(2:07 PM) | Adam Kotsko:

Another Caption Contest

Per "bryan ass keen"'s request.

This might not be the best photo ever for such a contest, but I chose it because it comes from a September 2000 article:

Sen. Joe Lieberman decried a "culture of carnage" surrounding America's young people and told a Senate committee today that the government should stop the marketing of violent movies, music and video games to children if the industry fails to police itself.

Parents feel "locked in a losing competition with the culture to raise our children," said Lieberman, a longtime opponent of violence and sex in the media who helped bring the issue into the presidential campaign as Democratic nominee Al Gore's running mate.

Mr. Secretary, the behavior by Americans at the prison in Iraq is, as we all acknowledge, immoral, intolerable and un-American. It deserves the apology that you have given today and that have been given by others in high positions in our government and our military.

I cannot help but say, however, that those who were responsible for killing 3,000 Americans on September 11th, 2001, never apologized. Those who have killed hundreds of Americans in uniform in Iraq working to liberate Iraq and protect our security have never apologized.

And those who murdered and burned and humiliated four Americans in Fallujah a while ago never received an apology from anybody.

So it's part of -- wrongs occurred here, by the people in those pictures and perhaps by people up the chain of command.

But Americans are different. That's why we're outraged by this. That's why the apologies were due.

So I think that we need to say bad things about Joe Lieberman, basically. We expect this kind of shit from Rush Limbaugh, but not from a Senator.

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