Barry Ritholtz at Big Picture, noting that porn impresarios Larry Flynt and Joe Francis intend to ask Congress for a $5 billion bailout for their sagging industry:
According to TMZ website, Adult DVDs (and by Adult, we mean XXX) sales are, well flaccid. DVD sales are off 22%.
Leave it to the porn guys to make a point all Americans can stand behind.
I demand bi-partisan hearings chaired by John Cornyn.
Taking a page from the first commenter, the porn industry is obviously too big to fail.
Jon–
Do you really find this that helpful???
I don’t think President-Elect Obama finds it helpful….or funny.
The World Economy is in deep trouble.
Getting rid of scumbags like Francis & Flynt is one of the few blessings….dumbass.
Mr. C- May we judge each and every one of your posts as to whether it is helpful?
Brings a whole new meaning to the term Stimulus Package.
You can’t get rid of fleas like Flint and Francis. They’re like dust mites, always around and always irritating. As long as men have a free hand, there will always be porn.
Nobody with a brain pays for pr0n.
Flynt and his buddy Francis had better be set for life or have diversified into other businesses like gas stations or fast food franchises.
It used to be a truism that nobody made money on the web except unless they peddled sex or get-rich-quick schemes.
But that seems to be changing, it’s hard for anybody to make money when so much is available on the web for free (of both categories). And that includes news & opinion now also.
Too funny!
Cyn, I think Flint and Francis are trying to (besides getting publicity and make money) point out that bailouts, generally, are a bad idea. You should welcome them, they’re on your side.
I’m glad they’re doing what they’re doing, even if they are a bit creepy.
Great Orators of the Democrat Party,Then…
‘One man with courage makes a majority.’
– Andrew Jackson
‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
‘The buck stops here.’
– Harry S. Truman
‘Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.’
– John F. Kennedy
And for today’s Democrats…
‘It depends what your definition of ‘IS’ is?”
– Bill Clinton
‘That Obama – I would like to cut his NUTS off.’
– Jesse Jackson
‘Those rumors are false …. I believe in the sanctity of marriage.’
– John Edwards
‘I invented the Internet.’
– Al Gore
‘The next person that tells me I’m not religious, I’m going to shove my rosary beads up their ***.’
– Joe Biden
‘ America is–is no longer, uh, what it–it, uh, could be, uh what it was once was…uh, and I say to myself, ‘uh, I don’t want that future, uh, uh for my children.’
– Barack Obama
‘I have campaigned in all 57 states.’
– Barack Obama
‘You don’t need God anymore, you have us Democrats.’
– Nancy Pelosi (said back in 2006)
‘Bill is the greatest husband and father I know. No one is more faithful, true, and honest than he.’
– Hillary Clinton (said back in 1998)
It seems to be turning out that the greatest threat to a free press is the “electronic revolution” causing an overabundance of freely-flowing information, a great deal of it of, shall we say, dubious utility.
The posts Cynical and Puddy make to this blog certainly exemplify this.
Great orators of the Republican party, then
“Four score and seven years ago…”
Honest Abe
Great orators or the Republican party, now
“I’m the deciderer!”
W
“What’d that fooking Cynical do with my goat?”
Pudz
@1 Why not bail out the porn industry? They employ more people than General Motors, and it’s steady work.
@7 You don’t really think Cynical has a sense of humor, do you? Or gets satire? When he fucks his goats, only the goats and us liberals think it’s funny.
@11 I’m not so sure that the goat is laughing. However, if you look at the open thread you’ll see that Pudz is into video, so maybe we’ll find out. He’s also needing to lawyer up, as they say, in case you’re interested. Something to do with privacy law and transporting Cynical’s goat across state lines.
Watch Law & Order on NBC at 10pm. Rich white liberals are caught buying children in Haiti and selling them as slaves in NYC
HNMT @ 13
So you’re the guy writing to the Weissbach show? How was your five minutes of fame? Creep.
Naaah. Those slave dealers are Al D’Amato fans.
So HNMT. How are Tues nights in Yelm?
Is it let’s get together at the local wingnut tavern to engage in a two-hours hate of “206ers”?
@ 13- are you really suggesting a fictional TV show as a reference?
@8: Poor cynical needs to make up dumb quotes. All we have to do to evaluate the republican party is look at the record of the current occupant of the White House (that cynical, puddy and the other wingnuts supported and voted for twice).
Biggest budget deficit in history
Worst economic performance since Hoover
Most corrupt EVER
Most incompetent EVER (Brownie, Katrina, Iraq, Blackwater, Gonzalez….and on and on)
Least repect worldwide for the US ever (thanks to Iraq and lying to the world about wmd’s)
Least respect for the constitution ever (illegal wiretapping, ignoring the binding treaties of the Geneva convention, torture, etc.).
Largest margin, by number of votes, in history by a non-incumbent in Obamas trashing of the GOP.
Greatest democratic control of the house and Senate since before the contract with America failed.
Only the racist south is left in the republican column….something for Puddy to be proud of.
The hate from the right wing is intense indeed:
http://slog.thestranger.com/sl.....hreatening
YLB what’s it like to get pegged by JZ Knight and yoma at the same time? Is your mouth pussy sore?
Hate bigots like you deserve daily pegging by WWU folks.
19 – LMAO!!!! You’re a real loser so consumed by hate. Sorry but we got the last laugh last Nov 4. and we’ll have it again on the 20th.
Your kind is so over and done with!!
Listen to your Limbaugh and burn your eyeballs out with Faux News – it won’t do you any good.
Speaking of bailouts, I could use a couple of million myself!
@ 18 Pervert eye for the goat pen guy YLB:
The Strangers Dan Savage was on ‘show tunes singin’ Davey Ross’ radio program yesterday saying those threats to gay bars was likely done by one of your fellow gay liberal bretheren. Perhaps a disgruntled pink mafia member.
My advice? stay away from your regular haunts till this blows over and increase your trips to Goldy’s petting zoo.
I am sad to report that Mrs. C & I are headed South for 3 weeks. It’s going to be 74 & Sunny in San Diego the next 5 days.
Screw all you KLOWNS.
If you worked harder and invested well…you could be me!
The good news is I may occasionally check in with y’all.
Good-bye!
Have a nice day.
Cynical was shamed into leaving. I told him a month ago the names of the two stocks I was accumulating in 10,000 share blocks. Over the last two days one of those positions is up 89% and he knows it. I pointed it out to him yesterday. In premarket trading this morning it’s up again 17%. That’s 40% of my average buy price. The idiot is still holding Wells Fargo. By Cynical’s own, pathetic measure of a man, I’m better than him. He’s having a little trouble dealing with it. What a wretch he is. Good riddance to him.
Hmm, Cynical, I see that the second stock I told you about popped at the open. I wasn’t expecting that as I didn’t see any pre-market action. That’s gotta suck for you too. Both of them on a run. I see the Marketmaker is eyeballing my block order for a third position, another hard hit Microcap bio. Want to know the symbol so you can ride my coattails? This one has a perfect cup and handle formation and two blockbuster drugs in the pipeline and it’s January, if you know what that means. Oh, wait, I sometimes forget that you have no idea what I’m talking about. That’s because you don’t know the first thing about investing or trading. You thought it a great idea to buy a position in Wells Fargo during a financial meltdown! What a stupid fuck you are.
Yesterday I challenged Cynical to post trade confirmations again. Today he says he’s leaving the state. Of course, he’s lying. He always lies. But good riddance to him anyway.
Jon D. I posted this an hour before you. I thought McDimwitt should take a stand on this. Glad to see you are reading PuddyLinks.
David@4: Larry Flynt is a Democrat. Just ask Pelletizer. I gave him the link.
HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR
Little Rickie Dumbass @ 22
Sheeez… I just took one look at the story and said, yeah this is something the unhinged right wing would do.
Larry Sinclair? This? Another piece of the puzzle falls into place.
I think WE ALL KNOW NOW about little Rickie Dumbass’ SECRET LIFE.
So pathetic. You right wing closet case. You should hook up with this Republican:
http://wonkette.com/378379/mee.....-frat-boys
He’ll film the whole thing for the memories.
Re-run@29: Wow you posted it again. Running out of blog material? Just repackage it and slide it in again?
30 – You giving orders again? Re-run? You’re always orgasming about something you SAY you wrote in a comment thread six months, two years, whatever ago that probably everybody ignored seeing as you’re so fucking crazy.
Just like you, I’ll attack my political adversaries as I SEE FIT.
Screw you and your silly orders.
By the way, here’s ONLY ONE REASON why the people are SICK of your ilk:
http://republicanoffenders.com/
Freaking holier than thou hypocrites.
Re-run@31 Where did I give you orders perv eye on the goat farm?
Projecting your hate again I see.
Re-run@31: I refer to previous posts because they come true fool. Or your side does it’s “Oops we did it again”.
LMAO!!! @ 32
This is not hate? Terms of endearment maybe.
You’ve been hating since you came here. And you’ve been WRONG since you’ve come here. We’ve won. You lost.
Hey it sucks to be on the losing side but that’s the way it goes sometimes.
Hey Stupes,
When are you going to entertain us with busting your nuts over that “libtard” Reagan?
http://airamerica.com/ronreagan
LMAO!!! This is too much fun!
Always knew the Clinton-Flynt Administration was TOO BIG to fail. Blue Dress Bill is a bit bent and to the left, but Larry is, nolo contendere, the Costco oh-My-GOD!!! size.
Mrs. Rasputin said that the mad monk “had enough” for everybody. BIG Larry, First Amendment saint, has way more than enough for everybody, so much, in fact, that we’ll need buckets and barrels for the bail-out.