AN OLD AND CRUEL JOKE
It is an old and cruel joke (perhaps first told by George Bernard Shaw - I'm not sure), one that has been around a lot longer than the film Indecent Proposal (which was based on a hack novel by some neocon "moral values" hack, by the way).
A man is at a cocktail party on the night of April 3. He slips out of the presence of his wife for a few minutes and catches the eye of an attractive female, who, as luck would have it, has recently slipped out of the presence of her husband.
The man confidently approaches the woman and says, "I have a business proposition for you." She says, "Well, I can see that from the shape of your pants." (Actually, this last line is not part of the joke." She says, "What's the proposition?" He says, "In exchange for your agreeing to spend the night of April 6 with me and sleep with me, I promise to give you a million dollars."
The woman is at first taken slightly aback by the boldness of this offer, but agrees: "I accept your offer. We shall give our spouses plausible-sounding excuses for why we will be gone for that night, and I shall sleep with you and spend the night with you that night."
"You won't regret it, the man says."
The woman starts to walk away, believing that her business (for the time being) with this man is finished.
The man then turns to her before she leaves and asks, "I have a question."
"What?"
"Would you agree to the same deal - with the same terms - except that the payment would be $10,000 instead of $1 million?"
The woman is startled and incensed. "WHAT KIND OF WOMAN DO YOU THINK I AM?"
"We've already established that," the man chuckles. "Now, we're just haggling over the price."
Whenever this story is told, the woman is the one who gets laughed at. But the man is obviously a whore as well. He has no scruples and cares only about getting gratification on the cheap.
Which brings me to Bill Frist. About a week ago, this alarmingly tone-deaf politician, prone to video-diagnosing brain-dead women, accusing witnesses of lying (only to have the witnesses publicly humiliate them), putting money in not-so-blind trusts, and killing cats, proposed that the government give $100 to every family to help the American people "cope" with the rising costs of gas. It is hard to measure who hated this idea more-Democrats or Republicans.
As Justice Scalia (lying through his teeth) sort of said in his self-serving memo explaining why he "had" to hear Darth Maul's energy task force case, "If the American people can be bought so cheaply, the nation is in more trouble than I thought."
The scary thing about Frist is that, unlike the man in the story, he didn't even have what the French call "a certain I don't know what" to have originally make the higher offer - he just went straight for the gutter. And, given the universally negative reaction to his proposal, the most pathetic thing about Frist of all is that he is a whore who does not even know who he is prostituting himself out to. He's haggling over the price - but only with himself
The depravedly, cadaverly Senator Bill Frist recently tried pulling a similar joke on the American people - but he's so politically inept, he didn't even bother to set it up -
A man is at a cocktail party on the night of April 3. He slips out of the presence of his wife for a few minutes and catches the eye of an attractive female, who, as luck would have it, has recently slipped out of the presence of her husband.
The man confidently approaches the woman and says, "I have a business proposition for you." She says, "Well, I can see that from the shape of your pants." (Actually, this last line is not part of the joke." She says, "What's the proposition?" He says, "In exchange for your agreeing to spend the night of April 6 with me and sleep with me, I promise to give you a million dollars."
The woman is at first taken slightly aback by the boldness of this offer, but agrees: "I accept your offer. We shall give our spouses plausible-sounding excuses for why we will be gone for that night, and I shall sleep with you and spend the night with you that night."
"You won't regret it, the man says."
The woman starts to walk away, believing that her business (for the time being) with this man is finished.
The man then turns to her before she leaves and asks, "I have a question."
"What?"
"Would you agree to the same deal - with the same terms - except that the payment would be $10,000 instead of $1 million?"
The woman is startled and incensed. "WHAT KIND OF WOMAN DO YOU THINK I AM?"
"We've already established that," the man chuckles. "Now, we're just haggling over the price."
Whenever this story is told, the woman is the one who gets laughed at. But the man is obviously a whore as well. He has no scruples and cares only about getting gratification on the cheap.
Which brings me to Bill Frist. About a week ago, this alarmingly tone-deaf politician, prone to video-diagnosing brain-dead women, accusing witnesses of lying (only to have the witnesses publicly humiliate them), putting money in not-so-blind trusts, and killing cats, proposed that the government give $100 to every family to help the American people "cope" with the rising costs of gas. It is hard to measure who hated this idea more-Democrats or Republicans.
As Justice Scalia (lying through his teeth) sort of said in his self-serving memo explaining why he "had" to hear Darth Maul's energy task force case, "If the American people can be bought so cheaply, the nation is in more trouble than I thought."
The scary thing about Frist is that, unlike the man in the story, he didn't even have what the French call "a certain I don't know what" to have originally make the higher offer - he just went straight for the gutter. And, given the universally negative reaction to his proposal, the most pathetic thing about Frist of all is that he is a whore who does not even know who he is prostituting himself out to. He's haggling over the price - but only with himself
The depravedly, cadaverly Senator Bill Frist recently tried pulling a similar joke on the American people - but he's so politically inept, he didn't even bother to set it up -
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