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Oh Please, Come Quickly and Bring the Smelling Salts.
I Do declare Young Master Gerson has had a fit of the Vapors and has passed out all over his Keyboard
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Warning: The following contains extreme vulgarity by a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Now Let's try and see who young Master Gerson is
Michael John Gerson (born May 15, 1964, New Jersey) is an Evangelical Christian[1] op-ed columnist for The Washington Post and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.[2] He served as President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter from 2001 until June 2006, and as a senior policy advisor from 2000 through June 2006. A member of the White House Iraq Group,[3] Gerson was called "the conscience of the White House" by some admirers.[4]
So the Conscience of the Consciousless, the Seller of WMD, the man who invented the Axis of Evil
and
The Smoking Gun in the form of a Mushroom Cloud
Now what has he got the Vapors about?
Oh It's that Al Franken used to write Comedy.
n 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?
Now Let's see a Man who helped coin
Gerson proposed the use of a "smoking gun/mushroom cloud" metaphor during a September 5, 2002 meeting of the White House Iraq Group, in an effort to sell the American public on the supposed nuclear dangers posed by Saddam Hussein. According to Newsweek columnist Michael Isikoff, "The original plan had been to place it in an upcoming presidential speech, but WHIG members fancied it so much that when the Times reporters contacted the White House to talk about their upcoming piece [about aluminum tubes], one of them leaked Gerson's phrase — and the administration would soon make maximum use of it."[12]
Now let's see that Aluminum Tube thing was a complete conjob from start to finish. T6 aluminum tubes,
designed for making short range rockets got turned by the white house spin machine and their
neo-con allies into the core of a nuclear centrifuge, if you discount the fact Hussein made short range
rockets, that the tubes were too narrow and too long for centrifuging and that the anodizing would
destroy the uranium process, oh, it was just a minor error.
So what has got Gerson fainting?
So what is Franken's "provocative, touching and funny" contribution to the genre? Consider his article in Playboy magazine titled "Porn-O-Rama!" in which he enthuses that it is an "exciting time for pornographers and for us, the consumers of pornography." The Internet, he explains, is a "terrific learning tool. For example, a couple of years ago, when he was 12, my son used the Internet for a sixth-grade report on bestiality. Joe was able to download some effective visual aids, which the other students in his class just loved." Franken goes on to relate a soft-core fantasy about women providing him with sex who were trained at the "Minnesota Institute of Titology."
and why?
Because vulgarity is often the opposite of civility. This is not, of course, always true. I know a brilliant and large-hearted academic with roots in south Philly who uses the F-word with the frequency of "like" or "and." But the vulgarity of "The Jerry Springer Show" or misogynous rap music -- the cultural equivalents of Franken's political "satire" -- generally expresses contempt and cruelty. Franken is not content to disagree with Karl Rove; he calls him "human filth." He is not satisfied to criticize Ari Fleischer; Franken terms him a "chimp." The objects of Franken's humor -- including political opponents and women -- are not merely mocked but dehumanized. His trashiness is also nastiness. Rather than lampooning the emptiness and viciousness of our political discourse -- a proper role for satire -- Franken has powerfully reinforced those failures.
Now Michael Gerson has Embraced the politics of Karl Rove, the Slime Ball who slandered a war hero
and genuine american patriot (Pick McCain or Kerry) but that's okay.
Michael Gerson has embraced the politics of Senator Rick Santorum who went to the senate floor
to wax eloquently about Bestiality.
Michael Gerson has embraced the Politics of Phil Gramm who never met a Homosexual he couldn't slander.
But, Now that a Progressive Democrat might knock out one oh his Buddies, he has the Vapors.
What's worse he's worried that focusing on the Franken-Penis may backfire like it did for
his buddy Ken Starr.