Jenna Jameson Mixes Boobs, Politics
Jenna Jameson is known for pictures like this one, sure (and much more), but she's a thinking woman too — one who has strong feelings about the current administration, and one who built and ran a successful company (unlike our current president) that she sold to Playboy for eight figures two years ago. So in a recent 1-on-1 interview, I mixed in some politics, getting her take on the race for the Democratic nomination between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
While everyone — well, OK, mostly hardcore boosters and her own advisors — seemed to believe that women would feel empowered by the possibility of a female major party presidential candidate, and that Clinton could ride that enthusiasm, and the country's, umm, considerable Bush fatigue, all the way to the White House, I always thought there was a dormant, hyperactive competitiveness and double standard that women might apply to Hillary, so I asked Jameson if her experience in the adult industry — which surely featured some of that — lent, in her opinion, any credence to my theory.
"That's an amazing point. I think you're right," says Jameson, who makes her legit cinematic debut with the tongue-in-cheek horror-comedy Zombie Strippers, releasing this week in select markets. "It's hard for women to accept another female, period. Even though we want that, we want that power, I think on some level there would be a competition, like, 'Oh, that bitch don't know what she's doing.' You know what I mean? 'We should have a man in office, I knew I was right.'"
"But whether female or male, I think everybody wants a change," continues Jameson, "and I'm voting [for Hillary or Barack] not necessarily just because she's female or he's black, but because we need a Democrat in office, period — because they're better for society. The bottom line is we don't want any more war."
More on Zombie Strippers, Jameson and her battles with the Bush administration in the coming days. Wow. Coming. See how I did that? Total zing.
You know this is kinda funny. I was just having lunch the other day with another retired adult-industry star who has left the insanity of LA to return to her home in NC. Well, I guess Chapel Hill is her "hometown," but she's back in Greensboro now. Anyway, we discussed the possibility of our state going for a Democratic in the general election. She's much younger than I, and therefore much less jaded... and she wants to hope that Obama could give McCain a run for his money. But she's not old enough to remember the crushing heartbreak post "White Hands" Helms ads...
And of course I can remember classmates in High School giving me holy hell for saying I supported Terry Sanford... somewhere over near those collapsible walls before Johnson's class. That anyone with brains wouldn't support a tax-and-spend liberal who shuts down military bases... I guess supporting that moron Lauch Faircloth turned out ok, though. He did help to bring us the great Ken Starr.
To the point, I think porn stars (and alt-porn stars with three bees tattooed on her left shoulder) have just as legitimate voice in our political process and I'm glad to see you giving them a platform!
Huzzah!
(p.s. -- you missed a most excellent Full Frame festival... tsk, tsk)
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So you know a Chapel Hill star also! Do they happen to be RM whose real initials are AC? Or TT whose real initials are KP? I'm curious if we know the same people or if Chapel Hill is the den of soon to be starlets.
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Well I must admit that I didn't see the comments for this thread heading entirely in *this* direction. This has me wondering if there's such a thing as a Young Republicans club for porn starlets, retired or otherwise.
And ahhh, the good old Full Frame festival... do tell!
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Hellz yeah!
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Ah, this post is both about exactly what I expected, and then also not. Interesting, lol!
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wait... so jenna jameson is a democrat? i'm shocked.
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Good thing Jenna got her Democrat in office because "...we don't want any more war". Oh wait, we're still at war in two foreign nations...
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Hay she look do stiff tell her she needs to relax n not look so upset in her picture trust me im gonna be a photagrapher
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