Farber has some excellent points, but this has got to be nonpartisan and all-inclusive. I wonder what Farber would say about Rush Limbaugh's somewhat raunchy go at the Defense of Marriage Act, during which he intentionally used the word
beavers as well as metaphors for anal rape and ejactulation. On daytime radio no less!
Maybe it's not the media's fault. Sometimes I think Americans (or enough of us to make it profitable) enjoy the crassness, and the media merely supplies ample quantities daily.