Another person who experienced public criticism from Falwell was Larry Flynt, founder and publisher of Hustler, a pornographic magazine known for its disturbingly graphic images of naked women. Beginning in the early 1970s, a public war of words ensued between the two men. According to Flynt, “Falwell was blasting me every chance he had. He would talk about how I was a slime dealer responsible for the decay of all morals. He called me every terrible name he could think of—names as bad, in my opinion, as any language used in my magazine.”19 After several years trading insults with each other,
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