Time & Perspective Quote by Larry Flynt

Scandal, in Larry Flynt's world, isn't a threat to manage; it's an invitation to crash the party with a press pass and a grin. "Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved" lands like a business plan disguised as a shrug. The casual "we" matters: Flynt isn't positioning himself as a lone provocateur but as the ringleader of an institution that treats outrage as both raw material and distribution strategy.

The intent is bluntly opportunistic, but the subtext is more combative. Flynt is winking at the moral economy that pretends to despise scandal while feeding on it. He understood that public virtue often runs on a fuel mixture of hypocrisy and curiosity, and his operation was designed to siphon both. "Get involved" is especially telling: not "cover" or "report", but participate - to insert Hustler into the narrative so the scandal becomes inseparable from the brand. It's publicity as parasitism, yes, but also as counterattack against elites who police sex and speech in public while indulging them in private.

Context does the heavy lifting. Flynt's career grew inside the post-60s collision of porn, politics, and litigation; his famous fights over obscenity and the First Amendment turned him into a folk devil and, awkwardly, a civil liberties symbol. The line channels that double identity: hustling attention while claiming a kind of democratic function. Scandals, he implies, are where power slips - and where a publisher like Flynt can profit by tugging harder.