No, what struck Jacob as oppressively squalid was the subject matter he was forced to contemplate week after  fleeting, age-inappropriate sexual liaisons in the Oval Office; the seep of money into every cranny of the political system; Trent Lott; Newt Gingrich.
Jacob was forced to think about age-inappropriate liaisons in the Oval Office.
European governments do not want, of course, to tax call-back services.