To each his own.
As if it isn't depressing enough to know that the body politic has been reduced to fools emailing their body parts, we must also be subjected to the Howard Stern gang screaming obscenities in a public forum. I can't imagine any circumstance in which I would applaud, and this vile little episode is no exception.
Well, I've been alone before and no doubt will be alone again. Carry on.
“To each his own.”
Fine then. I’d like to clarify, though, that I’m not advocating hecklers show up at the State of the Union. In fact, I didn’t like the infamous “You lie!” But this is not that. Weiner deserves public shame, and continued public shame if he’s going to continue to try to steer the mass media ship.
“As if it isn’t depressing enough to know that the body politic has been reduced to fools emailing their body parts, we must also be subjected to the Howard Stern gang screaming obscenities in a public forum.”
I can be a declinist about a lot of things, but I’m not sure Howard Stern in this respect represents a fitting contrast to the Golden Age of political speechifying. The Founding generation was infinitely more cultured than us, and the unwashed masses were definitely a more attentive audience, undistracted as they were by our endless media barrage. But it wasn’t all Robert’s Rules of Order and tea and crumpets; they were horrible to eachother back then, and horribly uncouth. No doubt the equivalent of Stern’s lackeys showed up to give Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglas a hard time.