We know too much about the personal lives of Hollywood celebrities. The excuse is: they are in the spotlight, so they are fair game. Really? Imagine yourself as one of the participants in the following telephone conversation:
She: Yes?
He: Stay on this phone and don’t hang up on me. I have plenty of energy to drive over there. You understand me? AND I WILL! SO JUST F—— LISTEN TO ME. LISTEN TO MY F—— RANTING. LISTEN TO WHAT YOU DO TO ME.
She: I didn’t do anything to you.
He: A pain in the ass!
She: You are ruining my life!
He: You make my life so f—— difficult!
She: Well you know what, it’s so –
He: Why can’t you be a woman who f—— supports me instead of a woman that sucks off me. And just f—— sucks me dry. And wants, and wants. Go through this relationship if you’re a good woman and you love me. I don’t believe you anymore. I’m sick of your bulls—! Has any relationship ever worked with you? NO!
She: Listen to me. You don’t love me because somebody who loves does not behave this way.
(crosstalk)
He: Shut the f— up. I know I’m behaving like this because I know absolutely that you do not love me and you treat me with no consideration.
She: One second please. Can I please speak?
He: I love you because I’ve treated you with every kindness, every consideration. You rejected … you will never be happy. F— you! Get the f— away from me! But my daughter is important! All right? Now, you have one more chance. And I mean it. Now f—— go if you want, but I will give you one more chance. (huffing with anger) You make me wanna smoke. You f—– my day up. You care about yourself.
She: You’re so selfish.
He: When I’ve been so f—— good to you. You f—— try to destroy me.
She: I didn’t do anything. I did not do anything. This is your selfish imagination. That’s bull!
He: Shut the f— up! You should just f—— smile and blow me! ‘Cause I deserve it.
She: I’m sleeping with the baby. I’m waking up every two hours. I fell asleep because I was waiting for you because you weren’t ready to go to the jacuzzi as we agreed.
He: Who the f— cares? We agreed nothing.
That, of course, is Mel Gibson and his soon-to-be-ex, Oksana. He must have been terribly embarrassed by this. Oksana may have had professional help recording and editing the conversations. Throughout the conversations, she remains unusually calm. Could this have been a set-up? Spouses do know how to push their spouse’s buttons, after all. Experts who have examined the recordings say that her end of the conversation on some of this particular recording had to have been recorded using a large diaphragm microphone. That would be one that would be found in a recording studio or radio station.
There are reports that this may be an effort to extort more money from Mel. This type of legalized extortion is usually carried out in divorce court. He obviously had reasons to be angry with her, and has not denied that it is his voice on the tapes. But, these tapes were leaked to the press for a reason, and not by Mel Gibson to enhance his career through more publicity. He is being tried in the court of public opinion now. His management company dropped him as a client and this kind of exposure may damage his career. Celebrities can’t be too careful these days.
—Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker and Tits
Also this week, The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York ruled unanimously that the FCC indecency policy violates the First Amendment because it is “unconstitutionally vague.”
According to the FCC policy, a single, nonliteral use of an expletive (a so-called “fleeting expletive”) could be actionably indecent. The rule came after music artists uttered the four-letter word during live televised award shows, including U2’s Bono at the 2003 Golden Globe Awards and Cher at the 2002 Billboard Music Awards.
Could the Seven Dirty Words, listed in the old George Carlin stand-up routine, be considered acceptable in broadcasting? We have certainly drifted far from the Code of Broadcasting, established in the 1960s. The Code consisted of eight “rules.” Four had to do with advertising and concern over “overcommercialization.” The other rules dealt with general operations and responsible programming: no “fraudulent, deceptive or obscene” material.
Ass, boobs, pee, fart and other similar words are now used liberally on radio and television. The barrier has been broken, and all the old rules have fallen by the wayside. Things that a reasonable person might once have objected to, are now accepted by the masses. The sheeple will follow as the political action groups make the laws. Who among us would claim to be a “reasonable person” and by that, be branded “a censor”, or worse?
