{"id":1235,"date":"2010-11-05T01:05:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T06:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2010-11-05T01:39:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T06:39:34","slug":"why-gore-would-censor-%e2%80%9csouth-park%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"Why Gore would censor \u00e2\u20ac\u0153South Park\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsrealblog.com\/2010\/11\/04\/why-gore-would-censor-south-park\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"South Park\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsrealblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/4-1255740160-SouthParkWallpaper1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Censorship, whether its speech, TV, movies, or games is just about one thing, control. Gee that sounds like a line from the Matrix doesn&#8217;t it? Before Gore was trying to control your greenhouse gases he wanted to control your TV. Don&#8217;t think he is a scary madman? How&#8217;s this for a quote, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the link between real-world  violence and television violence is  exactly analogous to the link  between cigarette smoking and cancer.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I&#8217;ll bet that after he presented &#8220;scientific&#8221; research to back up that statement, the time for debate was over.<\/p>\n<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsrealblog.com\/2010\/11\/04\/why-gore-would-censor-south-park\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Horowitz<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few years ago I found myself in Nashville at a  two-day gathering of liberal \u00e2\u20ac\u0153media experts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sponsored by Vice President  Al Gore. The purpose of the meeting was to provide a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153scientific\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  rationale for the censorship that Gore and the president (who also  attended) were preparing to launch against the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s entertainment  industry.<\/p>\n<p>The event was held in an auditorium at Vanderbilt University, where  Gore orchestrated the proceedings from the stage. With all the  obtuseness that generally characterizes his thought process, the vice  president was saying scary things like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the link between real-world  violence and television violence is exactly analogous to the link  between cigarette smoking and cancer.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Of the 200 attending the event, only Jack Valenti, Tom Selleck and I  took issue with Clinton and Gore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153solution\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the V-chip \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which they  proceeded to unveil at the conference.<\/p>\n<p>When Gore called on me to speak, I asked how crime rates could be so  different in various neighborhoods of a given city, when the TV shows  were the same. I also asked how the experts attending the event could  have witnessed 100,000 murders on TV without becoming the desensitized,  violence-crazed thugs that they implied was a television-watcher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  inevitable fate. My questions were not appreciated and I even heard some  hisses as I spoke.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsrealblog.com\/2010\/11\/04\/why-gore-would-censor-south-park\/\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Censorship, whether its speech, TV, movies, or games is just about one thing, control. Gee that sounds like a line from the Matrix doesn&#8217;t it? Before Gore was trying to control your greenhouse gases he wanted to control your TV. Don&#8217;t think he is a scary madman? How&#8217;s this for a quote, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the link between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}