in NV you have to admit it would be the government. . .
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