US porn industry seeks multi-billion dollar bailout

[Rockclimber]

Ain't that just prescious?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... ilout.html


US porn industry seeks multi-billion dollar bailout
Porn baron Larry Flynt is seeking a $5 billion bailout from Washington to rejuvenate the industry, which he says is suffering because of the economic downturn.
 

By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
Last Updated: 8:57PM GMT 08 Jan 2009
 According to Flynt, with all this economic misery sex is the farthest thing from people's mind  Photo: GETTY



The Hustler magazine founder has teamed up with fellow adult entertainment mogul Joe Francis, creator of the Girls Gone Wild video series, to approach Congress for the same kind of financial assistance recently approved for car manufacturers.

The pair have asked the 111th Congress, which convened on Tuesday with the economy at the top of its agenda, "to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America" with a bailout.

"Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation's most important businesses, (and) we feel we deserve the same consideration," Francis said in a statement.

"In difficult economic times, Americans turn to entertainment for relief. More and more, the kind of entertainment they turn to is adult entertainment."

"The take here is that everyone and their mother want to be bailed out from the banks to the big three," Owen Moogan, a spokesman for Flynt, told CNN.

"The porn industry has been hurt by the downturn like everyone else and they are going to ask for the $5 billion. Is it the most serious thing in the world? Is it going to make the lives of Americans better if it happens? It is not for them to determine."

In an interview with entertainment news website TMZ, Francis admitted the move was more of a "precautionary measure" than an emergency rescue, "but as long as the government is handing out money, we want to be there to take it."

The pair acknowledge that although DVD sales and rentals have dropped 22 per cent over the past year, online traffic has continued to grow.

"The 13-billion-dollar industry is in no fear of collapse," they say. "But why take chances?" Francis, who was last year freed from almost a year in jail after pleading no contest to child abuse and prostitution charges in a plea deal, told CNN they planned to deliver the request "to our congressmen and (Secretary of the Treasury Henry) Paulson" by the end of Wednesday.

"With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind," Flynt said in a statement. People were "too depressed to be sexually active", which was "very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such, but they cannot do without sex." He said the only way Congress could "rejuvenate" America's sexual appetite was "by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly." There was no response from Congress to the request.

[MikeWB]

LOL!

Zio scumbags own that industry as well.

[Ognir]

If you don't ask ....

[Travis]

You gotta be fucking kidding!

[Free Truth]

Only in America, huh?

Yeah, lets "bailout" the 13 billion dollar a year porn industry...

Poor people?
What poor people?

[Travis]

What's so civilized about someone watching a video of men gang fucking their daughter? I guess this is the freedom the Zionists and their western supporters want to export to the four corners of the world.

[high_treason]

I think its a solid move, they should help their brothers and also while they are at it they should bail out the Kosher stamp industry since it was the antisemitics who destroyed it by arresting that good old Rabbi with a 100 children how can the poor man feed them? I think I will call Madoff to help him out. Yes, they should also bail out all the menorah manufacturers (it is essential what will light the whitehouse in every holiday? of course I mean Hannuka and Pass over only), why not bail out the IDF and let those good old southern bible belt boys go and die for israhell after all I'm sure their parents won't mind, on one condition though Pat Robertson should take the lead with meth-man Hagee as his second in command.