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Show Transcripts November 18th, 2007 You can contact us at: (818) 613-9248 |
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During the first Bill Clinton campaign for president, the catch phrase was, “It’s the economy stupid”. A new catch phrase might be, “It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.” Its not that all of these Republicans are getting into trouble just because they are banging hookers, or trying to blow anonymous men in bathroom stalls. The real problem is that all of them have run as family values candidates, telling others to do just the opposite of what they actually do, and even proposing laws counter to the way they really live their lives. Like Florida State Rep. Bob Allen, who unsuccessfully proposed increased penalties for the very activities he was involved with- bathroom solicitation for prostitution. Perhaps Allen, who like the many others who used their political credentials to try and get out of being arrested when they were caught, just assumed that he was above the law. He wasn’t. He was just found guilty, and could wind up serving 60 days in jail, more had his own legislation passed. Most politicians benefit from their ability to get legislation passed on behalf of powerful interests. For a change, Bob Allen managed to personally benefit by his own inability to get legislation passed.
And Senator David Vitter, who also seemed to be above the law, has been subpoenaed now will probably have to testify in court about his relationship with the D.C. Madame. And Republicans have continued to support him, because at least he wasn’t AC/DC.
And even though Guilliani, my least favorite presidential candidate, has had multiple affairs, he admits them, and has never run on a family values ticket. I think he’s a liar, an exagerrator, an opportunist, and boofonishly incompetent when you look at his record, but I don’t think he is a hypocrite on these sexual issues. And I have to give him some credit for standing by his pro-choice stance when other Republicans in the presidential race have made such quick about turns they’ve left skid marks.
So, for unbridled hypocrisy, instead we turn to family values politician Congressman Ric Keller of Florida. In his campaign, he ran radio spots and brochures claiming that he was ‘the obvious choice for those who care about the biblical values upon which our nation was founded.’ It has been reported that he started having an affair with his 23 year old congressional aide while still married, and later divorced his wife while she was battling a degenerative disease. To be fair, his marriage vow did state til death do us part unless you get sick and a younger hottie comes along. So Dee Dee, as his aide was called, wound up getting paid by both his campaign and his office, which is unusual, and she was the only one on the staff to get a year end bonus. Or maybe it was a rear end bonus, but either way it was worth $1000. He married Dee Dee after his divorce was finalized and both his ex-wife and campaign made it clear that no one wanted to answer questions about when they started dating. And maybe its just me, but instead of hooking a hot young wife he could funnel campaign money to under questionable circumstances, doesn’t he look more like a guy who should be hanging around with Bob Allen trying to get a blowjob in a bathroom?
Here’s a creepy image. New York Police Chief Bernard kerik banging Judith Reegan, the woman who put together the O.J. book deal, in an apartment he took over for having multiple affairs behind the back of his wife, an apartment that was donated and supposed to be used by firefighters and other 9/11 rescue workers to rest in, an apartment overlooking ground zero. Kerik was just indicted on many counts of corruption, while Reegan is now suing Fox parent Newscorp for $100 million for trying to coerce her to cover up her affair with Kerik when he was being invesitgated as a nominee to head homeland security. Apparently, Fox head Roger Ailles and long time close Guilliano friend thought the revelation of the affair might make Guilliani look bad, since he was considering running for the presidency and had pushed for Kerik’s nomination. Too bad Ailles didn’t have enough juice to make the entire indictment go away. And if Reegan’s claim is true, and she says she has it on tape, Ailles might face indictment himself, for suborning perjury. It is true that the courts have ruled that news programs have no obligation to tell the truth, but Ailles may find that that court ruling applies only to his network, and not the real world.
And speaking of affairs, here is one difficult to criticize. Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Conner’s husband has struck up a romance with another woman, and she and the family are okay with it. He has Alzheimers, and is living in an assisted living center. He fell for a fellow patient. Much of the time, he does not even remember his wife, and can only live in the present. They are happy that he is relaxed, comfortable, and happy.
And since we’ve mentioned the Supreme Court, here’s the deal. A straight swap. Canada’s Supreme Court for ours. Theirs is the supreme court that ruled that swing clubs are legal, a protection we don’t have in the U.S. And now they’ve just ruled that you can’t ban nude swimming at a private event out of site of the public, even if it takes place using publicly owned facilities. The court ignored the argument that nude swimming was a health hazard, or that it was too much of a burden for lifeguards to rescue naked people, because they would lose overtime pay if they opted out. Yeah, but what about the lifeguards who might have willingly worked for free at that event. Anyway, I’d be willing to just trade out Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, and Alito.
Last week in our Sexvestigation segment, we created an imaginary conversation between a lawyer and a fertilized egg in a fertility clinic. It was parody, but there are folks in Colorado trying to turn it into reality. They are collecting signatures for a ballot measure that would give fertilized eggs the state constitutional protections of inalienable rights, justice and due process. A lawyer could be assigned by the court at the instigation of a third party to represent the interests of your own embryo as a separate individual, and your own embryo could sue you. Not a joke. Its part of the plan, also being attempted in five other states, to eliminate abortion rights through costly litigation, although the conservatives behind this will have to give up the right to make lawyer jokes.
Its like when the parents go away, the kids tear up the house and do everything they knew they did not have permission to do. That’s what Bush is like whenever congress goes on vacation, recess appointing divisive nominees who could never get congressional approval. And now, he is expected to recess appoint the homophobic nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. James Holsinger, one of our Whackos of the week. It looks like congress may take the extraordinary step of holding pro forma sessions over the thanksgiving weekend so that congress, technically, does not go on recess. Keeping Bush from making a number of divisive appointments without congressional oversight. Wouldn’t it be great if Congress could sign recess bills whenever Bush was on vacation? Since Bush is shooting for the most vacation days of any sitting president, they’d have plenty of time to get bills turned into law.
Saudi Arabia is our great ally in the fight against terrorism, even though most of the Al Queida funding came from there and so did many of the 9/11 attackers. But if you want to talk about people being terrorized, you only need look at the women who have the misfortune to live in Saudi Arabia. Iraq, in comparison, even under Hussein, was a paradise for women. Saudi Arabia enforces a strict Islamic doctrine that forbids unrelated men and women from associating with each other, bans women from driving and forces them to cover head-to-toe in public. After a 19 year old woman was brutally gang raped by six armed men, she was convicted and sentenced to 90 lashes for being in a car with an unrelated male at the time she was raped. When her lawyer complained that the punishments against her attackers were too lenient, the case was reheard, and instead of 90 lashes, she got 200. Her lawyer has been banned from practicing law because he challenged the verdict. While Musharaf’s Pakistan might currently be Bush’s wet dream of political power, I get the impression that Saudi Arabia would be perfect for many fundamentalist Christians. Just change the religion and they’ve got almost everything they want, unbridled political power and complete repression of women.
Entertainment
Its back. The infamous Hello Kitty vibrator from Japan. It looks basically like a pocket rocket with a Hello Kitty head on it, and a peek on the Japanese Sanrio site makes it appear to be back, in pink and black. As we know, all girls love tingly vibrating shoulder massages and they would never think of using this in some other way.
Who is getting naked now? Not Angelina Jolie. She does appear nude in the new film Beouwolf, but it is appearance only. Her nudity was created digitally, and in fact, at the time her nude scene was shot, in actuality she was several months pregnant.
Winona Ryder is getting naked though, in her new film Sex and Death 101, where she has a nude love scene. Ryder plays a feminist vigilante who becomes an urban folk hero. Her partner in the scene is Simon Baker.
And another star completely naked in the film “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”, Philip Seymour Hoffman, best known for his lead in the film Capote. Personally, I’ll probably be paying more attention to the naked Marisa Tomei, but that’s just me.
And if you haven’t seen enough of Kim Kardashian in the December Playboy, or on her reality series, Vivid Entertainment has announced the release of part 2 of her sex tape that helped turn her minor status into full-fledged celebrity. This new DVD offers an hour of never before seen sex with Kardashian with ex-boyfriend Ray-J.
And Vivid is certainly becoming more mainstream. At least, you’d think that from the fact that they have this huge billboard up in Times Square. The cleaned up Times Square The sign is 32 feet wide.
European porn has a very different sensibility. Can that be captured with porn made in America with all American talent? European producer Woodman Entertainment is giving it a shot with Revelations. Directed by Ricky Wrecker, it stars Rebeca Linares, Brooke Banner, Jay Lassiter, Alexis Love, Nick Manning, Kimberly Kane, Asia Jenni Lee, Kayden Fay, and others.
Also distributed by Ninn Worx is Innocence- She’s No Angel, starring Tatiana Luxe. They use minimalist sets and understated music to focus on the personalities of the girls, including interviews. Also featured are Denice K, Cahrles Dera, Sindee Jennings, Faye Valentine, Marco Banderas, Lavish Styles, Sophie Dee.
But maybe you watch porn and think to yourself that you could do better. Seymore Butts is there to help, with his new release of Do It Yourself Porn, A Guide For Shooting Great Sex Scenes. Using Sunny Lane and Tom Byron, he takes you through every step of creating a porn movie. The two hour tutorial also features Mari Possa.
I met next gen sex educator Jaymne Waxman at an event not long ago and liked her. She is continuing her relationship with Adam and Eve with Personal Touch Volume 2. In it she examines ways to remain monogamous without the monotony. It includes three sex scenes to illustrate her points, featuring mutual masturbation, role playing, and anal sex..
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