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"The Suits" Are Scared: Obama's Plan To Take Over Broadcast Television.
Friends and Fiends at my old Network | MB26 and James Beam

Posted on 02/09/2009 8:44:21 PM PST by MindBender26

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To: Jet Jaguar
Durians stink. I cannot fathom why anyone would eat them.

That's why I suggested a dessert of durian fruit and Limberger cheese. It reminds me of Obama's policies.

121 posted on 02/10/2009 9:03:54 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: MindBender26
Nice economics lesson. I stand warned to completely avoid involvement with a business that can be destroyed with the slightest of political manipulation. Especially with the current political climate.

The OFF switch on my TV works flawlessly. It is in factory new condition with little wear.

122 posted on 02/10/2009 9:09:38 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: bushwon
>>>> So was the original 7-year licensing period originally established to insulate media from politics of an administration?

You got it exactly right!

And, with the rolling 7 years, no more 15% of stations licenses were renewed every year, which all added up to a calming effect.

123 posted on 02/10/2009 9:18:53 AM PST by MindBender26 (Does Obama want to end the USA as we know it? What indication has he given that he doesn't!?!)
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To: All

When the networks that have carried the Boy-King’s water finally turn on him, it will be a thing of beauty...It WILL happen, mark it down...


124 posted on 02/10/2009 9:21:09 AM PST by Maverick68 (w)
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To: divine_moment_of_facts
Here are the stats so far:

What did you think of Obama's prime-time speech and press conference?

Thumbs down 42%

Thumbs up 36%

I didn't watch 22%

Do you want Congress to pass the economic stimulus bill?

No 56%

Yes 44%

Do you think Congress will pass the stimulus bill?

Yes 80%

No 20%

Has your opinion of Obama changed since he took office?

Yes, it's worsened 48%

No 27%

Yes, it's improved 25%

125 posted on 02/10/2009 9:25:22 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Man is not free unless government is limited.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper; an amused spectator; Yooper4Life; Jet Jaguar; azishot

I see AOL finally caught their “Mistake”.. I wasn’t able to get a screen save.. Glad most of you saw it with your own eyes.


126 posted on 02/10/2009 10:38:22 AM PST by divine_moment_of_facts
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To: MindBender26

Hmmm, so my concern—on the one hand, MSM gets what they deserve—dwindling viewership, etc.; but, on other, the uneducated masses stay uneducated—what can be done to stop this?


127 posted on 02/10/2009 2:56:57 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: seemoAR
"I really enjoy watching (Bubble headed, bobble necked) propaganda readers when they tell me what I should think, feel, or do. I wish the one eyed idiot box wasn’t unidirectional. ;0)"

Agreed! It should even allow for other physical feedback. Saliva can be a wonderful medium of feedback--especially from cigarette-smoking, morning viewers! ;-)


128 posted on 02/10/2009 4:39:23 PM PST by familyop (As painful as the global laxative might be, maybe our "one world" needs a good cleaning.)
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To: MindBender26

Date Set For Obama’s First Address To Congress (what’s your schedule for then)

See BS ^ | 2/10/2009 | Michelle Levi

Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:22:53 PM by markomalley

President Obama has been formally invited by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to address a joint session of Congress for the first time on February 24, 2009.

The date was confirmed by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs while en route with the president to a town hall meeting in Fort Myers, FL this morning. The president plans to continue to push his Economic Reinvestment and Recovery Package at the meeting.

THERE WILL BE MORE


129 posted on 02/10/2009 5:57:53 PM PST by MindBender26 (Obama makes me long for Jimmy Carter's intelligence and the openness and honesty of Richard Nixon)
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To: MindBender26

Good reporting!

Just sent the link to a a friend who is a Bama-voting Upper East Side ad exec, asking him to “add” up how much this will cost him.

- Nic


130 posted on 02/10/2009 6:18:08 PM PST by nicollo (you're freakin' out!)
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To: MindBender26

The march goes on, I have expected something like this. It’s also a matter of time before they go after the internet as well. People who have power share one quality with those who are super rich, they never have enough of it and at some point they decide to play god. When they do, people get hurt or killed. Obama seems to be one with megalomaniac tendencies. I would not want to be a member of his administration, like those around Stalin, life expectancy could be short.


131 posted on 02/10/2009 9:24:03 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: familyop

Many Red Necks still chew Red Man. ;0)


132 posted on 02/11/2009 4:26:45 AM PST by seemoAR
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To: Allegra
>>>> I'm sure there's a better example for a low-ratings Lions opponent. ;-)

Bishop Schimaldski Manual Training Junior High School for Exceptional Boys.

133 posted on 02/11/2009 6:06:14 AM PST by MindBender26 (Obama makes me long for Jimmy Carter's intelligence and the openness and honesty of Richard Nixon)
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To: MindBender26
Your link has been posted at stevequayle.com.

The thought that comes immediately to mind is that, this will formulate the basis for a Counter-Revolution.

You can be sure that the playbook for this Silent Coup was written before the election.

WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT ANY IN THE BROADCAST MEDIA WILL STAND UP TO THIS, and see themselves as heroic (in their own minds ala Woodward and Bernstein)?

134 posted on 02/11/2009 9:42:09 AM PST by happygrl (BORG: Barack 0bama Resistance Group: we will not be assimilated)
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To: Frantzie; MindBender26

An anonymous reader writes
“According to the Register, Senator Diane Feinstein is attempting to put language into the stimulus bill that would kill net neutrality.
http://news.slashdot.org/news/09/02/11/1454246.shtml

Thanks to the reference to slashdot, a site of which I had no knowledge.


135 posted on 02/11/2009 9:49:56 AM PST by happygrl (BORG: Barack 0bama Resistance Group: we will not be assimilated)
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To: texan75010

What over the air?


136 posted on 02/11/2009 10:00:46 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: happygrl
>>> WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT ANY IN THE BROADCAST MEDIA WILL STAND UP TO THIS, and see themselves as heroic (in their own minds ala Woodward and Bernstein)?

Don't know Woodward. Bernstein was the typical Nixon-hating journalist of his generation. They were NOT heavy hitters at all at the Post. Watergate began as a police blotter story, included to fill some column inches.

To understand Woodstein, watch the James Reston character in the movie Frost/Nixon. Young reporters of that generation were required to HATE Nixon in order to keep their union card. (Bob Zelnick being an exception.) To more fully understand Reston and his ilk, remember that under the Reston byline, the New York Times article on Chappaquiddick began "Tragedy Has Struck The Kennedy Family Again." Mary Jo Kopekne's name was not even mentioned until the 4th paragraph!

Bernstein is a very good, very dogged reporter. But he was looking for a story to de-throne Nixon... and Nixon gave him one.

That aside, remember that The Suits are not Woodsteins. They are not Ben Bradley, Lou Grant or Mrs. Pinchon either.

They are much more akin to the Rick Moranis character in GhostBusters, or Jabba The Hut, but without his charm, good looks or warmth.

Once you get past the fact that The Suits are lying, cheating, immoral, thieving weasels who would sell their mothers, their souls, their children's birthrights, in fact they would sell everything but their Mercedes for another $20,000 below the line, they are not bad guys.

Well, actually, they are.

137 posted on 02/11/2009 12:13:32 PM PST by MindBender26 (Obama makes me long for Jimmy Carter's intelligence and the openness and honesty of Richard Nixon)
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