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...another politician--or just another Speaker of the House--then his self-serving moralizing would be of meager interest. Hypocrisy isn't major news in our species. But Gingrich is making extraordinary claims about the nation and himself. America is "at risk," facing a "genuine crisis," beset by "moral decay"; our very civilization may not "survive." Fortunately, just in the nick of time, comes Gingrich, who by his own account is not just a "genuine revolutionary" but a "transformational figure." You know the type: F.D.R., Lincoln, Moses. Well, people who claim to have a plan for leading...
...Nonsense," says Daniel Moynihan, the New York Senator and a leading expert on social decay. "We really don't know what to do, and anyone who thinks that cutting benefits can affect sexual behavior doesn't know human nature...
...DOLE'S ATTACK ON HOLLYWOOD IS laughable. In my lifetime, Washington has contributed more to the moral decay of America than Hollywood has. Hollywood at least is fiction; Washington is real life. Scott Sundback Saegertown, Pennsylvania Via America Online...
Since accusing Hollywood of playing a role in accelerating the moral decay of the United States, Senate majority leader Bob Dole has come under heavy fire from the national media elite. He has been called a cultural ignoramus, a vote-hungry opportunist, a hypocrite and even a racist. The motives behind his critique have been called into serious question. According to his critics, Dole criticizes Hollywood not out of genuine concern over a serious societal problem, but in order to improve his chances of securing the Republican Party's presidential nomination...
...most common response to Dole's argument is to view the debased content of American entertainment as a symptom, rather than a cause, of the nation's moral decay. As Frank Rich wrote in a recent opinion piece for the New York Times, "I'm no fan of dr. Dre...but I disagree with Mr. Dole's theory that ugly words are the causes, rather than the effects, of American pathologies...