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just another deliberate (yet lame) attempt to clean up his dirty/nasty money
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2011/02/hotel_pornography
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Marriott, Mitt Romney, and porn
Feb 5th 2011, 18:37 by N.B. | WASHINGTON, DC
THE HOTEL chain Marriott recently announced that it would cease selling "adult content"ie, pornographyin its newer hotels. Anyone who knows a bit about the hotel business might find this move a bit confusing. After all, porn is still a moneymaker for chains like Marriott, which by some estimates was earning $175 per room, per year in smut peddling alone.
But there does seem to be a method to Marriott's madness. Politico's Ben Smith explains that Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and a presumptive candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, recently left the Marriott board. The chain's owners are "longtime Romney supporters", Mr Smith notes. And social conservatives, apparently, hit Mr Romney hard on the porn "issue" during the ex-governor's 2008 campaign for the GOP nomination. (One critic called Mr Romney a "major pornographer." So in some sense, Mr Smith argues, Marriott appears to be doing Mr Romney a "costly favor." Then again:
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flamingdem
(39,313 posts)PORN KING
malthaussen
(17,187 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Once he left, Marriot dropped it!