Porn stars and politics

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Nothing like kickin’ off the blog (again - this is my second stab at ‘er) with a post about porn stars. It’s good for the search engines. On to the goods…

Would it kill you, you “journalists,” to stop treating every porn star who runs for public office as some sort of legitimate news story? I do indeed like me a little Tucker Carlson - a good ol’ libertarian-leaning, bowtie-wearing young man - but he’s the most recent one to hop on the porn-star-candidate-as-news-item bandwagon.

You might remember Mary Carey, the “actress” (read: porn star) who ran for governor in California’s 2003 recall election that put “actor” (read: talentless) Arnold Schwarzenegger into office. Recently, Fox News Channel’s Neil Cavuto - also, not a bad newsman, overall - tried to defend this practice. Nice try, Neil.


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