Dude, the things We consider morally questionable are memetic poison that will taint the opinions of anyone exposed to them. We have to protect people from hearing and seeing things because they're obviously not as smart as We are to be able to sort things out for themselves. They need our help.

Who cares if Beavis and Butthead promulgates in the shadows without any opportunity to be publicly debated or it's proponents to be easily identified as it burns a gruesome scar across the psyche of this country for centuries?

As long as We're not offended, it should be fine, right?

At the end, Chris Matthews is advocating suing MTV so they waste money on the lawsuit and hopefully take it off the air. The Democrats have always been as censorship happy as the Republicans, they just have different reasons. It was Democrats leading the hearings on rock music in the 80s and video games in the 90s and 00s.
If there's anything the parties can agree on, its fear mongering about whatever the kids are into for votes.

I'm pretty sure I remember B&B doing McLaughlin's "WRONG" back and forth during one of the video segments, but who knows which one or if it's lost to Viacom's legal snares..

It's A Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong World

The best part about this story? The family didn't have cable and the kid in question had never seen Beavis and Butthead.

D'oh!

Also they leaned strongly Libertarian, although I doubt any of them would have willingly accepted any party label because "it's all a big con, maaaan."

Won't somebody PLEASE think of the CHILDREN???