Bozo Bozell

I'm sick and tired of conservative watchdogs spouting religion and telling everyone else what is and what is not acceptable in terms of "decency" on television.

L. Brent Bozell III, who served as president of the Parents Television Council and is currently on the board of the Catholic League, is one of the most noisy of the empty barrels trying to control the airwaves.

His latest target is television advertising.

In the final analysis, the irony of all this advertising is that it's actually the opposite of boldness or daring to try and exploit sex to sell goods. It's become the most hackneyed trick in a yellowed old book. Those executives signing off on this garbage are little more than dirty old men. And women.

If you want an example of "hackneyed", look no further than Bozell's use of the word "dirty".

Sex is "dirty". It's bad, it's garbage, it's filthy, it's disgusting, it's nasty, it's EWWWWW!

Bozell uses all of these words in his diatribe (except for the EWWWWW).

Not once does Bozell even attempt to explain why sexual imagery in advertising is "bad" for teenagers, nor does he make one complaint about all the violence and crime used as entertainment on the public airwaves.

And not once does Bozell make the obvious recommendation for parents to simply turn off the television set.

Moralizers like this control freak are not content with parents doing their jobs, they want the government to do their jobs for them. They won't be happy until the airwaves, including cable and satellite TV, are purged of all sexual imagery and four-letter words, to be replaced by "wholesome" and "family-friendly" entertainment.

It always seems that these rabble rousers have some skeletons in their own closets. Congressman Mark Foley railed against children at nudist camps, and he turned out to have a thing for young boys. Senator Larry Craig went on television and called President Clinton a "naughty boy", and it turns out that he enjoyed anonymous gay sex. And Rev. Ted Haggard, who condemned homosexuality, was revealed to have paid a male prostitute for sex and drugs.

What will be Bozell's downfall? Pornography? Swinging? Sado-Masochism? Hypocrites like Bozell eventually have their own day of reckoning.

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