The Massachusetts SpyVolume CCXLI, Number 324 June 15, 2011

City without Shame

That's Disgusting!

POLS RAPPED FOR
OBSCENE MESSAGES

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Politicians trapped in the sulfurous swamp that is Washington City after Memorial Day now find themselves attacked in the press and on the “internets” for allegedly sending obscene messages to constituents and others.

Get the smelling salts
Delicate young women have swooned upon receiving obscene, disgusting communications from prominent public figures

The veritable tsunami of obscene communications, although a long-term phenomenon of American politics, has taken center stage as media outlets try to distract the public from focusing on the real failings of their elected representatives and senators to repair a crushed economy and provide hope to the millions of desperate long-term unemployed and their innocent families.

Although the disgusting and inappropriate messages take a number of forms, certain themes predominate. For example, defeated Republican Senator Rick Santorum yesterday revolted his audience with the off-color suggestion that global warming was not a scientific fact, but a figment of the imagination of Socialist Democrats seeking to enslave the nation. Onlookers reported that several children in the room were exposed to this garbage, which threatens to subject them to decades of torment that could have been avoided by sensible carbon-limitation policies.

Although some may say that such messages are nothing more than a harmless “blowing off of steam” by stifled Republican hacks, in fact these crude comments could if taken seriously do serious damage to the health and well-being of millions of Americans for decades to come.  

As might be expected, many of the inappropriate communications concern sex. For example, former pizza tycoon Herman Cain told hundreds of innocent listeners that homosexuality was a sin, a particularly disgusting form of hate speech that in its extreme form led to the lynching of Matthew Shepherd and continues to darken the lives of gay men and women, especially teenagers and those living around the simple-minded bumpkins who take Cain's revolting comments literally.

Other stomach-churning messages attempt to foment hate directed at immigrants, particularly those who came into this country without appropriate visas. Sick attention-seeking weirdos like Republican Sheriff Joe Arpaio, not content with torturing and degrading innocent men and women awaiting trial, have made countless tacky statements impugning the behavior of immigrants and suggesting that they should be subjected to vigilante sweeps, as if they were runaway slaves in the antebellum South.  

A related form of vile messages encourage in often graphic and grisly terms the torture of defenseless prisoners of war, especially those whose ethnicity or religion marks them in the diseased mind of the writer as somehow sub-human. Observers note that some of these messages were sent by Republican wardheelers whose judgment may have been warped due to severe stress arising out of their public revelation of their serial adulteries and/or combovers.

Tender ears were exposed to this garbage
Sometimes even little children are exposed to vile statements from out-of-control public officials 

Another large category of obscene speech can be found in millions of crudely racist e-mails circulating among Republican officeholders and their mouth-breathing followers that for example depict the President of the United Statements as a baby chimp or smiling in a watermelon patch. When caught in the act, most of these malefactors claim that they were engaging in nothing more than some harmless fun.

While some contend that all of these types of inappropriate messages are nothing more then harmless venting protected by the First Amendment, others note that they threaten the innocent with very real harm: continued destruction of the Earth's climate, immigrants fearing for their lives, gay teenagers tormented and harassed, senior citizens denied health care due to the replacement of Medicare with an inadequate “voucher” scheme, and millions of readers of obscene material now believing that a President in fact born and raised in Hawaii is an alien African-born socialist.

Still others question the characterization of these communications as obscene, noting that one man's stream of hateful, vile, and degrading messages is another man's evening programming on Schlox News.

In other Washington news, a highly-strung narcissistic Congressman admitted he sent naughty messages to adult women he had met on line.




[Why? – Ed.] 

SO THAT'S WHY SHE BLEW OFF THE PFOHO ICE CREAM SOCIAL FOR THE ACADEMY AWARDS 

Natalie Portman was a senior at Harvard when Mark Zuckerberg arrived on campus as a freshman in 2003. . . .

Here are two other things she remembers about her alma mater  . . . : She never once saw a naked girl dancing on a table [Just like every other Harvard undergraduate – Ed.], and  . . . Harvard remians an institution shaped mostly by and for men.

"It is a very sexist social system that the school has not dealt with properly, Portman says both frankly and delicately (it's a talent) . . . . [Like Natalie, we have to go throw up now – Ed.]  


 – The Glob, November 28, 2010 at N9.