HOW TO BE A MAN - OR WOMAN - OF THE PEOPLE? -- Just A Minute Radio for Thursday 110922

Here’s something to look for tonight when the debate goes on.

 

There was a front page Wall St. Journal story yesterday about the ways in which the GOP candidates are dressing this season.  The gist of it is tending toward the casual is the mode. So on today’s program I took note of some of the remarks made there and in other sources where notice has been taken.

 

The interesting thing to me is the “campaign casual” style has been adopted by all of the men, to some degree… but the hold out for the moment – possibly because she is the only female in the debate line-up at present – is Michele Bachmann.

 

What rather angers me somewhat is -- as I was looking up some research materials on the Internet -- the salacious and offensive ‘junk’ that is scattered around on places like U-tube etc. that *I* characterize as mean, vicious and entirely uncalled for. I know I’m paddling against the tide in even mentioning this – and I don’t care to further spread the poison. But it is regrettable that our nation is apparently sinking into a cesspool of vulgarity and cheap blue ‘humor.’

 

I’m aware of how difficult it is to clamp down on this stuff which *is* immoral and threatening to the lives of children and weak-minded adults, without treading on the pillar of free speech which is generally protected in America. However even in the midst of this rain of deliberate sewage there is a notation which should be considered and obeyed. It is – in my opinion – best illustrated by the axiom that it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded theater.

 

What is different in this case? It’s pretty simple, and fits well into some of the statements by Supreme Court Justices and others that although it is true pornography etc. are difficult to describe with rigid certainty – but I’m with the judicial school that says, “I know it when I see it.”  And when it comes to ‘hate speech’ being outlawed on school grounds or in the presence of children – I think something very similar ought to be applied to the Internet as well as to all the publically assessable communications channels of our Nation.

 

I’m outraged at the kind of ‘junk’ allowed on U-tube and other channels under the banner of ‘protected’ speech. We need some moral and sensible judges, lawyers and deans of legal instruction to put their heads together and do something that is sensible and Constitutional but which protects the innocents and maintains a reasonable, enforceable standard for a moral society.

 

That ought to buy me a soap box about 18 feet high.(J)

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack  

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 “JUST A MINUTE”

HOW DO YOU BECOME A MAN – OR WOMAN – OF THE PEOPLE?

          Just a Minute: When you watch the candidates ‘debating’ tonight in Florida – take note of their style of dress… which off the platform is being characterized as “campaign casual.”

          In researching I found Jon Huntsman – just about last in the polling – wore a denim shirt and hunting jacket on July 4^th when visiting New Hampshire because it brought him good luck.

          According to the Wall St. Journal they are working in shirtsleeves and jeans and ‘tossing off neckties.’ If you roll up your sleeves, it must be above the elbow – not in the middle of the forearm. Campaign etiquette apparently sanctions the “three ‘F’s” – at a fair, on a factory floor, or the scene of a flood. That’s OK.  Huntsman and Romney have taken notice from Esquire’s cover story that advised “stop dressing well.” Ron Paul ditched his dress shirt in summer for a prison-striped polo shirt.

          The one exception is Michele Bachmann who generally appears in skirt-suits often paired with a stiff-collared white blouse. Some insist she’s wearing it because she ‘means business.’

          <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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