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This is the most amusing thing I’ve seen all morning. “Adult” movie star Jenna Jameson endorsed Romney.

“I’m very looking forward to a Republican being back in office,” Jameson said while sipping champagne in a VIP room at Gold Club in the city’s South of Market neighborhood. “When you’re rich, you want a Republican in office.”

I wonder if she knows the Mittster pledged to crack down on the evil scourge of the carnal arts. If he succeeds, maybe she won’t be so rich anymore.

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  1. 1.

    BGinCHI

    I can only assume that CNN will report this as a variation on their favorite theme:

    She does it from both sides.

  2. 2.

    Bubblegum Tate

    “When you’re rich, you want a Republican in office.”

    Pretty awesome, Ms. Jameson. Rock on.

  3. 3.

    Comrade Dread

    “When you’re rich, you want a Republican in office.”

    At least she’s honest and isn’t trying to dress up pure selfishness in the cloak of the constitution or civic duty or the other nonsense conservatives use.

  5. 5.

    beltane

    Doesn’t Utah have the highest porn consumption of any state in the Union? Jello consumption too. Us godless blue-staters cannot hope to compete with our pious brethren in the weirdness department.

  6. 6.

    Cassidy

    She’s a *producer now (hasn’t acted in roughly a decade) and her husband is a millionaire retiree from the UFC. She has plenty of revenue streams.

    *I know this because I follow MMA very closely. I prefer my porn stars to not look like “souhtern living” tweakers.

  9. 9.

    Seebach

    Is she running interference or is she serious? Because a porn star endorsing Romney on class warfare grounds is pretty hilariously off-message.

  10. 10.

    quannlace

    Wow, those prestige endorsements just keep rolling in. Ted Nugent, “Birther’ Trump, and now porn stars!
    And I hear sex workers are really looking forward to the Republican Convention.

  11. 11.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    She’s right, so hopefully people vote like that – the Republicans will get 1% of the vote.

  12. 12.

    gene108

    @Cassidy:

    She’s too old to be acting in porn now. She must be in her late 30’s or early 40’s by now.

    There’s not enough plastic surgery that can mask the effects of being middle aged, when you get up close and nekkid.

  14. 14.

    geg6

    Yeah, whore Jenna Jameson likes the whores of the GOP. Who would have ever guessed?

    The lowest of lowlifes love them some Rmoney! Just ask Shel Adelson, Donald Trump, Karl Rove, or Jenna Jameson.

  15. 15.

    Nina

    The adult entertainment industry in Tampa is expecting record profits during the Rebpublican convention. If a small-town official is caught in sexual hijinks, it’s an 80% chance that there will be an “R” next to his name.

    There are exceptions to the rule of course, but in general if a Democrat gets in trouble it’s all about money, if a Republican gets in trouble it’s all about kinky sex.

    Ms. Jameson knows who her best customers are.

  16. 16.

    brent

    @gene108: porn is not like major league athletics. If you you can have sex on camera – fat, thin, old, very old, dwarf, giant, missing limbs – then someone will pay to see you do it.

  19. 19.

    Cassidy

    @gene108: People will pay to see Jenna Jameson, regardless. What’s funny is when she was younger, she was curvier, still super-skinny, but curvier. These days she walks around like Victoria Beckham. I sometimes wonder what laws of physics hold her clothing on as there is nothing to hold onto.

  21. 21.

    Morbo

    @beltane: Perhaps, perhaps not, the study people cite didn’t really measure that in a satisfactory way. It did show that they do have the highest paid for porn consumption, though. So it probably showed that Utahans are the least familiar with torrents and streaming sites.

  25. 25.

    kindness

    @geg6: C’mon now. She isn’t a whore. She just used to get paid to have multiple sex acts and have them filmed. Now she pays other young stars and starlets to do the same.

    Well….I think the whole thing was a publicity stunt for her but it is rich. I mean, if Mittens isn’t a whore of the Finance world and Political world, I don’t know if anyone could be.

  27. 27.

    jl

    ” I wonder if she knows the Mittster pledged to crack down on the evil scourge of the carnal arts. If he succeeds, maybe she won’t be so rich anymore. ”

    If she is rich enough, she knows the drill, and what things Romney says he will do that he won’t and what he says he won’t do that he will.

    Perhaps she has “discussed” it with the Romney camp in those quiet back rooms Mitt loves so much? Eh? Meybbe? No rich person has called me to confirm yet, but if one does, I am ready to spread the word.

    This women is hot and blond and in an important growth industry, and rich. I approve of her endorsement of Rmoney.

  28. 28.

    Libby Spencer

    It’s been many years since I’ve seen an adult movie, but as I recall, there were a few older women who still had very successful careers in that genre.

  29. 29.

    Bubblegum Tate

    @lacp:

    He was more or less recounting an exchange he had with his grandmother (who had basically raised him in poverty in Alabama):

    GRANDMOTHER: Charles, why would you want to be a Republican? They only care about rich people!
    BARKLEY: But grandma, I’m rich.

  32. 32.

    Cassidy

    As to the “whore” comments, I seem to recall that Adult actresses tend to skew liberal. They command pretty devout followings. It’s nice to have them on our side.

  33. 33.

    redshirt

    @kindness: Don’t know if this is an urban myth, but! It’s illegal to pay a person for sex. It’s not illegal to pay that same person to have sex with you while you film it for porn purposes.

    So, ruling is: Not a whore!

    Also, if you’re hiring a prostitute, bring a camera.

  34. 34.

    Gin & Tonic

    @geg6: I think you’re being unnecessarily harsh on Jenna. She made an honest (and very lucrative) living and didn’t abuse or kill anyone. Not the choice of career most of us would have made, but she was supplying a market.

  35. 35.

    Cassidy

    @PurpleGirl: Maybe, or since it’s coming from a girl, probably. I just know she looks emaciated. Any time Tito fights, the camera always pans to her.

  39. 39.

    Catsy

    @brent:

    porn is not like major league athletics. If you you can have sex on camera – fat, thin, old, very old, dwarf, giant, missing limbs – then someone will pay to see you do it.

    See also: Rule 34.

    When we finally figure out how to travel faster than light, Rule 34 will be the only remaining constant in the universe.

  40. 40.

    Martin

    I wonder if she knows the Mittster pledged to crack down on the evil scourge of the carnal arts. If he succeeds, maybe she won’t be so rich anymore.

    Rich means never having to work to get richer. That’s the rule. Once you hit that line, fuck everyone else – the only friction against getting richer is taxes.

  42. 42.

    jwb

    @jdrs0819: With a line like “When you’re rich, you want a Republican in office,” there’s no question in my mind about the honesty of her endorsement. It’s perfectly calibrated to feed the tweetmachine and blogs.

  46. 46.

    jwb

    @Cassidy: I have no idea about her actual politics, which are sort of beside the point, since I imagine the value of her endorsement to be right up there with Ted Nugent’s. I think she calibrated the “endorsement” to maximize PR effect and thought about how to say something that would self-perpetuate on Twitter and the blogs.

  47. 47.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Read the rest of the article, it’s clear she is strong in the snark.

  48. 48.

    PurpleGirl

    @Cassidy: There’s an old saying: You can never be too rich or too thin. Many (most?) celebrities work to be quite thin (yes, emaciated) with big boobs.

  49. 49.

    LanceThruster

    When you’re rich and intelligent, you don’t want the hoi polloi running around with torches and pitchforks because you and your superior ilk have made it next to impossible for the little people (you know, the one’s buying your product) to survive.

  50. 50.

    Libby Spencer

    FTR: I do not think it is fair to call people who work in adult entertainment whores. They’re businesspeople just like in any industry.

    However, I have no objection to that classification for Republican politicians, or quite a few Dem pols either.

  51. 51.

    kindness

    @Cassidy:

    To be fair, I think a lot of the guys on here would have chosen porn star if given the oppurtunity.

    Remind me not to go to your BJ hookups.

  52. 52.

    Cassidy

    @kindness: Hell, I’m 34 with a family and kids. These days I get excited if I get to sleep in on Saturday.

    Now, when I was 17 or 18…

  55. 55.

    Nemesis

    Uh, this bitch sucks cock for a living, and that that well, so Ima just ignore her ho-ass endorsement.

    Now I read she was snarking, but Ill just leave all this here because its a goddamn masterpiece and shit.

    And where did I leave that Fleshlight?

  57. 57.

    LanceThruster

    Slightly OT, I remember a comic talking about the quality of life for working animals (pack mules, war horses, etc.), and said if he/she (can’t remember which) could be reincarnated as a any working animal, they said they’d want to be an animal working in porn (though not crush films creatures – ugh!).

    I suppose a sheep dog or the like wouldn’t be too bad either. Junk yard dogs always seem kind of lonely and not fully understanding why their ferocious nature seems to keep people beyond arm’s length. Petting zoo – check. Pony rides for little kids (though not obnoxious ones) – check.

  60. 60.

    LanceThruster

    @pathman:

    I hope it is. I like her business bona fides though I could do without all the skin ink she’s saddled herself with.

  62. 62.

    LanceThruster

    @Amir Khalid: Saw her at a strip club as the featured celeb dancer during the Bush years and in the Q&A, I asked if she feared for the clock being turned back on the 1st Amendment (she’s a big proponent of porn as free speech). She said there’s not a chance that would ever happen.

    Even then, I never shared her optimism on that one.

  65. 65.

    LanceThruster

    @Cassidy:

    Much like Juliette Anderson (Aunt Peg), Keisha, Hyapatia Lee, and a host of other female perfomers/producers (whose name’s escape me at the moment without some in-depth research) broke ground in the business traditionally the domain of exclusively male power brokers, Jenna Jameson positioned herself to gain a larger portion of the profits for her own efforts.

    I think Mitt does somewhat the opposite, i.e. gets a large share of his fortune off the backs of others.

    I hate him and still “love” her (as much as one can “love” the objectified female form)..

  71. 71.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Oh, the snark is strong with Ms. Jameson.

    I have no doubt the drooling idiots at Red State and similar places will not be able to detect the snark.

  72. 72.

    NCSteve

    Okay, wait. Is it now okay to make misogynistic comments if they’re about a porn star? Or is it only okay to make them if she endorses Republicans? Okay, how about if she’s a very intelligent former porn star–which she is–giving Mittens a cross between the death-hug Obama gave Romney’s work on health care in Massachusetts and Marilyn’s singing of “Happy Birthday” to JFK? Still okay to make misogynistic comments about her?

    Or, how about if we just don’t fucking make any misogynistic comments about any woman, even if we’re talking about Michelle Malkin, ‘kay?

    But if we can, does this mean its okay to call Allan West a ni*CLANG*?

  74. 74.

    Herbal Infusion Bagger

    “When you’re rich, you want a Republican in office.”

    Given how the stock market does worse under Republicans than Democrats, I’m not sure that is true either.

  76. 76.

    Shawn in ShowMe

    From what I’ve read on her Wikipedia page, Jenny Jameson reacted to her tough childhood (including being raped by an acquaintance in her late teens) by vowing to become a star and only seeking out relationships that would benefit her career.

    I understand why she doesn’t value empathy. When she cared about regular people, all she did was get hurt. But Romney and his ilk don’t have that excuse.

  77. 77.

    AxelFoley

    @jdrs0819:

    She endorsed Clinton in 2008. Call me skeptical about her “honesty” here.

    Interesting. I recall reading an interview some years back when she was still doing movies that she would never do interracial scenes. Seems she’s got a problem with black folks.

    She supports a Dem in 2008, now she switches to a Repuke in 2012. Hmm…what do both candidates have in common? Ooh-ooh, I know! Their opponent is black!

  78. 78.

    LanceThruster

    @Herbal Infusion Bagger:

    Very good point, actually and one that the Rethuglicans have been misrepresenting as long as I can remember (much like the canard that they are better on national defense).

  79. 79.

    AxelFoley

    @NCSteve:

    But if we can, does this mean its okay to call Allan West a ni*CLANG*?

    It’s a free country, you can say what you want. You just have to deal with the consequences and repercussions.

  80. 80.

    Cassidy

    @AxelFoley: Back when she started out, that wasn’t a money-making market, so I’m not sure if that’s a as big a factor as you think. Also, her husband is Hispanic. OTOH, there was a few things she said she wouldn’t do that would have sold well, so who the hell knows.

  81. 81.

    LanceThruster

    @nhoj:

    Thanks for that. I think you’ve established that she was indeed being toungue-in-cheek in her Rmoney endorsement.

    She might just be the Stephen Colbert of the adult industry!

    I loved how Colbert recently said that, “if you believe that [blank] is actually [blank] (I can’t for the life of me remember who he was goofing on), then I’m secretly a liberal pretending to be a conservative!”

    I spit out my after 5 o’clock cocktail (i.e. my beer) on that one.

  82. 82.

    Catsy

    @Nemesis:

    Uh, this bitch sucks cock for a living, and that that well, so Ima just ignore her ho-ass endorsement.

    …the FUCK?

    Threads like this are very revealing sometimes, when it comes to who actually gives a shit about sexism and who simply finds it a useful bludgeon to use against wingnuts.

  83. 83.

    LanceThruster

    @AxelFoley:

    I used to hear porn stars interviewed on the Howard Stern show talk about what they would or would not do on film and my first thought was sometimes (awwwwww shucks – that’s my thing) and other times it was a reminder that they’re not obligated to fulfill every single fantasy of others and were obviously allowed to choose what they themselves would participate in…much like a food preference or musical tastes.

    As far as I’m concerned, it’s all good.

  84. 84.

    LanceThruster

    @Catsy:

    Thanks for calling them out on that as often Ill choose a Miss Manners approach (like ingnoring an unpleasant or emberrassing occurance at a dinner party for the sake of face saving) when it should be pointed out in no uncertain terms that agreement on one issue does not mean endorsement of some other glaring ignorance.

    Kudos.

    Also, too, it’s a desire not to have an otherwise interesting discussion sidetracked by boorish tangents (though you very correctly pointed it out so as to be able to return to our regularly scheduled program),

  85. 85.

    geg6

    @Gin & Tonic:

    She fucks for money (or at least, she did). That is what a whore does. If she did it for free, I would not call her that. That’s just your every day promiscuous idiot. Whores are whores. I’m not clear on how she is not one because she didn’t kill anyone.

    FYI, the very first definition in Merriam-Webster confirms that I am correct:

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whore

  86. 86.

    geg6

    @NCSteve:

    Yeah, let’s not call someone the dictionary definition of what their profession is.

    And, yeah, I’m a total misogynist.

    Holy fuck. I guess people who fuck for a living (their choice, but they knew what it was when they got into it) are now nuns in upside down world.

  89. 89.

    LanceThruster

    @geg6:

    There were prostitutes profiled on a PBS Frontline (I think) who donated their services once a month to ‘getting physical’ with people with severe disabilities (MS, other horrible debilitating diseases I’ve blocked out of my mind), and I thought they were angels or saints, myself.

    If your mom ever put out after being taken to movie or dinner, by your defintion, she’s a whore, no?

  93. 93.

    LanceThruster

    It is good to remember than sex for money (prostitution) and soliciting sex for money (pandering) is illegal in most jurisdictions (unless you choose to film it for sale).

    What a country!

    On a side note, why do the Charlie Churches get their panties in a wad over all the other slippery slope “vices” that would lead to a total breakdown of society, but they are not picketing Nevada nonstop with its legalized prostitution?

    Why isn’t Fred Phelps a permanent prescence at the Bunny Ranch with “God Hates Whores!” signs? (though it may be he is there under cover gathering valuable intel – it would be irresponsible not to speculate!)

  94. 94.

    NCSteve

    @AxelFoley: Just suggesting a certain degree of adherence to the standards we hold others to would be less, what’s the word I’m looking for here? Hypocritical? Republican? Douchbaggy?

    Okay, I’m being redundant. Repeating myself. Saying the same thing, over and over again.

  95. 95.

    Hypatia's Momma

    @geg6:
    Or you could just refer to her as “Jenna” or “Ms. Jameson” but I guess that wouldn’t be as viscerally satisfying for you as shrieking “whore” with such malicious glee.

  96. 96.

    Hypatia's Momma

    @NCSteve:
    It’s a good example of why so many Americans have such flabby ethical codes; they never bother exercising them.

  97. 97.

    Catsy

    @geg6:

    She fucks for money (or at least, she did). That is what a whore does. If she did it for free, I would not call her that. That’s just your every day promiscuous idiot. Whores are whores. I’m not clear on how she is not one because she didn’t kill anyone.

    I’m sure that if you try for more than half a second, you can think of at least one substantive, nontrivial difference between the occupations of porn actor and prostitute.

    Not saying the jokes don’t write themselves. Just that pretending the two professions are the same thing just because they both involve having sex and being paid does not exactly enhance your credibility on the topic, especially not when that assertion is being used as a flimsy excuse to call someone a whore. It’s like calling a soldier a pig and justifying it by saying that both soldiers and a policemen get paid to carry a gun.

  99. 99.

    NCSteve

    @geg6: Ironically was on the other side of this very argument in a long comment fight on TPM once. I was objecting to a very earnest young woman’s insistence that referring to a politician as a “whore” was wrong. It was stuff like this that got me rethinking that position.

    I’ve come around to agreeing with her that the idea there are some contexts where it’s okay to demean or denigrate women for having sex, whether professionally or for fun, is just fundamentally corrosive and indecent–even when done obliquely by using the language metaphorically. It perpetuates the repugnant old double standard about promiscuity, validates objectification and, in a broader sense, is a tacit endorsement of the view that women who engage in prostitution–whether under compulsion, duress, or voluntarily and even happily–are somehow blameworthy and deserving of scorn and mockery.

    I’m far from a prude. Personally, I don’t think there’s anything fundamentally wrong with either pornography or prostitution. Absolutely everything that’s wrong with both of them as they actually exist are the result of deeper cultural pathologies. And I think we really ought to try to move ourselves out of those pathologies whenever possible.

    Okay, putting away my holier than thou soapbox for the weekend.

    **update** Posted this and got “awaiting moderation.” I’m not going to wax indignant. Robots are idiots and we have to accept that if we want to have them. We all know this. But I’m not going to change a word. Either it gets through or it doesn’t.

  100. 100.

    David Koch

    @jdrs0819:

    She endorsed Clinton in 2008.

    Maybe she’s a PUMA and flipped like Baroness Lady Lynn Forester de Rothchild.

    I mean there are hard core (no pun intended) Clinton supporters who took the defeat very badly.

  102. 102.

    Triassic Sands

    Is it my imagination or does she look exactly like Barbie (the doll)?

    That’s perfect and it makes her endorsement understandable. We should expect Barbie to endorse Ken.

  103. 103.

    Brachiator

    @geg6:

    She fucks for money (or at least, she did). That is what a whore does

    No, that’s a politician, especially a Republican politician.

  105. 105.

    Brachiator

    @The Other Bob:

    Am I allowed to refer to Romney as the real whore in this conversation considering his constantly changing positions?

    Romney is so phoney that he gives whores a bad name.

    On the other hand, some of the voters who desperately want to believe in Mittens despite his clear disdain for the poor and the middle class reminds me of the sad sacks who go to brothels and believe it when a hooker says she really likes them.

  106. 106.

    Hart Williams

    Jenna Jameson (born Jenna Marie Massoli; April 9, 1974)* has never made a secret of who she was, Libby. The expected juvenile snark over this is just a symptom of how sick the “well” people in this society are, when it comes to anything related to sex.

    Who’s the sideshow freak here: The ex-porn queen or the creepy media?

    http://wp.me/p5dEo-4yp

    Greed + Titillation = MENSA

    *Wikipedia

  107. 107.

    John

    Derogatorily calling an actual, straight-up prostitute a whore seems pretty misogynistic to me.

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