Larry Flynt: Hollywood's Free Speech Folk Hero Attacks Down Syndrome Baby

Something Hollywood does very well is in the using of their formidable talents to turn despicable human beings into something that resembles a lovable folk hero. I’m a fan of Milos Forman’s “The People vs. Larry Flynt.” Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love are both terrific in the lead roles and the well-paced, well-written story succeeds in taking you into the subculture of Flynt’s sordid but undeniably fascinating life. But the Academy Award-nominated picture (actor, director) is pure propaganda. We’re masterfully manipulated into seeing Flynt as an imperfect rogue — our protagonist — fighting for high ideals like the First Amendment. Through the power of the script and Harrelson’s performance, we’re also forced to side with, sympathize, and even be charmed by someone who at his very essence is nothing more than a depraved pornographer.

Furthermore, by manipulating us to take Flynt’s side we then start to excuse his despicable behavior and look at the way in which he coarsens our culture and exploits, objectifies, and denigrates women (two goals Leftist Hollywood has been pushing for decades) as patriotic pursuits of liberty — as opposed to what they really are.

Below is a look at the demonic heart of the real Larry Flynt, an anti-human nihilist with a cruel streak that takes your breath away just as it did the person interviewing him:

Sarah Palin is the dumbest thing. But I made a fortune off of her. [He made a porn film called Nailin’ Palin, based on her],” he said.

Then, he went after Trig, saying, “She did a disservice to every woman in America. She knew from the first month of pregnancy that kid was going to be Down’s Syndrome. It’s brain dead. A virtual vegetable.”

Flynt followed up on the Wonkette theme — that Palin is supposedly exploiting Trig by having him with her at some political events — by saying, “She carries it to all these different political events against abortion, she did it just because she didn’t want to say she’d had an abortion. How long is it going to live? Another 12, 15 years? Doesn’t even know it’s in this world.”

“So what kind of compassionate conservative is she? I don’t think anybody will want her near the White House,” Flynt added.

The London Independent reporter, Johann Hair, was left speechless: “I am so thrown by the unpleasantness of all this I don’t even interject.”

Full article is here.

Of all people, should Larry Flynt really be denigrating the dignity of those who don’t meet some arbitrary standard of physical perfection?

Anyway, we now know why Wonkette was able to accomplish this. While most of their advertisers fled in droves, one kindred spirit reached out to help another. How sweet.

I may go to Hell, but I’ll have better living quarters than these two.