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Hustler publisher Larry Flynt flips on earlier criticisms, plans to vote for Obama
Daily Caller ^ | 4/29/2012 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 04/30/2012 5:09:17 AM PDT by IbJensen

(Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt (C), flanked by Hustler contract girls Memphis Monroe (L) and Joey (R), signs autographs at the Hustler booth at the Adult Video News Adult Entertainment Expo at the Sands Expo Center January 7, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images))

Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, who once ran for governor of California with the slogan “the smut peddler who cares,” told The Daily Caller that he will vote to re-elect President Barack Obama in November.

Flynt has been a longtime Obama skeptic. In December 2010 he penned an open letter to the president in The Daily Beast titled “President Obama: You Are Toast.”

“I was delighted when you were elected,” he wrote then. “Now, like many other Americans, all I see is an ineffectual wimp. If you want a second term in office, you must win back the respect of the American people. From my vantage point it’s hard to see how you can do that.”

In a subsequent April 2011 letter to Obama, he wrote, “As it stands, you can no longer count on any of the groups that supported your Presidential bid last time around.”

But despite his disappointment with Obama on civil liberties issues, on ending foreign wars, on health care reform and on extending the Bush-era tax cuts, Larry Flynt is prepared to change his mind.

“I think Romney will win,” Flynt told TheDC, before hastily correcting himself. “Wait — I mean I think Obama will win, and I’m going to vote for him.”

Asked if he was dissatisfied with Obama’s performance as president, Flynt said Obama “has fallen far short in many ways,” mentioning the extension of the Patriot Act and “the way he’s dealt with Congress.”

But Flynt said it’s important “to consider the lesser of two evils.”

“I don’t think anyone would prefer Romney,” he explained.

Referring to Romney’s 2007 advocacy for porn-blocking software on all new computers, Flynt said the presumptive GOP nominee is “a typical politician: can’t keep the streets clean, but wants to keep our minds clear.”

Flynt added that Romney’s forthcoming commencement address at Liberty University — a school founded by Rev. Jerry Falwell, against whom Flynt won a landmark Supreme Court case on free speech — showed that the former Massachusetts governor “will pander to anyone.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: endorsedbypornonut; evilobamaregime; larryflint; pervert
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To: IbJensen

What a surprise! A flaccid waste of DNA endorsing another flaccid waste of DNA. Whooda guessed?


21 posted on 04/30/2012 5:51:22 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: IbJensen

I really need to be kept up-to-date on how world’s sleaziest pornographers are going to vote.


22 posted on 04/30/2012 5:52:07 AM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Endorsements are as newsworthy as croaking frogs, unless you have no mind of your own.


23 posted on 04/30/2012 5:52:23 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Vaquero

>> Is this filth bag still above ground?

Unfortunately, yes, thanks to a sniper who should have spent more time practicing at the range.


24 posted on 04/30/2012 5:57:49 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: Steely Tom

Check out Hugh Heffner.

Can Charles Manson vote?


25 posted on 04/30/2012 6:03:22 AM PDT by IbJensen ( I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what 0 does with mine)
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To: BigCinBigD

Who? Surely not...........


26 posted on 04/30/2012 6:04:12 AM PDT by IbJensen ( I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what 0 does with mine)
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27 posted on 04/30/2012 6:28:56 AM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons)
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To: IbJensen
Flynt said it’s important “to consider the lesser of two evils.”

The leaser of two evils comment from Flynt is as about as crazy a statement as I have heard.

28 posted on 04/30/2012 6:40:38 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: Voter#537

For them I would recommend wearing a Tychem LV 640 Chemical Suit (Level A) with internal oxygen, with a three stage decontamination afterwards of activated charcoal, chlorine dioxide, and carbolic acid. Then incinerate the suit after having it irradiated.

Assuming you’re had all your shots.


29 posted on 04/30/2012 6:49:52 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: IbJensen
Larry Flynt is as tired and worn-out looking;
....he's a relic of porn days gone by

**************

I concur with your analysis....

I thought his 15 minutes were up quite a while back....

30 posted on 04/30/2012 7:00:23 AM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: IbJensen; mickie
"Can Charles Manson vote?"

I don't know, but serial guy John Wayne Gacy of Chicago is endorsing the Messiah.

I know Gacy is deader than a door nail, but in Chicago that doesn't make any difference.

Leni

31 posted on 04/30/2012 7:24:39 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: IbJensen
Three blindfat pigs.

FMCDH(BITS)

32 posted on 04/30/2012 10:34:30 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: IbJensen
Note to Larry:

The STD clinic has a special on syphilis testing this month.

33 posted on 04/30/2012 10:53:05 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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