Massachusetts State Senator Scott "Beefcake" Brown Talks Dirty to Captive Teen Audience!

When I first read about Scott Brown's antics at the King Philip Regional High School on 2/13/07, namely, using the coercive power of the State (via some obliging school administrators) to have his not-yet-voting-age critics rounded up and brought before him for some collective punishment, he struck me as just another run-of-the-mill vindictive, authoritarian, homophobic bully. But after reading his comments that:

"I felt really good about it. And now I find out I'm being portrayed as a vile-speaking hate-monger. It's pretty saddening. I feel very badly that I'm being victimized here"

and that

The school committee wants Brown to apologize for using profanity at the assembly. He said he has not decided what to do about the committee's position, adding "obviously they have an agenda." The committee never asked to meet with him before taking its vote, he said.

...I begin to sense the presence of Malignant Narcissicism. And I'm not the only one. I'd like to know what would have happened to any of the King Philip High School students in Joe Ferreira's history classes (and only those classes) if they had refused to attend Senator Topman's special presentation, or if they had walked out when he started spewing obscenities at them. While Senator You-Talkin-to-ME? may not deserve to die, he certainly deserves to be crushed by a landslide in his next bid for re-election. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at Massachusetts Republican Party headquarters last week, as, no doubt with tears in their eyes, they drew a thick black line through Brown's name as a possible challenger to John Kerry in 2008.