Hillary Clinton, Santorum, Brownback & Lieberman against TV sex &violence [View All]

[Ian David]

Hil gets an odd pal in battle vs. sex TV

BY MAGGIE HABERMAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton stood with one of her most conservative colleagues yesterday to announce a bill to curb sex-and-violence-drenched TV shows and video games.

Clinton (D-N.Y.) has several co-sponsors - including Sens. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) - for the bill, which would provide government funding to closely study the impact of such video games and shows on kids. But it was conservative Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) who caught the eye of political watchers.

At a Kaiser Family Foundation event before a news conference, Clinton, who's believed to be eying a 2008 White House run, called the proliferation of violence and sex in the media "a silent epidemic." Clinton, Santorum and the others submitted a similar bill last May, but it went nowhere.

Some observers believe Clinton is ratcheting up overtures toward the political right for '08; Santorum is a leading Senate conservative and a lightening rod among gay activists for his anti-gay marriage beliefs.

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