Morford: Attack Of The Killer Porn (BushCo's Protection from Pornography Week)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Wednesday, November 5, 2003 | Mark Morford, Looks For Porn Stars That Resemble Bush

[Mr. Jeeves]

...the GOP's incredibly successful fear-based agenda. You know the one: Keep you numb with dread, convinced you are always at high risk of being utterly perverted or converted to homosexuality or of being mugged by swarthy terrorists or maybe communist hippies, and they can get away with anything. This is the GOP credo. And, sadly, it's working.

I'm actually much more familiar with the Democrats' even more incredibly successful fear-based agenda. You know the one: Keep you numb with dread, convinced you are always at high risk of being lynched or beaten up by white rednecks or converted to fundamentalist Christianity or drafted into the Army or of having your free government money taken away and being forced to actually work for a living by evil, dark-suited capitalists, and they can get away with anything.

[Just another Joe]

It's usually because she's started to look like a cow.

Cows need lovin' too.

[bassmaner]

I assume it's the "forbidden fruit" aspect that, in part, generates so many $$$ for them.

Good point, which applies to all vices that the government attempts to prohibit with guns and badges.

[steve-b]

Is this guy using the same Constitution I'm using?

Yes, but in a way that its softness and absorbency are important features.

[Democratshavenobrains]

Its pretty funny how Morford COMPLETELY IGNORES that the Democrat Party he worships is way more interested in censoring movies and tv and violence than Republicans are. V-chip ring a bell?

[gcruse]

Is this guy using the same Constitution I'm using?

It's sure not the Constitution I swore to uphold and defend.
Social conservatives will have to pry my cold dead hands
off of my...off of my, uh, porn!

[Rodney Dangerfield]

So Morford is against this:

"We have committed significant resources to the Department of Justice to intensify investigative and prosecutorial efforts to combat obscenity, child pornography, and child sexual exploi-ta-tion on the Internet. We are vigorously prosecuting and severely punishing those who would harm our children. Last July, the Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Predator, an initiative to help identify child predators, rescue children depicted in child pornography, and prosecute those responsible for making and distributing child pornography."

[gcruse]

Notice the casual droppiing of 'obscenity' in there along with child porn. Guess who gets to define obscenity? That's right -- the same JBT's who define interstate commerce as you consuming vegetation you grew in your own back yard.

[KC_Conspirator]

Come to think of it, after reading those liberals rags Time and Newsweak for the past couple of years, I would rather have more people reading smut. They probably would make better political decisions.

[presidio9]

Note to Libertarian: Morford columns are neither the time nor the place for your childish philosophizing. All seriousness is suspended in honor of Miss Morford. On second thought, maybe you're come to exactly the right place. Miss Morford and you have a lot in common.

[gcruse]

You may have a point. Morford deserves center stage. Ashcroft is outrageous enough to warrant his own pillory.

[cardinal4]

I can't read Morford without laughing uproariously.

He is out there, isnt he?

[presidio9]

So how about calling truce on her threads then. There is more than enough to talk about anyway. Even Morford is able to give her obsession with drugs a rest from time to time.

[gcruse]

Actually Morf is a decent writer. His hair catches fire occasionally, but he is a much livelier read than Bob Novak and George Will. No truce, though. 'Childish' took care of that. The beam/splinter ratio is too high for armistice. LOL

[WuLiMistress]

"Me thinks he doth protest too much" How amusing to see a man think with his 'other' head.

[Askel5]

=== Guess who gets to define obscenity? That's right -- the same JBT's who


Gee ... I thought for sure it'd be the same Supreme Court who specifically protects faked cyber childsex pornography as it continues pushing the bounds for the pornographers.

Sexual liberation is a political control of vermin who DEMAND to be enslaves to their most base, predictable "instincts".

[steve-b]

Its pretty funny how Morford COMPLETELY IGNORES that the Democrat Party he worships is way more interested in censoring movies and tv and violence than Republicans are. V-chip ring a bell?

Yep. The Clinton Administration had as bad a civil liberties record as any in recent memory.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

BTW, what married man would, ever, pay for porn?

Quite frankly, you'd have to be an idiot to pay for porn whatever your marital status may be. There's plenty porn out there that's quite free for the taking.

[MEGoody]

"How so?"

Porn ruins families by destroying the sense of true intimacy and acceptance between husband and wife. That, of course, will impact the children - kids learn what they see live.

Neighborhoods that have allowed establishments that sell porn, sex toys, etc. and those that have allowed topless 'juice bars' and the like generally attract only more of that same type of business to the area, thus affecting the immediate neighborhood, and ultimately the community at large.

Children are affected as I outlined above. I'm sure you aren't asking how kids are affected by kiddie porn, since that is so obvious, so I won't address that.

[finnman69]

Porn -- the raw yummy sexual kind

As opposed to the asexual kind of porn? Mark is confused on onw of the subjects he thinks he knows best.