AMERICA LOVES THE COCK

From AlterNet:

Let's Face It, Penises Dominate American Politics

Thank God for Mark Foley.

It proves that the American people still care about something.

It happens to be penises. But still.

They care about who talks about them, who plays with them, who covers them up, who uncovers them, who covers up the uncovering of them.

Even Jon Stewart put the big penis cover-up ahead of the fact that this government just passed a law that says that George Bush can say, "Hey you, you're an enemy combatant, "and once he says that they can whisk you away.

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Anything else, in between penises, is just marking time. Fail to get bin Laden, who cares? Discover proof that the administration made up stories so they could have their war in Iraq, no big deal, not even news, according to the New York Times. Best estimate is that US bombs and artillery killed 100,000 Iraqi civilians, it would be rude to mention it. Then there's all that money that disappeared. Paul Bremer blew through twenty billion (yes, Billion) dollars that was supposed to be held in trust for the Iraqi people and there's no records and nothing to show for it. After that was gone, the occupation authorities blew through another twenty billion that was supposed to go for the reconstruction of Iraq. Let's not ask where the money went -- no major media outlet has.

If you're in the cable news business, you're happy. This is the first really good penis since Bill's.

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Well, it's not fair to say that America loves the cock, although many individual Americans do, and there's certainly nothing wrong with that in the personal realm: it's more like politicians, pundits, and reporters love the cock. They love the cock so much that it drowns out everything else, especially important political and economic issues, with big huge wads and wads of steaming hot semen.

To be honest, if the American people suddenly decided to start sexually objectifying men instead of women, demanding that the seemingly endless media display of breasts be replaced with a seemingly endless media display of penises, things here in the US might become really interesting. Maybe men might become more concerned with something besides dominating the people around them. Maybe men would finally decide to make love, not war.

Actually, that would probably drive lots of American men stark raving mad.

But that's not what this is about at all. The political and journalistic classes aren't really obsessed with penises. They just don't want to talk about the issues that are important to real people's lives because that would make obvious how our current political arrangements favor them and the wealthy elite for whom they work, but nobody else really. Penis talk is simply a sick substitute for political discussion. Nobody really cared that Bill Clinton was getting it on with Monica Lewinsky, but they needed something to pretend that they were doing their jobs, and striking out with Whitewater and a bajillion other bogus scandals, blowjobs did the trick nicely. And that's what's happening right now with this Foley scandal. Sure, there's definitely an issue there, but, ultimately it pales when compared to everything else.

But the Democrats, like the Republicans, are far more comfortable being outraged about penises than torture. Sick fucks, if you ask me.

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