Donahue - Indecency & Obscenity - feat. 2 Live Crew - circa 1990 - 1 of 4

[tylerjaydavis]

wow lol they need to gtf over themselves ik this was 1990 but hey, it's kinda funny because what's considered acceptable today wouldve gotten charges on it back then?

[Chuloloc]

Awesome. Interesting video. First, great collection of artists, hail to Mike from Suicidal Tendencies and RIP, Wendy O Williams. Second, some parts of this episode have been used on the 2 Live Crew song Banned In The USA. Third, notice that those convervative clowns at the end of the video used the issue of moral correctness and false assumptions of potential moral decline as a reason to maintain their postion of control. This is how the convervative right have maintained their influence in

[Chuloloc]

@Chuloloc in this country. It's time to expose these rats for who they really are. Hail human freedom and human rights.

[choice2099]

@Chuloloc To think this was over 20 years ago, and this was considered as obscene as it gets. Times change huh?

[Chuloloc]

@choice2099 Yeah, very much. If these warriors wouldn't of fought and won, we wouldn't of had the freedons we have today and things would be more difficult. Also, through exposing the fascist nature of these convervative clowns, they had a difficualt time successing in the political elections no less having a successful political career.

[MSoulPoet]

Phil Donahue was the best. He could be pompous and condescending, but he actually took issues seriously. Now the only shows that address things like this are on PBS.

[skronnyrotten]

the whole state of Canada!...LOL/

[MichaelHansenFUN]

luther is right and jack is WRONG!!!

[ikeatl1]

Been looking for this footage for a while too.

[aaronamccoy]

dang, i been looking for this forever, i seen this the day it was shown on tv but never was able to watch it again, thanks

[MrAdrenaline1982]

Phil was a hell of an interviewer. There's nobody in his league on tv today.

[goodvibesallround]

Conservative America vs. Artists......Yawn. Want a real story......search Lenny Bruce. He fought for our freedom of speech.

[MickeyLove01]

and a few years later she killed herself

[Muhkuhtwo24]

@MickeyLove01 who?

[MickeyLove01]

@Muhkuhtwo24 Wendy O Williams

[emiynu]

Some white people think that this is 100% of hip hop...sad.

11:17 is hilarious!

[MichaelHansenFUN]

jack thompson is disbarred.......

[miamirockstar2010]

i love all these little piss ants that hate the first amendment so much they always seem to be the biggest criminals but they sure love immunity they hide behind when they get busted. james doyle of wisconsin is another disillusioned clown

[eddgrindcore]

'I'm gonna lock my daughter in the basement!' Did this guy later move to Austria?

[MichaelHansenFUN]

YOU READY FOR THIS: The obscenity-crusading attorney, who launched a campaign to ban 2 Live Crew's As Nasty as They Wanna Be in 1989, has been banished from the law profession in his home state.The Florida Supreme Court this week revoked Jack Thompson's license to practice law, finding that he made numerous false statements in court, according to news reports.Although Thompson can appeal to federal courts, he has to have another attorney represent him. ...

[MichaelHansenFUN]

2 live crew were prosecuted but NOT BLOWFLY!! (Elvis was from the church choir) BLOWFLY was doing dirty rapping long before 2 live crew were even grown up. Now BLOWFLY is on JELLO BIAFRA'S LABEL!!!

[pyrogyra72]

Jello mentioned on one of his albums that Luther Campbell gave him a copy of "As Clean as they Wannabe" (the censored version of As Nasty of they wannabe) and Donahue insisted on autographing it. He then tells Jello 'WE GOT TO GET TOGETHER AND FIGHT THESE PEOPLE!!!" Afterwards, Jello never heard from him again.

[TheLostRepublic]

WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE? im not telling you I'm asking you!!

[Laughtraxx]

1:10 i love how that's the clean version

[rza828]

Jello biafara! Phil was such a douche! I listened to all this music in 4-6 grade. Theses people were shitheels

[floppydeers]

Look at Jack Thompson's rapid eye blinking, that'll explain it for ya.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

@floppydeers you should read about this guy in "THE NEW BOOK OF ROCK LISTS" it mentions Navarro, a police officer, was accused of molesting his step daughter, but Jack Thompson doesnt seem to want to level charges against Navarrow, or whatever his name...

[MichaelHansenFUN]

12:41 - 14 points of speech are not protected by the first amendment.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

BOB DeMoss & Jack Thompson are so full of shit in regards to 2 live crew. how many glorifications of the brutilizations of women? where on the record? sexually abuse of women and children? where on the record? mental molestation of children? what about kids hiding there richard pryor albums? physical molestation of women? brutalizing women? SOmeone else claimed "Sex with Corpses" and Jack Thompson is quoting a wrong source (probably death metal) , WHAT GANG RAPE? they dont rap about that...

[MichaelHansenFUN]

WENDY 0. WILLIAMS, JANUARY 1 8, 1981

The arrest, in Milwaukee, was initially for onstage obscenity, but after an officer allegedly made a sexual grab at her, a battle ensued. Williams was charged with resisting arrest and battery of a police officer. She was released on two thousand dollars' bond. The Plasmatics' lead singer had seven stitches above her eye and spent the night in jail, as did the band's manager.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

In January 1981, Milwaukee police arrested her for simulating sex on stage. Also charged with battery to an officer and obscene conduct, she was later cleared. Later that same year in Cleveland, Ohio, Williams was acquitted of an obscenity charge for simulating sex on stage wearing only shaving cream (she subsequently covered her nipples with electrical tape to avoid arrest). BOOK "30 years of rock" one of those type of books, has a photo of battery on stage and other pix of wendy in this book.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

They never prosecuted BLOWFLY!!!

Brutalizing women? sex with corpses? WHAT GANG RAPE?!?!?!

they did have a song "S&M" which is on this episode.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

wendy o williams was initially arrested for an onstage obscenity, but when an officer sexually grabbed wendy , a battle ensued onstage. they spent the night in jail but...

[MichaelHansenFUN]

JACK THOMPSON PART FOUR revelations of corruption in the sheriff's department, and his stepdaughter's sui¬cide note alleging that Navarro had sexually abused her. Thompson has mounted no prominent campaign to incarcerate Navarro.) In the sense that Luther Campbell and 2 Live Crew actually spent a night in jail thanks to his ministry, Thompson may be regarded as one of the more effective censors, though no one has paid much attention to his phone-and-fax operation lately.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

JACK THOMPSON PART THREE Campbell's Skyywalker Records released a record in support of the Reno campaign (ironically, it endorsed her for being tough on men who skip out on their child support payments), and in Luther's view, Thompson has never forgiven him for it. (The other key figure in the 2 Live Crew prosecution, Broward County [Fort Lauderdale] sheriff Nick Navarro, was tossed out of office by voters in 1992, on the heels of his failed pogrom against the Crew,

[MichaelHansenFUN]

JACK THOMPSON PART TWO Thompson says the battle against 2 Live Crew began because he's seen so much suffering as the result of rape and domestic abuse among clients he's represented. Luther Campbell, 2 Live Crew's leader, believes it stems from Thompson's mid-eighties campaign for Dade County state's attorney, in which he ran against Janet Reno. (Thompson may have been the first to publicly accuse Reno of being a lesbian.)

[MichaelHansenFUN]

Jack Thompson PART ONE South Florida Christian "profamily" attorney who stirred the campaign to jail 2 Live Crew. Thompson, a single practitioner, de¬nies affiliation with any other group but he's been supported by both the Wildmon/AFA bunch and the Dobson/FOF crew, each of whose tactics and homiletics he adapts to his singular purpose.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

sampled on the BANNED IN THE USA, also Luther is in the Ozzy Osbourne DONT BLAME ME video. Awesome. JELLO BIAFRA his albums on his label is in CAMELOT, I remember that. The Camelot records in my area had all ALternative Tentacles in stock. Also Wendy O WIlliams, a book I saw, had photos of Wendy and the incident on stage. One of the officers sexually grabbed Wendy on stage during the beatdown. A rock and roll history book has photos. THE SECRET SERVICE IS STUPID for what happened to Mike Muir!

[AGNTthrasher]

Mike Muir at 7:56 , in case that's who you were waiting for

[DRAK720]

"The whole state of Canada" LMAO nice one Luther.

[PaulAll1313]

Jack Thompson was disbarred a couple of years ago after his attack on video games... thankfully.

[cycodamo]

Mike Muir citing lyrics from Give It Revolution. Awesome :D

[fourcams]

Donahue is such a hack. Look at Luther grinning like a toddler with chocolate ice cream on his face. Unfortunately, what this video does not show you is the very end when Bob DeMoss quoted some of 2Live Crew's lyrics and the audience GASPED! Donahue almost dropped his microphone and (seriously!) DEMANDED that Bob apologize to the audience! The irony!! The putrescence comes from the mind of Luther.