I'm just trying to figure out why we're looking at a video clip that's almost 30 years old regarding a defunct organization and a no-longer-relevant performer. Old School Cool?

I think that characterizing that exchange, by saying that Jello Biafra (or as his mother named him, Eric Reed Boucher) "completely dismantled Tipper Gore" (or as her mother named her Mary Elizabeth Gore), is wishful thinking. I think you're hearing what you want to hear.

There absolutely are songs out there with misogynistic lyrics and racist lyrics. No parent in their right mind wants their kids listening to that, period.

The PMRC was absolutely counterproductive to its stated task. Not unlike the Dare program, which has a higher rate of drug use after participating in the program, the PMRC only served to increase record sales for their targeted performers.

And as much as Tipper Gore disgusts me, and is absolutely aligned with the Evangelical right-wing if not organizationally, then philosophically) she's right about one thing, parents are busy.

Talking to your kids is the highest of priorities, and on that point, Jello Biafra is absolutely right. So, for this show he (like Frank Zappa when he went before to testify against the PMRC ) was all cleaned up to look like a Certified Public Accountant, but he ain't no CPA at work and neither was Zappa, a at home, or at work.

Ice-T was also right (and more honestly attired) what philosophically makes rock & roll, rock & roll, is that it's the enemy of parents. So, just like Martin Scorsese's film The Last Temptation Of Christ, nobody would have gone to see it, if the opponents of it hadn't made a lot of noise. It's axiomatic in the film business that nobody goes to see religious movies in the theaters. BUT because of all the flap, people showed up in droves. I wouldn't be surprised if Scorsese and/or the studio, fomented the controversy themselves. So the more parents complain the more kids want the music.