Cheeky: Porn industry wants a bailout
The kings of porn want a bailout. Hey, why not? Hank Paulson is the Naked Emperor. I’m sure he’ll sympathize:
Is the porn industry up next for a bailout? If porn titans Joe Francis and Larry Flynt have anything to do with it, it will.
Yes, ladies and gentleman, the titans of pornography are begging for a bailout.
Joe Francis, creator of the “Girl’s Gone Wild” video series, and Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler, will ask Congress for a $5 billion bailout, according to TMZ.
Why does the porn industry need a bailout? Because apparently even porn is getting smacked by the recession.
XXX DVD sales have taken a hit – about a 22% hit, according the TMZ.
“With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind,” Flynt is quoted as saying on TMZ. “It’s time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America.”
Francis thinks that the porn industry deserves a bailout just like the auto and financial industries got, and he said he’ll go to DC to get it, according to TMZ.
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Looks like it’s just a cheeky dig at bailout-mania. But who knows? Far-fetched attempts at grabbing TARP money have succeeded before…
Hat tip: QG
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I’m besieged with porn puns gone wild!
It’s the ultimate stimulus. The spending orgy to end all spending orgies. A dose of fiscal Viagra.
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What next, the ‘ladies of the night’?
L
Hard times?
Gee, Michelle, I thought this was a family-friendly blog!
Good one!
Deserving of a rim shot!
The obscenity of Government is more than I can stand.
Now, you added “cheeky”.
The hits just keep on coming (no pun intended).
Keep on keeping on, Michelle!
As we all know their services are vital to our economy. They’re too big to fail … no innuendos to be had here.
I guess they’re just going to have to keep it in their own pants.
Yeah, it seems like a publicity stunt.
I don’t believe in porn, haven’t bought any this century (being married helps), but as far as vices go, I think porn is generally cheap enough it would take a deeper economic downturn than we are currently experiencing to lower demand.
On January 7th, 2009 at 3:37 pm, 30 pcs of silver said:
Whoa!
A direct hit!
Kudos to you!
I can think a lot of things to say, but they would (appropriately) have to be removed. They may as well ask; nothing ventured, nothing gained.
I don’t think Congress will be rejuvinating ANYONE’S sexual appetite soon. Though some here have expressed a preference for Michelle Bachmann. And I guess if you are a random dude in a bathroom Larry Craig might work for ya.
Ok, who had the post about Nancy Pelosi’s $25 HuffPro and street corner? You are needed.
But if they get their request before Barney Frank………..he would do a cameo for union scale.
Bill Clinton may have to weigh in on this issue.
So they’re saying sales are a little bit limp?
Bailout for the porn industry because fewer people are buying their products of public fornication; not only do these guys have what I would call chutzpah (if I was Jewish), but this whole episode is what I would call an Oh Brother! moment.
This is too easy.
Don’t they have to convert to porn holding companies first?
I doubt a very solvent industry will come near a bailout.
Publicity stunt.
If bailout money is going to be spent I’d much rather see it go to porn than to the autoworkers union.
I do believe the other dude in the bathroom was Barney Frank.
I don’t see the problem…doing it for the children.
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Ditto. If I’m going to get screwed, I’d prefer it be by Girls Gone Wild rather than Union Bosses Gone Golfing.
I think I made a joke about this once.
I had no idea that …..
Finally someone who deserves a bailout!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Soft market?
We have a gun store in Chandler that uses a Clinton Clone advertising. They claim appointing Miss Hillary to State was the Monica Re-employment Act. Would that qualify for aid?
Yeah, it seems like a publicity stunt, but our Congress, out going President and incoming President are all clowns anyway.
Actually I consider the whole Bail Out business sort of pornographic.
Chester the Molester is starving. Can you help?
FEMA $$$ (taxpayer $$$) went to re-build porn production buildings in Chatsworth -CA after the ‘94 earth-quake…SO — TAXPAYER $$$ have already bailed-out the porn industry in recent history….
Hard times, indeed…..
On January 7th, 2009 at 3:47 pm, ErikTheRed said:
So they’re saying sales are a little bit limp?
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ROTFL!
They’re in the red instead of the “blue”!
On January 7th, 2009 at 3:37 pm, 30 pcs of silver said:
As we all know their services are vital to our economy. They’re too big to fail … no innuendos to be had here.
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Oh, yes, there are . . . but I don’t want to be banned.
If the porn industry goes under, it’ll be no skin off my, er, nose . . .
i guess they are having trouble holding thier own?
On January 7th, 2009 at 4:44 pm, mikeg said:
i guess they are having trouble holding thier own?
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If I’d been trying to drink anything, you would now owe me a new keyboard.
SPEW ALERT!
Heh, porn puns… keep ‘em coming.
Yeah, I felt gross after typing that, but hey… at least I’m not in congress.
With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind,” Flynt is quoted as saying on TMZ. “It’s time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America.”
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Want to “rejuvenate” our “sexual appetites”? Don’t remind us about our current Congress.
Maybe a stiff drink would help.
Yup and we already have sexual Congress going on in DC.
If I posted any of my puns I would be SSSOOOO banned. Its HARD to avoid the PENETRATING gaze of the moderators. So to avoided being BANGED of this web site, I must PULL OUT of this pun GANG BANG. I can not assult the moderators YOUNG VIRGIN ears with such vile filth. I will note HOwever that congress maybe the pron industries BIGGEST customers. Not that they would ever lower themselves to PIMP out the bailout for thier own SELF GRATIFICATION.
On January 7th, 2009 at 4:52 pm, sonofdy said:
If I posted any of my puns I would be SSSOOOO banned. Its HARD to avoid the PENETRATING gaze of the moderators. So to avoided being BANGED of this web site, I must PULL OUT of this pun GANG BANG. I can not assult the moderators YOUNG VIRGIN ears with such vile filth. I will note HOwever that congress maybe the pron industries BIGGEST customers. Not that they would ever lower themselves to PIMP out the bailout for thier own SELF GRATIFICATION.
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*Tips hat to Snodfy*.
Genius.
As I suggested at HotAir, I have more respect for those in the porn industry than those in in Washington. Those in the porn industry just screw each other, while Washington screws us and then makes us pay for it.
This is deadly serious. Porn is a major industry with thousands in the industry and millions consumers who undoubtedly must be suffering. This disaster could spell the breakdown of otherwise healthy marriages, for instance. I think porn vouchers should be considered to bolster this vital industry.
Well, you shouldn’t, SonO’DY. We are trying to have a serious economic discussion here of the ins and outs of the business.
Kinda makes “we’re screwed” take on a whole new meaning.
On January 7th, 2009 at 5:01 pm, purplepeep said:
Well, you shouldn’t, SonO’DY. We are trying to have a serious economic discussion here of the ins and outs of the business.
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Ye gods, just when I thought this couldn’t get any better (or worse) . . .
ROTFLMAO!
Well I guess I souldn’t be so ANAL about things.
There’s something Zen-like about the guv’ment screwing me out of tax money only to pay someone else to get scr… oh wait, gotta rephrase that – to let us see other people get scr … nope, can’t write that either … I give up.
Well, maybe we can get discount vouchers from Congress to expand our porn collection. The head of the dept could be called the Master Rebater.
It would take a MASTER DEBATER in congress to get this passed.
Now I am going to get banned….
On January 7th, 2009 at 5:05 pm, FatOldGuy said:
The head of the dept could be called the Master Rebater.
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Or Bill Clinton.
On January 7th, 2009 at 5:08 pm, sonofdy said:
It would take a MASTER DEBATER in congress to get this passed.
Now I am going to get banned….
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Naah, Snodfy, we love ya.
Talk about a money shot.
How can they prostitute themselves like that………
Erik the Red said, “so they’re saying that sales are a bit limp”
Yes, they are about to hit bottom.
FEMA provided a quick stimulus to the local strip club scene here in Houston following Katrina. A whole bunch of those $2,500 checks were cashed at these establishments so its not like this is a new thing. Also, didn’t we (Fed G’ment) somehow own the Mustang Ranch for a while?
Is that you, Wonkette?
Actually, I have read that the porn industry is tanking because there is so much free porn on the net now. Why pay for it, when you can get it free?
If you like going to the neighborhood bar for a few beers a couple of times a week and a new bar opens offering free beer, which bar are you going too?
I don’t know where Flynt gets his info about sex being the furtherest thing from our minds…Hell, everytime we turn around we are getting shagged.
All the married men here repeat after me:
HOME BREW.
sonofy PSA over.
Seriously, why don’t ex porn-stars like Traci Lords or Jenna Jameson help out the industry that made them the women they are today . . . .
*Crickets chirping . . . *
This is disgusting on its face, but interesting on the other hand… I always thought that one of the industries immune from recession was the porn industry. I guess not.
On January 7th, 2009 at 5:36 pm, AFBen said:
This is disgusting on its face, but interesting on the other hand… I always thought that one of the industries immune from recession was the porn industry. I guess not.
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Porn stars only wish they were immune . . . and I don’t mean from a recession.
I keep telling you –
AlohaGuy is too big to fail!
(rimshot)
(cymbal)
Pelosi’s husband uses more Botox than Nancy does!
(rimshot)
stop me – I’m out of control…
In a related bit of news, apparently Mr. Flynt is suing a couple of nephews over “inferior” porn products that they are marketing under the family name. (Check out Foxnews.com).
“Inferior”. What, exactly, is “inferior” porn . . . nevermind.
The porn industry won’t fail, but their performance may be anticlimactic.
On January 7th, 2009 at 5:47 pm, FatOldGuy said:
The porn industry won’t fail, but their performance may be anticlimactic.
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I’ve seen Ron Jeremy (NOT in one of his pornos, spare me), and I have to laugh at the idea that anyone pays money to watch him get nekkid and have sex on film. Biggest. Turn-off. Evah.
All I have to say is that the world is insane. The very idea that these smut merchants think that their “industry” fills a role in our economy boggles my mind to no end.
I believe the correct sound is:
buh-DUMP tish.
While obviously I would prefer an end to the government bailouts, I would rather the porn people have it than the newspaper people. Porn isn’t as sophisticated a medium for distributing propaganda, and isn’t important to an informed citizenry.
I suppose it must be just as important to the vernacular of the English language, though, considering how many times I had to use the delete key in order to type a few relatively serious sentences.
Unfortunately, they do. I read, on the web, that of all web pages, those that are adult oriented only make up about 5% of the total. However, adult websites generate over 60% of all internet revenue.
The internet has become the 21st century version of plain brown wrapper.
Is that a recording artist? Plane Brown Rapper?
RAAAAACIST!
You people shouldn’t get down on the porn.
Don’t forget, half of modern technology was spawned by porn. Everything from DVDs to the wide spread use of the high speed internet was driven by porn sales and the desire for free porn.
In fact, we wouldn’t be chatting right now if not for porn. Ewwwww…. some thoughts are better left unthunk.
“The Porn Industry” is actually doing quite well, Hustler and GGW be damned. Those places represent the old guard of the porn industry, much like brick and mortar movie rental places like Blockbuster, and they are likely taking a beating from those in the industry who provide better porn at lower price and greater convenience. Much like the Blockbusters of the world are being phased out in favor of companies like Netflix.
They probably could use a bailout. But the major players in the porn industry these days are probably doing just fine.
Tell that to Hugh Hefner. He put photos of naked women in his magazine to increase circulation (get your brains out of the gutter!) and generate more revenue. That allowed him to pay the liberal socialist writers that wanted a forum for their crap. The pictures insured that every horny 15 year old male would be checking out Playboy. If they read the articles (no guarantee, but you never can tell) then that’s more propaganda in the mushy mind of a kid. The older guys were subject to it as well.
The funny part is, the feminists and Playboy were at odds with each other. Playboy gave the pro-feminist liberal writers a voice but you got the girlie show too. And that angered the feminists. This was just one more point (the liberal hypocracy) that showed me my choice of being conservative was the correct one. That was over 30 years ago. Best decision I ever made.
Still at work didn’t read them all. Suppose Barney Frank is behind this. Pun intended.
True. The reason VHS became the standard rather than BetaMax was because the porn videos were all in VHS; it was cheaper than BetaMax.
That caused the number of VHS device purchases to increase to the point where BetaMax was insignificant. Hollyweird saw that VHS was becoming the standard and stopped making BetaMax versions.
All thanks to porn.
I guess sales have been flaccid.
Yes, a DVD is much better than a three and a half inch floppy.
HMM!
Not in my world sport. I don’t need money to be turned on by FamilyWomen.
GEES!
Does he mean people from poor countries will abstain?
The world will get along without you Larry.
I’m old enough to remember a five and a quarter inch floppy! But, nowadays, that’s only a memory.
Isn’t it amazing that when the topic is sex or porn, even normal words and sentences take on a new meaning? I guess sophomoric humor never goes out of style.
I am so glad this blog keeps us abreast about stories like this. I’m tired of being dogged by friends about what’s going on. I get on my hands and knees hoping for the best for this nation, but i feel the American taxpayer is getting left behind with all these bailouts.
Well, I wanted to use a term most could relate to.
I tell you more of a memory. I worked on a system that used 8 inch floppies. I think they held 128k/per and this system took 20 of them to reload – in, out, in, out, in, out, in, out……well you get the picture.
I think that may have been a factor, TMT, but I believe the deciding factor for most folks, as it was for me, was the length of time you could record in EP on VHS. VHS recorded up to 6-8 hours. If memory serves, Betamax only managed at maximum 4 hours (at least in the early days of VHS v. Betamax wars).
From the Wikipedia entry on Betamax:
“When, in 1977, RCA introduced a VHS recorder capable of storing 4 hours on a standard T-120 tape, Americans and Canadians flocked to the longer run time, as it was perfect for recording the evening prime time schedule or afternoon football games. Sony immediately realized that 1 hour was not sufficient and introduced Beta-2 and Beta-3 speeds, but the smaller form factor limited maximum record time to only 5 hours due to the smaller cassette; roughly half the time that a VHS cassette could hold.”
Looks like I came to the party late. All of the good ones have been used and abused. I guess I will have to settle for leftovers. That about covers it.
The end.
Enough with this obscene spending!
Sure they would..
After the first five minutes of concentrating on the photos.. what else is there to do for the next 55 minutes other than browse through the rest of the magazine..
Don’t mind little stimulation to the economy but this spending orgy has to stop.
http://defamer.com/hollywood/joe-francis/joe-francis-smiles-for-the-mug-shot-cameras-251060.php
This Joe Francis? The one arrested for ignoring warrants from the government trying to seek if his tactics of getting young girls to pose nude for cameras are criminal? He was also arrested for tax evasion if i remember correctly. Yeah, if anyone deserves a bail out it surely is this scumbag.
John the Libertarian and AlohaGuy totally stole my puns. When I say stole, I mean were much quicker on the draw. Maybe even a bit “premature,” even.
Also, I would really like to see the Congressional hearings on this. If they did get it passed, instead of TARP it would most likely be DENTAL DAM. I hope that doesn’t get me in trouble.
The porn industry needs help? See what pop-up blockers and spam filters has caused!!!
I’ll do my part like a proud American, I’ll take Tera Patrick to lunch… it’s not like I know… I mean… y’know… just doing my part to help.
This is against my better judgement, as I really should just abstain,
but I’m giving in to the temptation (to comment)…
Shrinkage.
You’re so much braver than me… I was going to mention the 8″… removable media drives [/smirk] that we used to have, but I’d rather take Tera Patrick to lunch… I mean… help out on a more personal level… I mean… um… yeah.
I guess I just thought that was inferred by saying “cheaper.” Either way, the adult video makers used nothing but VHS. But, the adult video renters also rented other movies in VHS. So BetaMax went the way of the Dodo.
And, purplepeep, one more tasteless joke.
So you’re saying size does matter?
I suppose so, in a roundabout way – recording time=money. Actually I do remember a few people who had x-rated vids in Beta circa 1982.
What I remember is folks taking to VHS because they could tape 3 movies or a football game on EP mode. I was learning video production during that time, having worked with film before then so it was all pretty interesting to me.
I passed on making that pun, TMT, tho it was a tempting one. But, yes, length did matter!