[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.

[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'.

[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>)

[familyofman]

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

[cyborg]

So... Pat when can we expect your apology for covering all of Little Richard's songs waaaaay back when? Anytime soon?

[ShadowDancer]

Personally, I think I know where he's coming from. However, this statement is a serious contradiction of ideas:

"It must be majority approved ... voluntary ... and self-imposed," he said

It is either going to be majorally approved by law or self-imposed. It can't be both.

[Nowhere Man]

I don't have much of a problem with some censorship if it is well defined, I mean it is written down and well known what the boundaries are, what the "seven dirty words" are and so forth, none of the "if I saw it I know it" deal. I can see it in free radio and TV, less so for cable channels. As I see what's going on, I'm becoming more and more for some form of it in that arena, I think it is showing how far we are becoming. Other such events again less so because you can choose not to go to the exhibit, museum, and so on. I know I'll be 38 in July, and yes, I kind of like Pat Boone and he does have some good things to say. He was a "born again Christian" even before the term became popular (was it around in the 1950's, I remember hearing it in the 1970's). I do see the other side's point though where it could extend to politics so yeah, we do have to be careful here and make sure the metes and bounds of such censorship stays out of politics and able to criticize our politicians, the system and so on.

[Biblebelter]

We have censorship. Tape and watch the three broadcast news shows one night. Then read the newspapers and the internet. What was put on the networks represents a form of censorship.

[Tom Bombadil]

Has pat boone completely lost his freaking mind?

Even a liberal like Pete Seeger once said that we do need censorship........ that there were things children shouldn't see or come into contact with.

The worst kind of censorship is being excercized by many public librarians with a liberal mind-set......They make "limited resource" decisions all of the time, and tilt things decidedly away from conservative or even what would be considered "wholesome" written material. Any attempt to hold them to account for thier decisions is labeled as censoship in itself.

And public librarians are GOVERNMENT employees.

[DLfromthedesert]

I saw him on Hannity and Colmes criticizing Howard Stern and was talking in detail about all the disgusting things Stern said about women, minorities, etc.

Why was he spending so much time listening to this show he wants banned?

[RightWingAtheist]

The best I can say about Pat Boone is that he didn't ruin "Journey to the Centre of the Earth," and he shows a good sense of humor about himself. Unfortunately, he's to rock and roll what Kenny G is to jazz.

[nopardons]

Unlike you,no,his mind is clear and works.