Posted on 01/11/2004 6:13:51 AM PST by conservativefromGa
You are not even emotionally capable of having a levelheaded debate. Take you wus comment and stick it!
LOL... I carefully said If you are implying it - dont be a wus - come out and say it! --- Why don't you read more carefully? I said IF -- If you were not implying that I was for obscenity, then I did not call you a wus.
I read your post a couple times and it could be taken a couple of ways, that is why I asked what you intended. I thought it was a levelheaded thing to do.
It is just a matter of time for broadcast tv to catch up with some of the stuff of cable, yea its not the best thing in the world, but its not the worst. I just think politicians grabbing headlines are a worse problem.
We get all the movie channels on cable, and it seams all we watch is Forensic Files... and South Park!
Thanks for the kind words.
No place to tie up the whips and chains...
I am not saying there should not be any standards, just that I have a distrust for those wishing to run out and set new standards...
Then use the remote, Doug. If enough people don't watch it, it won't be on there since the market won't be there for it.
And there's always VCR's and the latest tech now that can prescreen as another safeguard.
And I trust them much more than I trust big intrusive government, which isn't smart enough, or trustworthy enough to handle this.
No place to tie up the whips and chains...
... park bench?
I am not saying there should not be any standards, just that I have a distrust for those wishing to run out and set new standards...
Yes, there should be standards and yes we should distrust those who would set the standard but no, setting standards about obscenities in public places is nothing new.
For years, the FCC regulated obscenity standards on TV. Now, better than unelected FCC commission members regulating obscenity standards on TV which was a terrible idea, we have our elected representatives potentially voting on standards for public obscenity on TV. And this is nothing new. Back when the Constitution was signed, 12 of 13 states had laws regulating public obscenities.
If you one wants to see obscenities, then one should partake in such not on the public airwaves but instead on cable, or DVD or whatever is not public property.
LOL... I carefully said If you are implying it - dont be a wus - come out and say it! --- Why don't you read more carefully? I said IF -- If you were not implying that I was for obscenity, then I did not call you a wus.
I know you said if.
But, since you used the impersonal "you" in your sentence and I took no personal meaning from it don't you think that chances are I was doing the same. And even if there was a small chance that I wasn't, don't you think the best thing to do is ask without an if-then insult waiting in the wings or are you (some insult)?
See what I mean? ;)
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