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Weblog Archive: January 9, 2005 to Jan 15, 2005 Thursday, January 13, 2005
A second issue you raised with Senator DeWine during your comments about things you want to be known for, and that's the issue on obscenity laws and the enforcement of that. I held a hearing last session of Congress on the issue of these -- not obscenity laws, but on addictions to pornography. And there was an amazing set of experts that came forward, talking about the addictiveness of pornography. It's grown much more potent, much more addictive, much more pervasive, much more impactful. You cited teenage children you have and that I have, and in our private conversation. There's been criticism of the Department of Justice for not enforcing obscenity laws, work on these issues on community standards. I would hope that this would be something that you would take a look at, maybe make some personnel shifts within the Department of Justice, to address this from the law standards, on community standards, look at the addictiveness in the nature of it. There are certain, obviously, guarantees of First Amendment rights, but there are also these laws that have been upheld by community standards, upheld by the Supreme Court, that can be, and I really think should be, enforced, given the nature of this very potent -- what one expert called it, delivery system, of -- in this country. And I hope you can look at that. To which Wonkette adds: We just think he got started right away. We would. Also, we'd like to note: Brownback got to spend taxpayer money on a hearing devoted to pornography addiction? It's like holding a hearing on chocoholism! Pornography isn't addictive, it's fun! In other news, we hear that Clarence Thomas has offered to help with Gonzales's research. Daze loves Wonkette. Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Moss did not expose any skin while celebrating his touchdown against the Packers on Sunday. Yet many touchy TV types panicked anyway, refusing to show the end-zone celebration. Fox, which broadcast the Vikings-Packers playoff game, showed Moss' celebration as it happened but wouldn't air a replay during the game. ESPN, which airs endless highlights of NFL games on Sunday night, refused to show Moss' celebration even once. In case you missed it, after catching a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter of the Vikings' 31-17 victory at Lambeau Field, Moss bent over and pantomimed pulling down his pants. He appeared to be "mooning'' the Lambeau crowd. That is the prevailing view of what Moss was doing, anyway. Some people thought Moss was pantomiming doing No. 2 (eewwww). Interpretation #2 hadn't occurred to me until reading this article, but I like it. Mooning the crowd has a giggly naughty fifth-grader vibe to it; but taking a dump in the opponent's endzone — that is some serious disrespect. And yet another stupid "indecency" tiff over an NFL broadcast, this time a preemptive strike. Fox has rejected a Super Bowl spot which would have revealed Mickey Rooney's bare octogenarian ass. In the spot for Airborne, a natural cold remedy, the 84-year-old star of such 1940s staples as "National Velvet" and the "Andy Hardy" films is in a sauna when someone behind him coughs. He overreacts, jumps up, screams and heads for the door. In his rush, his towel drops, baring his buns for about two seconds. "Our standards department reviewed the ad and it was deemed inappropriate for broadcast," says Lou d'Ermilio, spokesman for Fox Sports. [...] Rooney, who was planning a Super Bowl party, says in a statement he's angry. He wanted to be the butt of this joke: "What we're selling here is something I really believe in, which is an awareness of the germs we're all exposed to. There's nothing sensual about the brief exposure of my backside, and it's not gratuitous ... It's a fun spot, and the public deserves to see it." OK, I loathe censorship and prudery as much as anyone but . . . I'm thinking Fox made the right call on this one. Does the public really deserve to see Mickey Rooney's bare ass? No one deserves that. Yeesh. Now if only they'd take a stand against those Mike Ditka penis pill ads. Tuesday, January 11, 2005
The topic of Lincoln's sexuality keeps reappearing because the available evidence is so tantalizing: a jokey poem he wrote in his youth about a boy marrying a boy, a four-year sleeping arrangement with adored friend Joshua Speed, a marriage sometimes said to be reluctant and less than amorous, a lifelong preference for male company, a documented claim that he shared a bed in the summer White House with his soldier-bodyguard in 1862, and a number of other suggestive items. C.A. Tripp, who died in 2003, was a well-known sex researcher, a protégé of Alfred Kinsey and the author of a 1975 volume, The Homosexual Matrix. After a decade of pondering Lincoln's relations with men, he pronounces in his posthumously published new book on Lincoln's masturbation habits, seduction style, sex positions, and orgasms. Confidently naming five male lovers of the president, The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln declares the conclusion absolute and obvious that this married father of four was "predominately homosexual." The argument is "irrefutable," Gore Vidal blurbs on the book's cover. And, in fact, Tripp's work is as good as the case gets for Lincoln's walk on the Wilde side. Unfortunately, that is merely a way of saying the Gay Lincoln Theory fails any historical test. "Useful history" is always a dubious kind of scholarship. But in its attempt to be useful for gays today, The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln reaches far beyond the merely dubious. The book is a hoax and a fraud: a historical hoax, because the inaccurate parts are all shaded toward a predetermined conclusion, and a literary fraud, because significant portions of the accurate parts are plagiarized--from me, as it happens. Tripp and I intended to be coauthors of the book, laboring together on the project from 1995 to 2000--when our partnership, already fissured by dueling manuscripts, came to a bitter end. We quarreled constantly over evidence: I said the Gay Lincoln Theory was intriguing but impossible to prove; he said it was stone-cold fact. Earlier Daze item including the full text of the jokey gay marriage poem. UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan responds to Nobile's "hatchet job" on his blog and at the New Republic (nosy but free registration required).
Columbia House, famous for its "12 CDs for a penny" record clubs, will launch its own adult video club with Playboy Entertainment at the end of this month. The service, called Hush, will sell pornography through direct mail and a Web site. [...] [A Columbia House VP] said Hush can grab a significant amount of the marketplace because of Playboy's wide reach and Columbia's direct distribution methods. The club would work similarly to the company's record groups — subscribers would select from a monthly catalog of titles. Executives from Columbia House were roaming the aisles of the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas last week, meeting with producers and stressing that Hush will distribute adult content from other publishers besides Playboy. [...] Among the recipients of Hush marketing dollars, Litwak said, will be Howard Stern, with Hush sponsoring contests on Stern's syndicated radio show. Hush will also be promoted through direct mail and through ads in adult magazines, Litwak added.
People in Quebec are indeed talking about the new late-night TV show Tout le monde en parle, after the leader of the Raelian movement stormed off the set Sunday. The new talk show, whose title translates as Everyone's talking about it, is based on a French model and is similar in style to the now-defunct Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. Like those shows, Tout le monde assembles a bizarre combination of people from different backgrounds each week for a lively debate on a variety of topics. On the show's second episode Sunday, editorial cartoonist Serge Chapleau began poking fun at Rael, whose Raelian movement believes humans were created by aliens and promotes cloning and sexual freedom. The cartoonist also made fun of Rael's flowing white garments and his hairdo. "It's an old dream of men to sleep with a lot of loose women at the same time ... but if I have to wear that suit and hairdo ... forget it," Chapleau said. At one point, he also reached over and squeezed Rael's topknot. Rael, who is profiled in the October issue of Playboy magazine, eventually walked off the set, and he and his followers are said to be considering assault charges against Chapleau and a complaint against Quebec broadcaster Radio-Canada. From the archives: Harmon Leon tries to infiltrate a Raelian orgy, and Stuff catches up with the cloned Raelian baby. Monday, January 10, 2005
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