GOP Corporate Donors Cash In on Smut (oh the hypocrisy party..right)

[oc2002]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15644-2004Dec21_2.html
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Adult entertainment is not the only area in which cultural tastes seem to be consistent across the country. Primetime viewing habits are very similar too.

Desperate Housewives, the hottest new show on television, features plotlines such as one in which a married woman is having an affair with her 17-year-old gardener and another in which a man murders his neighbor. Turns out, the show performed better in the November sweeps month in the red state markets of Dallas-Fort Worth (first), Atlanta (first) and Kansas City (second) than it did in the Blue state markets of New York (fourth), Chicago (fourth) and Boston (third), according to Nielson Media Research. The show did quite well in red state markets Salt Lake City (fourth) and Birmingham (sixth) as well.
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Follow the Money

Spencer, the Mormon defense attorney in Utah County, said he couldn't help but be struck by a larger point: Big corporate America -- a staunch GOP ally -- was lining its pockets selling raunch to the masses, including the red state nation.

"A lot of it's coming from Republicans," Spencer said, referring to the corporate culprits who profit from smut. Spencer said he considers himself a Republican.

It's almost impossible to get a handle on how much money corporate America is reaping by peddling smut. General Motors Corp. is not eager to brag about how many dirty movies it sold last year through a subsidiary.

In the Utah County trial, Spencer asked the jury why a lone, small business vendor like Peterman should be held to a higher standard than the likes of W. Mitt Romney. At the time Romney was on the board of Marriott International, which was making huge margins on piping porn into hotel rooms. Currently, Romney is the Republican governor of Massachusetts and his travels around the country have helped fuel speculation that he might run for president in 2008.
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[JHB]

1. He misses the larger point...

...that the masses, including (and apparently, ESPECIALLY) "the red state nation", seem to like "smut", and are perfectly willing to have it peddled to them.

Dumbass!

[AllegroRondo]

2. Do as I say, not as I do

My brother used to work for a hotel in Milwaukee,
he said the highest ever sales of pay-per-view adult movies came when they hosted a Christian convention.

[TlalocW]

3. They were researching it

For reports back to the Revs Falwell and Wildmon so they could talk about how decadent America has become.

TlalocW

[Straight Shooter]

4. There is no commandment or biblical instruction against voyeurism

What a pitiful life, that one has to get their cheap thrills from a trashy television show or cheap porno flick. Whenever people repress natural desire by making it shameful and nasty, it tends to spring up elsewhere in a perverted form.

Too many members of American society are sexually ill and puerile.

[DireStrike]

5. There's no hypocrisy.

They want money. They will do everything, anything, to get it. Lying is part of anything and everything.

The ends justify the means for them.

[MadHound]

6. These stats aren't suprising really

Given the overwhelming statistical and anecdotal evidence that consevatives(Christian and otherwise) are the largest consumers of porn, X rated movies, trashy tabloids, trashy TV etc. I think that this is borne of a repressed nature. They can have only hetrosexual, missionary position sex with their spouses or other monogamous SO in the real world, so thus out of sheer boredom they retreat to the world of fantasy.

And then sometimes the repression becomes so bad, so intense that these people crack, and resort to things like pedophilia, etc. Its simply amazing to me that they still call themselves the party of "values" when it is becoming increasingly clear that they are totally devoid of such values.

[zbdent]

7. Isn't it written/produced/whatever by a Repuke?

That would explain the obsession with sex the show has . . .