Thursday, January 8, 2009

Bailout Porn

This is hilarious. Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis and the infamous Larry Flynt are petitioning Washington for $5 billion to make up for lost sales because of easily accessible internet content.

Fox Business is reporting on it here.

I would like to think Francis and Flynt are simply making fun of the auto and financial industries, and part of me thinks they are because of this quote from the article, "Francis said that if invited, he and Flynt would drive across the country in a hybrid vehicle to present their plans to Congress." Surely neither actually expect to receive funds from the government, thought their effort appears to be honest.

This quote from Flynt was pretty funny as well:
"People are too depressed to be sexually active," Flynt said in the press release. "This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex."

3 comments:

Douglas Porter said...

They are not an important part of the economy, and as such, should not receive any bailout money.

Josh said...

They're probably important to the people who work for them.

Douglas Porter said...

No. Not central to the economy.