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Leave the Tinky Winkies alone!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yelled by Hustler Magazine’s publisher Larry Flynt in a telephone conversation with … Jerry Falwell, referring to Falwell’s warning to parents that<\/em> “the purple Teletubby character was, in fact, gay”.<\/p>\n

In 1988, Jerry Falwell sued Larry Flynt for $50 million for libel, after Flynt had published a parody on then popular Campari ads where he had Falwell describing his “first time” as having been with his mother, “drunk off our God-fearing asses,” in an outhouse, while obviously referring to having sex, rather than the ads’ “first times of drinking Campari”.<\/p>\n

Flynt lost the case three times in a row, but, to his own astonishment, won the case in Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Yet these two men … became ‘friends’. A more unlikely friendship is hardly imaginable.<\/p>\n

And maybe ‘friends’ is stretching it a bit. It’s not that there was ANY form of mutual respect or admiration, but Falwell would visit Flynt whenever he was in California, and Flynt had a ‘direct’ line to Falwell and called him personally whenever he thought they needed to discuss certain issues.<\/p>\n

Read Larry Flynt’s own account of this unlikely ‘friendship’ here: –link<\/a>-.<\/p>\n

I bet Larry Flynt misses the late Jerry Falwell … maybe we should hook ‘m up with Fred Phelps! Now THAT would be interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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