Ammon Ho Tesh
G. Beato, author of Reason's May war-on-porn cover story and America's leading expert on John Tesh, takes another shot at the Blond Frankenstein over at Hans Eisenbeis' The Rake. Assessing Tesh's leadership of the decency wave that is engulfing our nation, Beato concludes:
What?s the average citizen to make of all this? Prepare yourself for lots and lots of Tesh (unless he starts talking about amputating his penis again). And drop to your knees and pray that cable TV, satellite TV and radio, and the Internet remain free from FCC regulation. Because really, how much enforced propriety can one freedom-loving nation stand? Already, there?s a surfeit of decency. While Pax-TV is available in ninety-five million households, it has attracted more than three million actual viewers on only two occasions during its six-year history. To make ends meet, it airs infomercials for hours each day.
Meanwhile, by embracing nudity, sex, profanity, and violence—which is to say, everything the FCC aspires to eliminate—HBO has netted an estimated twenty-seven million paying subscribers. And that?s the beauty of our current media age: There?s decency for the pious, trash for coarser sorts, and plenty of squeaky-clean fare for the kids. Blessed with such abundance, we all should be celebrating. Instead, the FCC and its allies broadcast a clear, condescending, and cynical message: if allowed to make your own choices, they believe, you will invariably choose sleaze over rectitude, fart jokes over sermons, Stern over Tesh. And only by fining indecency out of existence can decency triumph.
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So the pro-porn guy’s name is “G. Beato?”
“…unless he starts talking about amputating his penis again…”
How did I miss that story? Was that before or after he went on the Robert Schuller Power Hour?
I wonder if Pat Boone’s seen this. (https://www.reason.com/links/links042704.shtml)
Majority rules, right?
The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. — Ludwig von Mises
If the common man chooses to buy HBO, who is the FCC to intervene? More silly, of course, is that the FCC is intervening _in the name of the common man_.
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