“Caveat Emptor: Now, before you run out and buy
“The Eminem Show,” which I truly would like to gift-wrap and bequeath to every bored kid in America, which includes almost every kid in this godforsaken land, including your kids, you should consider what a feat it is to really offend anyone in this day and age. Because almost the entire media diet offered us in Gringolandia is at least mildly offensive to somebody, and as a result we’re all inoculated. Forty years ago, Lenny Bruce was dragged in and out of court for spewing dirty words, sexual references, radical politics, and for shouting “nigger nigger nigger nigger” to take the hate out of the term. Lenny Bruce encouraged then-President John F. Kennedy to appoint two “niggers” to his cabinet, to say “nigger nigger nigger” on national TV, and said, “when that beautiful day comes, you’ll never see another nigger kid come home from school crying because some motherfucker called him a nigger.” The bar is much higher now. In an offensive media world, it is very difficult to crack through with a good offense. And that fact alone makes it a worthy challenge. Eminem is our very own Lenny Bruce for – guess what, kids? – a new, even more, censorious era.”

~post restored and updated on 7/12/17~