>>Maybe all the good folks over in Tenn. can hold a “burn Taylor Swift CD Party?” I’ll buy the gas
Al Gore and Tipper Gore led the movement in the 1980s to burn rock music albums.
They didn’t really care about the issue, the people they affected (the clerks who were arrested or the musicians).
It was all an issue to launch Al Gore Junior to the national scene for his 1988 presidential campaign. Al Gore Senior (D-TN) had seen Estes Keffauver’s (D-TN) hearings against comic books do wonders for publicity.
http://cbldf.org/2014/04/60-years-ago-today-the-us-senate-puts-comics-on-trial/
60 Years Ago Today: The US Senate Puts Comics on Trial!
April 22, 2014
By Betsy Gomez
What a difference 60 years can make. On this day, in 1954, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency was closing out a second day of hearings. These two days would prove a pivotal period in comics history, leading to decades of self-censorship that almost destroyed the industry.
Better described as a kangaroo court that threw aside the First Amendment rights of an entire industry as a result of faulty “scientific” evidence, the April 21 – 22, 1954, Senate hearings were led by Senator Estes Kefauver and featured star witness Fredric Wertham. Wertham frequently targeted Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, crime, and horror comics, using pseudoscience to claim that comics caused juvenile delinquency, homosexuality (then considered a mental illness), violent crime, and more. Wertham’s April 1954 testimony against comics was no less damning...
And that's what set off global warming!