I like doing those little soundbite pieces for the news, and the one today was particularly interesting. Howard Stern is comparing the content of an Oprah show with his and questioning why he got fined and Oprah didn’t. I read the transcripts and he has a point. They are talking about sexual practices which are odd and out of my own realm of experience, being somewhat of a sex pioneer myself. On paper, the words read the same, but the context is different. Oprah’s is about education, but then again, who is to say Howard Stern isn’t educational as well? I’ve certainly learned some things from Howard I didn’t know before.
This isn’t a fight between Oprah and Howard Stern. Howard Stern is being scapegoated because he is critical of Bush and makes statements that the government will not tolerate. Oprah, also an independent icon of the underdog is an important player in this game, but it isn’t her actions, or her personally, it is what she represents to women and people of color. This is a free speech issue which the media is brilliantly manufacturing in to a culture feud between the camps of these two liberal icons hoping to start democratic infighting which, if successful will divide the vote and public opinion and keep Bush in office.
I was on MSNBC today, saying that this puritanical uproar – this idea that America’s morality is going to hell in a handbasket held by two gay men getting married has Karl Rove’s fingerprints all over it. Our freedoms are being eroded away, little by little, something that no one can disagree with. When I mentioned this, I was told by Dan Abrams (in for Deborah Norville) not to get “political.” I responded “How is this not political???!!” He shut me down and gave the camera a 10 second look as if to say “What a basket case!”- precious time where I could have illuminated further the piracy of the airwaves by the FCC.
If Bush doesn’t control the media, then he doesn’t stand a chance at another term. Abrams promised me the last word but really he had it and therefore, so did Bush. But we’ve only just begun. We will have our country back, no matter how many salads get tossed, rainbow blow jobs are given or fellatio while defecation shock and awe us away from the truth that the President and his administration is corrupt, dishonest and simply the worst in American history.
The rainbow blow job thing is stupid, because not only am I an expert at, well, that, I am also an accomplished makeup artist. There is no lipstick that can withstand that kind of layering. Most colors lack the pigment or are too glossy and with the heat and friction, just blend into each other and do not have enough contrast for a Neopolitan ice cream, let alone a rainbow.