Populist Porn : Larry Flynt is 'Nailin' Paylin'

A heartbeat away: Palin portrayer Lisa Ann.
You want me to put what where?: Lisa Ann protrayer Sarah Palin.
Coming your way: a no-holes-barred porn spoof based on Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Doncha know?
By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / October 6, 2008

Eschewing Playboy’s airbrushed aesthetic, Hustler sleazemeister Larry Flynt is a purveyor of blue-collar pornography — wrinkles, pockmarks, pimples, and all. He likes to call it “populist porn,” and his viewpoint is supported by the $400 million empire this 66-year-old high school dropout has built from the dirt up in the past 40 years.

Uncowered by the Sacred Cows of rightwing America, free-speech activist and frequent defendant Larry Flynt also has had a healthy contempt for hypocrisy, moral crusaders, and Supreme Court justices — in 1983 he disrupted a high court hearing to call the justices “eight assholes and a token cunt.”

In 1978 one such “crusader” for “white” moral values fired a bullet that left Flynt paralyzed from the waist down. Thus unable to participate in the kind of sex sanctioned by the Christian right, Flynt has become what one might call a hands-on voyeur. He seems to take great personal pleasure in conjuring up ways to defile the core values of moral absolutism and then sitting back in his wheelchair to get off on the ensuing orgy of outrage.

Flynt’s new yet-to-be-released no-holes-barred porn spoof based on Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, provisionally entitled Nailin’ Paylin, may mark a new low — in Flynt’s value system, this is not a negative remark! — in the pornmaster’s long and unrepentant career. Finding a Sarah Palin look-alike actress through Craig’s List and throwing together a “quicky” flick in 10 days, Flynt-owned Hustler Video states in a press release that it “is eager to fulfill those sexual fantasies about this now-famous MILF and is putting Nailin’ Paylin on a fast track to hit streets in time for the election.”

Candidate Palin, a buxom former cheerleader AND beauty queen — these probably are the two most visited subjects in contemporary American pornography — with a “questionable” moral background (do the math on her marriage date and daughter’s birth date) and an unquestioning morally self-righteous stump speech, provides a veritable “vessel” to be filled by someone with Flynt’s taste for savaging moral hypocrites and their “sins of the flesh.”

Coming at the very time when voters, especially red-blooded beer-drinking American male voters (Joe Six-Pack), are wondering — and/or fantasizing — about this hot new political figure, Flynt has pushed his wheelchair into the center of the arena to offer up a revealing and penetrating version of the Palin story —also featuring, according to the Hustler Video press release, a bi-racial lesbian “threeway” with Hils and Condi, some backdoor action with the Russians, and ongoing sexual commentary by “Bill O’Reilly.”

Unanswered questions:

1. Will Flynt’s parody come closer to the real truth about the GOP veep candidate than the lipgloss coming from the Repugs' erstwhile team of fiction writers?

2. Will Nailin’ Paylin compel fantasy-fueled male blue-collar voters to jerk their levers for McCain-Palin on November 4?

3. Will Larry Flynt sweep up a handful of Golden Dildos at the next AVN Adult Movie Awards Show?

4. What will the real Sarah say when she sees the film?

Gosh darn!

Pornmeister Larry Flynt. Photo by EPA.
Sarah Palin Biopic Details Announced
By Alex Balk / October 3, 2008

So that Hustler skin flick starring a "Sarah Palin lookalike?" The company sent out a press page with more details about it. You can read the first scene from the script here, (which is 100 percent genuine and not in any way made up even though it appears to be an obvious parody and contains enough elements of satire in it that even the densest of observers would logically assume that it was a fantastical creation.)

It's called Nailin' Paylin. It stars a sexy MILF! Bill O'Reilly is also spoofed in it. You can read the full release (hahaha, get it?) below. This looks like it's going to be the best vice president-themed porn this year. It's certainly gonna be way better than Vivid's forthcoming Ridin' Biden, the screenplay of which is a complete plagiarization of British video nasty Kinnock Thin Cock. Anyways:

Hustler Video Strikes Again With Palin Parody

BEVERLY HILLS -- Once again when it comes to sex and politics, HUSTLER continues to be at the top of the game! Hustler Video could not resist the urge to spoof the MILF-tastic Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Let's face it: Who wouldn't want to see that sexy hockey mom taking it all off?!

Nailin' Paylin, currently in pre-production, is being directed by Jerry T. Sexy MILF Lisa Ann will be playing the role of Sara Paylin. Nailin' Paylin will feature five hard-core scenes, including a threeway with other parodied political figures, namely Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice. Bill O'Reilly will also be spoofed as the announcer who dishes the sex scandals that will take place during the film.

Nailin' Paylin will take the viewer on a naughty adventure to the wild side of that sexy Alaska governor. Sara Paylin will not only be showing us some girl-on-girl lovin' but will also be nailing the Russians, who come knocking on her back-door (wink, wink) and in a flashback "young" Paylin's creationist college professor will explain a "big bang" theory even she can't deny!

Hustler Video is eager to fulfill those sexual fantasies of this now-famous MILF and is putting Nailin' Paylin on a fast track to hit streets in time for the election!

Source / Radar / Oct. 3, 2008

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Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live

'Fey stood beside her good friend and fellow castmate Amy Poehler, whose Hillary Clinton has been one of the high points of recent "SNL" history'
By Maureen Ryan / September 14, 2008

See Video and transcript, below.

As it used to be years ago, the word "live" was appropriate.

Ever since Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was announced as Sen. John McCain's running mate, people have remarked on her strong resemblance to former "Saturday Night Live" head writer Tina Fey.

Would Fey appear on the show's season-opener Saturday, sporting Palin's trademark rimless glasses? Speculation raged about that all week, and of course, "SNL" executive producer Lorne Michaels was coy about whether Fey, who left the show a few years ago for "30 Rock," would stop by her old stomping grounds. Of course she would... right?

The end result of all the suspense: Forget DVRs, forget on-demand TV, forget YouTube, forget firing up your WiFi connection. All across America, people were parked in front of their TV sets late Saturday night.

As the program came on (at 10:30 p.m. Central time), there was Fey in a bright red blazer. She was the spitting image of Palin (or wait, is Palin the spitting image of Fey?). Even Fey's flat Palin-esque accent was perfect; Fey had obviously closely studied the interviews that Palin gave to ABC on Thursday and Friday.

TV viewers will have a tough choice this year, as they struggle to decide which is more interesting: The ongoing reality show featuring Sen. Barack Obama, McCain and Palin, or Tina Fey doing her pitch-perfect version of Palin. We should have at least a few more opportunities to observe the latter, as "SNL" exploits the foibles of the election season every weekend and on three "SNL" specials that will air on Thursdays this fall.

On "SNL," . They slung barbs that took sharp aim at Palin's experience -- or lack thereof -- and at the perception that Clinton has been relentlessly ambitious.

"Mine! It's supposed to be mine!" Poehler-as-Clinton said. "I need to say something. I didn't want a woman to be President. I wanted to be President and I just happen to be a woman."

Both women agreed on one thing: That sexism had become an issue in the campaign. It was an issue that "frankly surprised to hear people suddenly care about," Poehler-as-Clinton deadpanned.

She later warned Fey-as-Palin that she didn't "want to hear you compare your road to the White House to my road to the White House. I scratched and clawed through mud and barbed wire and you just glided in on a dog sled wearing your pageant sash and your Tina Fey glasses."

As she spoke, Fey-as-Palin struck sexy poses and pretended to fire a shotgun. "What an amazing time we live in," she said. "To think that just two years ago, I was a small town mayor of Alaska's crystal meth capitol."

Earlier, she talked up her foreign policy credentials: "I can see Russia from my house!"

Host Michael Phelps couldn't help but be overshadowed by Fey's terrific turn as Palin. Sketches about a couple's ugly children (pictured above) and a weird swim coach (below) didn't come close to the level of the opening sketch. Nothing in the rest of the broadcast did really (and Obama, after reports emerged that he would be a guest, was a no-show on Saturday; he decided not to appear thanks to the destruction Hurricane Ike was causing).

The show's "Weekend Update" segment featured some Palin comedy as well. As Poehler noted, recent polls show McCain "only six points behind Sarah Palin." Perhaps there wasn't enough Palin though -- raise your hand if you thought the "Weekend Update" commentary from the comic-strip character Cathy was a good idea.

Minutes after the Clinton-Palin sketch aired on "SNL," a spokesman for the show sent out a full transcript of the piece, and I've reprinted it in full below.

An NBC transcript of "SNL's" opening sketch:

FEY AS PALIN: "Good evening, my fellow Americans. I was so excited when I was told Senator Clinton and I would be addressing you tonight."

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "And I was told I would be addressing you alone."

FEY AS PALIN: "Now I know it must be a little bit strange for all of you to see the two of us together. What with me being John McCain's running mate."

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "And me being a fervent supporter of Senator Barack Obama -- as evidenced by this button."

FEY AS PALIN: "But tonight we are crossing party lines to address the now very ugly role that sexism is playing in the campaign."

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "An issue which I am frankly surprised to hear people suddenly care about."

FEY AS PALIN: "You know, Hillary and I don't agree on everything..."

POEHLER AS CLINTON: (OVERLAPPING) "Anything. I believe that diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any foreign policy."

FEY AS PALIN: "And I can see Russia from my house."

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "I believe global warming is caused by man."

FEY AS PALIN: "And I believe it's just God hugging us closer."

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "I don't agree with the Bush Doctrine."

FEY AS PALIN: "I don't know what that is."

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "But Sarah, one thing we can agree on is that sexism can never be allowed to permeate an American election."

FEY AS PALIN: "So please, stop photoshopping my head on sexy bikini pictures."

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "And stop saying I have cankles."

FEY AS PALIN: "Don't refer to me as a 'MILF.'"

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "And don't refer to me as a [flurge]. I Googled what it stands for and I do not like it."

FEY AS PALIN: "So we ask reporters and commentators, stop using words that diminish us, like 'pretty,' 'attractive,' 'beautiful.'"

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "'Harpy,' 'shrew' and 'boner shrinker.'"

FEY AS PALIN: "While our politics may differ, my friend and I are both very tough ladies. You know it reminds me of a joke we tell in Alaska..."What's the difference...

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Lipstick."

FEY AS PALIN: "...between a hockey mom..."

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Lipstick."

FEY AS PALIN: "...and a pitbull?"

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Lipstick."

FEY AS PALIN (AFTER A BEAT): "Lipstick. Just look at how far we've come. Hillary Clinton, who came so close to the White House. And me, Sarah Palin, who is even closer. Can you believe it, Hillary?"

POEHLER AS CLINTON: (AFTER A PAUSE)"I can not."

FEY AS PALIN: "It's truly amazing and I think women everywhere can agree, that no matter your politics, it's time for a woman to make it to the White House."

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "No. Mine! It's supposed to be mine! I need to say something. I didn't want a woman to be President. I wanted to be President and I just happen to be a woman. And I don't want to hear you compare your road to the White House to my road to the White House. I scratched and clawed through mud and barbed wire and you just glided in on a dog sled wearing your pageant sash and your Tina Fey glasses."

FEY AS PALIN:
"What an amazing time we live in. To think that just two years ago, I was a small town mayor of Alaska's crystal meth capitol. And now I am just one heartbeat away from being President of the United States. It just goes to show that anyone can be President."

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Anyone."

FEY AS PALIN: "All you have to do is want it."

POEHLER AS CLINTON: (LAUGHS) "Yeah, you know, Sarah, looking back, if I could change one thing, I should have wanted it more." (RIPS OFF PIECE OF PODIUM)

FEY AS PALIN: "So in the next six weeks, I invite the media to be vigilant for sexist behavior."

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Although it is never sexist to question female politicians credentials. Please ask this one about dinosaurs. So I invite the media to grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine."

FEY AS PALIN: And as we say in Alaska...

POEHLER AS CLINTON: "We say it everywhere..."

FEY/POEHLER: "Live from New York, It's Saturday Night!!!

Source / Chicago Tribune



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The Great New Yorker Obama Fist-Bump Cover Controversy of 2008

I think the idea that the Obamas are branded as unpatriotic [let alone as terrorists] in certain sectors is preposterous. It seemed to me that depicting the concept would show it as the fear-mongering ridiculousness that it is.

Cover artist Barry Blitt, The New Yorker

A Fist-Bump for the New Yorker
By John McQuaid / July 14, 2008

I'm a little late to the party, but here is an absurd decorousness in the denunciations -- from the Obama and McCain campaigns and across the liberal blogosphere -- of the current New Yorker cover.

The top-line objection is to accuse the New Yorker of poor taste. In the limited context of campaign discourse this is true. But magazines and other journalistic enterprises would be crazy to buy into the notion that abitrary etiquette of American campaigns (which encourages candidates to lie baldly, and surrogates to spin and smarm and swift-boat, while prohibiting frank talk to a host of issues from race to religion to terror itself), should govern their decisions.

Underneath that are liberals' more practical fears about the cover's impact on Obama's campaign. This line of thinking goes: Obama is so new and different, his image so unformed in the public mind, and U.S. opinion still so anxious on the matter of terrorism, with Democrats perceived as weak -- that the Obama campaign, and we as a nation, just can't handle images like this, because they might be interpreted the wrong way.

Really? No one worries that TNY's readership will take it literally. Fox will show it and chortle, but hey -- it will likely only confuse conservative viewers inclined to think of Obama as a Muslim terrorist dupe. Why are the liberal elites advertising Obama's subversion, mocking it? The image itself is an absurd jumble of terrorist iconography -- Black Power, al Qaeda, flag burning, etc.

Seven years after 9/11, after an onslaught of bad-faith political manipulation over terror, and with the threat of al Qaeda now quite debatable, Americans can certainly handle a little jokey imagery about terrorism and politics. Free expression is a bulwark of American liberalism, part of what makes it what it makes it superior to political philosophies that rigidly enforce what words can be uttered and images can be shown. When liberals start policing the "poor taste" of cartoons so that some people don't get the "wrong idea," it only reinforces the notion that all the fearmongering was effective, and perhaps right -- and also shows how weak and tenuous Democrats fear their position on terrorism remains.

Source. / The Huffington Post

A WorldNetDaily.com poll asked the website's readers to "[s]ound off on the New Yorker's cover with turban-wearing Obama, gun toting wife," but while the New Yorker said in a press release that the cover "satirizes the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the Presidential election to derail Barack Obama's campaign," for a majority of respondents to WND's poll, the cover apparently provided support for their false perceptions of Obama's religion and patriotism: A majority of respondents selected the option stating that "[t]he image isn't too far from the dangerous truth about the Obama family."

Media Matters / July 14, 2008

Other New Yorker covers by Barry Blitt:

Why The New Yorker’s Obama Cover is a Lousy Cartoon
By Daryl Cagle / July 14, 2008

Cable news channels and bloggers are buzzing about The New Yorker magazine cover featuring Barack Obama dressed in Muslim garb and Michelle Obama with an afro and machine gun, doing a “terrorist fist bump” in the Oval Office, while an American flag burns in the fireplace. The cartoon by Barry Blitt drew immediate condemnation from the Obama and McCain camps.

In an interview on the Huffington Post Web site, New Yorker Editor David Remnick argues, “Obviously I wouldn't have run a cover just to get attention -- I ran the cover because I thought it had something to say. What I think it does is hold up a mirror to the prejudice and dark imaginings about … both Obamas' … it combines a number of images that have been propagated, not by everyone on the right but by some, about Obama's supposed 'lack of patriotism' or his being 'soft on terrorism' or the idiotic notion that somehow Michelle Obama is the second coming of the Weathermen or most violent Black Panthers. That somehow all this is going to come to the Oval Office.

"The idea that we would publish a cover saying these things literally, I think, is just not in the vocabulary of what
we do and who we are... We've run many many satirical political covers. Ask the Bush administration how many.”

Cartoonist Barry Blitt defends the cover by saying, “It seemed to me that depicting the concept would show it as the fear-mongering ridiculousness that it is.” So the cover cartoon is simply an exaggeration of the allegations against the Obamas.

There are rules to political cartoons that allow cartoonists to draw in an elegant, simple, shorthand that readers understand. Exaggeration is a well worn tool of political cartoonists; we use it all the time. I’ve drawn President Bush as the King of England, to exaggerate his autocratic tendencies. I’ve drawn the president as a dog, peeing all over the globe to mark his territory. I exaggerate every day, and I don’t expect my readers to take my exaggerations seriously -- but when I draw an absurdly exaggerated political cartoon, I’m looking for some truth to exaggerate to make my point. A typical stand-up comedian will tell jokes about things the audience already knows or agrees with, “it’s funny because it’s true,” or true as the comedian sees it. It is the same for cartoonists -- our readers know that we’re exaggerating to make a point we believe in.

Source / The Cagle Post

Thanks to Harry Edwards / The Rag Blog

Also see Obama slams New Yorker portrayal / Politico

And Yikes, controversial New Yorker cover... by Rachel Sklar / The Huffington Post

And Was the New Yorker Cover Gutsy? The New Republic

And The Bad Frame: Why Are the New Yorker, Salon and Other Liberal Media Doing the Right's Dirty Work? truthout

And Media Response to 'Terrorist Obama' New Yorker Covers / Editor and Publisher

And check out this interview with New Yorker publisher David Remnick / The Huffington Post

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