Amazon has it ranked #20 on its sales rankings, as of right now. Not too shabby.
We’re probably going to see a number of personal “revelations” about Jessica Lynch in the next few weeks. Now that she’s decided to express her own opinions and not to blindly parrot the party line, I’m sure we’ll be seeing a regular stream of denunciations of her history and character.
But if she just poses topless, she’s a whore?
LOL Dutch boy, you got me there !!!
Yeah I went out of my way to state that even if she showed EVERYTHING what’s the big deal?
I hadn’t considered only topless. Hmm maybe that makes her a tease ???
Hell, she could make gay porno movies and worship Satan by moonlight for all I care. That’d be her prerogative, and her right.
As long as they pay their taxes and aren’t hurting anyone, I have no quarrel with what my fellow Americans do in their lives.
From the OP link:
Flynt said the photos will be locked in a vault “alongside of a lot of other good stuff.”
Come on Larry, let’s publish a special issue of “good stuff”.
:rolleyes:
I think this is the quote of the day.
Why? I look at it as a once in a lifetime chance. If I was in her position, 19, an e-nothing, and could make a million on a book deal? No way in hell I’d turn that down. I think it would be stupid of her to not profit from the brief time she has in the limelight.
As to the OP, I don’t know why he’s not publishing them. Sooner or later they’ll wind up on the net, or in some other magazine. If Jessica was smart, she’d go ahead and do a playboy spread or something, just to profit from it before it happens anyway. Like anyone is really going to think less of her just because of a few boobs.
[Inigo Montoya] I don’ think that word means what you think it means[/Inigo Montoya]
(Not you, Sternvogel, the lawyer.)
Not to mention that with injuries that will anyway lead to a disability discharge, it will be rather nice to afford extra care beyond what she gets from the VA Hospital AND get some nice things for the folks at home.
Whoa… what? Tortured? Wasn’t she transferred to a hospital, treated, and then ‘rescued’ after an Iraqi doctor had called and arranged for delivering her to the US side (not deemed dramatic enough I guess)?
Anyway, I have had pictures taken of my penis at a party… can someone hook me up with mr Flynt?
I haven’t bought a Hustler since it’s “Scratch N Sniff” centerfold many years ago. But I remember they had a “pictures from home” section, you might want to submit your picture to be displayed there. They even do “hot” pet pictures there, so send a picture of your dog too. :eek:
Well Isabelle would but I am pretty certain Jessica won’t be losing any sleep over it.
I don’t think Lynch could publish the photos anyways. Unless she signed a model release or they were taken in public he has no right to publish or resell them. Otherwise he could break and enter her house and set up a “bathroom” cam and use those photos without permission too.
Lynch is not, by choice, a famous person. Regardless of her fame now, it doesn’t remove her right to privacy. No model release means pretty much a guaranteed win for her in court.
I can’t see Hustler winning in court against a young girl who was wounded and captured by the enemy during a time of war. A jury of average Americans would probably bury him. If he tries she’ll get a preliminary injunction against release and have the copies seized at the printer and destroyed.
"Likewise, the so-called “disclosure of private facts” tort (which is one of the several different legal theories that sometimes go by the label “right of privacy”) lets people block publication of certain highly intimate facts about themselves. But this tort has been defined quite narrowly—largely for First Amendment reasons—and doesn’t apply to any facts that courts conclude are “newsworthy.”
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081488/
There’s no real way a judge or jury is likely to conclude that topless or nude photos taken at a private party before the war can in any way be deemed “newsworthy” since they have no bearing on the “newsworthy” events in her life. Further, it gets even more complex/ugly in her case, since A) at the time the photos were taken she was a US Gov’t employee and B) the person who took/sold the photos was also a gov’t employee.
Now you may be technically talking about a 4th Amendment violation since NO gov’t employee has the right to release private information about an individual that they acquired as a gov’t employee. If he was a gov’t employee at the time he tried to sell the pics for 200K he is well and truly in trouble. It’s against Federal Law to do what he did. The law is really aimed more at people like IRS agents releasing info about individuals, but still, ANY employee of the Federal Gov’t is bound by law not to reveal private information about others in such a fashion.
Flynt already knows all this though. He’s simply using the “non-release” to give himself a public pedestal to talk about Bush. You think he’d be on CNBC otherwise? I kinda doubt it. By being “Noble” he gets to be interviewed, which allows him to make his statements, which is really what he’s after anyways.
my .02 centavos.
Regards,
-Bouncer-
I’m heartening to see that many Doper’s biggest reaction to this was the same as mine - “It’s incredulous!?..It’s incredulous!?”
No “B/bush” jokes yet?
You are a real comedian! That was a classic!
If they were taken in an Army barracks by her co-workers, I think they demonstrate that she’s totally unprofessional and possessed of very bad personal judgment.
Yeah, no 19-year-old has ever done something unprofessional or in bad judgement.
She was the equivalent of a college freshman, fer cryin’ out loud. I did some really stupid things as a college freshman, as I’m sure most of us did.
I guess I just don’t get why it even matters one whit. The kid was a POW who’s face was plastered on TV because she’s pretty. She doesn’t deserve all that attention, but I don’t think she asked for it, either.
No, she wasn’t. She was a soldier.
What the hell kind of military do you think we would have if the standard of behavior was the same as the average college freshman? 
What would be the purpose of all that training if we expect them to all act like dumb-ass kids when they deploy?
She told me she loved me like a brother. She was from Arkansas, hence the Joy!