Who Will Save the Children - Mark Morford

[mongo]

== Who Will Save The Children?! ==
Aww, heck! The FCC says curse words now cost $500,000! And your child
might just hear one and explode!
(By Mark Morford)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/06/25/notes062504.DTL&nl=fix


The world, it is a teeming reeking cauldron of wicked malevolent
demons, with sharp pointy teeth and filthy mouths and really impressive
porn collections, and each and every one of them wants nothing more
than to suck the juicy pith from your helpless innocent child like
Donald Rumsfeld drains color from the sky.

It's true, isn't it? Senators believe it, the Christian Right believes
it, the FCC believes it, half a million stunned nipple-horrified Super
Bowl viewers who complained to the FCC believe it, the clenched
morality police of this nation chant it like a mantra, John Ashcroft
has it tattooed on his shriveled colon. This, after all, is the
prevalent American view.

Why the incessant outcry? What are these demons that threaten our kids
so horribly? Why, the demons of profanity, of course. Swearwords. And
sex. And drugs. And violent video games and J.Lo and illegal MP3s and
sex, gangsta rap and sniffing glue and Janet Jackson's nipple and
Howard Stern and naughty billboards and low-slung jeans and hardcore
porn and Marilyn Manson and shocking flotillas of appalling swearwords
coming from the mouths of celebs and rock stars of sufficient tone and
timbre to make Tony Montana blush. That's what....

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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/06/25/notes062504.DTL&nl=fix

[kskiska]

1. Too bad he did't wait a day for this one

when Uncle Dickie opened his mouth and one of those $500,000 words came out.

[silverweb]

2. Another slam dunk.

Morford nails it again -- even without Cheney. Here's hoping Cheney gets his own column very soon!

:evilgrin:

[struggle4progress]

3. Grisly slicem-n-dicems, fine. Sex, never.

:wtf:

No wonder violence is so common.