Richard K. Armey: “let us start at the beginning. I love children and I hate smut. I love parents that love their children. I think good…”

“let us start at the beginning. I love children and I hate smut. I love parents that love their children. I think good parents exercise direction over their children. That is the way it is. When I was a boy, it was Playboy magazines. We did not have TV. My parents did not need the Government to say whether Playboy should be rated this way or that way. My dad looked at one. He said: Son, you will not buy that anymore. He says: If you buy that anymore, you will not have any money to buy anything with anymore. If you buy it a second time, if you buy it a second time, you will not be able to buy one for a while, and you will not be able to sit down. My dad was very clear. He told me what was right. He told me what was acceptable. He said: Do not do it; you do it again you are going to be in trouble with your dad because your dad loves you and does not want you reading stuff. I grew up. I raised five kids. We had a VCR. It has a little clock on it. Nobody could set the clock except the kids. The gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Markey] says I am going to get something called a V-chip for my grandchildren. And the Government is going to tell me what is good and what is not bad, what is smut and what is not smut. Thank God for that because I never figured it out. The Government has a system. They will tell me what it is. Now I have to take the time to read the Government report, find what is smut, what is not smut.”