Pornographer Larry Flynt says he bought nude photos of Pfc. Jessica Lynch last month to publish in Hustler magazine, but changed his mind because she is a “good kid … and a victim of the Bush administration.”
Looks like our hero might not be that “innocent young woman she professes to be” Things that make you go hmmmm
I didn’t read your link but based on your thread title you have a it slightly askew. She did not pose for Hustler Mag. rather she was photographed topless/thong by army “buddies”.
I don’t think she’s professing to be innocent, either, just a normal person caught up in a media/propoganda blitz. This information fails to make me respect Lynch less (she gets my respect for speaking out against the military using her as a tool)
I’m not sure what your point is, Isabelle. From what I’ve read, she’s never presented herself as an innocent young woman or a hero. In fact, what I’ve read made her sound like she thought of herself as a terrified 19-year-old soldier whose gun jammed in the only battle she will ever be in; who was so scared while in the hospital that she at first didn’t even recognize the American soldiers who came to rescue her; and who is angry the military played up both her supposed heroism (which she denies) and her rescue (which wasn’t as dangerous as they made it sound).
I’m not sure how her posing nude for pictures that Larry Flynt got a hold of has anything to do with the rest of it.
I think that the fact that the photos were not meant for hustler means she took them for private use. Oh my God, a woman taking topless photos for herself or the enjoyment of close friends? Alert the government at once.
And it’s true that she downplays her part, saying she wasn’t a Hero, what I,m wondering is, what’s going to happen to all that money she gets form her book? If she’s going to profit by whoring herself out to the media, then I think it’s moere worrying than having boobie shots taken. Of course, she could be giving it all to charity.
A teenage girl flashing her tits at a party is less surprising than seeing
Larry Flint showing some class. Maybe he should have been elected after all.
Incidentally, Shane and Sia (aka the Barbi Twins) have posed nude for Hustler magazine. Making this even more creepy, the photos were taken by Shane’s husband, Ken Wahl. The twins have previously posed for Playboy and Wahl’s first wife was a Penthouse Pet, so now he’s completed the nudie trifecta.
1: Larry Flynt saying, “I have nude pix of celebrity X but have decided not to publish them because it would be in poor taste” most likely means “I do not have nude pix of celebrity X.”
2: Even if he does have them, so what? Does the fact that she posed nude in front of a camera at some point in her life somehow make her being captured by the enemy and tortured somehow less tragic? Is it supposed to make the administration’s cynical manipulation of her rescue for political gain less disgusting? What, precisely, am I supposed to be going “hmmmmm” about here?
Her attorney, Stephen Goodwin, said in a statement: “It’s incredulous that anyone would think it appropriate in any way to attempt to publish unauthorized photos of Jessica – photos taken before she was deployed to Iraq and before her capture and rescue.”
You mean before she became a national hero/treasure?
Try as I might, I fail to see the logic in the lawyer’s comment.
You’ve gotta love this whole sh*t.