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Obama seeks to keep nudity / profanity from TV

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What people are missing is it's not Charlottes Ross' well formed behind that people bitch about but Dennis Franz fat ass....
The scene you remember involved Sharon Lawrence's most admirable posterior; Charlotte Ross was solo in her scene, save for young Theo.
 
No offenee, but that makes no sense.
http://news.cnet.com/Why-the-FCC-should-die/2010-1028_3-5226979.html
I bet you didn't even read Radiofree Rothbard🙂
I've worked radio maintenance and avionics maintenance for almost four decades, and also hold an amateur radio license. I daresay I know more of the RF spectrum and its uses than you know of your own nether regions. Considering the problems that even legitimately licensed devices can cause out of spectrum, your contention that there is no need of regulation thereof is pathetically simplistic.
 
It isn't just the democrats. Do you really think if a republican was president it would be any different? It's all politicians.

The difference is that everyone knows Republicans are uptight assholes. Democrats, especially in this forum, are vaunted as defenders of all that is good in the world. So it's especially enjoyable to me when the Democrat variety of hypocrite proves themselves to be the same exact uptight assholes they accuse the other team of being.
 
The difference is that everyone knows Republicans are uptight assholes. Democrats, especially in this forum, are vaunted as defenders of all that is good in the world. So it's especially enjoyable to me when the Democrat variety of hypocrite proves themselves to be the same exact uptight assholes they accuse the other team of being.

The issue has nothing to do with being uptight. it has to do with respecting the rights of parents to decide what their children are exposed to.

Which is consistent with Democratic principles of defending the rights of people.
 
The issue has nothing to do with being uptight. it has to do with respecting the rights of parents to decide what their children are exposed to.

Which is consistent with Democratic principles of defending the rights of people.

Bullshit.
 
The issue has nothing to do with being uptight. it has to do with respecting the rights of parents to decide what their children are exposed to.

Which is consistent with Democratic principles of defending the rights of people.

Are you serious? Parents were perfectly fine with their children watching a TV show involving things like crime, drugs, profanity and violence, but are suddenly unable to deal with some side-boob?

It's called "Change the channel if you don't like it, morons."
 
I guess those people who couldn't program a VCR in the day had children who can't program a TV/Cable system today to prevent their children from accessing what they find to be offensive or not age appropriate.
 
I guess those people who couldn't program a VCR in the day had children who can't program a TV/Cable system today to prevent their children from accessing what they find to be offensive or not age appropriate.

In the grand scheme of their lives its easier to have Uncle Sam take care of all their problems.
See Also: Public education.
 
I love how in America violence is everywhere on TV and widely accepted while anything sexual is horrible!!! HORRIBLE!!!!!

ive been saying that for years. TV showing people shot stabbed, strangled, raped, dismemberment, beaten, hung, blown up, burned alive, run over, crushed, decapitated is perfectly fine but show a nipple and all hell breaks lose.
 
ive been saying that for years. TV showing people shot stabbed, strangled, raped, dismemberment, beaten, hung, blown up, burned alive, run over, crushed, decapitated is perfectly fine but show a nipple and all hell breaks lose.


It's called "family values". You get married, have kids, sex life goes down the tubes, and there's lots of fighting.
 
It's called "family values". You get married, have kids, sex life goes down the tubes, and there's lots of fighting.

I think it has more to do with the bible. Somehow Christians and Jews got the idea that violence is perfectly acceptable while sex is evil.
Christians and Jews have WAAAYYYYY too much influence on American government.
 
Lol at the people in this thread that think this is just a Democratic side of the issue. You think your religious Republican fundamental idiots wouldn't do this exact same thing or worse?
 
Lol at the people in this thread that think this is just a Democratic side of the issue. You think your religious Republican fundamental idiots wouldn't do this exact same thing or worse?

You must be at least this smart |___________________| to post in P&N.

Sorry buddy, you'll have to go elsewhere.
 
You must be at least this smart |___________________| to post in P&N.

Sorry buddy, you'll have to go elsewhere.

That's funny because what I'm saying uses LOGIC.

EDIT: Also, so you think only the Dems would fight to get nudity off of TV? Is that what you're saying?
 
I love how in America violence is everywhere on TV and widely accepted while anything sexual is horrible!!! HORRIBLE!!!!!

China is the same way... except if it's art and not on TV or is a sex toy in a drug store.

It's actually pretty interesting to watch an "edited" movie/show - blood, guts, violence, swearing, etc are not edited out. But anything showing any part of the female or male anatomy is blurred [ie: motel sex scene in the movie Sideways] or is edited out [Spartacus: Blood and Sand nudity or sexual references are edited out].

I would think violence and profanity would actually be more harmful than nudity...
 
That's funny because what I'm saying uses LOGIC.

EDIT: Also, so you think only the Dems would fight to get nudity off of TV? Is that what you're saying?

Nobody in this thread ever said Republicans wouldn't do the same thing.

What everybody has said is that Democrats are uptight prudish assholes, just like Republicans.
 
What we really need is public service spots telling the kids that there is no such thing as Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, or the Easter Bunny.

I hope you're being sarcastic.

What we need is for parents to do some God damned parenting and stop relying on someone else to do it for them. Don't want your kids to have childhood beliefs? Don't let them. Don't want your kids to watch stupid sitcoms and soap operas? Don't let them.

I would much rather have parents be responsible for not allowing their kids to watch things that they don't approve of than to make content providers responsible for not offending anyone with their content.
 
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🙂 love it ^ ^ That's my profile picture.

Is the current rating system not enough? Parents should be parenting and they should not let their kids watch anything with a TV-MA rating. No need for further regulation.

I do think it's hilarious that these days you can say almost anything on tv except for things like Jesus, the F word, and the C word. I think almost anything else is fair game.
 
I think it has more to do with the bible. Somehow Christians and Jews got the idea that violence is perfectly acceptable while sex is evil.
Christians and Jews have WAAAYYYYY too much influence on American government.


There are plenty of other countries that aren't even religious, but are just as uptight about sex. Likewise, there are Christian countries that are much more liberal on the issue. In Italy the most popular TV show for years was an amateur strip tease contest. Personally, I'd watch that over American Idol anytime.
 
The issue has nothing to do with being uptight. it has to do with respecting the rights of parents to decide what their children are exposed to.

Which is consistent with Democratic principles of defending the rights of people.

A quick internet search shows that NYPD Blue is rating TV-MA.

If parents are concerned with the content their children see, they should pay attention to the rating. It even shows a sub-rating of why it received that rating (violence, sex, etc).

Seriously...if a parent sees that a show is rated TV-MA and lets their kid watch it anyway...they forfeit all right to whine about the content. They are clearly unintelligent and/or hypocritical.
 
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