The Rep. Mark Foley scandal that is continuing to grow has the republicans shrugging it away as irrelevant, while at the same time attempting to be the party of moral values, as well as the party that ripped President Clinton a new one. Regardless of who knew what when, it seems is that this behavior has been tacitly tolerated. And I don’t see any evangelical leaders denouncing Foley too loudly. Come to think of it, I haven't heard a peep out of Falwell, which may be evidence of great restraint.
About a month ago, FoxFaith was promoted. This is entertainment’s attempt to encourage the faith of the faithful. This from the company that brought a lot of sleazy and irreverent programing to the airwaves. They have however, been successful in winning conservatives over with Fox News and allowing them to forget Fox's contribution to the moral landslide in this country.
A new video game based on the TV series “Desperate Housewives” is being released by Disney’s Beuna Vista Games company. The rationale for this move into predominantly male territory is that marketers were starting to realize that there were more women playing the CSI video game, and they realized there was a whole demographic that was emerging that they could profit from.
Our country has moved away from conviction and honor, and toward niche marketing and promotion. At least Desperate Housewives: The game, is able to admit their true intentions and no one gets offended. TV programmers call it family entertainment and politicians call it “playing to the base”.
Are we so far down river that we accept being played to, regardless of reality? FoxFaith isn’t about strengthening the faithful, it is going after the wallets of the faithful. Family values isn’t about strengthening the flagging morals of this country, it’s about getting the votes so they can hold on to power.
And we are the “sheep” that eat it up. The sad reality is that we are hungry, but we aren’t starving. Those who set the agenda will continue to feed us as much as we can ingest, as long as we have votes or money.
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