Bailouts Gone Wild
CNN;s PoliticalTicker reports that “Hustler (magazine) publisher Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis said Wednesday they will request that Congress allocate $5 billion for a bailout of the adult entertainment industry.” The CNN report added:
“Francis said in a statement that “the US government should actively support the adult industry's survival and growth, just as it feels the need to support any other industry cherished by the American people."
According to The InQuisitr, Flynt and Francis also said:
“The two say adult DVD sales and rentals have slipped 22 percent over the last year. While Internet porn traffic is growing steadily, the industry isn’t profiting enough, the two assert.”
We have truly entered the Bizarro World on bailouts. Or, as the headline of a recent Mark Steyn column in the Orange County Register said, “We’re in the fast lane to Bailoutistan.”
HT Citizens Against Government Waste’s “Swine Line” blog.