Kerry's Web site keeps FCC on the run
By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Tuesday, March 9, 2004

The obscenity backlash that stung Howard Stern and Janet Jackson has
had no apparent effect on presidential-wannabe John Kerry - his
campaign Web site is littered with the F-bomb and other naughty words!

Oy! Good thing the FCC has no jurisdiction over the World Wide
Web!

Typing the world's most famous curse word into the search engine
on johnkerry.com yields four pages containing the F-word, online
gossip-monger Matt Drudge reported yesterday.

There is, of course, the now-infamous Rolling Stone interview
where the presumed Democratic nominee sums up the war in Iraq thusly:
``Did I expect George Bush to (bleep) it up as badly as he did . .
..?''

Then there's a Men's Journal article wherein the candidate wises
off to former aide David Wade threatening to ``cut all his (bleeping)
legs off at the knees.'' All two of them! A second Rolling Stone piece
and an article from an alternative Seattle paper round out the
foursome.

Type in another famous curse word (Hint: It usually precedes the
words ``storm'' or ``fight'' or ``happens.'') and you get five sites
containing the expletive, including an article from the Harvard
Crimson and the Douglas Brinkley biography ``Tour of Duty.''

A check of Dubya's Web site turned up no bad words.

A spokesman for Kerry said he believed the Web site was struck by
``a virus'' yesterday. He then promised to get back to us with a
better story, but never did.

Although cracking down on obscenity has been a priority of Bush's
FCC ever since Janet Jackson bared her breast during the Super Bowl,
Kerry didn't exactly leap to Howard Stern's defense when the shock
jock was dragged into the fray.

Stern was dropped in six Clear Channel markets when the FCC
ratcheted up its war on potty patter. But Kerry said the stations that
carry his show have the right to censor it.

File Under: Expletive Not Deleted.

Lounging

Fans of the fab Four Seasons' Bristol Lounge were lined up at
11:30 a.m. yesterday for the ``soft'' reopening of the lunchtime fave.

Two Lounge Lizards, desperate to christen the new bar after two
looooong months of imbibing elsewhere, idled outside the entrance and
eyed two choice spots at the new 16-seat bar while the help re-stocked
the top-shelf spirits.

Boston maggie publisher Dan Scully stopped in for a chicken
Caesar and to say ``hey'' to new GM Peter O'Colmain, who never had the
pleasure of experiencing the old Bristol.

WBZ-TV titan Ed Goldman and marketing man Larry Moulter were
spotted about 1 p.m. And Greater Media mogul Peter Smyth dined in a
window seat with fellow Holy Cross alum, investment banker Brian
McNeill.

But no regular was more excited about the Bristol's new clubby
feel than the former U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania, Rev. Charles Stith.
The Rev, a die-hard fab Four fan, appeared to be playing musical
chairs when he first arrived.

``I gotta find a new table,'' said Stith, who finally settled
into a seat that swiveled, but had his eye trained on a red leather
banquette in an alcove near the bar.

Sadly, there was still some hammering and drilling going on at
lunchtime which prevented him from squatting there.

``Next time,'' he said.

The larger new lunch haunt officially reopens Monday.

So, what's your point?