Is the porn industry up next for a bailout? If porn titans Joe Francis and Larry Flynt have anything to do with it, it will.
Yes, ladies and gentleman, the titans of pornography are begging for a bailout.
Joe Francis, creator of the “Girl’s Gone Wild” video series, and Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler, will ask Congress for a $5 billion bailout, according to TMZ.
Why does the porn industry need a bailout? Because apparently even porn is getting smacked by the recession.
XXX DVD sales have taken a hit – about a 22% hit, according to TMZ.
“With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind,” Flynt is quoted as saying on TMZ. “It’s time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America.”
Francis thinks that the porn industry deserves a bailout just like the auto and financial industries got, and he said he’ll go to DC to get it, according to TMZ.
Why not?
Why is it good to bail out the financial companies who created this crisis by their greed and irresponsible behavior (in other words saving the bad guys) but bad to help a company who is a victim of the crisis?
The financial companies that have been bailed out are NOT victims of the financial crisis… they are the ones who created it!
Hello pernordin thanx for the visit and the comment.
Personally, I would rather see my tax doolars for the bailout go to the porn industry, than a bunch of people who have been screwing me for years.
🙂 ” who have been screwing me for years” 🙂 Pun intended? Nice. 🙂
Well, sadly it is politically correct to hate porn, so I doubt they will get it.
But I dont think that Flynt’s aim is to get money (he says himself that business is going well) but to make people think… here they have called his business “immoral” all these years and for that reason they wont grant a bail-out even if where needed. Yet arent the _real_ immoral guys the ones who have been screwing the people for years – as you aptly put it – and created this financial problem? I think this is what Flynt wants to achieve… to make people look up in the sky and see the pigs flying… But all I can say is “Good luck with that”. This might be the first battle he will lose.
Per
Per…I agree Flynt is not really in it for bailout cash……But Joe whats-his-name is…with all the lawsuits he has against him he probably needs the cash. I say give it to them, at least they provide a service to the public…the other guys were only in it for themselves.
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