 Were politicians fighting these same battles back in the 70s? Forgive me, I just don't know. I was born in 1983, so I remember the parental advisory on music albums. That was a big deal to me. But I don't know if politicians were getting into these culture wars back in the 70s. My guess is that they had bigger things to fry. When was the whole George Carlin thing? Was that late 70s? Yes, I guess it would be the 70s.