CBS Cheers Pornographer Flynt: As a Preteen, Hustler ‘Changed My Life Forever!’

[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS This Morning on Thursday cheered pornographer Larry Flynt as some kind of progressive icon, fighting for gay marriage and opposing the death penalty. Co-host Tony Dokoupil offered a very much unasked admission that, as a ten-year-old boy, the very explicit Hustler magazine “changed my life forever!” CBS was alone among the morning shows on Thursday in deeming Flynt’s life worthy of discussion. Co-host Anthony Mason touted the complexity of the porn icon: “it's interesting, he opposed the death penalty, he favored same-sex marriage. He spoke out against the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Politically he was very progressive. He was not what you would think that Larry Flynt was going to be.”