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‘Hustler’ founder Larry Flynt dead at 78
NYPost ^ | 02 10 2021 | Tamar Lapin

Posted on 02/10/2021 5:46:23 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Larry Flynt — the notorious porn peddler who built a smut empire out of his “Hustler” magazine and fashioned himself into a champion of the First Amendment — died on Wednesday. He was 78. Flynt, whose death was first reported by TMZ, had suffered from a slew of health problems since a 1978 murder attempt that left him paralyzed from the waist down.

The controversial mogul and self-described First Amendment champion was known for challenging the establishement and his myriad legal battles involving free speech and pornography regulations.

He often clashed with feminist groups and the religious right, and was once sued by televangelist the Rev. Jerry Falwell in a case that made it to the US Supreme Court.

Flynt was portrayed by Woody Harrelson in the Oscar-nominated 1996 film, “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” which chronicled the pornographer’s life, including his court clash with Falwell.

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To: Dead Corpse

..... .... ... In other news, Francisco Franco is STILL DEAD. Story at 11.


41 posted on 02/10/2021 6:57:35 PM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: yesthatjallen

AMF!


42 posted on 02/10/2021 6:57:45 PM PST by Redleg Duke (Who the hell would throw shit at a fan?)
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To: yesthatjallen

I would have predicted he’d be dead 20+ years ago

Strange how things work out sometimes.


43 posted on 02/10/2021 6:58:21 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: DoughtyOne
I would have predicted he’d be dead 20+ years ago

And yet at 78, three days after his demise, he is still being posted about.

Stiiiiiil Dead.

44 posted on 02/10/2021 7:02:09 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Redleg Duke

American Machine & Foundry ;-)


45 posted on 02/10/2021 7:04:42 PM PST by crosdaddy
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To: crosdaddy

My dad owned a AMF garden tractor.
Sucker was only 8 hp but man would that thing push snow. Incredible torque and well balanced.


46 posted on 02/10/2021 7:19:07 PM PST by setter
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To: Deplorable American1776

I have to admit I looked at numerous Hustler mags in my misguided youth


47 posted on 02/10/2021 7:20:42 PM PST by setter
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To: Fightin Whitey

Yes he is...


48 posted on 02/10/2021 7:23:17 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Bless his little heart. RIP.


49 posted on 02/10/2021 7:23:45 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: HIDEK6

The average Congress-critter today makes Larry Flynt look like a saint in comparison.

I would rather have someone publishing smut than someone calling me names and trying to shut me up....


50 posted on 02/10/2021 7:23:50 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: setter

I made Bowling pin return Stamping for them; remember my first trip there(Shelby ,Ohio) I think it was. Being from New York, when I stopped at a gas station for directions, I thought I was in the Deep South, wasn’t really expecting an accent in Ohio.


51 posted on 02/10/2021 7:24:51 PM PST by crosdaddy
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To: yesthatjallen
RIH
52 posted on 02/10/2021 7:36:42 PM PST by laweeks (Just wait till you have to have a biopsy from your prostate, now that is an experience you will neve)
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To: laweeks

Well, here’s to praying more perverts are on their way out the door and straight to hell!


53 posted on 02/10/2021 7:45:48 PM PST by princess leah (Princess Leah)
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To: LibertyWoman
"He and Jerry Falwell were friends. He knew the way to Christ and at one point on an airplane ride, he gave his life to Christ. Obviously, he didn't follow through."

He repented and did accept Christ at one time.

He changed Hustler into some kind of "Adam and Eve" quasi-religious magazine, but it about tanked.

He gave up his religious phase pretty quickly and went back to his money making and porn.

He was quite anti-Christian and pro-leftist after that.

54 posted on 02/10/2021 7:47:53 PM PST by boop (Joe Biden is a racist.)
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To: vpintheak
I guarantee that he is severely regretting his life right now.

I agree! Too late now!

55 posted on 02/10/2021 8:06:14 PM PST by rapture-me
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Same here.


56 posted on 02/10/2021 8:34:38 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: Jolla

“I really miss the 1970s.”

Enough technology, but not too much. The best music and the best cars, (including the used beauties from the 50’s and 60’s for nothing!)


57 posted on 02/10/2021 8:57:30 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: Lockbar

I thought he was shot from a distance with a rifle.


58 posted on 02/10/2021 9:00:04 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: vpintheak

“I guarantee that he is severely regretting his life right now.”

Hell is a horrible place. Please avoid it by accepting the Lord, attending His Church and getting His sacrament of confession.

Hell has people who cannot eat, cannot breath and cannot sit down. They stand on maggots and stand next to fifteen foot demons. Everyone in hell wishes they were never born, wishes they would be reduced to dust, and regrets every single thing that they did in life, forever. No one in hell is allowed to say one word: “Mary.”

Hustler mag and Playboy mag promoted one false statement: a pregnant girl is a broken toy that needs to be fixed by abortion. Sick mags.

Just get to confession asap.


59 posted on 02/10/2021 9:27:24 PM PST by Falconspeed
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To: yesthatjallen

It should be noted that a normal night of “entertainment” on HBO or Showtime is probably more perverted and disgusting today than an issue of HUSTLER was in the 1970s. That’s how far our culture has fallen.

Enjoy Hell, Larry! This was what you were fighting for all those years.


60 posted on 02/10/2021 9:59:34 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Halftime score: COVID-19, Constitutional Freedoms - 0)
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