You might NOT believe this, but today, for the first time in over a week the duck is actually NOT WATCHING TV! Woo Hoo!
Today we find the duck on the street asking people what they think of the coverage of the Monica Lewinsky controversy. Mallard finds a man who thinks it's "disgusting" but then admits that he's followed every minute of it.
I'm not certain what the duck's target really is, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he's attacking the public's prurient fascination with the thought of oral sex. On the one hand, as parents and responsible adults, it can be startling to have to explain the concept to our young children who happen to hear the term bandied about on the evening news and in newspaper headlines. And yet, the public just can't seem to get enough of it.
The most bothersome part is that the people who are stirring up the controversy don't care if it's illegal, immoral or just in poor taste (no pun intended), they would do almost anything to obtain an excuse to run President Clinton out of office. When they discovered that it wasn't a crime, then they had to back-peddle and claim the problem was that he (the President) asked Monica not to tell anyone.
I guess if the duck was actually tired of the coverage he wouldn't be furthering it by writing cartoons about it. But like all the other dirt the radical right has thrown his way, the President will avoid this too. Just a few more months until campaign season, so pretty soon the Republican Congress is going to either have to get off their butts and start passing legislation, or else their contract on America will be revealed for the publicity stunt it always was.
"President Gore," Sorta has a nice ring to it?