..fuckstick commentator thinks Al Franken's language is too coarse. To wit, the fuckstick writes:
Vulgarian at the Gate
By Michael Gerson
Wednesday, June 18, 2008; A15
Warning: The following contains extreme vulgarity by a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
In the razor-close and nationally important Senate race in Minnesota, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman is presented with a unique political problem. Should he raise in his ads the issue of comedian Al Franken's offensive vulgarity? Or would this risk a backlash against Coleman for coarsening the public conversation? Remember that when Ken Starr detailed Bill Clinton's most repulsive antics -- stained dresses and such -- it was Starr who was accused of sexual obsessiveness.
Franken's defenders explain that his edginess is the result of being a "satirist" -- a term he embraces. "My work, dare I say, is provocative, touching and funny," Franken has explained. "It sounds immodest, but I now have a brand name in political satire."And also this howler:
Our popular culture, of course, violates even these expansive boundaries of tastelessness with regularity. We laugh at comedies featuring the C-word and at cartoons of foul-mouthed third-graders. In the cause of relevance and realism, our common life is already decorated with excrement. Why should political discourse be any different?Oh, you mean the C-word that Senator Angry Old Prick used to describe his bitch of a wife? Is that the C-word you're refering too, or is it another one, motherfucker? Welcome to the new political discourse where we call a C-word a C-word, fuckface, and if you can't standing the fucking heat, assrag, get the fuck out of the fucking kitchen.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702006_pf.html
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