Sunday, November 13, 2005
A rumination on Republican print perverts.
David Rossie, writing in the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin wonders:
What is it with Republicans and smut? What is it that prompts the self-proclaimed paragons of moral values to commit prose that is at once prurient and putrid?He provides no explicit examples because he is writing in a family newspaper. He does put forth this interesting possibility as to why.
Consider the GOP gallery of purple prose purveyors:
William Safire, Newt Gingrich, Lynne Cheney, G. Gordon Liddy, William Buckley and Kenneth Starr. And let's not forget Bill O'Reilly, whose unwanted phone sex messages to a female colleague cost him a bundle in an out-of-court settlement.
Some might argue that it is unfair to include Starr in that crowd, but not if they read the pious pornographer's report of his investigation of the Clintons' involvement in Whitewater and Just Plain Bill's sordid romp with Monica Lewinsky and sundry others. According to Lauren Collins, writing in The New Yorker, in 1998 the Starr Report was nominated for consideration in the bad fictional sex writing contest that Britain's Literary Review holds each year.
I'm not one for practicing psychiatry without a license, but you have to wonder what would cause someone to write that kind of salacious twaddle. Perhaps it could be a result of coming to adulthood and beyond to middle age and still being called Scooter. True, Phil Rizzuto handled it pretty well, but athletes tend to be more comfortable with such nicknames.Heh!
Then again it could be a result of spending too much time around the Cheneys, especially Dick. That could be the psychological equivalent of mercury poisoning.
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