by F. Michael Monti

Created on: March 03, 2007   Last Updated: April 30, 2007

Liberal Agenda in the Entertainment Industry

Some time ago as I sat with my almost ten year old daughter watching one of her favorite TV programs I received a pointed reminder of how blatant the entertainment establishment has become regarding advancement of its liberal agenda. There I was in the prime time family hour watching a show billed as family entertainment and aimed directly at youth, when suddenly I found it necessary to hide my daughter's eyes. Until then, this program had displayed very little objectionable content and what there was could be glossed over or used as an object lesson on what not to do. However, in the first minutes of this episode we were subjected to the All American, high school senior, first born son of the family sitting in a strip club drinking beer while a nearly naked woman performed in full view on stage. Immediately thereafter, we saw his blond and beautiful sweet sixteen younger sister sneak a boy friend up to her bedroom where he quickly and without protest from this supposedly squeaky clean heroine, inserted a hand under her sweater to unfasten her bra. Neither action was discovered by a parent or other authority figure. There was no consequence in either case. And the message being sold to my child was, "Do whatever feels good. Just don't get caught."

It is wildly ironic that this program was set in the fifties, the era of "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best". The opening scenes were of rides at Disney Land and dancing on Band Stand, a time when conservative family values were the norm. I was born in 1950 and grew up in that atmosphere. Therefore, I have some idea of what it was truly about. I am not so naive as to believe that incidents such as the ones depicted on that program didn't happen then. But experience tells me that they were the exception. Pardon my objection to this shameless misrepresentation of a bygone time, but how is a parent to raise responsible children when they are continually bombarded with messages that are diametrically opposed to traditional family values? I am not suggesting that no one has the right to produce or view this type of entertainment. The First Amendment to the Constitution is quite clear on that right. Rather, I vehemently object to this rapid and radical change in a programs message after my daughter had been quite literally seduced by several weeks of basically neutral content. Allow me to list the objectionable items in just that one episode. There was under age drinking,

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