It's nice to see Nina Hatley in the MSM again
The Hillary Clinton of Porn Is a Hardcore Socialist
Over the weekend, a vintage clip of Hillary Clinton went viral. In the two-minute footage, the former Democratic presidential nominee echoed a familiar strain of liberal logic: “If you don’t want to support Democrats,” she said, referring to progressive critics of Kamala Harris, “go somewhere else.” The quote came from a 2017 interview, but users responded as if Clinton said it yesterday. “One more time for the Bros in the back,” an account with the display name ExistentialCliche wrote. A guy called BernieBro Sub-Commander shot back: “Can’t wait until Bernie wins the primary. Then you can ‘go somewhere else.’” The exchange rehashed a two-year-old sticking point between Clintonites and so-called “Bernie Bros”—namely, that the ex-first lady, pretty unambiguously, disavows progressives and Democratic Socialists.
But as the clip garnered comments in the thousands, some 2,500 miles from D.C. in Las Vegas, Nevada, a different kind of Hillary Clinton was saying almost the opposite.
Nina Hartley, the sex educator and adult industry veteran, who played Clinton in the political porno Who’s Nailin’ Paylin and a number of other XXX films, was walking the red carpet of the 36th annual AVN Awards, the Oscars of Porn. Hartley’s politics are considerably left of Hillary’s, to say the least, as she slips between casual dirty talk and quoting Marx: “I’ve seen a lot of change since I first began 35 years ago,” Hartley told The Daily Beast, “from video, to digital, to internet, to direct-to-the-fans consumer opportunities, to the workers owning the means of production.”
Hartley, who played a Clinton knock-off named “Hilly” in the 2008 satire, self-identifies as a progressive. “I’m a red diaper baby,” she said. “I’m a Democratic Socialist. There are some things the federal government is essential for and some things best left to local government.”