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If there's one thing??that voters in red and blue states could agree on this election year, it's that satire was king. From David Letterman's monologues and a rejuvenated Saturday Night Live to the proliferation of spoofy websites, even the most minor campaign flubs were endlessly lampooned. Jon Stewart and his gang popped up at both conventions as well as the debates, and The Daily Show became the most trusted name in fake news. The South Park crew turned everyone from Kim Jong Il to Michael Moore into puppets for its movie Team America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parody Politics | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

Containment, which aims to protect the community and the individual's right not to be assaulted by offensive material, was the idea behind the combat zone of Boston, and many other communities now want the same thing???in effect, red light districts for porn. In Seattle's blue-collar Greenwood section, residents are picketing a new porn theater, the neighborhood's second. Says a spokesman: "We aren't interested in censorship but in zoning to keep pornographic films to a certain area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PORNO PLAGUE | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...Expletive deleted] it is a terrible lousy thing???it will remain a crisis among the upper intellectual types, the soft heads, our own, too?Republicans?and the Democrats and the rest. Average people won't think it is much of a crisis unless it affects them [unintelligible]." (March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: An Intimate Glimpse of a Private President | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...Well, we'll survive this. You know?people say this destroys the Administration and the rest?but what was this? What was Watergate? A little bugging! I mean a terrible thing???it shouldn't have been done ?shouldn't have been covered up ... and the rest, but we've got to beat it. Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The Most Critical Nixon Conversations | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...President's direction you have never done anything operational, you have always acted as counsel. We've got to keep our eye on the Dean thing???just give them some of it?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The Most Critical Nixon Conversations | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

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