Politics
Flynt is a Democrat and has long been a staunch defender of privacy and free speech, and a frequent ally of the ACLU on those issues. Hustler Magazine has repeatedly weighed in on public debates by trying to expose conservative or republican politicians with sexual scandals. In 1998, during the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, Hustler offered $1 million for each unflattering sexual story about republican members of congress and published the results in The Flynt Report. These publications led to the resignation of incoming House Speaker Bob Livingston. In 2007, Larry Flynt repeated the $1 million offer and also wrote the foreword to Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer's The Brotherhood of Disappearing Pants: A Field Guide to Conservative Sex Scandals.
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