Posted on 03/10/2004 10:33:02 PM PST by weegee
By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa Tuesday, March 9, 2004
The obscenity backlash that stung Howard Stern and Janet Jackson has had no apparent effect on presidential-wannabe John Kerry - his campaign Web site is littered with the F-bomb and other naughty words!
Oy! Good thing the FCC has no jurisdiction over the World Wide Web!
Typing the world's most famous curse word into the search engine on johnkerry.com yields four pages containing the F-word, online gossip-monger Matt Drudge reported yesterday.
There is, of course, the now-infamous Rolling Stone interview where the presumed Democratic nominee sums up the war in Iraq thusly: ``Did I expect George Bush to (bleep) it up as badly as he did . . .?''
Then there's a Men's Journal article wherein the candidate wises off to former aide David Wade threatening to ``cut all his (bleeping) legs off at the knees.'' All two of them! A second Rolling Stone piece and an article from an alternative Seattle paper round out the foursome.
Type in another famous curse word (Hint: It usually precedes the words ``storm'' or ``fight'' or ``happens.'') and you get five sites containing the expletive, including an article from the Harvard Crimson and the Douglas Brinkley biography ``Tour of Duty.''
A check of Dubya's Web site turned up no bad words.
A spokesman for Kerry said he believed the Web site was struck by ``a virus'' yesterday. He then promised to get back to us with a better story, but never did.
Although cracking down on obscenity has been a priority of Bush's FCC ever since Janet Jackson bared her breast during the Super Bowl, Kerry didn't exactly leap to Howard Stern's defense when the shock jock was dragged into the fray.
Stern was dropped in six Clear Channel markets when the FCC ratcheted up its war on potty patter. But Kerry said the stations that carry his show have the right to censor it.
File Under: Expletive Not Deleted.
Lounging
Fans of the fab Four Seasons' Bristol Lounge were lined up at 11:30 a.m. yesterday for the ``soft'' reopening of the lunchtime fave.
Two Lounge Lizards, desperate to christen the new bar after two looooong months of imbibing elsewhere, idled outside the entrance and eyed two choice spots at the new 16-seat bar while the help re-stocked the top-shelf spirits.
Boston maggie publisher Dan Scully stopped in for a chicken Caesar and to say ``hey'' to new GM Peter O'Colmain, who never had the pleasure of experiencing the old Bristol.
WBZ-TV titan Ed Goldman and marketing man Larry Moulter were spotted about 1 p.m. And Greater Media mogul Peter Smyth dined in a window seat with fellow Holy Cross alum, investment banker Brian McNeill.
But no regular was more excited about the Bristol's new clubby feel than the former U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania, Rev. Charles Stith. The Rev, a die-hard fab Four fan, appeared to be playing musical chairs when he first arrived.
``I gotta find a new table,'' said Stith, who finally settled into a seat that swiveled, but had his eye trained on a red leather banquette in an alcove near the bar.
Sadly, there was still some hammering and drilling going on at lunchtime which prevented him from squatting there.
``Next time,'' he said.
The larger new lunch haunt officially reopens Monday.
What a lame excuse. There are no such viruses that exhibit such characteristics.
Whoever this "spokesman" is, he needs to be fired for being such an incompetent liar and incompetent techie.
You're right. Kerry needs an accomplished liar like himself.
Touché! ; )
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