Reply #35: Who does the rating??? [View All]

The main question is who does the rating...they wanted a rating for OCCULT (anything against their version of Christianity would probably fit into this). Then, the big chain sellers wouldn't sell any stickered records...this means the artist would have to censor themselves, or miss being sold by the big stores...

The whole PMRC was created by the Christian right ...Tipper & Jello Biafra were on Oprah back in '88 where she said it didn't have anything to do with the Christian right...Jello pulled out a newspaper article right on Oprah and nailed Tipper good (check out the video here: http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=7722).

I like Gore nowadays...I will happily vote for him, but as a music fan/freedom of speech advocate, Tipper's role in the PMRC is something that has not let me support him as much as I want to (as I said, he's saying & doing the right stuff nowadays, but it's like not mentioning Bush's past as an alcoholic...what has happened before can indeed rear it's ugly head again).