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Sen. Obama Warns TV to Clean Up or Congress Will Act
TVWeek ^ | 11/09/05 | Doug Halonen

Posted on 11/09/2005 5:36:21 PM PST by Pikamax

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To: Indy Pendance

Quite a stretch from I don't like the trash on TV to I hope Hillary becomes president. A little logic would help in this discussion.


141 posted on 11/09/2005 6:49:31 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: wedwo

Did they ever find out who shot JR?


142 posted on 11/09/2005 6:50:01 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Pikamax

Why don't you liberals focus on what you are doing to our kids in public schools. They learn more about how to have sex in school than on TV, where we can control what they see.


143 posted on 11/09/2005 6:50:19 PM PST by Brimack34
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To: Indy Pendance

You mean you missed that episode!! Everyone knows it was Bush.. i mean really?!


144 posted on 11/09/2005 6:51:44 PM PST by wedwo
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To: xzins

A lot of big government types on this thread. Very revealing.


145 posted on 11/09/2005 6:51:47 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: mlc9852
You allow your kids to go on the Internet alone when you aren't there to watch them?

Well, I can't always be there, you know. What if they get on the internet at a friend's house? I can't monitor them 24/7. But our friendly Big Brother Government can!
146 posted on 11/09/2005 6:54:15 PM PST by UncleDick
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To: Pikamax
"The real motive is the Dems trying to set themselves up as the family values party with Obama as the mouthpiece."

No more phone calls.................we have a winner.

147 posted on 11/09/2005 6:54:42 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: UncleDick

I agree!


148 posted on 11/09/2005 6:54:51 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: At a Later Date
But I DO want accountability in the entertainment industry. How do we do that?

By not buying. Duh.

149 posted on 11/09/2005 6:55:56 PM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: Pikamax

I guess Obama's solution will be more partial-birth abortions to keep there from being parents in the first place to have to deal with this.


150 posted on 11/09/2005 6:56:08 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: At a Later Date

If you'd read the thread, you'd have known my kids are 23, 22, and 19. I censored my kids, I didn't depend upon the government to do it. I know my kids better than they do. My oldest is a med student, and I allowed her to watch stuff that I wouldn't let the others watch. My middle is a soldier in Iraq protecting our freedoms. My youngest is still figuring it out. The solution it to get rid of the tv. If enough did, the marketeers would have to rethink their programming options.


151 posted on 11/09/2005 6:56:10 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: mlc9852

Hmmmm......a childish remark. Why am I not surprised?


152 posted on 11/09/2005 6:56:12 PM PST by asp1
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To: mlc9852

You really can't connect the concept. Stick around, you might learn stuff.


153 posted on 11/09/2005 6:56:57 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance
So, you want the government to decide what you should watch. How about the governemnt deciding what you should wear, or what you should read or what you can purchase? Let's not let the parents decide, they're too stupid.




Yeah. I knew I'd get some of this, I just wish the disagreement was a little more on target, a little less attack -mode. Oh well.

No, I obviously don't want the things you suggest. I just want the PUBLIC stations that use the PUBLIC airways to be less agenda driven with what they put out there for public consumption. If you want the porn/violence/gay agenda/liberal agenda/etc, that is fine, just don't put it on TV during what used to be called the 'family hour'. Watching Will & Grace, which is a very funny show, slowly dull the senses of American regarding a dangerous life style concerns me. Watching every member of "Friends" sleep with everyone else and push the idea that it is not only OK, but expected, concerns me for my 17 year old daughter and her friends. Sex in the City is a pay-channel show and all I'm suggesting is that the major, free and public networks not compete in that market.

Yes I can turn it off. Yes I can monitor what my kids watch. No I don't have cable or sat. But why am I having to protect my self and my kids from TV that my government supports by allowing them to use the public airways?
154 posted on 11/09/2005 6:57:07 PM PST by mad puppy ( The Southern border needs to be a MAJOR issue in 2006 and 2008)
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To: Indy Pendance

TV is such a wasteland....it's too easy to turn it off.

I'm not in favor of tinkering toward some hypothetical language that's going to define what we want to see and what we don't want to see.

It's easier to allow choice than it is to police every little scene and parse every little word.


155 posted on 11/09/2005 6:57:48 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: wedwo

Well duh, I'll bet Rove masterminded it. Thanks, it's been a burning question for 20 years.


156 posted on 11/09/2005 6:58:06 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance
No one is forcing you to own a television. It's that simple.

That's besides the point.

That's like saying people can perform sex acts on the village green at high noon and if you don't like seeing that or if you don't like your children seeing that then you shouldn't be on the village green at high noon.

157 posted on 11/09/2005 6:59:28 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: asp1

How perceptive of you. I'm impressed.


158 posted on 11/09/2005 7:00:04 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: mlc9852
Why do we have an FCC?

For the same reason we have a BATF -- government has gotten too big for its britches.

159 posted on 11/09/2005 7:00:10 PM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: mad puppy
Ahhh, well, this parent of 5 rather agrees with him. We might argue about the methods, but the principle is right.

You did know you were going to take heat for suggesting that the gov't has any role to play in this at all, right? Anyway, I am with you. The issue is not censorship, but the ability to selectively control what comes into your home. Using a on/off button is not selective and there should be better options.

160 posted on 11/09/2005 7:00:28 PM PST by Northern Alliance
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