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Crossfire a show hosted by two pundits, one of whom was presented as being "on the left" and one "on the right," to provide two sides of the political spectrum. The show usually featured two additional "left and right" guests on each topic of discussion. On some occasions only one guest was featured. In 1986 Frank Zappa was fighting for your right to say words that some would claim should be prohibited in order to protect people.

This debate or more correctly an interrogation resembling a Mutt and Jeff or Good Cop bad Cop, clearly highlighted early efforts to curtail free speech in America. This war on words became the present war on hate we now struggle against.  Governments all over the word are claiming it’s to keep us safe. Don't believe it; not for one second ...

Senate testimony

On September 19, 1985, Zappa testified before the United States Senate Commerce, Technology, and Transportation committee, attacking the Parents Music Resource Center or PMRC, a music organization co-founded by Tipper Gore, wife of then-senator Al Gore. The PMRC consisted of many wives of politicians, including the wives of five members of the committee, and was founded to address the issue of song lyrics with sexual or satanic content.[176] Zappa saw their activities as on a path towards censorship,[177] and called their proposal for voluntary labelling of records with explicit content "extortion" of the music industry.[178] In his prepared statement, he said: PDF