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Censorship, whether its speech, TV, movies, or games is just about one thing, control. Gee that sounds like a line from the Matrix doesn’t it? Before Gore was trying to control your greenhouse gases he wanted to control your TV. Don’t think he is a scary madman? How’s this for a quote, “the link between real-world violence and television violence is exactly analogous to the link between cigarette smoking and cancer.” I’ll bet that after he presented “scientific” research to back up that statement, the time for debate was over.

From: David Horowitz

A few years ago I found myself in Nashville at a two-day gathering of liberal “media experts” sponsored by Vice President Al Gore. The purpose of the meeting was to provide a “scientific” rationale for the censorship that Gore and the president (who also attended) were preparing to launch against the nation’s entertainment industry.

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 “the link between real-world violence and television violence is exactly analogous to the link between cigarette smoking and cancer.”

Of the 200 attending the event, only Jack Valenti, Tom Selleck and I took issue with Clinton and Gore’s “solution” — the V-chip — which they proceeded to unveil at the conference.

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’s inevitable fate. My questions were not appreciated and I even heard some hisses as I spoke.

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