Posted on 06/17/2022 4:30:48 AM PDT by Macky Cracklins
A record percentage of Americans rate U.S. moral values as ‘poor,’ a Gallup poll released on Wednesday found.
Gallup has been tracking Americans’ view of U.S. morals for the past two decades and noted that while negative views have been the “norm,” the current 50 percent poor rating is the highest on record by one percentage point. Thirty-seven percent of those polled say U.S. morals are “only fair.” Only one percent say the state of moral values is “excellent,” and 12 percent say “good.”
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Part of the problem is that we can no longer give reasonable conservative opinions on moral issues. For example, I couldn’t care less if some guy wants to dress up as a drag queen in his own house, or at some club.
But I don’t want to see him dressed that way while reading stories to children. But should I express that opinion in public, I’d be denounced as a hater and shouted down.
I would go back to JFK. Drunken, pill popping, sexual predator.
The press loved him and covered up the theft of the 1960 election.
This was the same time we embraced TV and let trash into our homes. We became comfortable with sin.
Probably a coincidence, but the advent of radio and passive consumption of information happened about the same time the US government gave up control of money (Federal reserve), federal income tax was implemented, and assorted other fatal elements were inserted into existence. Woodrow Wilson is the modern grandfather of globalism.
The myth of objective, watchdog press originated Around the same time. Walter Lippman.
It was only a few decades later that SCOTUS gave the federal government near total power, with a string of “New Deal” cases effectively removing all the “limited government” barriers in Article I of the constitution.
At this point it all a house of cards. The government is 100% intellectually dishonest, ethically corrupt, and the biggest threat to the public. Fairly common trajectory for governments, looking at history.
Thanks for that message about wacky drag queens being foisted upon us in public. Who cares if they want to dress up in their homes? It is when we are all having our senses assaulted by their wierd behavior that it gets annoying. You are correct - if we say anything negative about them, we are stigmatized as haters.
Socialist entitlement programs are immoral at their very core. “Thou shall not COVET thy neighbors stuff.”
That being said, it is also immoral not to help the poor or truly needy when you have an abundance. The Good Book makes reference to Widows and Orphans. Why? Because they have little or no ability to take care of themselves. Adult males should work. “If yee do not work, yee shall not eat.” Before LBJ’s Great Society, local charities and neighbors would help the needy. If Joe was in the hospital, people would help Joe and his family out. If Joe got out and was just was being a grifting lazy bum, locals would know and cut him off. But with big, detached government programs, that check of abusers of other’s charity is not there.
NFN but Elvis had that wobbly leg thing going plenty early...to the point where he and his band had to accept being shot from the waist up (which only caused audience interest to shoot even higher).
Elvis from the Waist Up
April 13, 2009 by Lisa Waller Rogers
In my two previous posts, “Elvis the Pelvis” and “Elvis: Too Sexy for His Shirt,” I wrote about Elvis Presley and the TV appearances that made him a star. His hip-gyrating performance of “Hound Dog” on NBC’s June 5, 1956, “The Milton Berle Show,” created a huge new fan base and a storm of controversy. Moral crusaders tried to keep him off the air. Critics in the press labeled his performances “vulgar” and “obscene.” Elvis was dubbed, “Elvis the Pelvis.” Top-rated TV host Ed Sullivan vowed, “I wouldn’t have Presley on my show at any time,” as he considered Elvis unsuitable for family viewing.
In a New York radio interview, Elvis said, in his defense,
“Rock and roll music, if you like it, and you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I have to move around. I can’t stand still. I’ve tried it, and I can’t do it.”
As they say in show business, all publicity is good publicity. The Berle show drew such high ratings that comedian Steve Allen, not a fan of rock ‘n’ roll, rushed to book Elvis for “The Steve Allen Show” for July 1, 1956. “The Steve Allen Show” ran on NBC opposite its chief rival, “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Sunday nights. It was Steve’s aim to defeat Ed in the TV ratings game.
Steve wasn’t about to let Elvis strut suggestively on his program. He decided to introduce a “new Elvis,” one the whole family could love. He costumed Elvis in a top hat and tails and had him sing “Hound Dog” to a basset hound. With its sad eyes and droopy ears, the hound dog severely upstaged Elvis who was reduced to minimal movement.
Elvis was reportedly angry with his treatment on Steve’s show, but the ratings were phenomenal. Elvis’ manager, the ruthless Colonel Tom Parker, was able to sign Elvis for three engagements on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Ed offered Elvis the unprecedented amount of $50,000 for the three shows.
Ed Sullivan was asked to explain why he’d reversed his opinion of Elvis:
“What I said then was off the reports I’d heard. I hadn’t even seen the guy. Seeing the kinescopes, I don’t know what the fuss was all about. For instance, the business about rubbing the thighs. He rubbed one hand on his hip to dry off the perspiration from playing his guitar.”
Presley’s first Ed Sullivan appearance (September 9, 1956) was seen by some 55–60 million viewers, one out of every three Americans. On the third Sullivan show on January 6, 1957, Elvis sang only slow paced ballads and a gospel song. Nevertheless, for the first time, Elvis was shown to the television audience only ‘from the waist up.’ The conventional wisdom has been that Elvis was “cropped” at the request of TV host Sullivan to please network censors by hiding Elvis’ hip movements. However, this was Elvis’ third appearance on the show and Elvis’ first two appearances hadn’t been censored. He had been shown full-bodied both times before. It is more likely that Elvis’ notoriously greedy manager, Colonel Tom Parker, and not network censors or Ed Sullivan, who ordered that Elvis be shot from the waist up to generate publicity.
In spite of any misgivings about the controversial nature of his performing style, Ed Sullivan declared at the end of the third appearance that Presley was “a real decent, fine boy” and that they had never had “a pleasanter experience” on the show.
Below is a clip from Elvis’ 3rd appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” January 6, 1957, – the official “Waist-Up Appearance” in which Elvis sings, “Too Much.” One biographer has suggested that Elvis’ spangled vest, heavily made-up eyes, and hair falling in his face made Elvis resemble the smoldering silent film idol Rudolph Valentino as he appeared in “The Sheik.” What do you think?
Whew! Waist-up or full-bodied, Elvis proves he’s got what it takes.
If Elvis really did want to dress up like Valentino in “The Sheik,” then, in 1965, he got his wish when he was cast as Johnny Tyronne in his nineteenth movie, “Harum Scarum.” Elvis’ wife, Priscilla Presley, recalls in her memoirs that Elvis liked the exotic Arab costumes so much that, after wrapping up filming for the day, Elvis wore his full make-up and costumes home from the movie set.
The term “Rock ‘n Roll” itself was a thinly veiled euphemism for the marital act. Neither Elvis nor seemingly anyone among his leaps-and-bounds growing throngs of caucasian fans seem to have stopped to consider where this was all going, even as the very name of the genre gave up the goods on where it was coming from.
Given the high levels of cultural poison being continuously pumped out by Hollywood, the media moguls, and politicians, it’s surprising the country has any morals at all. But, that’s the way the elite want it to be because that just spreads chaos and confusion, and they are able to seize more and more power and wealth.
How about I add my vote in the “no morals at all, bad is good” category.
The violence and brutality WWII, as it ground on, tore the chests out of a generation of men in this country, hollowing out their morality and sapping them of the strength of mind needed to convey to their children even what little remained of the faith conveyed to them by their own parents.
I’m going with DISMAL - we passed poor a long time ago it’s a free for all 🤪
1962 was also the start of LBJ's 'Great Society' - destroying the black family buy tossing black fathers out of the home, and of destroying stable black communities with 'urban renewal'... A pox on LBJ - a man many said was a KKK member in his 20's and 30's...
1962 was also the start of LBJ's 'Great Society' - destroying the black family buy tossing black fathers out of the home, and of destroying stable black communities with 'urban renewal'... A pox on LBJ - a man many said was a KKK member in his 20's and 30's... and a man who tossed us into a war he wasn't willing to win - a war that chewed up and spit out American soldiers.
1962 was also the start of LBJ's 'Great Society' - destroying the black family by tossing black fathers out of the home, and destroying stable black communities with 'urban renewal'...
A pox on LBJ - a man many said was a KKK member in his 20's and 30's... and a man who threw us into a war he wasn't willing to win - a war that chewed up and spit out American soldiers.
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