It's important to remember that Ashcroft lost a senate election to a man that had died in a plane crash several weeks earlier. No-one had posthumously won election to the Senate before.
That could possibly be an indication of how out of touch he is with "normal" people. His crusade against porn, and other misguided ideas such as the draconian "Total Information Awareness" program (
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/TIA/20030...oft_letter.php) later renamed to the "Terrorism Information Awareness" program for PR reasons, show how extreme his views are.
I don't know if it counts as censorship or just a humorous happening, but Ashcroft's even taken to cleaning up his image by draping the naked "Spirit of Justice" statue in the Attorney General's Great Hall, to limit the photo opportunities with him overshadowed by a bare breasted female statue... (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1788845.stm)