(Image via Hustler) Larry Flynt, 77, turns in an insightful essay for Daily Beast, wherein he reminisces about one of the biggest battles of his life — the fight for free speech.
In 1983, his Hustler published a gross-out parody Campari ad that contained a clearly fake interview with Jerry Falwell Sr., in which Falwell confessed to losing his virginity to his mother.
In an outhouse. I shit you not. Falwell sued, and it went all the way to the SCOTUS, where a unanimous decision supported Flynt's right (and all of our rights) to express himself artistically in a satirical way about a public figure.
Flynt's new essay reveals that Falwell forgave him and socialized with him, even sending him Christmas cards, but the meat of the piece (with all