Letters to Bette: Marty Conjures Lenny Bruce
Retired IRS criminal investigator Martin Sheil’s satirical take on KimmelGate
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Author’s note: Retired IRS criminal investigator Martin Sheil, a Chicago resident, is a frequent contributor to Bette Dangerous.
Lenny Bruce at his arrest in 1961.
Letters to Bette: Lenny Bruces Weighs in on Jimmy Kimmel
by Martin Sheil
Hey Heidi,
No word from Jimmy Kimmel as yet as to how he will handle his indefinite suspension, and I got to wondering just what Lenny Bruce might say.
You are way too young to remember the Lenny Bruce saga but let me fill you in. (Note from Heidi: I’ve seen Bob Fosse’s “Lenny” at Tarantino’s New Bev — part a Dustin Hoffman double-feature with Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” — so I know the score).
Lenny Bruce was a young aspiring comic who inhabited the clubs in Greenwich Village in the Fifties. Lenny was not all that political, but he was a potty mouth and NYPD would plant detectives in various clubs throughout the Village hoping to catch Lenny violating their subjectively imposed standards of civil discourse, thereby protecting the sensitive sensibilities of the residents of Greenwich Village.
So Lenny being Lenny and NYPD Detectives being NYPD Detectives, it wasn't long before Lenny got arrested for making a civil disturbance by uttering some obscenities in a public place.
Now, it appears that NYPD took particular offense when Lenny verbalized the term “Cocksucker!”
Given our current President’s predilection for imposing his personal standards of civil discourse on the mass media in his ongoing effort to censor and control the media to his personal liking — not Unlike NYPD's censorship of Lenny Bruce, I couldn’t help but wonder how Lenny would've perceived the censorship of (Satire Alert!) Jimmy Kimmel via the FCC Commissar's coercive threat to ABC that we can do this the easy way or the hard way…
Now I can't help (Profanity Alert!) but think that Lenny might direct a few cocksucker comments in the general direction of FCC Commissar Carr & suckup to President Trump as various Trump government apparatchik’s attempt to please the boss in his aborted attempt to censor and control the media by pulling whatever governmental levers of power might be at hand.
On the other hand, Lenny might pull his ‘cocksucker’ punches a bit after consideration of Stormy Daniel's informed and detailed description of DJT's diminutive manhood.
(Satire alert!)
Be that as it may, Lenny would never allow himself to be shut up by the authorities since he had a little thing called the Bill of Rights on his side.
So, too, does Jimmy Kimmel. Now The FCC may have intimidated ABC as Trump trudges down the path of Ayatollah-hood in his ongoing attempts to censor and control the media.
It is up to the public to stand up to the president and call him out for his misguided attempts at tyranny.
Doing a Lenny Bruce and calling out Trump's henchmen as “cocksuckers” is a start but voting in unison and opposition to the forces of MAGA is the only real way to effect change and protect our Bill of Rights.
Let’s all do the right thing at the right time for the right reason and send the Cocksucker in Chief to Alligator Alcatraz and let him serve his time for all his various felony convictions.
Profanity alert over — let the satire continue.
Thanks,
Martin Sheil
Supervisory Special Agent, IRS, Criminal Investigations, retired… for now.
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