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Tony_FLADEM

(3,023 posts)
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:24 PM May 2012

Hustler Magazine Sparks Rage With a Rude Image of Pundit S.E. Cupp

Hustler has caused a squall by publishing an image of conservative pundit S.E. Cupp with a photoshopped penis in her mouth. Conservatives and liberals alike are sounding off on the magazine for misogyny, but Cupp has said the protest isn’t loud enough. Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler, says it is too loud.


The headline on the Hustler piece poses the question, “What Would S.E. Cupp Look Like With a Dick in Her Mouth?” The magazine goes on to criticize Cupp, a conservative columnist for The New York Daily News and author of the book Why You’re Wrong About the Right, for her political views. “Her hotness is diminished,” the magazine says, “when she espouses dumb ideas like defunding Planned Parenthood.”


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/24/hustler-magazine-sparks-rage-with-a-rude-image-of-pundit-s-e-cupp.html

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Hustler Magazine Sparks Rage With a Rude Image of Pundit S.E. Cupp (Original Post) Tony_FLADEM May 2012 OP
Two assholes snarling at each other. Archae May 2012 #1
I totally admire Larry Flynt. FarPoint May 2012 #7
I'm with you FarPoint.... unkachuck May 2012 #14
Larry Flynt was responsible for one of the biggest free-speech hifiguy May 2012 #17
Exactly.... FarPoint May 2012 #24
I never admire Larry Flynt. Archae May 2012 #19
Making her "Asshole of the Month" hifiguy May 2012 #23
Agree there. Archae May 2012 #29
Ummmm.. the Teabaggers? Zalatix May 2012 #45
I don't think anyone's even heard of this woman before this happened ck4829 May 2012 #2
I have heard of her and.. butterfly77 May 2012 #9
SE Dump, owned again..... ProudToBeBlueInRhody May 2012 #3
Another "free speech for people I don't like" moment. Bucky May 2012 #4
Have you sen the way the potray Obama in Hustler? Arctic Dave May 2012 #10
actually no, I'm way behind on my Hustler reading Bucky May 2012 #18
Um, I think you missed the point. Arctic Dave May 2012 #25
How dare you um me! Nobody ums me. I um other people! Bucky May 2012 #42
I see your point there, and part of me says right wing women treestar May 2012 #40
Um, thats actually a re-occuring photoshop "antic". For lack of a better term. Arctic Dave May 2012 #5
ya. stick a dick in a womans mouth to shut her up. nothing new there seabeyond May 2012 #8
You do realize the same thing is done with men, right? Arctic Dave May 2012 #11
and instead, we are defending a repug because of his trash. yea.... brilliant seabeyond May 2012 #13
Who is defending? Arctic Dave May 2012 #15
Seriously? You don't see the double standard? Bucky May 2012 #20
"...you've not been paying attention to the pornographication of mass media." unkachuck May 2012 #22
Double standard? Arctic Dave May 2012 #27
"double standard" is exactly the trap the wingnuts wish you would get caught Major Nikon May 2012 #32
he is garbage. always has been, always will be. nt seabeyond May 2012 #6
S.E. Cupp is one of my prime hit the mute button persons on MSNBC. onehandle May 2012 #12
Hustler is sexist and generally awful, news at 11. LeftyMom May 2012 #16
Ha ha! I like that. Bucky May 2012 #21
I have a hard time taking complaints about what appears in hustler seriously. JVS May 2012 #26
Oh, ha ha! Maybe next he can photoshop a dick in the ass of a gay marriage opponent! Neue Regel May 2012 #28
or hillary or pelosi. none of us would be bothered. nah.... nt seabeyond May 2012 #30
This message was self-deleted by its author devilgrrl May 2012 #31
She's on Bill Maher every so often. Total idiot. MrSlayer May 2012 #33
+1 Go Vols May 2012 #35
So here's DU again, celebrating a man whose every penny came from a woman's vagina. cherokeeprogressive May 2012 #34
everything you said... nt seabeyond May 2012 #36
You're right, I think in this picture Hustler should have snooper2 May 2012 #41
You're too clever by half. cherokeeprogressive May 2012 #43
Larry sure knows how to sell magazines. The more outrage, the more sales. qb May 2012 #37
I don't agree with anything S.E. Cupp says but One of the 99 May 2012 #38
Larry Flynt can kiss my ass. MineralMan May 2012 #39
I don't value the efforts he makes to help progressives Broderick May 2012 #44
 

unkachuck

(6,295 posts)
14. I'm with you FarPoint....
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:55 PM
May 2012

"Her hotness is diminished," the magazine says, "when she espouses dumb ideas like defunding Planned Parenthood."

....what's wrong with the above? It's a porn magazine for heaven sakes, everyone should lighten up....do you have a better idea on where to place a dick on her?....let us know....

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
17. Larry Flynt was responsible for one of the biggest free-speech
Thu May 24, 2012, 10:03 PM
May 2012

SCOTUS rulings of the last thirty years in the Falwell case. Every civil libertarian owes him thanks for that.

FarPoint

(12,408 posts)
24. Exactly....
Thu May 24, 2012, 10:40 PM
May 2012

He also was a strong Dennis Kucinich supporter....sponsored some fruitful fundraisers for him in Vegas...There are many reason to tip ones hat off to Larry Flynt. He is a bold fella thats for sure.

Archae

(46,328 posts)
19. I never admire Larry Flynt.
Thu May 24, 2012, 10:16 PM
May 2012

He's a publicity hound, willing to say or do anything to shove his porn on everyone.

And here? Oh right! Since SE Cupp is being an asshole, let's just photoshop her with a dick in her mouth!
This is juvenile and unnecessary.

If Flynt is someone to be admired, then we might as well embrace the Teabaggers.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
23. Making her "Asshole of the Month"
Thu May 24, 2012, 10:30 PM
May 2012

as he has done with many male political figures, would have been more, um, appropriate.

 

Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
45. Ummmm.. the Teabaggers?
Fri May 25, 2012, 10:35 PM
May 2012

Larry Flynt is all talk, when it comes to his offensive remarks about individual women.

The Tea Party has been all action, about rolling back the rights of women AND all working class Americans at least a hundred years.

I dare anyone to compare the damage done to women by Larry Flynt vs the Tea Party and show how he comes anywhere close to the Tea Party. He's not even in the same galaxy as they are.

ck4829

(35,077 posts)
2. I don't think anyone's even heard of this woman before this happened
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:29 PM
May 2012

She is insane, her book 'Losing Our Religion' is a screed about how evolution is an enemy of Christianity and the lack of Christian fundamentalists getting special treatment by the government means that religion is under attack. Fun person.

"but Cupp has said the protest isn’t loud enough"

In other words... Free publicity!

 

butterfly77

(17,609 posts)
9. I have heard of her and..
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:44 PM
May 2012

seen her many times on fox before she started showing up on msnbc.

Today,Barbara walter,whoopie and the rest of the women on the View said we as women now need to stand behind her and write to the magazine or whoever published this pic.

I haven't read or looked at this article but I have seen it in passing.

Bucky

(54,013 posts)
4. Another "free speech for people I don't like" moment.
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:34 PM
May 2012

Times two in this case. I hate it when the people on the left think it's okay to sexually demean women because they're conservative women. It's the least liberal thing you can do.

Bucky

(54,013 posts)
18. actually no, I'm way behind on my Hustler reading
Thu May 24, 2012, 10:13 PM
May 2012

Obama doesn't gain PR from being a cry baby. It's in Ms Cupp's economic interest to whine about being publically abused.

For the record, I think there's a big difference between calling a man a crybaby and photoshopping a cock into a woman's mouth.

 

Arctic Dave

(13,812 posts)
25. Um, I think you missed the point.
Thu May 24, 2012, 10:52 PM
May 2012

Ms Cupps is a dumbass and is being called out for in a way that Flynt has done for years. She isnt being singled out or victimized, she is in a long line of asshats that have taken this "award".

Bucky

(54,013 posts)
42. How dare you um me! Nobody ums me. I um other people!
Fri May 25, 2012, 05:59 PM
May 2012

Dammit, I hate being ummed. Anyway, your argument that Larry Flynt has being doing this sort of thing for years doesn't exactly refute the point that it's misogynist.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
40. I see your point there, and part of me says right wing women
Fri May 25, 2012, 10:09 AM
May 2012

have no grounds on which to complain, after all, they support the patriarchy so let them live with the consequences of that.

OTOH, I think it's horrible. Though maybe we should not see it as horrible. Is this not considered a normal sexual act, so why should it be a bad thing? Interesting.

 

Arctic Dave

(13,812 posts)
5. Um, thats actually a re-occuring photoshop "antic". For lack of a better term.
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:39 PM
May 2012

Not only is she an idiot but she thinks she is the only one Hustler has done this to.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
8. ya. stick a dick in a womans mouth to shut her up. nothing new there
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:43 PM
May 2012

are we cheering this?

nah.... fllint doesnt demean women. just a funny.....

progressive. booyah.

 

Arctic Dave

(13,812 posts)
11. You do realize the same thing is done with men, right?
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:47 PM
May 2012

It is another version of "asshole of the month".

 

Arctic Dave

(13,812 posts)
15. Who is defending?
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:57 PM
May 2012

She seems like a douchebag and Hustler called her on it. BFD.

Why have you never got bent out of shape by the way they protray Obama?

Bucky

(54,013 posts)
20. Seriously? You don't see the double standard?
Thu May 24, 2012, 10:17 PM
May 2012

I know, it's not hate speech when WE say it about THEM, right?

Huster exists to demean women. Yes, they go after men sometimes too. But by its very nature, sexualized photoshopping of women is different than the same photoshopping of men. If you don't see that, you've not been paying attention to the pornographication of mass media.

 

unkachuck

(6,295 posts)
22. "...you've not been paying attention to the pornographication of mass media."
Thu May 24, 2012, 10:28 PM
May 2012

....I know you're not addressing me, BUT, it's a porn magazine, not mass media....people buy a porn magazine with the expectation of seeing dicks and pussies on every page....

....therefore, it's difficult to make political commentary or have porn in a porn magazine without involving men and women or their sex parts....

 

Arctic Dave

(13,812 posts)
27. Double standard?
Thu May 24, 2012, 10:58 PM
May 2012

You have heard of the movie, "The people vs Larry Flynt"? That was a man who got his feathers in a ruffle because Flynt satirized him.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
32. "double standard" is exactly the trap the wingnuts wish you would get caught
Thu May 24, 2012, 11:58 PM
May 2012

There is no double standard because Flynt isn't a voice for the left. No left wing group is going to install a bust of Larry Flynt at the state house. No half intelligent person is going to claim showing a picture of anyone with a dick in their mouth is valid social commentary. The right is trying to generate outrage over this because not enough on the "left" have voiced outrage over this, as if it's equivalent to Limbaugh calling a womans' activist a prostitute.

Is Flynt demeaning to women? Sure. Do I feel the need for outrage over this? Not really.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
12. S.E. Cupp is one of my prime hit the mute button persons on MSNBC.
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:52 PM
May 2012

Bleach your hair, get some contacts, and go to Fox News.

LeftyMom

(49,212 posts)
16. Hustler is sexist and generally awful, news at 11.
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:59 PM
May 2012

S. E. Cupp is also sexist and generally awful, so you'd think they'd get along.

Bucky

(54,013 posts)
21. Ha ha! I like that.
Thu May 24, 2012, 10:19 PM
May 2012

Sadly, being a generally disagreeable egomaniac isn't the kind of shared cultural value that translates into smooth interpersonal relationships.

eg, Martha Stewart and Donald Trump.

JVS

(61,935 posts)
26. I have a hard time taking complaints about what appears in hustler seriously.
Thu May 24, 2012, 10:55 PM
May 2012

It's never been known for good taste.

 

Neue Regel

(221 posts)
28. Oh, ha ha! Maybe next he can photoshop a dick in the ass of a gay marriage opponent!
Thu May 24, 2012, 10:58 PM
May 2012

Boy, wouldn't that be swell! He he! Ha ha!

Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)

 

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)
33. She's on Bill Maher every so often. Total idiot.
Fri May 25, 2012, 12:26 AM
May 2012

It's satire, clearly marlked and explained. I can see people being offended but that's the point. Being provocative is what Flynt does, he's also honest and often right.

 

cherokeeprogressive

(24,853 posts)
34. So here's DU again, celebrating a man whose every penny came from a woman's vagina.
Fri May 25, 2012, 12:28 AM
May 2012

Raising him on the collective DU shoulders for shoving a cock into the mouth of a woman who is to be hated because of what she thinks.

This is no surprise considering DU'ers will defend a man calling a woman a C*NT because she's on the wrong side politically, as quickly as they'll demean transsexuals by snidely claiming a hated conservative woman must have once been a man.

DU would be having a level three meltdown if The Weekly Standard asked "What Would the Secretary of State Look Like With a Dick in Her Mouth?" Substitute FLOTUS for Secretary of State and I can almost guarantee someone would ask if legal action was possible for such disrespect.

Doesn't it give you a kind of sick feeling to imagine seeing under that question a picture of Hillary Clinton with a cock photoshopped into her mouth? How about seeing Michelle Obama's lips photoshopped around a cock?

It does me. No more sick though than seeing ANY OTHER WOMAN placed in the same position. No more sick at all.

Just think how many times Larry Flynt has pulled his wallet out in order to entice one or more women into sexual acts in order to satisfy his urges... the same urges he finds in enough people to keep funding his particular form of misogyny.

Then carry him on DU's collective shoulders because he demeaned someone on the wrong side of the political fence.

As far as I'm concerned: Fuck Larry Flynt and the wheelchair he rolled in on.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
41. You're right, I think in this picture Hustler should have
Fri May 25, 2012, 10:13 AM
May 2012

Put a big cock hanging off the House of Saud and stuck it in George Bush's mouth..

Maybe you should try to get on their editorial staff


qb

(5,924 posts)
37. Larry sure knows how to sell magazines. The more outrage, the more sales.
Fri May 25, 2012, 09:38 AM
May 2012

This is protected speech, and if it were ignored rather than trumpeted in the headlines, the impact would be much less.

One of the 99

(2,280 posts)
38. I don't agree with anything S.E. Cupp says but
Fri May 25, 2012, 09:44 AM
May 2012

this was a vile attack that is unacceptable. If it is wrong to attack Sandra Fluke in such a manner, it is wrong to do so to Ms. Cupp. Anyone who was outraged when Ms. Fluke was attacked but thinks it's OK to do so to Ms. Cupp because they don't like her politics is a hypocrite and is as bad as Rush.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
39. Larry Flynt can kiss my ass.
Fri May 25, 2012, 10:06 AM
May 2012

Stuff like this is way beyond legitimate political speech. He has the right to do it, I suppose, but he's not right to do it. Celebrating that man is something I will never do.

Broderick

(4,578 posts)
44. I don't value the efforts he makes to help progressives
Fri May 25, 2012, 10:23 PM
May 2012

He made a big difference many years ago, but I think it is relatively minor efforts now to make sure he stays in the news somehow. He demeans women. They are objects to him. We don't need to devalue women to get a point across politically.

Nothing to celebrate really.

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