The American Spectator

Oldefarte| 6.28.12 @ 10:16PM

With all due respect as usual for Quin's editorial position, I must disagree with his [I think] position regarding television standards today. Even though I'm bored to tears while watching the current situation comedies, I recently observed edisodes of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, TWOAND A HAL MEN AND TWO BROKE GIRLS one evening. The language and sexual ineuendos contained in all were outlandish to me. I was agast that if young children were to be watching same, the questions to parents from observing children would naturally result. Why is this garbage allowed on prime time TV programming? What standards? This garbage is typically injected by these smut-spreading Hollywood jerks to infiltrate home barriers and brainwash vernerable children's minds. How can anyone dismiss this crapola and allow same on network TV to be exposed to yound children? In my opinion, there are no standards. Sexual implications and homosexuality content is propagandized by these Hollywood elements to indoctrinate children and influence them into thinking liberally for political purposes. When I grew up in the fifties and sixties [or the seventies even] there was no such sexual connotations contained in the language or comments of the actors of the TV programs. Again, standards....what standards???????????

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Bob K| 6.29.12 @ 12:49AM

This however is a MANDATE REQUIRING a specific action of everyone for the benefit of everyone and NOT A MANDATE PROHIBITING specific activities for the benefit of everyone.

We are going to find out if the former is easier to accomplish than the latter is.

I have my doubts that it is. We have been unable to stop the use of Marijuana through arrests and in many cases prison sentences. Mao was able to stop Opium use in China only with brutal suppression tactics. The people of the United States passed a Constitutional mandate against the consumption of alcoholic beverages in 1920. It was unenforceable and another Constitutional mandate was passed in 1933 repealing it.

Now the government is going to attempt to require people to do spend their money in a specific way using the coercion of the tax code. It goes against human nature and will not be workable. The only alternative to make it work will be Mao like tactics.

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fmm| 6.29.12 @ 11:40AM

It is a sad day when one has to search deeply to find small examples of a moral society. Smacks of desperation.

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