Has anybody asked the Rockettes what they think should happen?
Posted on 10/13/2009 6:58:28 AM PDT by tlb
Those morons at Jeff Zucker's company have stepped in it yet again. It's bad enough NBC can't get anyone to watch its piss-poor network primetime shows, but now NBC is making sure the American public can't watch other networks' shows as well. (This follows an earlier report that NBC doesn't want the Jay Leno Show to book rival networks' TV stars.)
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is known for annually including "cultural touchstones of the moment" in its broadcast, from every American Idol winner since the 2nd season (a Fox show) to the stars of High School Musical (a Disney Channel show). Not a peep out of parade broadcaster NBC.
But then, a month ago, the parade producers (who aren't part of NBC) invited this season's hot Fox show Glee castmembers to march and perform during the parade. "They wanted us to have the cast ride a float down the parade route and do a number at the end," a 20th Century TV exec tells me. "Late last week, we confirmed that the Glee cast was able to participate, and we began to talk choreography."
But, on Thurday, the studio received a call from the parade producers disinviting the show. "They called all mortified and apologetic. They said that after conversing with NBC they had to withdraw the invitation because NBC was forcing them to.
According to the NBC people, the parade was not going to promote a Fox show on their air." The parade producers acknowledged to 20th TV that NBC has never vetoed a single act booked in the past. Funny thing is, Glee airs opposite NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; that's hardly the same demographic. So what the hell is NBC's problem?
NBC can have it's lame parade. I'm POSITIVE that Obama will be there... so my 4 kids and the rest of my family will miss it. I'm thinking if the f'ing NFL and ESPN keep up with the politically correct cr@p, I'll just settle for some college ball and turn off the tube for the rest of the bs.
What would be sweet would be the St. Louis Rams FReepers NOT SHOWING up for any football games and specifically telling the NFLPA that they'd rather watch UFC than some racist politically correct entertainment product that they're shoving down our throats.
‘A Monster Mash on 34th St.’
Guys, were at the time of choosing friends and enemies.
Choose wisely and on the basis of whom would you like in a foxhole with you.
Of course, Obozo, the GREAT UNITER will deal with this shortly.
The reeducation camps are being constructed as you read this. From the size of the ovens being built, they must be planning to bake a lot of stuff there. At least Freepers will eat well.
Under 3 minute video depicting how the Obama cultists resemble the cultists who worshipped that other guy 70 years ago in Germany:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u0GJSZttZE&feature=channel_page
*Nikki* Finke wrote this?...Color me gobsmacked!
NBC is garbage. I will never watch anything on NBC again.
Glee is one of the worst shows on TV, and that says something. It is nothing but pushing sex and disloyalty onto the kids who watch it.
I like that idea.
Glee float would have humping kids on it I guess.
Fox broadcast network is not “conservative” in the least
Anyone who can go to the Thanksgiving Day Parade be sure to hide your signs until the parade is going by you. The organizers will take the signs if they see them. You know, censoring from the Left.
GLEE has an abiguously gender-neutral creepy character that may be male...or female, you can’t tell and it’s played up that way (Ala SNL’s ancient “Pat” gag.) The Lefties ought to LOVE that show.
The show “Glee” is incorrigible. Sex acts, bad language, teachers stepping out of their marriage bonds, wives lying to their husbands, teens “putting out” to get boyfriends, etc. If I still had teens in the house, I would block it.
I was really looking forward to this series because my kids were in music growing up, and one of them is currently a HS music teacher. So, I watched the first show and was totally disgusted. So was my daughter.
So, I’m haveing a hard time criticizing Macy’s for blocking this act. No telling what they would do on that float.
As I said long ago:
ABDNC, DNCBS, NBDNC, and DNCNN. Any new ones?
Nobody is lawfully allowed to take anything from you aside from the NYPD, and even they need to do it within the Law.
Carrying a sign or flag on a public sidewalk while watching a passing parade is not against the law.
Jumping into the parade to disrupt it is another matter.
I thought that the cast of Glee appeared as invited guests at the Gay Protest over the weekend. Maybe NBC is homophobic!
Only one? Not much of a high school show choir then. :-)
And I forgot to mention how they portray teachers and administrators. Disgusting.
Don’t die on this hill (to save Glee for the Parade).
Isn’t Nikki just a typical old line Hollyweird liberal who has been “writing” for 30-40 years? I’ve never seen a photo of her/him but imagine she/he would be typical old hag liberal.
I'd say you're right.....it wasn't until after Ailes and Axelrod had their little "informal coffee" meeting that the hammer got dropped by the White House regime.
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