[mburbank]

Okay;
1.) Hustler is a fairly sleazy magazine. Oliver Stone Movie aside, Larry Flynt is probably a fairly sleazy guy

2.) You might not personally find Flynts "Prayer Offensive" funny, but if you don't recognize it as satire I'm amazed. I'm fairly certain he's less serious about praying for O'reilly's death than Pat Robertson is about Praying for the death of Supreme Court Justices. You don't have to laugh, you don't have to like it, but if you take it at face value, I think you're being pretty dense.

3.) Same with his run for governor. It's a statement. He doesn't think he'll win, he's saying if you have a recall and your rules are this loose about who can get on the ballot, look what you get. I don't think he expects people to take him seriously and I don't think he's guilty of leading anyone on, the way Howard Stern did the Liberatarians in New York. Although I thought that was funny too.