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January 17, 2006
Miss Manners
JB called it in yesterday's comments section: a full week of Stantis complaning about how our culture has grown "coarse" and people are rude. And who's to blame? Beavis & Butthead and Howard Stern, of course.
What is it with Republicans and their desperate desire to go back to the 50s? Is it really because they want people to be like the Cleaver family? Where everyone supposedly said, "yes ma'am" and "no sir" and "go sit in the back of the bus?" Do they miss manners, or do they miss a world where white people clearly were in charge of the country and didn't have to worry about "uppity" minorities? Kinda sick if you think about how Stantis started this strip on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Maybe he thought he was being "ironic," wishing that we were back in a time when people said "please, don't use that, it's a 'whites only' drinking fountain."
Or maybe Stantis is pissed that he can't listen to Howard on free radio anymore and he's too cheap to pay for a satellite radio. Come on, we all know that deep down inside Scooter wishes he could hear Howard swear as much as he wants without getting censored. I mean I'd like to think that a guy with his own comic strip that's been censored by newspapers for its outrageous and controversial strips would be a strident supporter of free speech. Oh, wait, we're talking about a Republican here. The only speech he cares about is the one his president is illegally listening in on with his wiretaps.
Maybe instead of focusing on a culture of rudeness Stantis could have spent his time denouncing the culture of corruption that's infected the Republican party. He could still blame Beavis, since the Democrats went through a similar phase in the 90s. I know that I think it's much more dangerous to have Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, Jack Abramoff, Bob Ney, and a host of others running the country while lining their pockets instead of hearing someone use a swear word in public.
In the words of someone who's much more influential than a couple of cartoon characters, Stantis:
- Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States, to Senator Patrick Leahy on the Senate floor.
Comments
I myself think it's great that Bob Ney "The Science Guy" is running the country.
Posted by: sacki at January 17, 2006 09:14 AM
Carmen is, what, eight years old? Did she watch late-night MTV marathons of "Beavis and Butthead" as a fetus? Really a compelling character you've got there, Mr. Stantis.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 17, 2006 06:53 PM
