Chapter 297: What did Flint bring?
"Deal!"
"Haha" Larry Flint jumped up from the couch excitedly, which made Edward feel very bad and had a feeling of being tricked.
"Alright, my first case for you is, deal with Larry Parry! This bastard is going to sue me, and I know it's a little, a little too much, but I'm sure you're going to win the case because of your First Amendment expertise. ”
"What!" Edward was shocked.
After going around for a long time, the clown turned out to be myself?!!
Larry Flint satisfies his desire to talk about Larry Parry on "Womanizer", not to mention how much trouble this will cause Edward himself, well, Flint is really open-minded...... Just let Edward go to the aftermath.
"You can open a timesheet at will, I won't review it, and even if I lose the lawsuit, it's not impossible, but the premise is that you have to do everything you can to disgust the other party."
"I'm sorry, I can't accept that," Edward immediately interrupted
For the first time, he even adopted the honorific title "Mr. Flint, I would like to remind you that I am a lawyer by profession, and once I appear in court, I must ensure that I win the lawsuit, so that I respect the law and protect the interests of my clients." ”
The words are strict, in fact, Edward also has a little Jiujiu in his heart, Flint wants to be cool, it's not impossible, but not many people can accept losing the lawsuit, with the nervous look of this goods, maybe he will regret it after a few months, and if the dispute between the two sides is spread out, it will be a huge blow to his professional reputation.
Moreover, this written contract cannot be written, and it cannot be said that the agency is to allow the client to "completely use the law to humiliate the other party".
Seeing Edward's resolute refusal, Larry Flint laughed even louder, "Honey, congratulations, you passed the assessment, and now I am completely relieved to hand over the case to you!" ”
“???”
"If you just said that it would be carried out according to my intentions, then I would break the contract at any time, after all, we only reached a verbal agreement, without any evidence. And for a shameless person like me, I never worry about the reputational impact of ruining a date, because I don't have that effect at all. And you, as a young and promising lawyer, will not be serious with a scum like me to the end. No one wants to wrestle with a pig in a quagmire, even if they are sure to win...... Isn't it? ”
Larry stood up again, looked at Edward, and said seriously, "People are afraid of me!" Because I'm ruthless, I can throw away anything, including everyone's most valued reputation! But Ed, I have to teach you a lesson. The reputation of the poor is not valuable, and when you have money, there will be countless people to help you restore your reputation, and some people will even see you as a mentor, after all, exchanging reputation for money, it is easy to say, but in fact it is very difficult and difficult, which is why there are more than 1y people in the United States, and only I can compete with Hefner and Gunecho. You know, I'm just a hillbilly who runs a striptease bar! At the age of 15, he went to the Army, wallowed in the mud, then went to the Navy to drink salt water, and only went to New York for the first time after being discharged from the Army! ”
Sure enough...... Edward sighed that if you can succeed, you can succeed in this era, and there is no good stubble.
Larry Flint is brutal and even mentally ill, but he weighs the pros and cons, and then decisively gives up some seemingly useless things in exchange for worldly success, and continues to give it up in order to maintain this success......
Sure enough, it is a vibrant sewage, and only the current United States can cultivate such a huge catfish.
As a media personality, Larry Flint's understanding of the human heart and emotions is at the forefront of this era.
Although this Gu-like business model in the United States is cruel, once it is used externally, it is devastating and decaying.
"Thanks for trusting" Edward smiled, "However, Larry Parry hasn't responded yet, has he?" And I've got to get the case done with Harry Remus first......"
"No, that idiot has already responded! Just now, I was watching TV when you weren't here! With that, he turned on the TV, "Wow is lucky, it happened to be replayed." ”
On TV, Larry Parry is being interviewed.
A reporter-looking man asked, "Larry, have you seen this issue of Womanizer?" Larry Flint seems to be very unkind to you. ”
Prosecutor Parry's face was full of seriousness: "I will not look at such vulgar stuff, and I am proud to announce that with the efforts of my colleagues and me, there is no room for this magazine to survive in Memphis or even Tennessee!" In the next step, I will continue to work hard to make this filthy, poisonous thing completely disappear from the United States and the entire face of the earth. ”
"I can hear the call of the Lord to walk on the earth to banish the filth and purify the hearts of men!"
"This is a video of Prosecutor Larry Parry's interview yesterday," the host interjected duly, "but this morning, he held a press conference!" ”
As soon as the camera turned, the original reddish face of the sweeping yellow nail rake (so it was called red neck) was similar to pig liver at this time, which made people have to suspect his blood pressure problem "I swear!" I swear, I'm going to get justice! I'm going to let the law punish that scoundrel! ”
As he spoke, Larry Parry cried out in front of the camera, "That bastard tarnished my warm memories of my mother, who passed away ten years ago, and she was and will be the beacon of my life, but ...... Larry Flint, the villain, 55555555"
"Wow, it's so exciting to see this guy crying, wow, I'm so excited, really, I have it all! Hey! You two, if you don't mind, I'd like to call two girls over, oh, they're in the next room. ”
Seeing the cramps on their faces, Larry Flint added, as if remembering something, "Sorry, it's my fault." ”
Chris breathed a sigh of relief, as a devout Catholic, he was much more sensitive to this kind of thing than Edward.
In the next second, his face was even more distorted,
Larry Flint picked up the receiver of the phone: "Hey, are all six girls?" Okay, come here, I have two distinguished guests here, one of them is 1.9 meters tall and weighs 250 pounds, both of them are tendon meat, yes, the strongest kind of male protagonist in the hair film, the kind that one person can make three girls unable to walk, you come quickly, it's too late to be snatched away by others, I don't care......"
"I think we'd better quit first, and I'll have the contract ready......" Seeing that the situation was not good, Edward quickly pulled Chris away.
You must know that the last time he was one-on-one with Edie Sedgwick, it was nothing more than letting Andy Warhol visit on the sidelines, which led to being blocked for several chapters, and if it was 3:6, I was afraid that it would be directly twisted to the GA mechanism.
"Wishing you prosperity" On the way back, Chris sat in the co-pilot and said in Chinese with a blank face.
"I don't know if it's good or bad."
"Lawyers are servicers, not good or bad," Chris said lightly, "We sell our understanding of the law to help our clients, and in any case, it is legally permissible." ”
"You're such a good lawyer......," Edward shook his head, "and now that the case has added new variables, it's giving me a headache, a lot of headaches. ”
But Larry was right, he had money and he was in trouble, he was a very good client, and the lawsuit could be fought slowly...... And, didn't you find out? Larry is actually very shrewd, and he knows how to get a backstage for himself. ”
"That's right," Edward shrugged, "and I can't imagine that he could get the sister of the former Georgia senator and now the governor of Georgia to come to his door and let him into the church...... It's ......."
Edward's name is Jimmy Carter, a native of Georgia, and this place was the hardest hit by slavery.
Slavery became a thing of the past after the Civil War, but a large amount of manor land and devout Protestant beliefs remained, and the Carter family was the owner of the large estate.
Mainly grow peanuts.
Jimmy Carter seems to be an honest guy who returned home from the military to run the family farm and serve as a Southern Baptist deacon and Sunday school teacher.
He then became the Senate representing Georgia in '62, then resigned to run for governor and succeeded.
Although he has been a senator and is the current governor, the media has always called him "peanut grower".
It was a surprise that Edward knew Carter well.
Right now, Sileri is in her second grade, and as Yale or the Ivy League would customary, many of the best students would go to Washington to work as a part-time assistant to a senator or congressman, earning $7.50 an hour.
And the bigwigs take this opportunity to inspect the future elite, and if they find that it is worth cultivating, they will be included in the bag as soon as possible, and use their political resources to pile up a future star, and if the latter behaves well, it is very likely to become the future master......
That's how senators pass the torch.
Edward was originally going to take this path, but by mistake, he went straight to the legal line, but ignored this political line, and he didn't know whether it would be good or bad for his future.
Silari, on the other hand, now drives to Washington every afternoon when she doesn't have classes to work for party magnate George McGovern.
George McGovern is a South Dakota senator in Congress, during World War II, he drove a bomber in the Army Air Corps to drop bombs on the heads of German devils, entered politics and became a senator after retiring from the army, and ran for president many times, but unfortunately lost to JFK and Lyndon Johnson in the party, and now Mr. McGovern is ambitiously preparing for the 1972 election, and this time his main opponent is Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.
But Silari doesn't seem to be interested in the presidency, and he is quite perfunctory about the party primary.
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Georgia is a religious southern state, and Carter's sister, Ruth Carter Stapleton, is also a well-known local religious activist.
She felt that Larry Flint was doing too much, which was very detrimental to the construction of spiritual civilization in the United States, and would teach the future flowers of the motherland, as a devout Christian, she didn't want to solve this guy legally.
Rather, he thinks that he is a lost lamb who is obligated as a servant of the Lord to help him return to the right path.
She visits Larry in person and candidly declares that the two of them "have something in common" because "we're both trying to free people from their depression"...
Larry Flint went crazy on the spot.
He never thought that someone would be even crazier than himself, and would try to pull a scumbag like himself into the church.
But if you think about it, "We're all trying to free people from repression", it's so fucking good that it's beyond reproach because it's true......
For Mrs. Stapleton, who did not hesitate to relegate religion to the same status as pornographic magazines in order to attract people into the gang, Larry Flint really didn't dare to mess around, on the one hand, he really respected the other party's behavior, and on the other hand, normal people would not offend the sister of a senator...... In particular, this sister is also a religious believer who is kind to others......
But Edward is also a little unsure of what the purpose of Larry Flint and Mrs. Stapleton's friendship is.
At least in the conversation just now, Flint spoke many times about the grace and glory of the Lord, and he even said that his initials, Larry Claxton Flynt, are the same as the initials of Lord Christ, the Father, which is obviously a hint from the Lord.
However, the Lord obviously would not hint to his servant, only instructions or instructions, and Chris pinched his thigh fiercely on the side, so he forced the idea of giving Flint a religious lesson on the spot - not to mention in the Middle Ages, even in the New World 200 years ago, Flint would be a great rebellion to say this, and he would be branded a heretic.
But at the moment, Flint is the owner of the money, so he should be lenient, and secondly, Chris is a Catholic, and the Carter siblings believe in the Protestant Methodist Church.
On the surface, Flint must have wanted to find a backer for himself, but Edward felt that this guy would probably be baptized as a believer someday in the future in order to seek inner peace.
With the increase of age, the spirit of the second year of the youth and the enemy of the world gradually fades, and the will to fight will decline, which is not a problem for ordinary people, but for Larry Flint, if he does not advance against the current, he will retreat, he is like a master of evil factions, he can only keep taking the initiative to launch various challenges, only the battle can make him survive, and once he stops provoking externally, then those enemies he originally formed will think that - this guy is almost there, so there is revenge and revenge, Flint would die an extremely ugly death.
Only by constantly waging wars to show the world that he is still the mad dog that catches and bites whom, can he get a moment of peace under such a superficial phenomenon of three realities and seven falsehoods.
As for Hefner and Goonecho......
That's even more hopeless, what they need is a healthy mad dog Flint to block the spears and guns of the conservative defenders for themselves, once the mad dog becomes a sick cat, then I'm afraid that these two will start to clean up the door first, so as to plunder Flint's foundation, especially those customer resources.
You must know that among the three major pornographic magazines, "Lustful" has the lowest sales, but the customer resources are the highest quality and the loyalty is also the highest.
Flint once publicly declared, "I'd rather have one truck driver reader than ten college professors." ”
In this year, blue-collar workers such as truck drivers have high incomes and good benefits, and strong manual labor has also made their desire to consume stronger.
Truck drivers, workers in car factories have a low level of education, they can't understand the tirade in Playboy, they are extremely dissatisfied with the dark light of the attic, and the naked womanizer is their best spiritual food.
Millions of such customers are a resource that any media tycoon would aspire to obtain.
Larry Flint can only keep the mad dog style, which is very depleting to his heart, and it is at this time that religion can provide the solace he needs most, at least he can find a place to pour out his inner thoughts without worrying about being ridiculed or being grasped by someone with a heart and becoming a secret weapon to punish him.
From this point of view, Larry Flint's choice is not excessive, after all, he wants to convert, so it is better to choose a strong backer, and the spiritual and material harvest is the efficiency of the Americans......
"So," Edward nodded, "this is a good opportunity, Flint is a good client, rich, has a case, and is well-known enough to make it easier for me to play my own sign, how about it, want to join?" ”
"I'm afraid not, Ed, I know you won't treat me badly, but I'm not like you, I'm black, so my resume is more important to me"
"Well, understandably, are you going to go into a big law firm or into the government and the courts?"
"I'd like to go and interview with the assistant state attorney, and Miss Rushberg agrees with me......"
"Good luck" Edward held the steering wheel with his left hand and extended his right hand towards the other party.
The two high-fived.
"Remember, I always have your share of the deal, and you didn't want to mess with those politicians that day, so you came to me!"
"No problem! By the way, are you planning to start practicing on your own? ”
"I haven't completely thought about it, I set up a small law firm by myself, and now I have clients, but to be honest, I'm still a little unwilling, Ruth suggested that I stay in school to teach, I kind of want to be an assistant to the justice of the Federal High Court, and now I'm writing a cover letter......"
"I don't believe you'd like to do academic ......," Chris scoffed
"Of course, but you have to admit that school is a good place, quiet and peaceful, where you can calm down and think about something, and I still don't have a decision about my future path."
"Okay......"
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