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Joe Francis: I'm Just Like Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, and Jesus

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We weren't sure Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis could actually say anything to further damage his already tattered reputation until we read Joel Stein's jailhouse profile in April's GQ. Stein starts the story with an anecdote from his first experience with Francis six years ago: apparently, Meatstick Joe and Stein were watching some girl stick a bottle of Mike's Hard Lemonade into her vagina on the GGW tour bus. At one point, the girl's phone rings—it's her boyfriend—so Francis answers it and decides to give the guy a play-by-play of exactly how his girlfriend is using a bottle of Mike's Hard Lemonade as a makeshift sex toy. "That was fucking classic," Francis says of the ordeal.

Things only get classier from there.

It seems Francis was not a happy camper while sitting in a Nevada jail on charges for tax evasion for eight months (he's out now, at least for the time being), despite the fact that he had cable TV, a DVD player, and access to a phone bank, which he used to order delivery food and conduct interviews:

On his fellow inmates: "The one thing I fear is one of these fucking people showing up at my house. I'm a different class. They're dumb. They're the people you see on Cops. Those are the people you see in jail."

On Access Hollywood reporter Maria Menounos, who described Francis as "ever defiant" in an interview, much to his chagrin: "Fuck yeah, I'm defiant! It's like that defiant Rosa Parks won't give up her seat. Fuck you, Maria. The ever defiant Nelson Mandela just can't stand apartheid. The ever defiant Martin Luther King. The ever defiant Jesus Christ. You fucking stupid whore. If I saw Maria Menounos, I'd punch her in the face." He later clarified, explaining, "I'm just saying you can have an unpopular person who is criminalized and demonized. Jesus Christ was crucified by Pontius Pilate at my age. He was not a popular guy."

On his plans for Panama City, where he was arrested back in 2003 for allegedly filming two 17-year-old girls naked in a seedy motel: "I'm going after the hillbillies as soon as I get out of here...I'm going to own Panama City. I can't wait to rename it Joefrancisville, Florida."

We're sure the good residents of Panama City are equally as excited for that prospect as well, Joe.

Comments

I've always fancied Francis a Gandhi/Mother Teresa hybrid

Posted by: twitter on March 24, 2008 5:23 PM

But the mention of Rosa Parks raises an important question: why aren't there more African Americans in GGW videos...in the front of the tour bus or the back?

Posted by: teambooberry on March 24, 2008 5:33 PM

It seems, at least to me, that women of color seem to have a hard time justifying boob flashing and fake lesbianism for a t-shirt and eternal shame.

Shine on you crazy white girls! Feminism, shmeminism. Thank you Joe Francis, Jesus of boobs. Except Jesus never raped anyone or roughed up petite female reporters. That we know of.

Posted by: Meg_Ohhhh on March 25, 2008 9:08 AM

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