Porno for Politicos

The US Senate chambers, in addition to the Vice Presidential bust collection, recently added, temporarily anyway, to their internal television system, a porno movie viewing channel.

According to Roll Call, an employee in the Senate Recording Studio had been dubbing a pornographic tape on taxpayer time and "to add insult to injury, he pushed the wrong button and [the porn movie] went out over Channel 5," Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Alfonso Lenhardt confirmed in an interview.

The Sergeant-at-Arms said the employee in question, whom he would not identify, has been suspended pending an investigation by officials from the human resources office. The employee is being disciplined for violating workplace rules prohibiting the use of pornography at work and using a nonofficial tape on the job.

It's interesting to me that there even has to be a rule prohibiting the use of pornography at work in the Senate. I mean, yeah, maybe in the Supreme Court where Clarence Thomas' alleged predilection for pornography is well-documented, but the Senate? I'd have figured on a rule prohibiting white hoods but never pornography.

When asked for the name of the movie in question, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Alfonso Lenhardt answered matter-of-factly, "I have no idea. I did not see the video so I couldn't speak to that." This leaves me to believe if he had seen the video, there was a reasonably good chance that he could identify it. Note how Lenhardt qualifies his abhorance for pornography "in the workplace" but does not declare his enmity for pornography in general.

Rumor has it, the Senate Chambers Cable Channel, stripped of its pornographic programming, will resort to replaying soft-porn episodes starring former "Survivor" cast member Brian Heidik for future early-morning sausage and biscuit breakfast events.