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Larry Flynt: 'President Obama Has Overperformed ... Done a Marvelous Job'
The Weekly Standard ^ | MAY 22, 2012 | JOHN MCCORMACK

Posted on 05/24/2012 11:25:22 AM PDT by RobinMasters

Hustler publisher endorses Obama, says "iodine deficiency" is the cause of religion.

In an interview with Reihan Salam for Vice magazine, pornographer Larry Flynt reveals that he's now a hardcore supporter of President Obama's just two years after calling Obama an "ineffectual wimp" for giving in too much to Republicans.

"I think President Obama has overperformed," Flynt says. "He got handed on his platter when he became president more than any president in history ever had to deal with.... I think he's done a marvelous job."

In the wide-ranging interview with Salam, Flynt talks about his brief but "profound" religious experience in the 1970s, as well as his views on why pornography is good for society.

"I did have a very profound religious experience," Flynt said. "I sought out a psychiatrist immediately after it happened to me."

"This is largely thought to be because of an iodine deficiency in your diet," Flynt recalls his psychiatrist telling him.

"Do you think that more devoutly religious Americans would be less devoutly religious if they just ate more salt?" Salam asks Flynt.

(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012endorsements; flynt; porn; proaborts
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To: RobinMasters

I know if I was a politician I would want a pornographer’s endorsement...oh yeah! /sarc


41 posted on 05/24/2012 12:20:09 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: RobinMasters

He’s a real piece of work, but then again, so are most of Obama’s supporters:

Personal life

Flynt has been married five times. He married his fourth wife, Althea, in 1976 and they remained married until her death in 1987. He re-married Elizabeth Berrios in 1998. He has four daughters and a son.

He was an evangelical Christian for one year, converted in 1977 by evangelist Ruth Carter Stapleton, the sister of President Jimmy Carter. He stated that he became “born again” and that he had a vision from God while flying with Stapleton in his jet. He continued to publish his magazine, however, vowing to “hustle for God.”[19][20] He has since declared himself an atheist.[21][22]

Flynt disowned his eldest daughter, Tonya Flynt-Vega, after she became a Christian anti-pornography activist. In her 1998 book Hustled, she claims that Flynt sexually abused her as a child, often calling her names.[23] Flynt has denied the charges, claiming to have passed a polygraph test and to be in possession of a tape recording of his daughter admitting she made up the accusations for money.[24]

In 1994 Flynt bought a Gulfstream II private jet, which was used in the movie The People vs. Larry Flynt. In 2005, he replaced it with a Gulfstream IV. He currently[when?] resides in the Hollywood Hills.

Flynt has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.[25]


42 posted on 05/24/2012 12:20:36 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Fat, drunk and stupid = Dumb, dependent, and Democrat)
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To: RobinMasters

why do we still hear from this asshole


43 posted on 05/24/2012 12:22:25 PM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: RobinMasters

Thanks, but I don’t need any more validation of who the Left serves.


44 posted on 05/24/2012 12:28:27 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: A_Former_Democrat

What? No Neurosyphilis Dementia?


45 posted on 05/24/2012 12:29:20 PM PDT by steveo
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To: RobinMasters

To prove he is serious, Larry should turn over the day to day operation of his livelihood to BO - in Jan 13.
BO should have him broke within a couple of days then we can sit back and watch the fireworks.

Actually Larry has done more for the economy than Obama.


46 posted on 05/24/2012 12:34:44 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 Let's start from scratch by voting ALL incumbents out.)
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To: RobinMasters

Flynt’s legs aren’t the only thing crippled on this pervert, his mind is dead too.


47 posted on 05/24/2012 12:54:50 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: melsec

I thought the experience was when someone shot his b*lls off. Never got quite normal again, did he?


48 posted on 05/24/2012 1:01:13 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
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To: Army Air Corps
I thought this demented drooling pervert had died already.

Maybe the editor of Vice used the SF Board of Supervisor's OUIJA BOARD to contact him... :)

2 nutcases interviewing each other = trash!!

49 posted on 05/24/2012 1:30:34 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)
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To: RobinMasters
Larry Flynt


50 posted on 05/24/2012 1:35:42 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: TurboZamboni

in medical terminology, a stroke.

Or drug overdoes!


51 posted on 05/24/2012 1:41:38 PM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong....)
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To: RobinMasters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2b6KboxGBA


52 posted on 05/24/2012 1:49:37 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Julia: another casualty of the "War on Poverty")
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To: RobinMasters

Hey big ears... tax this MF’er at 99%!

LLS


53 posted on 05/24/2012 2:02:13 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: RobinMasters

Flynt says. “He got handed on his platter when he became president more than any president in history ever had to deal with

One Word. IDIOT.
Think Lincoln. The Nation was being torn apart. He over saw brother fighting against brother.
Mr Flynt. STFU you are a moron..............


54 posted on 05/24/2012 2:14:43 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: Army Air Corps

When he does it will be hard to tell!!!


55 posted on 05/25/2012 5:07:51 AM PDT by ontap
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