TV
TALK SHOWS

And The

Dumbing Down Of America

“In the main, our current generation has been lost to ignorance
and stupidity.”
—Author.

Speaking Bluntly

If you don’t mind, I’d like to “shoot straight from the hip.” Maybe I’m just browsing around for defective components within our society, but whatever the case, I’ve found one. Juveniles and young adults have adopted it as a normal part of our culture.

I’m speaking of Talk Shows and their participants. An episode of the late Jenny Jones Talk Show inspired me to say something about this problem. Hardly anyone on the show demonstrated a sensible command of the English language. Words were poorly pronounced, if at all, sentences were butchered, and etiquette thrown to the wind. This is the kind of trash young children and teenagers and young adults are lapping up. This rubbish invades and corrupts their minds, and the result is that they gradually embrace this “dumbing down” as though it were an integral part of life and growing up. Consequently, they develop a “foreign language”—an exotic dialect that is almost impossible to decipher.

TV Garbage
Most of you remember the former Phil Donahue Show. On one occasion, I wrote him a letter and accused him of going out into the streets and dragging before the cameras the worst scum he could find. He was noted for hosting sexual misfits—you name it, he hosted it. Decent Americans finally got fed up with his “sewage disposal plant” and bade him farewell. Although gifted and intelligent, he was summarily dismissed by moral citizens as immoral and as another of Entertainment’s losers. Sadly, such trashy behavior on Talk Shows is becoming more and more acceptable among the younger generation. As long as there’s an audience to consume TV garbage, the debris will continue to flow.

A Few Exceptions
To avoid being accused of too much generalization, there are a few exceptions in the Talk Show arena. They are few and far between, however. Most of Oprah’s programs are fairly decent and built around family values. On the other hand, the late Rosie O’Donnell program was about the dumbest Talk Show I’ve ever listened to. Now that she has gone public with her lesbian announcement, I predictd her show would fall by the wayside. And it did. Decent Americans did not tolerate her perverted lifestyle. She has now demonstrsted her unscrupulous and unprincipled and perverted lifestyle by faking marriage to another lesbian.

Maury started off hosting an acceptable program, but regressed into the “fatherly” image. He now hunts down the fathers of the children of unwed mothers who have slept in and committed immorality with numerous men, brings both onto his partially-staged show, and allows them to address each other in the filthiest of profanity. Of course, the beeper is sounded every time they use profanity, but even a youngster can figure out what’s going on. His current episodes are a disgrace to the human family and a reproach to family values. As of 2004, his episodes are pregnant with sex, sex, sex—from beginning to end. This man should be afraid to fall asleep.

Judge Judy is an intelligent woman, but her personality and dictatorial attitude are offensive. She tries too hard to be a man. And speaking of Oprah, she remarked on one of her shows, “Homosexuals are born that way.” If I had been one of the participants, I would have responded, “Do you also believe voyeurs and exhibitionists are born that way?” For if homosexual behavior is instilled at birth, so are other sexual behaviors. This is the kind of rubbish we’re hearing on the networks and in the major media every day. And millions of listeners are buying it as authentic. In essence, America is being brainwashed by satanic forces.

The Networks Must Shoulder A Big Part Of The Blame
And speaking of rubbish on the networks, you may have watched the interview on Good Morning America some time ago of a male in New Jersey who had a sex change and now wants to return to teaching school as a female? My wife and I watched it, and we thought it was revolting. ABC should never have aired this thing. Why should these depraved weirdoes be given an audience? Why promote their sexual perversions by bringing them before the cameras for hundreds of thousands to see?

The school teacher had been married for thirty-three years and performed as a male. After a divorce from his wife, he decided to become a female. So now “it” wants to return to school as a female teacher, but the residents of the New Jersey school district went before the local School Board to oppose reinstating “it.”

My intuition is that the homosexual lobby is behind this, for they want to parade their warped lifestyle up and down our living rooms—namely, that homosexuality is socially acceptable. “It” is 71 years old. Why hasn’t “it” retired? Well, because “it” and the homosexual lobby want this thing to be widely publicized. They are trying hard to portray themselves as being persecuted by the heterosexual community.

One thing for sure: If God created “it” a male, “it” is still a male—regardless of the “sex change.” “It” may have had it’s “manhood” amputated to resemble the feminine gender, but “it” is still of the male gender, and no kind of “change” will alter that.

The two chief avenues of communication being utilized by homosexuals to impose their perverted lifestyle upon others are the Entertainment industry and our local school systems. The movie “Brokeback Mountain” is one of their offspring. They are invading our school systems as teachers and are quietly slipping their depraved “doctrine” into many school curriculums. Jude says it well:

“Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desires—these serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire” (Jude 1:7).

Modern-Day Comedies
It is almost impossible to find a TV comedy that’s funny. Teenagers and young adults laugh at them because they have been programmed with those “laughter machines.” When the “laughter machine” is turned on, they get a “programmed” message that something is funny, so they start laughing—as if on cue. The good comedies of yesteryear are long gone. That being the case, I’ll make my own “funnies.”

Talk Shows And Jungle Music
There’s not a lot of difference between trashy Talk Shows and loud, gibberish jungle music. They are bed partners. The music our youth are listening to depicts the level of ignorance they’re being exposed to. A big percentage of them grow up to be simpletons. If there’s anything in the music culture that needs to be outlawed, it’s the thunderous, satanic, unintelligible rap garbage. It appeals to base emotions and brings out the animal behavior in those who are caught up in its sick web. It is no surprise, then, that its followers look and behave like animals. Like beasts of the field, they roam the streets and ravage while sacrificing all social graces, demolishing and shattering. They will perish in their own vomit!

“Social graces?” They’re almost non-existent among the younger generation. The following admonition goes unheeded, plus others that could be cited:

“Rise in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God” (Leviticus 19:32).

Is There No Solution?
There will be no solution to the trend our generation is experiencing until morality and godliness become the centerpieces of American family life again. For when depravity replaces godliness and morality, as it is being done in America, the mortician may soon call for the corpse.

“In the same way, these dreamers pollute their own bodies, reject authority, and slander celestial beings...They speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them” (Jude 1:8-10).

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