GOP = Grumpy Old Pornographers

[wyldwolf]

The last presidential election, we were told ad nauseum, was decided on "moral values." But what about the GOP's porn connection. As the Washington Post's Terry Neal recently wrote, "corporate leaders at companies as diverse as News Corp., Marriott International and Time Warner can profit by selling red-state consumers the very material that red-state culture is supposed to despise. Those elites then funnel the proceeds to the GOP, which in turn has used the money to successfully convince red-state voters that the other political party is solely responsible for the decline of the civilization." Neal cites two court cases involving so-called pornographic films--in Utah and Ohio--that have revealed in two of the "reddest" areas in America, the "community standards" included a huge consumption of porn, even among Mormons.

Timothy Egan, in an earlier piece for The New York Times, wrote, "The General Motors Corporation, the world's largest company, now sells more graphic sex films every year than Larry Flynt, owner of the Hustler empire. The 8.7 million Americans who subscribe to DirecTV, a General Motors subsidiary, buy nearly $200 million a year in pay-per-view sex films from satellite providers." Also, Rupert Murdoch--owner of Fox News and an ardent pro-Bush conservative--"makes more money selling graphic adult films through its satellite subsidiary than Playboy, the oldest and best-known company in the sex business, does with its magazine, cable and Internet businesses combined."

Finally, AT&T, once the nation's largest communications company, offers a hardcore sex channel and owns a company that offers sex videos to a million hotel rooms in America. One in five of AT&T's customers pay $10 a film to see "real, live all-American sex--not simulated by actors." AT&T is--do I even need to add this?--one of the largest donors to the Republican Party.


http://fairfieldweekly.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:96021

[jeff30997]

1. The best selling porn flick these days :

Chimpy does Dallas.

[Jade Fox]

2. I have come to realize that the Neocon Moralist are utterly hypocritical..

in all imaginable ways.

Basically, it okay if they do it, shockingly bad if we do.

[dweller]

3. check your link

there's a :9 in it...


dp

[wyldwolf]

4. a smiley with a lip-licking tongue? How ironic!

..but the article was only three paragraphs long.

[rogue_bandit]

5. Where's the outrage?

Why didn't this show up in the debates? I just sent a copy of the last two paragraphs above to my Republican "my leader right or wrong" friend (yes, he is a friend). I look forward to his Bushesque remarks.

[newyawker99]

10. Hi rogue_bandit!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Joe Chi Minh]

6. It's a multi-billion dollar industry,

so the idea of Republican, hard-core Mammon-worshippers not being in the forefront of its sponsors would be laughable.

[dweller]

7. and don't forget

Sinclair Broadcasting started out as a porno channel.

'course they deny it now.

dp

[seabeyond]

8. i am after old fart corporations and the commercials they feed

the children. i am not after the programming. that is easy enough. we the parent are well aware what show is giving, we can decide to allow kids to watch or not. the commercials however that are being givin thru out the day are horrible. and these are the repugs. the party yelling about it is the party responsible. the top of hypocrisy. and the worst, coor. he runs for senate, the party represents him as he has the boob twins. one of the three commercials no more than soft porn on middle of day

those are what parents cannot control in their childrens life. these are the people getting away with it. along with the fox channels

[chieftain]

9. If I remember correctly , W

was an investor in soft porn movies . But , of course , that was when he was young and irresponsible , so it does not count against this shining example of moral values .

[pa28]

11. Moral values Republicans is another laughable myth.

Kind of like the "liberal media".

In my own experience the Democrats I know tend to have the most traditional families.

The Republicans? Adultery, drugs, porn . . . whatever they can get away with. I know, I know this is just one person's experience but it seems to me they only get outraged about it when they aren't invited to the party.