1. If this is true, it is an outrage that TAXPAYER money is used for these right wing wacko idiots to watch porn so they can preach how immoral it is!
For those holier than thou types who think you are ever going to stop a multi billion dollar industry from existing, get your head out of your ass.
There are SO many other worthwhile causes you can dedicate your time and effort to than pornography.
What consenting adults do in their own homes is totally their business..be thankful for that..not all countries have such a great freedom.

David S. at 3:50PM on Aug 16th 2007

2. I must say this about the entire porn "controversy": MY SEX DRIVE IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS! If they want to stop hormonally overactive teens from viewing porn, they have the ultimate challenge ahead of them. Teens and even preteens are becoming sex-savvy much sooner, and much more easily than ever before. I first encountered online porn at age 11. Most kids today probably spot a few of "those" body parts at much earlier ages, and at younger ages, attach zero shame to nudity. We could learn something from those hyperactive nudist brats, I think...

Alaras at 4:19PM on Aug 16th 2007

3. Republicans are evil perverted,hypocrites!!!

Tori at 6:00PM on Aug 16th 2007

4. just more people getting paid to do more garbage at the expense of tax payers,no wonder all the "ordinary people" are broke and disgusted,what could anybody expect?

the aristocrats are to blame for a lot of this money being missing,it has all gone to them to keep them rich and powerful,but it seems a change might be coming,it seems that more and more "ordinary people" are at least starting to speak out against this crime and that will start a domino effect.

and i feel that it is time for these aristocrats to repay the kindness/generosity that we"ordinary people" have been devotionally giving them for all these years...!

it's time to spend and treat the american"ordinary people with generocity and respect that we deserve and desperatly need to rebuild our strenth to be better stewards to our nation and peoples..!

until that happens,america with churn and burn in sin and deceipt....!

somebody tell the bushs'

maybe eddie at 7:12PM on Aug 16th 2007

5. what a sad comments above.porn destroys people,destroys marriages ,encourages rapes and abuse .it is not a right waco or aleft issue.it is evil and we must repent.it is shamful that even we are at the point we are still discussing this grabage....look around you and see what is happening to us .may GOD FORGIVE US ALL.

sam at 11:03PM on Aug 16th 2007

6. The young turks probably had to watch the videos ten time before they could say if it was porn or not. You liberals are all alike.

Tom at 1:02AM on Aug 17th 2007

7. Amen to the statements below about how absurb and hypocritical the right wingers are.

Steve at 1:48AM on Aug 17th 2007

8. The photo of the 2 PERVERTS watching porn explains why CLINTON and GORE were getting plastic surgery last week so no one, except JANET RENO would recognize them. Once a PERVERT always a PERVERT. For history's sake, I'm so glad we impeached PERVERT CLINTON !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lupton at 8:26PM on Aug 19th 2007

9. The conservative responses here demonstrate, once again, how they have no argument.

Only the GOP would squander tax money on this!

PG at 3:01AM on Aug 17th 2007

10. They blame the right wing but under the Clinton administration a man was getting paid 1 million a year to break Ash Trays.

It is a problem from both parties.

KNM at 1:16AM on Aug 18th 2007

11. You two boys should have been whipped more when you were children and taught right from wrong. Evidently, your parents had few or no morals either. I can't say that I approve of $150K/yr. being paid to anyone to have to look at this type of GARBAGE; however, your language and assumptions are extremely offensive. Someone has to "try" to protect our children's morality because it's evident you two men have none by the slanderous and vitriolic comments I just heard you spew. If someone doesn't watch shows/movies, you come back with the "how can they possibly know it's pornographic; they haven't even seen it" arguments. You can't have it both ways, boys! All this pornography we are forced to hear and witness in the name of "freedom and art" is abhorrent. That old dog won't hunt anymore. It makes me want to say something I thought I'd never even contemplate saying in this country ... BRING BACK CENSORSHIP! You give jerks an inch and they'll take a mile seems an appropriate cliche on the subject of art vs. pornography.

rbolling2 at 10:36AM on Aug 17th 2007

12. The Democats make(let) it happen...The Republicans watch it happen...and you wonder what happened...

Well seems to me a couple of observations are in order...

1. What goes on between consenting adults in their bedroom is their business - Its when they tape it, sell it, put it in public forums that it becomes a problem.
2. How can you combat such a problem if you don't know what it is or where it is? Someone has to watch and report it.

Although the people that do the watching should be closely monitored - in case they start lying about haveing watched sex. Then they might want to test this depravity for themselves - perhaps with an intern on the Seal of the United States. Then lie about it. Then what would they be? Democats?

Well, there you have it. Watching porn is a Gateway action to becoming a Democrat.

What are you complaining about? Looks like two new recuits are coming your way!

Sam at 11:10AM on Aug 17th 2007

13. its called pork barral spending,all sides of the isle do it,but i forgot libs do no wrongand they dont spend it,they just keep it in there freezer(dem down in new orleans with bribe money in his freezer that during catrena took a nationl guard to his house to get it)

mavrik at 12:03PM on Aug 17th 2007

14. Of course this is a waste of taxpayer money. However, it's just $150,000 of BILLIONS of dollars the giant money-sucking government takes from us for their "friends and family". Liberals and conversatives (and everyone in between) need to get together to stop the thievery. It is NOT "better" when "your side" does it. A taxpayer-funded indoor rainforest in Iowa (yes; check it out!) and a taxpayer-funded "Cowgirl Museum" are both horrible ideas and SHOULD be getting everyone very angry.

Peter Schoen at 12:11PM on Aug 17th 2007

15. Holy mackerel, I wish someone would pay me $75K per year to watch adult entertainment. I mean, with me being out of a job and doing it for free right now, I think maybe you, as God-fearing Americans, should step up to the plate and support me. Now having said that, I'm just kidding. It is all so much nonsense that the Republican party would pay 2 guys $150K/year to do this. We all know it's out there, no surprise. We all know that in hotel's it is THE money maker, no surprise. And I would be willing to bet my adult-entertainment watching eyeballs that even some religious right-wing Republicans watch it in the hotels. And yet, somehow, America has managed to stay afloat. Never mind that parents are letting their daughters dress like prostitutes, and that's okay. Never mind that Wal-Mart and Target and all the other stores sell G-strings for 6 year old girls, and the parents buy them. Never mind that the human race breeds like rats, and the welfare sucking leeches keep spitting out kids like candy from a vending machine. All of that is okay, because the American people will keep supporting the welfare recipients. America needs to learn maybe, just maybe, a little more about personal responsibility. Interest groups like the ACLU have run rampant by letting people behave irresponsibly. Life is very easy, it's people that make it difficult. Holy mackerel, I need to stop, because if I think too long on America's lack of personal responsibility, it raises my blood pressure.

kevin at 12:16PM on Aug 17th 2007