And the award for utter shamelessness in the face of irony goes to....

The Bush Administration!

Un-frickin-believable. Last time we had an Attorney General whose main focus was porn, ten guys with boxcutters (or so they say) brought down the World Trade Center. And these are the same guys who decided that a guy who sold his services as an "escort" and posted nude photos of himself all over the internet was a legitimate journalist.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Monday he would move aggressively to prosecute obscenity cases, and he laid out a broader agenda much like that of his predecessor, John Ashcroft.

In his first lengthy address since becoming attorney general in early February, Gonzales said people who distribute obscene materials do not enjoy constitutional guarantees of free speech.

"I am committed to prosecuting these crimes aggressively," he said to a Washington meeting of the California-based Hoover Institution.

The Justice Department is appealing the dismissal of an obscenity case in Pittsburgh in which a federal judge said prosecutors went too far in trying to block the sale of pornographic movies over the Internet and through the mail. The case initially was prosecuted under Ashcroft.

Meanwhile, back at the Pot 'n' Kettle Ranch:

Bush Administration To Require U.S. AIDS Groups Take Pledge Opposing Commercial Sex Work To Gain Funding

[Feb 28, 2005]

The Bush administration is requiring that U.S. HIV/AIDS organizations seeking funding to provide services in other countries make a pledge opposing commercial sex work, and some Republican lawmakers and administration officials are pushing for a similar policy for needle-exchange programs, the Wall Street Journal reports. Under the new policy, even groups whose HIV/AIDS work in other countries has "nothing to do" with commercial sex workers will have to make a written pledge opposing commercial sex work or risk losing federal funding, according to the Journal. In addition, the Bush administration might refuse to fund HIV/AIDS groups that do not accept Bush's "social agenda" on issues such as sexual abstinence and drug use, according to the Journal.

Unless, of course, said prostitutes are willing to shill for the Bush Administration's policies. Then it's OK. Because....

....all together now....

....sing it, sistah!.....

....follow the bouncing ball and sing along!


IT'S OK IF YOU'RE A REPUBLICAN!!

(Thanks to Americablog, which really ought to start charging me for redistributing the gems they find)