Dear Mr. Powell,

I recently your read of your despicable conduct in testimony before members of the House of Representatives. I hope you know that you are big worthless asshole. Fuck you. Listening to you talk is like listening to a broken record. It's like hearing the digestive tract expel its waste products into a clogged toilet. No one who ever thought you were respectable thinks so anymore. Everyone knows that you're a pathetic slave to power. You think you have power because of the office you occupy. You don't. Only people who can DO something have power. You can't DO anything. You're as pliable as toilet paper. Your mouth is a hole through which other people spit and shit. You're nothing. If your masters could appoint a plastic "Secretary of State" figure through which to broadcast their absurd lies, they would so in a second. Would such a bit of plastic have power? You're also guilty of spawning the fat piece of shit Michael Powell. You owe me a personal apology for that. His birth was the true obscenity (unlike the revelation of Janet Jackson's nipple shield--which, I admit, was unpleasant). I don't believe for a second that you were angry at Sherrod Brown. It's the shit you were told to pull. But you probably don't even know the difference anymore between real anger (or real thoughts and feelings of any kind) and the fake shit you spew. You probably never knew the difference. Only a mindless hack could allow himself to be used the way you're used.

speakingcorpse

Dear Congressman Brown:

Thank you for your excellent questioning of Colin Powell last week. Your conduct was exemplary. You should know that nothing you did surprised Powell or made him actually angry. He was simply practicing a tired but nonetheless effective Republican tactic: when Democrats pose serious questions, Republicans whip themselves into frenzies of phony outrage, so as to prevent the discussion from even occurring. You can be sure Powell had his much-reported sudden "explosion" of anger planned out in advance, for use in case someone like you had the guts to bring up Bush's embarrassing record in yet another public forum. But you've got to keep at it! Maybe the next time some Republican tries to cut off legitimate discourse with phony outrage, you could allow yourself to get REALLY outraged. Tell the Republican hacks--and make absolutely no mistake, Powell is nothing but a mindless hack--that their behavior is dangerous, insulting, un-American, craven, and disgraceful. Their behavior is no better than that of infantile brats who try to sweep the pieces off the board-game when they begin to fear losing.

SO SCREW THEM!

Well, you can't say that, but I can. I know how hard it must be to try to carry on speaking to these bastards as if a real conversation were even possible. But you keep up the front, for the good of the country and the institutions on which it depends. I admire your struggles greatly.

Sincerely,

A friend of speakingcorpse

posted by Blicero : 2/17/2004 01:49:00 AM