[Molly Pitcher]

And this article doesn't even mention last night's Super Bowl half-time "entertainment" and commercials...

[proud American in Canada]

Wow... great article...

And yeah, written before last night's "cr*ptacular," as some other Freeper put it so well.

[Riley]

When I recently moved from one coast to another, I decided not to bother with TV service. I am not enormously offended by the crass language, there just isn't anything worth watching anymore, aside from a few of the premium channels.

I refuse to pay for the rest of the nonsense to get them.

[SerpentDove]

This is the first I heard of GWB dropping the F-bomb o Talk magazine. Not that it didn't happen--but I am skeptical, because if it did, why haven't the Democrats made a bigger deal out of it, even if just to defend their own?

[eiffel]

On the other hand, I've heard there were very little problems with obscenity in Afghanistan under the Taliban.

[headsonpikes]

Solution?

First, ******* kill your ********** ****** TV ****** set!

It's a start, anyway.

[kayak]

Some words our society needs to take seriously ...

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy - meditate on these things. ~ Philippians 4:8

[LibWhacker]

Those were the days. Forty-four years later, vulgarity is well on its way to becoming a television mainstay.

Hate to think where we're going to be in another 44 years. Hollywood and the left will never stop trying to lower the bar on what is seen as acceptable primetime entertainment. So I expect, if things continue the way they're going, 44 years from now they'll be trying to offend mainstream Christians -- for whom they hold a special hatred -- with unimaginably nauseating acts of depravity, all available for viewing by young and old alike, throughout the day on a million different channels.

[narby]

(in 1999) George W. Bush to Talk magazine: "They think it's like a high school election. . . . They've lost their f---ing minds."

I hadn't heard about this before.

I'm one of the first to criticize the left. But I really hate it when our side becomes the hypocrite and criticizes John F'ing Kerry when Bush was the first to break into the F word in print.

There's been another recent glaring hypocracy from our side, but I can't think of it now.

The worst thing is, the hypocrite looses his right to moral outrage when they point out Kerry's words, but leave out Bush's.

Let's criticize the left, heavy and often. But if we're guilty of the same offense, then cut it out.

[Viking2002]

Hey, under certain circumstances, I can swear with the best of them; so much so, I tend to parallel Darren McGavin's character in 'A Christmas Story': I can invent profanity on-the-fly. LOL But throwing it around for simple shock value - on national television - is beyond the pale. It has nothing to do with free speech - it's anarchistic self-gratification at the expense of the cultural baseline.

[squidly]

When curse words obtain common usage, and lose their shock value, are they even curse words any longer? I'm not sure that they are.

Seems to me that we're adopting a new batch of curse, or taboo words, such as the N word, the C word, etc. See, I couldn't even type them there!

[wbill]

And (in 1999) George W. Bush to Talk magazine: "They think it's like a high school election. . . . They've lost their f---ing minds."

Did I miss this? Or is the author just making it up? The reason I ask is because this sounds out-of-character for him.

[DMZFrank]

I used to think how silly all those people were who said Elvis shaking his hips on Ed Sullivan would eventually lead us here. I guess they were right after all.

[Mr. Jeeves]

It's been going on for a long time, but the slope got noticeably steeper in 1993. With one of "their kind" in the Oval Office, the Hollywood Vulgarians felt it was safe to push the envelope.

[hosepipe]

Hi Mol;
The frequencies(TV,radio) belong to the people. Whoever is running the FCC is at fault.. With a republican Prez and Congress should be no problem.. Sounds like time for an UGH!.. "meeting" with the Prez(and congress's majority leaders)and the FCC officials...
over whos JOB is at stake...