Political Quotes

“I want to comment on a couple of issues and take advantage of the time that we have this morning. Late last night, in closing, we passed the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act to address abuses and potential abuses in the broadcast arena and to raise indecency fines by a factor of 10. We told broadcasters in a loud and direct and unanimous voice--it was a unanimous vote last night: Clean up your act or face the consequences. When families are watching Sunday night football games, they should not have to brace themselves for a televised striptease. I am, of course, referring to Janet Jackson's infamous ``wardrobe malfunction'' during that 2004 Super Bowl. While this particular incident represented a new low in broadcasting, unfortunately, as all of us know who do watch television regularly, it was not an isolated incident. Numerous studies have shown that prime- time network programming is growing, has grown, and continues to grow over time increasingly coarse, even during the evening family hour when children are most likely to be watching TV either by themselves or with their other family members or parents. That Super Bowl stunt was just the latest in the ever-worsening attempts to grab out commercial attention. It is obvious why this tried to appeal to a low, broad, very coarse common denominator--to make people look, and to make people look to increase those commercial ratings and thus end up accumulating more money. Between the hours of 6 a.m.…”