Censorship in arts 'healthy,' Pat Boone says

washington times ^ | 4 23 04 | Steve Miller

[freepatriot32]

A healthy society needs censorship to survive, 1950s musical icon Pat Boone said yesterday. He added that he would welcome strong content restrictions governing movies and other artistic works. "I don't think censorship is a bad word, but it has become a bad word because everybody associates it with some kind of restriction on liberty," said Mr. Boone, who is in Washington making the rounds as the national spokesman for the 60-Plus Association, a conservative senior citizen lobby.

[freepatriot32]

"I don't think censorship is a bad word, but it has become a bad word because everybody associates it with some kind of restriction on liberty,"

Has pat boone completely lost his freaking mind?

[freepatriot32]

ping

[Blue Screen of Death]

Let's start with his songs.

[johnfrink]

I'm all up for censorship, and first on the choping block is Pat's absurd "heavy metal" album from a few years back.

[cookcounty]

O-o0-0o-o-O. Stirring up a hornet's nest!!!

But, just for argument's sake, name one culture that produced great art that did not also practice some form of censorship. Go ahead, I'm waiting.

[Bluntpoint]

Censor this:

[freepatriot32]

AHHHHHH i changed my mind i love censorship now lets start by outlawing that picture and putting everyone that posted it on theweb in federal prison :-D

[WhiteGuy]

What an anti-American tool this guy is.............................

[lizma]

The libs have equated censorship with not spending public money on offensive garbage. I say let the free market pay for this stuff and most of it would probably disappear.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Censorship in arts 'healthy,' Pat Boone says

You copy/pasted the article title wrong.

The quotes should instead have been around the word 'arts'.

[justanotherday]

Amen.

[Dan from Michigan]

Neal Boortz gets it. Pat Boone is wrong.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Has pat boone completely lost his freaking mind?

Nope. It's our pathetic excuse for American "culture" that has completely lost its freaking mind.

Right on, Pat!

[billorites]

I like Pat Boone.

He makes Jimmy Dean look smart.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Yeah, it's such a shame that freedom of speech is so violently oppressed in this country by the jackbooted thugs who censor the freedom of expression of the child pornographers. (Hey! Child pornographers are people too!!)

But I think our culture is moving in the right direction, don't you? We just got our first bared breast in the middle of family hour on national TV. So things are moving in the right direction, yes?

Every time I go into local grocery stores, I optimistically scan the magazines on the checkout shelves, hoping that at long last that glorious day has arrived when we can gaze longingly at photos of naked models getting it off with farm animals while waiting for our groceries to be scanned. But alas, that day has not yet arrived. Sigh!

Every time I visit the WalMart, I hopefully glance up to see if they are now allowing photos of child-adult sex on the magazine covers. But again, my hopes are always dashed! (And people claim we have a free country? HA!!)

Oh, what a wonderful day that will be when we finally have evolved so far upwards as a culture that we can see all these things and more right in front of our eyes, whichever direction we happen to turn our gaze in, 24 by 7!

Yes!! Let freedom ring! Only when kiddie porn and necrophilic porn and animal sex photos in full glossy poster size are surrounding us all day long, will we finally be able to say that for the very first time in American history the First Amendment's guarantee of Freedom Of Speech has come true!!!

(</sarcasm>)

[freepatriot32]

thats all well and good but if the goverment censors tv to the extent pat wants it to the only station we will have is pbs! have you ever watched pbs? its more boring then c span on a sunday afternoon

[squarebarb]

Here's the problem:

The culture itself used to censor it, with shaming and expressions of revulsion.

Once the government has to do it, something has been lost.

I advocate the return of shame in the culture (i.e. young people realize that such animalistic displays hurt them, hurt thier marriages, hurt thier futures and thier health and their future happiness) but I ain't holding my breath.

[familyofman]

Who cares what Pat Boone has to say about anything besides, maybe, love letters in the sand? This has to be a joke.

[AmishDude]

Censorship: Just do it (May 10, 2002).