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Jake Tapper Draws Tipper Gore Reality Check on Prince's Passing
NewsBusters ^ | April 24, 2016 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 04/24/2016 10:04:51 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

The most entertaining part of CNN's State Of The Union is often the tail end when host Jake Tapper presents cartoons he has drawn to illustrate stories in the news. And today he did not disappoint with an interesting angle on the death of Prince, namely the Tipper Gore connection. He reminded us via illustrations that Tipper Gore's once notorious Parents Music Research Center came about in reaction to Tipper and her daughter listening to a Prince album. 

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: darlingnikki; jaketapper; music; prince; purplerain; tippergore
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After Tipper Gore because the punchline for jokes by hipsters, Al & Tipper tried to give themselves a hip image by pretending they were Deadheads.
1 posted on 04/24/2016 10:04:51 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

There’s a song by Warrant that’s an ode to Tipper :)

cant print it here.


2 posted on 04/24/2016 10:10:22 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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Denver, Zappa, and Snyder destroyed those congressfools wives in front of a committee.


3 posted on 04/24/2016 10:11:14 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,)
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No. There Are NO DEADHEADS NAMED TIPPER!!! NEEEEVAH!!!!!


4 posted on 04/24/2016 10:13:59 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Off the NWO)
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5 posted on 04/24/2016 10:15:21 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hey Ted, why are you taking one for the RNC/GOPe team, and not ours? Not that we don't know.)
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I think we should leave Tipper alone. She was trying to protect the children with her stand against raunchy lyrics. Didn’t read the article.


6 posted on 04/24/2016 10:23:35 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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She was an idiot. A statist idiot. An inconsistent entitled statist idiot. She wasn’t trying to protect her kids, she was looking for power and the spotlight.
Old crone.


7 posted on 04/24/2016 10:53:38 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,)
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Yep.


8 posted on 04/24/2016 10:54:27 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PJ-Comix

Seems like so long ago, when even Democrats at least gave lip service to the concerns of social conservatives.


9 posted on 04/24/2016 10:55:43 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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People liked making fun of Tipper’s cause, but in many ways she was right. At very least, you need labels to judge the potential filth content. But for a few exceptions, yesterday’s scandalous music is pretty mild compared to the fluent profanity and overt sexualization that grade schoolers are exposed to online day in, day out.

People also laughed at Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign against drug abuse. She was shining a light on a big problem and offering the simplest solution available to each one of us.


10 posted on 04/24/2016 11:05:34 AM PDT by lee martell
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She was as interested in morality as Algore is interested in glorebull warming now. All for the show and the dough. Hillary had Hillarycare! she needed an issue of her own. Gack, I just threw up a little in my mouth.


11 posted on 04/24/2016 11:09:15 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Off the NWO)
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I dunno, I think this was back in the 2 Live Crew day, and things were getting very very raunchy. The ground was also being established that blacks could use the “n” word but whites could not.


12 posted on 04/24/2016 11:10:44 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Off the NWO)
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I think we should leave Tipper alone. She was trying to protect the children with her stand against raunchy lyrics.

Well I hope she got some royalties for her efforts. She did more than anybody else to increase the proliferation of raunchy and obscene lyrics in popular music.

It's true. Many recording artists would gratuitously insert obscene lyrics into their recordings to earn the coveted PMRC sticker. For it would often double or triple their record sales.

For the same reason, most film makers put in the obligatory violent scene or profanity so that they can avoid the dreaded "G" rating - which is the kiss of death for any film not made by Disney.


13 posted on 04/24/2016 11:14:39 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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I pretty much agree with you. Yeah, it backfired but that’s often what happens.

Lot begged the men in Sodom not to continue, but they pressed greatly upon the door.


14 posted on 04/24/2016 11:29:24 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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Yes, because we all know it’s the job of the second lady (and the wife of a sexual predator) to tell us plebes what music we can listen to.


15 posted on 04/24/2016 11:32:14 AM PDT by GunRunner
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Agreed.


16 posted on 04/24/2016 11:33:13 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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I saw Dee Snyder in an interview a few years ago. He said, “Thirty years later, my marriage survives and none of my kids were busted for drugs ...”


17 posted on 04/24/2016 11:39:12 AM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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I have always found it telling that it was a Democrat who tried to control their decadent music, yet the libertines of the Democrat party never pointed that out. If a Republican Second Lady had done so, then the media onslaught upon all Republicans for the perceived transgression of but one would have been swift and hard.


18 posted on 04/24/2016 4:27:06 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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Are you really comparing Tipper to Nancy Reagan? What a crock...


19 posted on 04/24/2016 4:49:04 PM PDT by sam_whiskey (Peace through Strength)
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To: PJ-Comix; dp0622; DesertRhino; DIRTYSECRET; dfwgator; RegulatorCountry

Tapper spent national airtime on what would otherwise be a footnote to Prince’s life because it matters today. And his “lesson” is about social conservatism (which was the position taken by Tipper Gore back then on this issue), and the “moral of the story” is how Bible-believing Christians/social conservatives get all upset about what proves to be “nothing” in the course of time. This “moral” is then to be applied to the culture war battles going on today.

Looking at the lyrics of just some on the songs on the Filthy Fifteen,” they were and are antichristian. So it isn’t as NewsBusters says, “It was a brutal chapter in the culture wars at the time, though in retrospect both the controversial songs and the warning label sticker may seem like not that big a deal thirty years later.”


20 posted on 04/26/2016 12:08:58 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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