Cancelling My HBO subscription!! Costas is supporting Robbins/Sarandon in HOF Flap!!

Jon Alvarez

[jonalvy44]

general@hbo.com

Dear HBO:

I am writing to inform you of my plans to cancel my subscription to HBO. I will not support your company if you are going to pander to the anti-American Hollywood crowd. Bob Costas has invited Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon on his show to make a political point. That is his right. I am now exercising my right to cancel my HBO subscription.

Loyal Americans will not forget those that spoke out against America in its war on terrorism. I will also forward this to other like-minded Americans that will follow suit and express their contempt for these people via their wallets!

HBO's Consumer Affairs Department at 212-512-1208

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32072

Sportscaster Bob Costas says officials were wrong to nix the upcoming event in the wake of anti-war statements by Hollywood stars Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, and he's looking to stage the event on his own cable TV program.

Costas says he's invited the stars of the film to appear on HBO's "On The Record" "not to talk about the controversy, but re-create what they would have done up in Cooperstown."

Jon Alvarez Syracuse, NY Why we fight: http://home.attbi.com/~sept11/ Visit Alvy's forum: http://groups.msn.com/AlvysForum Americans For Victory Over Terrorism: http://www.avot.org/ Bush Country www.bushcountry.org We Will Not Forget!

[BrooklynGOP]

Don't be silly. That's just one show on the network. Dennis Miller is pretty much pro Bush.

[goodnesswins]

Ooh, Boy...Costas just made himself a target......

[Maedhros]

Solution: get a cable descrambler.

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[BrooklynGOP]

Solution: get a cable descrambler.

Oh my! What's next? You are going to download mp3's, too?

[ECM]

Err, first off, Dennis Miller's show was canceled last year.

Secondly, I'm of the opinion that it was canceled because he was getting far too pro-war and militant for the suits at HBO.

Take as you will.

[cincinnati65]

Dennis Miller is just "fair and balance" for Bill Maher.

[COURAGE]

"We will pursue them as war criminals. We will work with all the free people in the world, and they are many, who want someone to bell the cat [i.e.; to do a daring deed], and now we are belling the cat, according to the famous [Arabic] saying so as to rid the UN of those villains. After Iraq aborts the invasion that is being carried out by the American and British villains, the USA will no longer be a superpower. Its deterioration will be rapid. I say to those villains who are meeting in Europe, thinking of launching psychological war and brainwashing: wait. Do not be hasty because your disappointment will be huge. You will reap nothing from this aggressive war, which you launched on Iraq, except for disgrace and defeat. Iraq will continue to exist. Its civilization is 10,000 years old. It will not be changed by villains like the US and British villains."

[Hazzardgate]

It's true. Miller was pushed out by HBO because of his politics (or specifically, his constant attacks on Hillary).

[murdoog]

It certainly is your right to cancel your HBO subscription because of what Bob Costas has done. It would be your right to cancel because Costas reminds you too much of Gilbert from "Leave It To Beaver".

I do have to question though, to how many levels of indirection are you going to take this? If Costas wrote a book, would you boycott the stores that sold it?

It could get ridiculous after a while.

[Welsh Rabbit]

Is Costas' HBO show a sports show? If so, I can't imagine SS or TR has anything informative to say about baseball (or anything else).

[onedoug]

Aside from having underwritten part of the production for The Tuskegee Airmen a few years ago, who needs HBO?

[BrooklynGOP]

Hmm. I don't know. They just had his special on.

[Cagey]

Seperated at birth?

[mrjbj]

I already cancelled my subscription to HBO after seeing Bill Maher's new show. On its premier episode, they were talking about the designs for the WTC memorial building. He actually suggested that the top floor of this soaring memorial should dedicated to a meuseum on "why they hate us"...

HBO cancelled Dennis Miller's show to replace it with this garbage... Can you believe it?

[bigfootbob]

Isn't this the channel that produces "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel"?

[RetiredArmy]

Check ESPN baseball site and read Peter Gammon's piece. He also jumps on the HOF for supporting this. Gammons lives in leftist Boston, so it is no surprise he takes the left's side. Another puke liberal spouting off.

[Cacophonous]

About six years ago I cancelled my cable on the grounds that I was watching it just because it was there, and not because it had anything worth watching (yes, there are exceptions, but they are rare). Why watch a well-made TV show on an interesting subject when you can read a well-written book on the same topic?

My decision is validated every time I'm in a hotel room watching TV.

[JFC]

I canceled my People Magazine Subscrip.... And my Texas Monthly Supscrip. And I will not be purchasing Lipton Tea anymore. They can whine all they want and We the People can re-act all we want.

[rivercat]

I was already planning to cancel my subscription. so I sent them this same letter. Now I'm calling DirecTV to cancel HBO...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I'm of the opinion that it was canceled because he was getting far too pro-war and militant for the suits at HBO.

You apparently didn't catch his latest special on this past Saturday night. My favorite quote:

"...I realize that Clinton was a popular President but it's time for him and his fat wife to go away and shut the f*** up!"

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

HBO is still airing it. You can tune in tonight at 11 and watch.

[jonalvy44]

kudos to you!

[Rummyfan]

"...I realize that Clinton was a popular President but it's time for him and his fat wife to go away and shut the f*** up!"


Wow! I missed most of this show.... will have to catch a rebroadcast. It seemed to me that the audience was not exactly in synch with what Miller was saying though.

[TroutStalker]

I enjoyed most of the Dennis Miller special, right up until he made the remark about the Constitution being an out of date old parchment that needs to be updated, and that in this day and age, nobody needs to own a gun.

[Vaquero]

I cancelled HBO about 14 years ago, when the kid shows on Sunday morning were anti-gun anti-hunting shows. Their slant has always been to the left.

I will not support them with one dime. I generally keep away from all Hollyweird productions of late.

Its tough when there are so many dopy scumbags in the entertainment media.

[sharktrager]

Many people are supporting the two nitwits not because they agree with their politics,but because the whole situation was handled so badly. It's not like those two had seemed moderate before they were invited.

Even the head of the HOF says that the whole situation was his fault because of poor decision making.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Why would you be surprised about Costas at this point?

[Question_Assumptions]

Welcome to the club. HBO spits out at least one piece of left-wing propaganda a month. I gave up supporting it quite a while ago.

[ECM]

Yeah, but they're not new eps.

[dead]

I know a guy who says that sometimes America has it's faults.

He also said that he drank a Budweiser once in college.

No more Anhauser-Busch products for me! Ever.

[jonalvy44]

that was a good one...not.

[ECM]

Not to belabor the point, but there's a good chance the guy had 'x' number of specials as part of his contract--after all, they did replace him with, *snicker*, Bill Maher.

[Extremist]

I cancelled the Showtime package (what a joke that was) and was going to replace it with HBO until I heard of Bill Mahars show going there.

I'll be damned if I'm going to support a commie-pinko-fag like him or Costas!

[Toskrin]

The situation was handled somewhat badly, but I don't think the HoF dissed them because of their political views. They did it because Mr. and Mrs. Sarandon have a long history of spouting their political views in nonpolitical forums, even when asked not to do so.

[dead]

That wasn't nice. Now I'm boycotting all post by jonalvy44 and those that post on threads started by him.

Oh shoot. I just boycotted myself.

[Biblebelter]

The major reason that I subscribed to HBO was the fights. I always liked boxing and I grew up in the fifties watching the Friday Night Fights with my grandfather. But rarely does one get to see a good fight anymore, and when you do get to see a good fight, the decision is usually ludicrous, particularly with the fights shown on HBO. A few months ago, I decided to subscribe to the Starz Package and compare it to my HBO subscription. I found out how little use that I had for HBO and dropped it. I've been HBO free for four months and I have no regrets. I've been CNN free for years (another AOL company) and I certainly am glad of that. I think one can have a very high quality of life without putting any money in the AOL Time-Warner coffers.

[MinuteGal]

Why would anyone subscribe to H-BO in the first place? Most of its scheduling is junk entertainment and boring yuppie movies.

My discretionary money goes to FR and the Salvation Army, not to feeding the hands that bite me.

Leni

[SoothingDave]

I enjoyed most of the Dennis Miller special, right up until he made the remark about the Constitution being an out of date old parchment that needs to be updated, and that in this day and age, nobody needs to own a gun.

Yeah. But it does appear he is having a slow awakening. Given time he may examine his other reflexive views.

SD

[SwinneySwitch]

I'm not subscribing to HBO like
I didn't got to Paris this spring!
And I will definitely not be going
to the french riveria this summer,
definitely!:^}

[optik_b]

I'll always keep HBO to watch the great boxing matches. Go Lennox Lewis!

[optik_b]

Fights like this are the reason I have HBO:

[Beelzebubba]

Sometimes, HBO produces a gem:

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

They sure do. Wasn't that awesome? I have the set of DVDs, and I feel like watching them now - thanks for the reminder.

[Right Wing Professor]

Why would anyone subscribe to H-BO in the first place

I did it for the Sopranos, plain and simple. But since the last season of the Sopranos was a disappointment, and I've rarely found anything else on HBO worth watching, I ain't renewing.

[sox_the_cat]

Sopranos too. Howie Carr discussing this now.

[sharktrager]

If it's because of a "long history" they shouldn't have been invited at all.

To invite someone, knowing what they are, and to then un-invite them because of what they are, is idiotic.

Sorry, but they really screwed this one up. They should have never made the invitation, or made it without including a speaking engagement.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...right up until he made the remark about the Constitution being an out of date old parchment that needs to be updated...

That's odd. I took that statement to mean something totally different. He said we need to hit the "Refresh" button on the Constitution. I took that to mean that he thinks that we need to look again at what it really says and take the words for what they mean. Not what someone says they mean.

As for the gun statement, he said he believes in gun ownership but that the sheer numbers of guns needs to be reigned in. In my opinion that doesn't make him anti-2nd Ammendment.

[OldPossum]

You're exactly right. I would add that by subscribing to HBO you are in a fashion subsidizing Hollywood because, if I understand HBO's output right, their main bill of fare is movies.

I don't subscribe to cable or satellite TV services anyway. There are many more interesting ways to entertain oneself. The two that come immediately to mind are books and FR.