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| Steve Allen Slams Dirty Humor (in last interview before his death) |
| ``All he (Stern) does is talk dirty, like some emotionally disturbed 14-year-old, asking women to pull up their dresses and all that garbage stuff. That is now the way to be successful,'' Allen added disdainfully. Yahoo News |
| Bill Johnson comments |
When a society becomes more protective of its freedom to self-pleasure in filth than it is to STAND UP FOR its standards of decency for the sake of its children and the concomitant moral vitality of its people, that society is dooming itself to years of hellish self-inflicted degradation and the ultimate destruction of morality and public civility.
The Howard Sterns are paving the way to barbarism. It's difficult raising kids today. How will you raise children when Stern's standards become normative? |
| Propaganda for every perversion and obscenity imaginable. |
... What America increasingly produces and distributes is now propaganda for every perversion and obscenity imaginable. If many of us accept the assumptions on which that is based, and apparently many do, then we are well on our way to an obscene culture. ... Unless there is vigorous counterattack, which must, I think, resort to legal as well as moral sanctions, the prospects are for a chaotic and unhappy society, followed perhaps by an authoritarian and unhappy society.
The question is whether we are really content to accept that.
Robert H. Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah |
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| Can it be that only uplifting reading affects character and the most degrading reading has no effects whatever? |
"Can there be any doubt that as pornography and depictions of violence become increasingly popular and increasingly accessible, attitudes about marriage, fidelity, divorce, obligations to children, the use of force, and permissible public behavior and language will change? Or that with the changes in attitudes will come changes in conduct, both public and private? We have seen those changes already and they are continuing. Advocates of liberal arts education assure us that those studies improve character. Can it be that only uplifting reading affects character and the most degrading reading has no effects whatever? 'Don't buy it' and 'change the channel,' however intended, are effectively advice to accept a degenerating culture and its consequences."
Robert H. Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah |
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| The real threat to the public? |
The real threat to the republic is not what might happen to the 'artistic rights' of a few lightweights passing by, but what is happening to a society grown dangerously out of touch with its own standards and values. To a people being relentlessly and systematically desensitized to almost every form of degenerate behavior. A people being beguiled, in the name of 'freedom' to accept that degeneracy as 'the price we have to pay.' Pardon me, but no, it isn't. The premise is wrong, not because the price is too high, although it is. The premise is wrong because giving in to the lowest common denominator is not what freedom is all about. Freedom within a social order is not just about 'doing and saying whatever I please,' it is also about responsibilities and obligations to the common welfare. It is not about seeing how much sewage a people must wade through before they sink under the weight of their own depravities; it is, in fact, just the opposite of that. It is about being 'free' from those things. And - follow closely now - exercising our right not to put up with them, which is more than just a legal consideration.
John Underwood, former senior editor and writer for Sports Illustrated, and a former reporter for the Miami Herald, 1990. |
| Stern fans comments disingenuous |
'"If it offends you, don't buy it (or listen to it)' -- is both lulling and destructive. Whether you buy it or not, you will be greatly affected by those who do. The aesthetic and moral environment in which you and your family live will be coarsened and degraded."
Robert H. Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah |
| BRACHMAN.COM EXCLUSIVE: .... Yet, Stern, with his own television programs, has failed numerous times, and continues to do so today. Oh, sure, he can hang on a low-rent cable network like E. ... |
... And yet, listening to Stern these days isn't what it used to be; his reign is waning. ...
... Stern's only entry into the motion picture business, "Private Parts," received, via Stern's own programs, more free publicity than any other film in history. It seemed that Stern talked about it, at length, hour after hour, every day for two years prior to its release and two years after its release. Everyone presumed it did okay, but apparently it didn't - since Stern hasn't starred, or even appeared in a movie since. ...
... You used to be really fun to listen to, Howard. What happened?
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