Pete Townsend Arrested - Page 2

Undertoad · 01-15-2003, 04:31 PM

Yeah, Pee Wee's PH made much more sense if you saw the adult version of the show which he did much earlier. PWPH was an adult show that happened to be interesting to kids, and so became subversive in a way, like the Looney Toons cartoons. Pee Wee was an awesome character before the Playhouse.

wolf · 01-15-2003, 06:14 PM

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Hang on. There are people who actually LISTEN to Smerconish?

Yes ... I actually enjoy listening to him. :P

Maybe not as much as I like Rush, but I dig him.

elSicomoro · 01-15-2003, 07:41 PM

heheloserhehe

russotto · 01-16-2003, 03:48 PM

Smerconish? The guy who does editorials on KYW?

I remember recently he had one where he claimed that cross-burning wasn't free speech so it was OK to ban it. He compared it to setting up a soap box outside Independence Hall, which was free speech. My first response was to write to him "I'd like to see you try to set up that soap box outside Independence Hall nowadays... you'll get shot". I actually did write to him along those lines not quite as nasty.

FrellinFroon · 01-16-2003, 06:12 PM

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Originally posted by Undertoad
Yeah, Pee Wee's PH made much more sense if you saw the adult version of the show which he did much earlier. PWPH was an adult show that happened to be interesting to kids, and so became subversive in a way, like the Looney Toons cartoons. Pee Wee was an awesome character before the Playhouse.

Yes, I'm having Groundlings Flashbacks.

Cheers
The Froon

tw · 01-17-2003, 10:54 PM

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I remember recently he had one where he claimed that cross-burning wasn't free speech so it was OK to ban it.

The decision may or may not have been released. But it is quite apparent that the Supreme Court of the US will agree with Smerconish. Burning a cross is not free speech. Cross burning is action intended only to promote hate and violence.

01-15-2003, 04:31 PM	#16
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Yeah, Pee Wee's PH made much more sense if you saw the adult version of the show which he did much earlier. PWPH was an adult show that happened to be interesting to kids, and so became subversive in a way, like the Looney Toons cartoons. Pee Wee was an awesome character before the Playhouse.

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elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	heheloserhehe

01-16-2003, 03:48 PM	#19
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	Smerconish? The guy who does editorials on KYW? I remember recently he had one where he claimed that cross-burning wasn't free speech so it was OK to ban it. He compared it to setting up a soap box outside Independence Hall, which was free speech. My first response was to write to him "I'd like to see you try to set up that soap box outside Independence Hall nowadays... you'll get shot". I actually did write to him along those lines not quite as nasty.

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