Posted on 05/27/2011 10:55:13 AM PDT by wagglebee
Sarah Palin’s son Trig is in the news again following the liberal blog Wonkette bashing her and saying her son, who has Down Syndrome, is “retarded” and “somewhat alive.” Now Hustler published Larry Flynt has gotten in on the attacks.
Flynt is no stranger to controversial comments over the years as the head of the soft-cord pornographic magazine and a free speech advocate, but his comments about Sarah Palin’s son may be some of the most over-the-top remarks he’s made to date.
In a new interview with the London Independent newspaper, Flynt rambled from topic to topic until he settled on Palin, who is considering whether to run for the Republican nomination for president this year.
“Sarah Palin is the dumbest thing. But I made a fortune off of her. [He made a porn film called Nailin' Palin, based on her],” he said.
Then, he went after Trig, saying, “She did a disservice to every woman in America. She knew from the first month of pregnancy that kid was going to be Down’s Syndrome. It’s brain dead. A virtual vegetable.”
Flynt followed up on the Wonkette theme — that Palin is supposedly exploiting Trig by having him with her at some political events — by saying, “She carries it to all these different political events against abortion, she did it just because she didn’t want to say she’d had an abortion. How long is it going to live? Another 12, 15 years? Doesn’t even know it’s in this world.”
“So what kind of compassionate conservative is she? I don’t think anybody will want her near the White House,” Flynt added.
The London Independent reporter, Johann Hair, was left speechless: “I am so thrown by the unpleasantness of all this I don’t even interject.”
In its attack on Palin and her disabled son, the Wonkette post commented on his birthday and said, “What’s he dreaming about? Nothing. He’s retarded. His mom went to a lot of trouble to leak amniotic fluid over 8 states to make sure that he arrived in this world somewhat alive.
The Wonkette story prompted a massive conservative backlash on Twitter and calls for major advertisers to pull their advertising. Several companies such as Papa Johns, Huggies and Vanguard dropped their ads and others soon followed suit.
Wonkette eventually removed the post and issued a tepid apology and the writer, Jack Steuf, has left the blog.
I’m speechless.
Can you imagine if some religious leader said that about obama’s daughter?
I think Flynt is just bitter because the internet wrecked his porn bizness
“STAND UP, CHUCK!”
[One more self-moderated comment to avoid being suspended by the mods.]
I am so ashamed of myself for this but
*snort*
Larry has become rich and famous, yet look at how he is using his precious life. His coarseness is painfully elevating baby Trig once again, as an example of innocence and pure love, both given and received .. how does that quality measure up to assessing the worth of a life, vs Larry Flynt’s sordid debauchery?
All accounts of the afterlife by near-death survivors indicate Larry will have one heckuva flashback on his life, before his final judgement encounter
Hell is too good for him.
Personally, I’ve always wondered how Flynt’s parents were related. And this foes way back to the 1970’s.
Thanks for that contextual perspective. It doesn’t undo the offense to an innocent child, but it made me smile ;-)
Here’s the list of companies who pulled their advertising.
* JJIll: “All: Please know we do not condone the Wonkette story. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. We have taken action to remove our ads.”
* Holland America Cruises: “Thanks for letting us known, we have blocked that page from running our ads.”
* Nordstrom: “Thanks for letting us know. The ads have been removed. We’re sorry to disappoint you.”
* Reliant Energy: “Thank you for alerting us. We did not choose this site and are working to have this removed immediately.”
* Bob Evans: “Our ad is not supposed to be running on that site. Agency has been alerted to pull it immediately.”
* Coldwell Banker: “We are in the process of pulling our ads from Wonkette.”
* DealSwarm: “We’ve pulled our ads from the site — we wouldn’t have approved them running next to that blog post. (Trig is a cutie pie.) Thank you for alerting us — we weren’t aware our ads were running alongside a blog post like that. Ads have been pulled.”
* MetroPCS: “We don’t condone @Wonkette, have removed the ad and ensured that our ads won’t appear on this site in the future. Thanks for bringing to our attention.”
* StarKist: “We’ve pulled our ads from Wonkette effective immediately. Any mean-spirited coverage of kids is wrong. Glad you told us about this.”
* TMobile: “Thank you for your note. We have pulled all of our advertising from the site. We appreciate the heads up from our fans. It allowed us to respond to the issue in a timely manner.”
* Starwood Hotels: “Thank you for bringing this to our attention and we are in the process of removing all Starwood ads from this site.”
* REI: “Thanks for bringing the Wonkette article to our attention today; REI is no longer advertising on the site.”
* Whataburger: “Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. We immediately looked into this issue and have removed this web site from our ad rotation. This content does not represent Whataburger’s guiding principles or company values. In fact, supporting children with disabilities is one of the areas in which Whataburger focuses its charitable giving efforts. Thank you again for your concern and action. We appreciate your business and hope you will remain a devoted Whataburger customer. “
* Jimmy Johns: “We are pulling all advertising from Wonkette right away, thanks for the heads up.”
* Ford: “We have since pulled our ads from Wonkette. Thank you for your concern for the Ford brand. Please share. We already removed our ads from the site (it was a network buy). Please tell others.”
* Toyota: “To those that contacted us about our ads appearing on Wonkette, we have taken steps to ensure they no longer appear on that site. Thank you.”
* Adobe: “We’ve taken steps to make sure our ads do not appear on that site in the future.”
* Choice Hotels: “Thanks for contacting us. We apologize our ad ran on wonkette.com – it was an error. We are working to remove it from the site.”
* Kodak: “Thanks for sharing your concerns about this. As of today, we are no longer advertising with Wonkette.”
* Coke: “Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We’ve asked for our ad to stop appearing on the site.”
* LifeLock: “Thanks everyone for telling us about Wonkette’s offensive article yesterday. We did indeed remove our ads from the site.”
* AT&T: “Just wanted to let you know we pulled our ads from that site last Wednesday.”
* Finish Line (shoes): “Thank you for bringing the @Wonkette story to our attention. We will be removing our ads.”
* Betty Crocker: “Hi everyone! We really appreciate your feedback and we wanted to let you know we have removed all ads from Wonkette.com.”
Hell was created for child-molesting freaks like Flynt.
goes, not foes
GRrrr
Soulless eyes.
Damn!!! lighten up francis. Wow what a thing to say.
Indeed, O brilliant one.
It will be a beautiful day when this degenerate worm takes his last breath. I hope he chokes to death on his own vomit.
Trig exudes the thing most lacking in Flatflynt, love. Larry Flynt will never comprehend that and even as he spends eternity in the torment of Hell, he will not stumble upon that truth, that Trig Palin is loved and loves, and does not do so for conscious gain but just because he is loving.
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