Talented People Don’t Trash Talk
August 16, 2005
What is it about bad language some people find so attractive or amusing.
I remember being threatened with having my mouth washed out with soap if I ever said anything approaching a “bad word” when I was growing up.
My grandparents would have to cut out my tongue for punishment to equal today’s verbal crimes.
USA Today reported last Friday actor and comedian Bob Saget, who stars in the filthy new movie “The Aristocrats.”
Saget was a clean-freak dad on TV’s sitcom “Full House,” but he and a number of other people are in this new film that features some of the worst language ever heard on film. And they brag about their trash mouths.
USA Today reports that Saget’s career was turning downward until he started talking dirty.
Now his phone is ringing off the hook with offers.
How sad and how sick.
Truly talented people don’t trash talk.
In fact, it may be a sign that one’s career is ending when he starts talking this way.
They’ll make a lot of money on the film, I’m sure, but they won’t earn respect.
I’m Cal Thomas in Washington.
Cal Thomas is a nationally syndicated columnist based in Washington, D.C. Watch his television show, After Hours with Cal Thomas, on the Fox News Channel, Saturdays at 11 p.m. Eastern Time.
Originally published August 16, 2005.
