"Hustler" founder Larry Flynt has passed away!

[imanamerican63]

Last edited Wed Feb 10, 2021, 09:48 PM - Edit history (4)

Controversial founder of the adult magazine was 78.

Story from NBC News


Updated to thread! I heard Trump in an interview a while back that he stated Flynt was a close friend. I am sorry if that is wrong and I should have clarified this when I posted this. I have no link and goes as hear say.

[sfstaxprep]

1. I Still Think He's Not A Good Person

I forgot that he supported Bill Clinton.

He always seemed like a person unworthy of respect.

[hlthe2b]

4. Regardless of your views on "Hustler," Flynnt did support Clinton and Dems against the RW

[DonaldsRump]

12. He most certainly did

One of the great moments (if you can say anything was great) of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was Flynt's offer to Kenneth Starr. Flynt offered Starr a job writing for Hustler, saying that "The Starr Report" was the finest pornography he had ever read!

I wish the Mueller Report had been equally graphic. We might not be in the mess we're in had it been.

Larry Flynt was an unusual man, for sure. But he did what he could to attack political hypocrisy. More than most.

[a kennedy]

2. Am I mistaken or didn't he come to Bill Clinton's defense???

Or is my 70 year old brain losing it.

[hlthe2b]

5. Yes. He's been a vocal opponent to the RW for decades.

[a kennedy]

10. Back in that time I only knew of Larry Flint as the hustler magazine owner.....

and I did feel better about him when he did come to POTUS Clinton’s defense.

[hlthe2b]

3. Trump's Buddy? Really?! In October 2017, Flynt offered a $10 million reward for any evidence that

would lead to the impeachment of Donald Trump.

I don't know where you are getting that the two were "buddies."

[imanamerican63]

9. According to Trump they were buddies from the past.

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[TwilightZone]

13. "According to Trump "

I think I see the problem.

[hlthe2b]

14. According to "Trump*," YOU and I were probably his "buddies from the past"

Hmmm. *if he thought there was a benefit in saying so.

[Baltimike]

18. link? I find this disparraging toward Larry Flynt nt

[imanamerican63]

21. I have no link, but Trump was naming people who he was good friends with & Flynt was named by Trump.

It was in an interview I heard back several years ago. Sorry if I mistaken, but pretty sure of this.

[Baltimike]

27. Please change your OP title...pretty please...

maybe include it in the body of it, but Flynt was pretty far liberal, and I'd be pissed if someone called me a Trump buddy on the day I died...

[JI7]

19. So you just took Trump at his word rather than actually looking at Flynt's

history ...

[AmyStrange]

26. +100000000000000000000000000000000 x 2

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Well said.
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[LeftInTX]

34. In the past, (20 years ago) Trump was not a social conservative and was a Democrat

Trump was no saint and was probably a Flynt supporter. Trump used to be a Democrat.
All this social conservative crap was just so he could run as a Republican.

[hlthe2b]

35. While the OP has now edited, the original subject line was "Trump's buddy "Hustler" founder Larry

Flynt has passed away!"

THAT is what everyone is reacting to and was misleading as hell. Might Flynt have had a passing relationship with Trump 20-25 years ago? Sure. who didn't. But to say he was "a buddy with Trump" is simply not true. I cite his offer to expose Trump as but one example.

[scarletwoman]

6. I'm quite sure Larry Flynt and trump were NOT buddies.

[LuvNewcastle]

7. I.admired Flynt for going against Jerry Falwell.

Never could stand Falwell, and Flynt won! He was a complex character, certainly not all bad.

[Mr.Bill]

15. And when their case got to the Supreme Court, just to make a point

about freedom of speech, Flynt showed up to the hearings with a T-shirt that said FUCK THIS COURT on the front of it. He got away with it, and still won.

[DrToast]

32. It was a unanimous decision

Even Scalia voted for Flynt.

[Kaleva]

16. And afterwards, Falwell and Flynt became lifelong friends.

[LeftInTX]

37. What?????

[Kaleva]

38. A link

https://www.latimes.com/la-op-flynt20may20-story.html

[LeftInTX]

39. Interesting, I find Falwell repugnant, but maybe they had commonalities in their southern upbringing

I'm sure Falwell had a few skeletons in his closet.

[Kaleva]

40. Ginsburg and Scalia were best friends

[LeftInTX]

41. Very, very different situation

Both were workmates, on the SC with similar work backgrounds...
They just had very differences in the interpretation of laws obviously.

They grew up in the North East...
Both had similar education..
Both were appeal judges prior to the SC

There was mutual respect for each other...

It would be no different than Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell being friends..
However, the SC work is a bit different than always being oppositional to each other, as in the senate.

[Kaleva]

42. Many here say they can't be friends with those on the right.

But Scalia and Ginsburg, Falwell and Flynt, Bush43 and Michelle Obama show deep friendships are possible.

[LeftInTX]

47. I still think Falwell and Flynt is odd

The others are friends by mutual institutions

[BigmanPigman]

8. He did fight for the 1st Ammend.

[JI7]

11. He wasn't Trump's buddy

[maryellen99]

17. He was shot for having an interracial couple in Hustler

They are pretty sure he was shot by this guy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Paul_Franklin

[underpants]

30. I thought it was for the pics of US dead in Vietnam

[JI7]

20. Are you going to edit or delete the OP ?

[dalton99a]

22. Flynt was no friend of Trump/MAGA

[superpatriotman]

29. +1

RIP Larry Flynt

[gldstwmn]

23. He was a huge contributor

to Progressive and Dem causes. As far as I can tell, he wasn't any sort of friend to Orange.

[Cirque du So-What]

24. Please, delete your baseless assertion

It would be a travesty to allow it to remain.

[Demonaut]

25. fix your op then

[AmyStrange]

28. Good for you, dude...

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I personally appreciate the fix.
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[MineralMan]

31. Link to that interview, please.

Can't? Then I suggest you self delete this.

Larry Flynt was a sleazebag, no doubt, but he was never a friend of Trump.

[AmyStrange]

33. If Larry Flynt was a sleazebag, then ALL men are sleazebags...

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He was a good man with a dirty mind, and that's all.
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[beaglelover]

46. Agree 100%

[MustLoveBeagles]

36. While he was controversial he was a ally to the Democrats

Rest in Peace

[NurseJackie]

43. Hustler Magazine v. Falwell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell

Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court ruling that the First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit public figures from recovering damages for the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED), if the emotional distress was caused by a caricature, parody, or satire of the public figure that a reasonable person would not have interpreted as factual.[1]

In an 8–0 decision, the Court ruled in favor of Hustler magazine, holding that a parody ad published in the magazine depicting televangelist and political commentator Jerry Falwell Sr. as an incestuous drunk, was protected speech since Falwell was a public figure and the parody could not have been reasonably considered believable. Therefore, the Court held that the emotional distress inflicted on Falwell by the ad was not a sufficient reason to deny the First Amendment protection to speech that is critical of public officials and public figures.[1][2] Constitutional limits to defamation liability cannot be circumvented for claims arising from speech by asserting an alternative theory of tort liability such as IIED.

[AmyStrange]

48. +100000000000000000000000000000000 x 2

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"if the emotional distress was caused by a caricature, parody, or satire of the public figure that a reasonable person would not have interpreted as factual."

I guess I'm not a reasonable person.
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[malaise]

44. I respected him for exposing ReTHUG hypocrites n/t

[BannonsLiver]

45. You heard wrong.