Larry Flynt offers Anthony Weiner a job battling hypocrisy in government.

[madfloridian]

My first thought was how very apt such an offer is right now. I have not said a word or made a comment about the situation, but now I will. This has been the most ridiculous display of outrage by the Democrats and the media and everyone else that I have ever in my life seen. I don't have to approve of what he did or how he did it...it is not my business. It is the biggest display of hypocrisy I ever remember.

Our party leaders are refusing to stand up for a sacred program like Social Security. They are allowing the "war" on women's rights to go on and on and on without speaking out...in fact they are taking part in it. They are in the process of joining the Republicans in the degradation of public school teachers. And they shouted the loudest for him to go.

Flynt is offering him 20% more than his congressional salary.

Anthony Weiner offered Internet job by Hustler's Larry Flynt

Anthony Weiner may have resigned from Congress in disgrace, but hours after the news conference at which he made the announcement, he was offered an Internet job with a raise, moving expenses, health benefits equal to what he has been accustomed to, and a fancy office in Beverly Hills working for an internationally known publishing company.

On Friday, porn magnate Larry Flynt reached out to Weiner in an open letter to "sincerely" offer the former congressman a job in the Internet group of Flynt Management Group.

"This offer is not made in jest. To show our sincerity, Flynt Management Group, LLC is willing to pay twenty percent more than your former Congressional salary, ensuring that your medical benefits would be equal to what you were previously receiving. While you will have to relocate to our corporate offices in Beverly Hills, California, we would pay for all relocation costs," Flynt wrote in the Huffington Post.

Flint stressed how serious the offer is, and explained that the company has been involved in politics for over three decades, focusing on "the crucial fight of battling hypocrisy within the federal and state governments."

Flynt points out that he thinks Weiner's resignation is "a prime example of unfounded political pressure and the hypocrisy that has invaded democracy in Washington D.C."

Larry Flynt, unlike many politicians, never pretended to be anything but what he was. For what it is worth I admire that in many ways.

I will always believe that the extremity of the outcry and outrage against Anthony Weiner is about far more than the really bad judgement he exercised in his personal life. I guess you do not call out a Supreme Court judge without hell to pay. Others have felt that way as well.

[Skink]

1. He should hold out for a book deal.

[DJ13]

2. I like it, but please

no centerfold!

[BlueCaliDem]

8. I wouldn't mind

a centerfold of Anthony. :patriot:

[BlueCaliDem]

9. I would rather Olbermann recruit him for CurrentTV and his own show

where he can expose the hypocrisy of DC, having been an insider for nearly 20 years.

Hey, it Scarborough can have a hit show, I've got NO DOUBT Anthony can, too. He's got the gift of gab like nobody's business!

[Bette Noir]

16. He did. Olbermann offered Weiner the 9 pm slot on Current,

on the Jimmy Fallon show the other night.

[BlueCaliDem]

36. Jimmy Falon is on CurrentTV? eom

[ooglymoogly]

49. How bout LF donating what he was going to spend hiring

Anthony to current for his own show.

[juajen]

3. As written elsewhere, I totally agree. This is BS.

[madfloridian]

14. It was such overkill. So obvious.

Let our party instead take positive stands on issues that affect us instead of ignoring us.

[elleng]

4. Appreciated, mebbe 'admired' Flynt after interview w Rachel.

Right, no pretending there.

[madfloridian]

7. That was a very interesting interview....he makes no pretense. Link.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rachel-maddow-asks-porn-legend-larry-flynt-to-compare-vitterweiner-scandals/

[elleng]

11. Right. Thanks for the link, madflor.

[larkrake]

5. he could continue his work at no cost to him

[Union Scribe]

6. Is he going to start by selling his (unregistered) Nissan

to correct his own hypocrisy?

[madfloridian]

13. I have no clue what you mean.

:shrug:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. ''GRAAAARRRRGHLARRY FLYNT PERVERT PORN EVIL GRAAAGGGHH'' responses in 3... 2... 1...

[madfloridian]

12. The Ybor City Stogie says "Anthony Weiner you got a job"

http://yborcitystogie.blogspot.com/2011/06/anthony-weiner-you-got-job.html

"After All These Years Larry Flynt Is Still The Man
Anthony Weiner has been offered an Internet job with a raise, moving expenses, health benefits equal to what he has been accustomed to, and a fancy office in Beverly Hills working
for an internationally known publishing company."

[OneGrassRoot]

15. The right has a whole industry dedicated to finding (or fabricating) "smut"...

from the left.

I'm usually for a "rising above" strategy, but it is the hypocrisy that sickens me, and that hypocrisy needs to be exposed everywhere.

I support Anonymous and Larry Flynt's efforts to expose hypocrisy and criminality on the right, as well as those on the left and everyone in between.

Maybe the media has their fill of it from so much being exposed, they'll finally wake up and start being journalists again.


K&R

[madfloridian]

17. The "Republican Noise Machine" indeed is powerful. We fall for it every time.

Our Democrats appear to be afraid of their shadows. The noise machine says boo, and they shiver.

[OneGrassRoot]

18. Word. The "bully" versus "wusses" stereotypes continue....

and it infuriates me to no end, because they're pretty accurate.

:mad:

[NYCGirl]

19. Remember crazy rightwing racist NYer Carl Paladino who ran for gov?

Flynt offered him a job, too.

http://gawker.com/5668781/larry-flynt-offers-porn+lover-carl-paladino-a-job

I love Larry Flynt, but this is really just publicity for Larry.

[madfloridian]

20. Of course it is. He would be the first to say so.

But I am sick to death of our party being fearful. We are afraid to say NO to cutting Social Security, afraid to stand up for women's rights, afraid to say NO to this cockamamie school reform....but not afraid to let Brietbart lead them in destroying a fellow Democrat.

[NYCGirl]

21. The fellow Democrat destroyed himself by being amazingly

stupid. He was carrying on USING HIS OFFICIAL TWITTER FEED for three years. If he used a fake name, he'd probably still have a job. But if he did that, it probably wouldn't attract political groupies, so there you are.

[madfloridian]

26. Not my point. I hate to refer by name to Clinton, Gingrich, Vitter, et al

but I will. They are still powerful men.

I am not a political groupie, but I despise hypocrisy. I hate it, and I am having much trouble with my party about it right now.

They are not standing up for teachers, for the elderly, for women, and not much for gays....yet look how swiftly they brought down one of their own.

They are actually open to and are already in the process of destroying Social Security, public schools, and letting the religious right make women 2nd class citizens.

That is the worst kind of evil, the worst kind of hypocrisy.

[NYCGirl]

29. Weiner made himself (and I hate to use this term right here)

"low hanging fruit." The only person you name who I would call "powerful" is Clinton. Gingrich is a joke even in the GOP, and Vitter will go no further. Clinton remains, IMO, due to his chrisma and his status as a member of a very small club — former POTUS.

[madfloridian]

30. There are many others. They went after Weiner for more than internet stuff.

There is more to the story.

How do you feel about their caving on education, social security, women's rights?

[NYCGirl]

31. I think there's very little more to the Weiner story (except

that there's probably more stuff that may or may not be revealed). As I've said on this site, I think he's not important enough to incur the wrath of the VRWN (vast right wing network).

Caving on, etc.? I feel terrible about what has been done in some cases. Personally, I think this administration has been substantially better than the last (or any GOP administration) on many of those things. We've made some progress on some, small steps on others. Education, though, I can't speak about since I know very little about what's going on there.

[madfloridian]

32. I think this party leadership is open to cutting Social Security.

I think they don't even care that poor women will have no funds for abortions, even in emergencies. And if you don't realize that public education is being dismantled, you should.

I think how we fought Bush so hard on personal accounts, on changing Social Security, and I realize there is no fighting back now. Every damn thing the Republicans want, they get.

[Dont call me Shirley]

50. Maybe so, but he did nothing illegal and did not deserve a public lynching

especially from his own party. They threw him under the bus because he exposed a conniving, sexual predator, tax evader.

[olegramps]

22. He destroyed his own credibility. Sadly, since he was an effective progressive voice.

[madfloridian]

25. That was not my point. Look at the ones who remain in office and

are politically effective though they have actually committed multiple adulteries with numerous other types of crimes as well.

It is the hypocrisy. I thought I made that clear.

While our party was after him screaming like crazy, they refuse to stand up for the elderly, for women, and for teachers.

[MikeMc]

23. +1 Mad. I love Weiner, but Flynt is no good.

His job is to connect 'progressive political thought' to 'pornography'.

He is bad, Weiner is good.

Your post is right on, but I hope Weiner doesn't bite on this opportunity.

[madfloridian]

24. It's not that I think he should take the job, but I think the offer is spot on.

Weiner is a victim of his own party's fear of Breitbart and the noise machine.

[libmom74]

34. At this point I don't think

it's fear anymore, it's complicity. Weiner was a threat to the Corporate Party and he was dealt with. If he had been a good little corporate Blue Dog/DLC Democrat the entire matter would have swept under the rug quickly (or never raised in the first place).

[madfloridian]

35. That I agree with. Probably gone beyond fear to complicity.

:hi:

[MikeMc]

43. +1, Lib and Mad.

Debbie W vs Feingold at Netroots is a large issue.

Flynt is an intelligence guy who is mob-connected. I've been watching him with great displeasure for quite a while, and I have been watching Weiner with great pleasure, since the Zadrogra 9 - 11 First Responder's bill. As a caveat, I should say that I'm against the Gucchione and Hefner people who bank at Castle Bank and put Larry in the wheel-chair.

Dang shame that Rachel M. had to talk to that creep Flynt to discuss her Weiner scandal views. That is not Rachel's fault, it is Weiner's fault, for being so incontinent, from a human sexuality point of view. If you watch Maddow's video clip on the issue, you can basically cut out the entire second half of the video interview with Flynt, and still get all Maddow's info. She's the tops. She IS the Democratic party.

I'm not ashamed to back Anthony's Democratic principles. I still think he's great, I just don't want him to hook up with a known and named bad guy.

By the way, let's kick Lieberman and Sharpton out of our Democratic caucus. Larouche, too. IT's Time To Take ouT The Trash. Call it the '7 T's Principle'. I believe it will assist our cause greatly.

[nomb]

27. Not sure a pipeline from Congress to Flynt's payroll is in best interests of Party or Weiner. n't

[madfloridian]

28. Not sure it was in our best interests for both parties to gang up on him.

That is what my post is about. Our party would be better served assuring seniors their Social Security will be there for them, assuring gays they will not be kicked out of the military, assuring teachers will not be fired to make way for private companies like TFA to place their teachers with 5 weeks training.

It all stinks of hypocrisy. This is not about his taking the job, it is about the fact that it was offered. It was offered because of the hypocritical sobs in high places.

[Warren DeMontague]

42. It's not in the interest of Flynt. He can deliver pictures of sex to congress.

Which is something that, even in this day and age of the porn-saturated internet, carries some intrinsic value.

What's congress going to send in their pipeline to Larry Flynt? A whole bunch of bullshit, that's what.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

33. He would never take it because of his wife's position. nt

[Anakin Skywalker]

37. .

[sabrina 1]

38. I like this offer. At first I was dubious about it. But since

Weiner was ousted for his relentless pursuit of Clarence Thomas, and now has left a void in Congress regarding any action being taken against him, a job doing what he was so good at in the first place, would serve many purposes.

First, it would give him an opportunity to continue his fight to get Thomas investigated. That would seriously foil the efforts of those who worked so hard to silence him. I can Flynt enjoying that.

Second, he could devote his time to doing what Breitbart et al do, only he doesn't have to make stuff up and we would have the benefit of his talents as a 'warrior' for justice, as many have called, despite their attempts to remove him from the battle.

Third, I do not think it would interfere at all with any future attempt to get back into politics, as it would give him a chance to recount the lengths they went to to 'get' him.

It's up to him of course, but I think it would be an way to start a real organization on our side, that exposes hypocrisy in this government from someone who was certainly a true victim of it.

Btw, couldn't agree more with your sentiments about all of this.

[julian09]

40. Could take similar job with CURRENT TV

But concentrate on policy, not so much personalities; he could expose forcefully Gop lies. God knows there are enough of them. Tell the people what congress is doing to them as well as for them. He is very savvy on procedure and tactics to get legislation passed or obstructed. That is what really needs to be done to educate people on why Obama is frustrated by Dino's and forced to compromise away his power. Expose the Dino's as republicans votes. People need to know what is happening in washington with lobbyists, who sells their vote against voters wishes.

[sabrina 1]

41. He could do both. I hope he takes any offer he gets from

Keith. I would love to see him continue his fight against corruption and lies that actually count.

[MikeMc]

44. I'd really hate to argue with you, S.

I don't like to be disagreeable with demonstrably great Dems...

[sabrina 1]

45. Hi Mike!

:hi:

You can argue with me. I don't mind :-)

Do you think he should not take the job?

I think even if he does, he will return to politics in the near future, especially after we demonstrate that what happened to him was a political hit in revenge for him going after Thomas.

I see that many people are focusing on Thomas now. For me, it is a super important story, and since they went after Weiner because of it, all the more reason for all of us to keep it alive :-)

[MikeMc]

46. Right on time, S 1

I don't know what Rep. Weiner should do about work, now, but I would strongly advise him to stay away from that CIA and mob connected piece of shit Larry Flynt. Working for Hustler can't help him or his cause. Period.

We have long been on the same team arguing for Weiner. You dropped out of your VERY Timely Clarence Thomas recusal post a lot earlier than I did. I was trying to ride that one for Weiner and the Democrats, for quite a while. It wasn't done for self-aggrandizement. You could have jumped back in, and dragged Suff and d&p back. (Spiral hawk was good, also). It was a beautiful post, though.

DU needs a caucus option.

[sabrina 1]

47. You think Flynt is connected to the CIA?

That would be disappointing. And if so, definitely Weiner should stay away. Hopefully he will consider the Keith Olbermann show though.

Sorry about the post, glad you kept it going though. I think I was trying to defend Weiner all over the place at the time and had a hard time answering all the responses! But you did a good job of keeping it visible.

SpiralHawk is great. I see his Thomas post today also, and kpete's. We'll show them that getting rid of Weiner will intensify the focus on Thomas, the exact opposite of what they intended. All over the web I am seeing people now doing that, and part of it is anger at the political hit on Weiner who was one of the few actually doing his job.

He'll be back I'm sure and will be able to tell this story, not as a sexcapade, but as an example of what lengths they were willing to go to keep Corporate America's corrupt man on the SC. Wish we could connect the dots between Thomas and Breitbart re the 'hit'.

[MikeMc]

48. The Agency hasn't provided me with any paperwork re Flynt's employment status, but

Penny Lernoux's "In Banks We Trust" and Martin Lee's "Acid Dreams" discuss Castle Bank and Trust, in the Bahamas. It was set up by a CIA guy named Paul Helliwell, and had a large group of interesting customers, like Dick Nixon, Howard Hughes, Chiang Kai-shek's daughter, Hugh Hefner, and Bob Guccione. Lee's book (pp. 245-6, 314) also cites a Wall Street Journal article (4-18-80) on the CIA founding of Castle.

Late October, '88, the LA Times and Reno Gazette-Journal reported on the contract Flynt took out (alleged) on Hefner, Guccione, Walt Annenberg (Walt is Moe's boy, and also St. Ronnie Raygun's pal), and Sinatra. Flynt didn't think a lone-nut put him in a wheel-chair, so he hired a CIA guy named Mitch L. WerBell to kill those 4 people. (Mitch invented the silenced Ingram MAC-10 machine gun, and was called the 'Wizard of Whispering Death' See Leslie Cockburn's Iran-Contra expose "Out of Control". She was a reporter for CBS News '60 Minutes' and 'West 57th St.').

If you aren't following what I'm getting at, it is '2 + 2 = 4'.

Plus, though I'm no holy roller, Flynt could gag a maggot. But I'm proud to back Weiner, though Anthony may be a BIT inverted.

On edit, removed a extra '(' from between "Out of Control", and "She...".

[grasswire]

39. My friend Dan Moldea did work for Larry Flynt.

As some of you might recall, this work stopped the Republican coup attempt against Bill Clinton cold in the water.