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Why Conservatives Should Watch More MTV
New Boston Post ^ | Friday, September 1, 2017 | James P. Freeman

Posted on 09/06/2017 4:47:01 PM PDT by SonofCuchulainn

Twenty-five years ago, when MTV played mostly videos, defeated presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan delivered his “Culture War” speech before the Republican National Convention on August 17 at the Houston Astrodome, where he feared for the “soul of America.” Twenty-five years later, when conservatives have ceded all control of the culture war to the Left, MTV’s Video Music Awards (VMAs, itself a bizarre oxymoron for an outlet that plays no videos) is now a forum about politics and the course of the country. Conservatives should watch more MTV. Take heed Buchanan’s observations. And fight back. ...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservative; culture; mtv; politics
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To: Sybeck1

I remember watching a lot of Liquid Television and 120 Minutes.


21 posted on 09/06/2017 5:56:20 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Me too. I stopped watching it so long ago when they changed.
Now it’s the pregnant teen channel.


22 posted on 09/06/2017 7:04:16 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Texas Fossil

Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin along on your livinroom floor

I am the slime from your video
Cant stop the slime, people, lookit me go


23 posted on 09/06/2017 7:39:17 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

My wife watches TV.

I have not for many years unless she calls me to view a portion of a program.

I haven’t subscribed to a newspaper in at least 15 years.

All my news comes from the Web, it is a huge time sink, but it actually works. (for now)


24 posted on 09/06/2017 7:42:49 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: SonofCuchulainn

Why would anyone with an IQ above 40 watch MTV???


25 posted on 09/06/2017 11:39:48 PM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: SonofCuchulainn

MTV switched from music videos to propaganda soap opera/docudrama type programing very quickly between about 1992 and 1995.


26 posted on 09/07/2017 9:45:52 AM PDT by WatchungEagle
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To: SonofCuchulainn

Yes Kill WHITEY, KILL COPS, Women are Hos, rob, kill, wear your pants around your knees. hahaha


27 posted on 09/07/2017 4:41:27 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (---->VMFA 235 '69 -'72 KMCAS <--- F4 PHANTOM... FLYING BRICK)
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