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Congress
Funding Through Porn
Connections
Many Members
of Congress have made “moral values” a platform on which to base
political campaigns and consider themselves crusaders intent on
protecting Americans from debauchery. As examples of our national
moral decay, members have pointed to the baring of Janet Jackson’s
breast during the 2003 Super Bowl half-time show, the Howard Stern
radio show, and even the airing of “Saving Private Ryan.”
Yet while
denouncing the decline in public morality, many of those same
Members accept money from corporations that derive substantial
profits from pornography. Although they do not advertise it, companies
as diverse as Comcast and Marriott International make enormous
amounts of money by selling pornography.
Ironically,
some of this money winds up in the political war chests of pornography’s
most outspoken Congressional critics. In the following report,
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) reveals
that some of the Members of Congress who publicly rail against
the evils of pornography are only too happy to accept political
contributions from those who derive income from the sale of pornography.
These Members
allege support for legislation penalizing obscenity one moment
and fill their campaign coffers with pornography profits the next.
It is this rank hypocrisy that this report exposes.
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