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Clean up Radio Everywhere |
Mr Carlson: Clean up radio broadcasting?
Dr Bob Hallyers: And you're the very first station we're contacting in the Cincinnati area.
Mr Carlson, less than thrilled: That's great.
Mr Carlson's electronic game, which he'd hidden in his desk, plays the first line of "Take me out to the Ballgame"
Dr Bob: What's that?
Mr Carlson: My heart, I think.
Andy: Half the time you can't even hear the lyrics.
Mr Carlson: Well, these people, these CURB monitors, they figured out the lyrics.
Johnny: They sure did! Boy, I can see 'em now, huddled there in the corner of the church, playing every record slower and slower... then suddenly, "There's a naughty word!"
Andy: These people did not come in here and say, "We don't like this music so we're not gonna listen to your station anymore." What he said was, "We don't like this music. We don't want other people to listen to it anymore." See the difference there? I call it censorship.
Venus: I thought these people were going after TV. Why don't they go after TV and leave us alone?
Johnny: Probably because they want to practice on a couple of guppies before they go after the whale.
Les: In a situation like this, I always ask myself, what would my hero Edward R. Murrow think? And I think that Ed would think that this was censorship. Then I think about what my other hero, General George Patton, would think, and I think George would think that radio and television ought to be cleaned up, and if he were alive today, he'd take two armoured calvalry divisions into Hollywood and knock all those liberal pinheads into the Pacific! So as you can see, I'm a very confused man. And when I get confused, I watch TV. Television is never confusing. It's all so simple somehow.
Mr Carlson: I had one of my disc jockeys, Dr Johnny Fever, give me the lyrics to a song. He wants to know if you'd let him play that song on the air.
Dr Bob, reading: "Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine no possessions? Imagine all the peple sharing all the world?" That sounds like communism to me, if there's no heaven, no religion and, I assume, no God.
Mr Carlson: There's not an obscene word in here.
Dr Bob: Not the way I see it.
Mr Carlson: Does it go on your list?
Dr Bob: Arthur, this is typical of the kind of secular, liberal humanist point of view that gluts our airwaves.
Mr Carlson: Yeah, but we're not talking obscenities here anymore, Bob, we're talking about ideas - political, philosophical ideas! First you censor a word, and then you censor the ideas.
Dr Bob: The idea is man-centered, not God-centered. Man is an animal. The Bible tells us to put our reliance in God, not in our fellow mortals. Arthur, this song says there's no heaven.
Mr Carlson: Ah. No, it says just imagine there's no heaven.
Dr Bob: That's blasphemy.
Mr Carlson: On the list or not?
Dr Bob: I have no choice but to say on.
Mr Carlson: That decision was made by one man.
Andy: It's called censorship, and you can call it what you like, but it still stinks.
Mr Carlson: When it comes to losing advertising clients, these bozos don't know who they're up against.
Andy: If all else fails, I mght even set Les Nessman on them.
Mr Carlson: Boy, that could signal the end of organized religion as we know it.
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