LENNY BRUCE and the F**king Cunt Problem at the Miami Herald

The poster boy for obnoxious racist assholes, George Zimmerman, was at it again.

The pudgy killer, arrested a half-dozen times, was once again hauled in, this time for making threats against a writer. In this #metoo age, hopefully there was also a charge for talking dirty to a female cop.

Why it's mentioned HERE, is the odd semantic issue of what IS or is NOT a "bad word."

You've probably seen how often the PC brigade has been taken into consideration, and news articles have written "p**sy" or "b*tch" etc. This, along with the coy habit of mentiong "the f bomb" and "the n word." Shit, what are these assholes up to? We don't KNOW the words?

As the late great dirty comedian Pearl Williams liked to say from the stage, pointing to some scowling ringsider, "If you're so refined how come you know what I'm talking about?"

The Miami Herald, in describing chunky George's tirade, said he called the female cop a "f**cking cunt."

Odd, isn't it? FUCKING and CUNT sort of go together, don't they?

My friend George Carlin tried to dissect why certain "bad words" are nastier than others. He mentioned there were two-way words such as "pussy" and "box," and words that seemed fairly harmless, like "twat," but he did note that a lot of women draw the line at "cunt." But, nobody at the Miami Herald?

This leads me to recall George's friend and influence, Lenny Bruce. Lenny pointed out that "FUCK" is the most taboo of the sexual curse words.

Indeed, over at TBS, on Conan O'Brien's cable show, the censors allow "shit." But not "fuck." The latter word is erased. This leads to some pretty confusing sentences, where you wonder if your sound suddenly gave out.

According to Lenny, this goes back to the religious leaders of the Church and Synagogue. The powerful church has always been against "FUCK." Why? It's about priests and rabbis, Lenny insisted. "Both the priest and the rabbi shit. But only one of them fucks."

Do you suppose the female cop was not equally offended by the two words? She didn't mind being called a CUNT, but resented being called a FUCKING one? Hey, Miami Herald, is THAT the reason for your oddball censorship??