The Nix, At His Very Best: "… You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates."

We're starting to think we-the-people should install recording systems in all gummint offices & make the recordings available no later than 0900 the next morning.

Then around noon we could kill all the assholes who had revealed themselves to be assholes the previous day.

A thought inspired by this fine item from a dogged researcher.

10. On the glorification of homosexuality in an All in the Family episode (May 13, 1971)

Nixon: I do not mind the homosexuality. I understand it. (14-second beep to hide personal information) But nevertheless, the point that I make is that goddamit, I do not think that you glorify on public television homosexuality… even more than you glorify whores. Now we all know that people go to whores. …we all have weaknesses. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? What do you think that does to 11 and 12 year old boys when they see that? …You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates.

Ehrlichman: But he never had the influence that television had.

We'd pay plenty to find out what was in that 14-second beep. After all, it would be irresponsible not to speculate. We also enjoy the idea of Nixon, busily bombing people into the Stone Age while thinking that it would be better to nuke the gooks than merely to drown a couple hundred thousand of them (Item one in the link.) is worried about the "homos" ("Homos?" Hasn't been used non-ironically by anyone over the age of 12 since the dawn of time. Gives one an accurate idea of Nixon's mental & emotional development, dunnit?) being "glorified" in an All in the Family episode. We'd just love (in, need it be said, a purely heterosexual way) to see how homosexuality was "glorified" in 1971. Probably anything that didn't suggest killing homos (Note: Ironic reference.) on sight was considered as "glorifying" homosexuality.

Meta-Note: If there are two (or more) paragraphs in the last paragraph, we don't give a flying fuck. It stands as is.