#rsrh This Ed Schultz suspension story reminds me… (NSFW)

…of a tale from one of Spider Robinson‘s Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon stories.  It was told by one of the regulars, who had a bad habit of playing tasteless practical jokes (and we’ll tell the rest of this after the fold)…

So, the fellow was at a party, and having decided that it needed spicing up, attempted to do so by seeking out a random woman sitting with her back to him, going up to her, dropping his pants, and flopping his genitalia on her shoulder.  He then smirked at her and said “Hey, lady!  Do you know what this is?”  The woman slowly turned her head, looked his genitalia up and down, and (in a note of utter boredom) replied “It looks just like a penis, only smaller.”  The guy zipped up his pants, walked out of the party, and never played another practical joke in his life.

Moral of the story?

Fictional characters are more likely to get the point than, say, Ed Schultz will from this pointed take-down by Laura Ingraham after Schultz called her a slut (and got suspended by MSNBC for a week for it):

Exit quotation from Laura Ingraham: “I was surprised to learn that Ed Schultz actually hosted a radio show. Is it only available online?”

I don’t listen to talk radio, but damn that’s cold.  Totally righteous, of course.

Moe Lane