Friday, May 11, 2007

Dispatches from the outer circles of the Inferno

The trouble with being depraved is you either don't realize it's you who is seriously screwed up, or you don't care that you're seriously screwed up.

Opie & Anthony are making a name for themselves by being the most depraved residents of the sewer that is American radio. XM and CBS Radio would get around to firing these deviants . . .
except that might interfere with all the money the suits are raking in by programming to our foulest vices instead of our better natures.

This week, the broadcasting equivalent of public defecation aired a segment on their XM show musing and laughing about what it would be like to rape Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. And Laura Bush.

You can well imagine the language they used to paint that picture.

God help us. Really.

Here's the story
from the New York Post:

During Wednesday's show, a guest named "Homeless Charlie" told the deejays he wanted to have sex with Rice.

Anthony Cumia interrupted to say he "could just imagine the horror on Condoleezza Rice's face when she realized that you were holding her down and f****** her."

"Punching her in the f****** face and f****** her," added a laughing "Charlie," before saying he also wanted to force himself on First Lady Laura Bush.

The obscene exchange took place on XM, a satellite radio station. But a recording of the Wednesday broadcast appeared on The Drudge Report yesterday, circulating the comments far beyond XM's relatively modest audience.

A portion of Opie & Anthony's show is also heard on CBS-owned 92.3 "Free FM," though the Rice-rape jokes were not made during that segment.

CBS said it had no plans to take "Opie & Anthony" off Free FM.
I'VE HEARD THE BIT. The newspaper does some sanitizing. And they insulted Queen Elizabeth, too.

There's a reason we say the following at Mass (either in Latin or in the vernacular):

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis,
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us,
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us,
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace

LET'S HOPE the Almighty has been feeling particularly charitable of late.

3 comments:

4r10r5 said...

They provided a homeless a voice to speak. It was his words. You can try to push them into the gutter and hide them from view because you don't agree with what they say. However, homeless people have a voice nonetheless and that day it had the opportunity to be heard.

The Mighty Favog said...

You're either yanking my chain or your mind is gone. I am not sure which.

The Mighty Favog said...

OMG! I think R2D2, or whoever the hell he is, is freakin' serious. I went to his blog, and . . . whoa!

One thing he said is just an idiotic stereotype -- mindless generalization must be one of the qualifications for being a "scholar" -- to wit:

It's silly that a few conservative bloggers are attempting to take revenge for Imus by attacking Opie and Anthony. What's odder is Opie and Anthony are buddies with Imus and a variety of other right-aligned political commentators.

Try reading more than one post on my blog, R2. You'll see that I'm no political conservative, can't stand George Bush and called for Don Imus' firing.

But that makes me just like Rush Limbaugh, dunnit? Riiiiight.