Again, short and sweet is the name of the game for irlGirl this week.

There's very few things that surprise me on the internet these days. Make me laugh? Sure. Upset me? Heck yeah.

But rarely to I find something that so disturbs me that I actually start interrupting the stream saying, "Oh, he's not going to say that? Wait. He is going to say that? OH MY F-ING GOD! HE SAID IT!"

That was my reaction upon watching a recent clip of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart discussing congressional hearings on video-game violence.

If you haven't seen it, and it's pretty much old news now, here it is. And, might I add, if you have seen it, it's worth seeing again. Take note of the quote from Congressman Joseph Pitts (R-PA):

Now Pitts is pissed. Let's discuss briefly.

More after the jump...

Just in case you missed it because your ears shut down in order to protect your brain from exploding, which I completely understand, here's his quote:

It's safe to say that a wealthy kid from the suburbs can play 'Grand Theft Auto' without turning to a life of crime, but a poor kid who lives in a neighborhood where people really do shoot cops and steal cars and deal drugs might not be so fortunate. There's almost certainly a child somewhere in the America who is going to be hurt by this game. Maybe his dad is in jail or his big brother is already down on the corner dealing drugs.

Now that the dust is stirred and Pitts is getting so much unwanted publicity for his short but unforgettable television appearance, the right honorable congressman has issued a statement with regards to the "Player Haters" segment on The Daily Show claiming that Jon Stewart et al "misrepresented" his words.

Okay. Now I understand that a comment taken out of context can be misleading. Anyone who's ever watched the Simpson's Statue of Liberty candy episode knows, television in particular can make you say things you didn't mean.

For example, taking something out of context could go like this: I could say, "I made this apple-pan dowdie for you, but I got some on my pants," and -- taken out of context -- someone could hear me say, "I made doodie in my pants."

That would be taken out of context.

How exactly one could take what Pitts said out of context is beyond me. Exactly what was he trying to say in context that wouldn't be exactly what he said? How do you string together a sentence with those words in proper gramatical form and have it NOT mean what it meant?

In what context could that quote be taken as anything but insane classist bullshit?

But rather than own up to the fact that he, in one glorious paragraph, could insult the poor, blacks, video gamers, and children of the incarcerated, he instead blames The Daily Show for broadcasting his moment of glory, without edit, for the world to hear and see.

As typical of bloated polticians, Pitts never explains exactly how it was taken out of context to turn it into ageist, racist, classist bigotry. Instead, he explains what his motivation was to say it.

That's not taking something out of context. Out of context means that somehow your words were twisted to make you say something you didn't say. The problem for Pitts, however, is that he did say it, there's no way to make it not pigheaded, and rather than just being a big man and telling us that he made a horrible mistake and he's sorry to the poor, gamers, children, adults and everyone else he offended, he does what?

Blame the messenger.

Yep. It's The Daily Show's fault that Pitts made a complete jackass of himself. And in his cockeyed world, that's called "taken out of context."

You see, the context is, apparently, that YOU WERE NOT MEANT TO HEAR IT. It was supposed to be said in front of a big room of out-of-touch Pong-playing politicians and a few insomniacs that watch C-Span. Not poor people. Not gamers. And certainly not a major cable-TV audience!!

Good god, Stewart! Don't you know how democracy works?!? For pity's sake, man, if people actually hear what we're saying about them, you're gonna fuck it up for all of us!!!

So take this as a lesson, people -- a lesson in what "out of context" means to politicians who are looking for reelection, and what it means to the REST OF THE WORLD.

By the way, Pitts' opponent in November is Democrat Lois Herr.

I'm sending my campaign donation now.