Larry Flynt and Joe Francis Ask for Government Bailout of the Adult Entertainment Industry

[eauclaireliberal]

Hustler's Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis Ask for Government Bailout of the Adult Entertainment Industry

The $13 Billion Industry Is In No Fear Of Collapse, But Why Take Chances?

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."

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[Hydra]

1. Flynt frequently makes me laugh these day

Too bad no one was listening when he demanded freedom of the press back in Afghanistan and early Iraq.

I have to say, though- I NEED a HUGE bailout! When's it gonna be my turn?

[eauclaireliberal]

3. Despite what some think about his primary business

Flynt is a force for civil liberties and civil rights. I love some of the ways he has thrown right-wing hypocrisy back in their faces.

[Hydra]

5. Oh, I'm aware

I don't have a problem with him being a Porn operator(Francis makes me sick, though). He's living proof that thoughcrime is punishable by death in America and does a great deal to derail that.

[anigbrowl]

4. Size isn't everything Hydra.

Write something funny, I'm banned from my favorite place for a month because dynamic IP addressing at my ISP made someone think I was someone else.

[Hydra]

6. I'm not following

Did you make a bailout joke and then get banned?

[anigbrowl]

10. No, I inadvertently incurred the wrath of Moot

[Hydra]

11. Oh Noes!!!

Lucky it was only a week, unless you want to be a /b/tard behind over 9000 proxies.

Beware the wrath of Mootles and his almighty banhammer!

I feel your pain, though.

[anigbrowl]

12. Month ;_;

it was for b& evasion, I guess someone else had been spoofing the same IP address.

[Hydra]

15. appeal it

I've never done enough to get banned, so I don't know how sympathetic they are, but it's worth a try.

[SidDithers]

13. Happened to me too...

but the dynamic IP changed and I was able to get back on a day later. Keep checking back :)

Sid

[anigbrowl]

16. Ah, winnage

I'm figuring it ought to come good after a few router reboots, since I don't post anything to attract the partyvan or Candlejack. I mean, that shou

[anigbrowl]

2. I think bailout is inappropriate. What the porn industry needs is economic STIMULUS. Mmm, yeah.

[Ken Burch]

7. Will Senator Shelby demand that the stars of San Fernando Valley porn

be paid no more than those who appear in Southern barnyard smut?

[Barney]

8. I'm sorry, but I love the reference to "hard times"

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[eauclaireliberal]

9. I was wondering when someone was going to say that

LOL

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Didn't he get the memo? Tax dollars are for Wall St. fat cats, No-bid Military Poo-bahs,

and to build endless amounts of prison cells to lock up pot smokers.

Tax Dollars are NOT to be used on pictures of people fucking!