The Parents Television Council Hates The English

Mirren’s Emmy Crack Draws FCC Complaint

The Parents Television Council called on federal regulators Thursday to fine NBC for “vulgar and obscene” comments by two actresses during Sunday’s broadcast of the Primetime Emmy Awards.

Walking up to the stage to accept a best actress Emmy for HBO’s “Elizabeth I,” Helen Mirren commented on her relief that she didn’t go “ass over tit” as she came up the stairs. A few minutes later, Calista Flockhart repeated the phrase before presenting another award.

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“It is utterly irresponsible and atrocious for NBC to air this vulgar language — when millions of children were in the viewing audience,” Parents Television Council President L. Brent Bozell said in a written statement.

Reminding the PTC the only reason words like “tit” and “ass” are “indecent” is because they keep telling us words like “tit” and “ass” are indecent is pointless, so I’ll focus on what’s truly indecent: Why are children watching the Emmys at all?

There’s absolutely no value in watching the Emmys. They are cotton candy. Complaining about finding a hard piece of unspun sugar (a “tit”, if you will) in the middle of the sweet goodness is untenable; why eat it in the first place?

The only justifiable interest for watching the Emmys is the prurience of pure entertainment, the very interest the PTC claims to ever-so-vigilantly fights against. Shame on them.

Bitch Of The Day: The Fourth Amendment

Bill Of Rights, December 15, 1791:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

General Michael Hayden, principal deputy director of National Intelligence with the Office of National Intelligence, today:

Just to be very clear -- and believe me, if there's any amendment to the Constitution that employees of the National Security Agency are familiar with, it's the Fourth. And it is a reasonableness standard in the Fourth Amendment. And so what you've raised to me -- and I'm not a lawyer, and don't want to become one -- what you've raised to me is, in terms of quoting the Fourth Amendment, is an issue of the Constitution. The constitutional standard is "reasonable." And we believe -- I am convinced that we are lawful because what it is we're doing is reasonable.

More.

Bitch Of The Day: Martha Ann Alito

Wife of Supreme Court Nominee Leaves, Weeps Amid Tough Questioning

After probing for possible weak spots in the record of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on Day Two of his confirmation hearings, Democrats used Day Three to poke at what they thought those weak spots were.

But at the end of the day, the Democrats' plan of attack proved to be too much — at least for one member of the audience.

The nominee's wife, Martha Ann Alito, broke into tears after Republicans expressed their disapproval of how Alito was being treated.

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One White House official later said that Mrs. Alito viewed the attacks on her husband as disgraceful. "She was very upset that a good and decent man would get attacked," the official told ABC News. "It's outrageous."

Well, tough. When you're husband's up for the Supreme Court, it's not going to be pretty. What'd you expect? Ted Kennedy to bend over and shoot laurels out of his ass in honor of being good and decent?

And an honorary bitch goes out to the media, for treating this like Patrick Leahy jumped up and kicked her in the face.

All right…it's Saturday night. I have no date, a two liter bottle of Shasta and my all-Rush mix tape. Let's rock!