To: OESY
Well written article. I agree wholeheartedly!
5 posted on
05/04/2005 6:09:23 AM PDT by
Dscott_FR
(Right Wing Extremist and proud of it!!)
To: Dscott_FR
Yes, I agree for the most part, and I don't believe she is attacking Mrs. Bush, just reminding us that there are (or should be) lines of what you say where. To say "Well, it was a group of adults" is to miss the point. Everyone knew it would be broadcast and they knew that the most shocking lines (since most of what passes for comedy in our day must shock for some reason) would be played everywhere. This paragraph is important for people to read and get:
Self-censorship is a conservative value. In a brilliant commencement speech at Hillsdale College last year, Heritage Foundation president Ed Feulner called on his audience to resist the coarsened rhetoric of our time: "If we are to prevail as a free, self-governing people, we must first govern our tongues and our pens. Restoring civility to public discourse is not an option. It is a necessity."
I see so little self censorship anywhere. I am tired of having to listen to truely gutter language any time I go out in public. We have a generation out there now who don't understand much about appropriate behavior in the appropriate place, nor do they understand the difference in a child and an adult. Much as I love them, we have failed to teach them proper behavior.
susie
27 posted on
05/04/2005 6:25:12 AM PDT by
brytlea
(Yes, there are Republican teachers...)
To: Dscott_FR
Well written article. I agree wholeheartedly! You, me and maybe a dozen others on this board. Unfortunately, libertarianism seems to be the predominate fad this year.
220 posted on
05/04/2005 7:53:38 AM PDT by
itsahoot
(If Judge Greer can run America then I guess just about anyone with a spine could do the same.)
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