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Back in March 2007, Nicholas Van Hoffman wrote in the left-leaning opinion and investigative magazine The Nation that "the banks cannot find enough young people, students, sick people and old people on small fixed incomes to give credit cards to. Once they've got them signed up for a card the tricks and traps begin." What a difference a recession makes: Today, the high-and-mighty Nation is issuing a Visa card of its own.

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Kurt Goes Wild on Michael Lucas: "Retarded Bullshit"!

Kurt Wild got reaaaaaly drunk on Monday and went on YouTube to rant about Michael Lucas.

In the first part of the 10-minute rant, which I have transcribed in its entirety below, Kurt references Lucas' infamous lambasting at the 2009 GayVN Awards of the porn industry for embracing Brent Corrigan as a rising star.

Lucas' beef was that, only a couple years previously, Brent had almost gotten a lot of people in trouble for appearing in porns for Cobra Video when he was underage.

Here is what Kurt had to say about Michael Lucas:

"Okay, it seems that Kurt Wild is ... supposably the drama of this industry. I [beg] to differ. I DO NOTHING BUT MY JOB AND BE A PARENT. And be a lover and a friend, blah, blah, blah. Here's the drama. The drama. Michael Lucas has his, "I wanna be a talk show host, I am better than everyone, I can tell Brent Corrigan who's getting arrested and who's not" attitude.

"You see, porn is porn. [Brent] might have been 17, 16, but he was every bit 18 when he did what he did. And yeah, you know what, if he earned an award later on, Michael Lucas had no backing to say any different. But yet he jumps on stage at the AVNs and says, he must not receive this award, it puts our entire industry in jeopardy. You know what really puts our [industry] in jeopardy, Michael? What really puts us in jeopardy is your out of country, out of mind, RETARDED BULLSHIT!

"We're at war with a country [Israel?] that you go over and find models to FUCK! For what? The same thing that George Bush finds over there? Oil? YOU FIND PORN STARS, you're even worse than George W. Bush, Michael Lucas! You know you are! How dare you talk crap about pure Americans who have a real job, who earn their way in this industry, and because he BEAT YOU out of something you jump on stage and throw a bitch fit. You know what, motherfucker? I'm nominated every goddamn bit as much as you are, but because you own a company and have a pool with fucking Raging Stallion, THEN I GUESS YOU'RE GONNA WIN!

Kurt Sucking Barrett Long's Dick

"No wonder there's no more GayVN's. I wonder what happened. I said it last year, and I said it the year before, BITTERNESS is not BETTERNESS, so let's get BETTER and not BITTER. But now that we're all BITTER, and now that there is no more GayVN, I guess we can tell it like it is, motherfucker. The people who won all those awards opposite to me and opposite to you-know-who, Lucas, though he won his awards, movie that I was in actually, one of the only awards he won that year, supposedly swamped it, well you know what, Raging Stallion has people. They're like a really good insurance company. They have people. And you know who some of those people were? Does it matter anymore? But you know who some of them people were? The same fuckin' people who ran that whole gathering. Paid for the tables, took the money, and went home, happy campers. So no wonder Raging Stallion took home so many awards.

"But you know what? What I just said doesn't take away from anyone. Doesn't shade anyone. Do you know why? Because everyone nominated is a winner, everyone there won, and everything's koshe. Because everyone there was there. That's all that matters. Then you got Michael Lucas comin' up on stage makin' a big fuckin' deal, I don't even know what happened, I wasn't there. But I'll tell you this. The last thing we needed in this porn industry, since in his statement to the police, which got publicized—oh, well, not likely, it's Michael Lcuas, that wouldn't be publicized or anything— [discussion with wife about his $2 six-pack of beer she says she is going to jam up his ass]. All I'm saying is, a lot. Michael Lucas you have nothing on me. You know what? That time that I was supposed to be on your Fire Island shoot, the second one that came out and made such big hit? I'm pretty goddamn sure it would have been a lot better if I was on it. But you don't seem to look at it that way, OR DO YOU? Is that why you're so pissed to never talk to me again, after I already booked a shoot that weekend with someone else and couldn't do it because I'm obligated at my word? I said, you know what, I'm getting paid just as much, if not more, to work with this other guy. It happened to be—now here's the real kick, Michael—it happened to be College Dudes 247, who paid me more! Well, actually I took a $800 cut to work with them, BECAUSE I LIKE 'EM! Because I was working with them before they even HAD a website, because of me, and actually, I'm the only one who stood with them, stood by them, through the whole thing, after they got started. Before they got started they had some models and they [were] in and out, nobody stood by 'em but me, I'm their first and I'm fucking NOT THEIR BEST. I just tell you this, I do my best. How's that?

"But Michael Lucas did you really fuckin' find it necessary, you thought you'd make more money by going overseas and going to Israel. And you know what? You thought you'd make more money, BUT YA DIDN'T! You know what? Because they're on to you. Those gay boys over there know. They just know. The best part is I met a couple of 'em. In person. And I can tell you the honest, God-given truth about how they feel about THAT. What do you think of that? You think your champagne's better than my Natty Light? I don't give a fuck. I have just as much ab, if not more. Just as much cock, if not more. Just as much director talent. I'm actually writing a movie right now, and I keep it in a little bitty box. Right here. WANNA READ IT? Read some parts of it? Get some fuckin' action? Wanna read how the camera starts? Wanna read how—who talks to who? You wanna read how all that stuff goes? Cause FUCK YOU. I love Mr. Pam, but I no longer like you. And I say this simply because, every time I've ever been around you, you've tried to make me a different person. You've tried to make me what you want me to be, when you're no fucking better than anybody else. You think you are, because you're from somewhere else. Acquired some money, already had money, and started a business doing something in the middle of fucking New York! If I started a business in the middle of fucking New York, you know what? I would not be like you. Okay, like it matters, like it matters to you that my kid is in the room. No, it doesn't."

And scene! (Thanks to The Sword.)

BONUS: THE CHEETOS JOKE

Too funny!

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