NOTE: This is not a story, it is an opinion column. It's still filled with facts, but there is a lot of opinion in here. That's why Bill O'Rielly can say whatever he wants and still be wrong at the same time.
Probably the best thing humans developed over the years was a sense of irony, which is a lot funnier and more useful in black comedies than the opposable thumb. There's not neccessarily anything wrong with what's in this column, it's just funny.
Synopsis: President Bush, fresh into the White House, was looking to clean up America's act. Too much sex, drugs and rock n' roll in our culture. He stepped up indeceny fines, signing a bill that would allow the FCC to charge a lot more for a lot littler crimes (ergo, Howard Stern on satallite). A direct quote from Mr. Bush: "It's going to help American parents by making broadcast television and radio more family friendly."
We all laughed when Bush was caught cursing and somebody understood one of Mr. Cheney's incoherant mumblings to Sen. Patrick Leahy. But now, despite the very efforts by Mr. Bush to clean up broadcast television, it is in part because of him that it will get worse.
Again, now that television (and hopefully soon radio) have a free reign to be more liberal with the curse words, there not neccessarily anything wrong with this. It's just really fucking ironic.
PUBLISHED IN TIME MAGAZINE WEEK OF JUNE 18, 2007
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