Wednesday, February 23, 2005

"AshHole"?

Speaking of Belgium (see below), check out this item from today's "Inside the Beltway" from The Washington Times:

Hollywood A-word
Christopher C. Horner, policy counsel for the European Enterprise Institute in Brussels, has just flown back to Washington aboard United Airlines, its cabin treated to the popular movie "Sideways."

"A pleasant surprise given the Mrs. and I have only been turned away due to crowding at the theater," notes Mr. Horner. "As part of its process of editing out offensive expletives, United was kind enough to show a version of the film in which a character, not once but twice, is heard to refer to an antagonist as an 'Ashcroft' — the former Attorney General John Ashcroft and bane of the left — serving as the substitution of choice for the anatomical slur sharing the same first letter."