Posted on 04/05/2014 7:27:41 AM PDT by cutty
Comcast, which employs more than 100 lobbyists, spent almost $19 million last year on lobbying activities. Its president and CEO, Brian L. Roberts, is a golf buddy of President Obama’s, and a Democratic donor who has contributed thousands of dollars not only to the president’s campaigns, but also to the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the DNC Services Corporation, and to Steny Hoyer, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Bob Casey. Roberts’ executive vice president, David Cohen, is a former aide to Democratic bigwig Ed Rendell. Cohen skirts lobbying regulations through loopholes, has raised more than $2 million for Obama since 2007, and in 2011 hosted a DNC fundraiser at which the president called him “friend.” Cohen has visited the White House 14 times since 2010..
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Comcast’s in-kind contributions to the Democratic Party are more difficult to calculate. In a media environment that already tilts leftward, the NBC networks, which Comcast owns, distinguish themselves as especially pro-Obama. Comcast has one channel, MSNBC, which is almost entirely devoted to furthering the president’s agenda and the broader priorities of the American progressive movement.
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It is something of a political irony that Republicans, who for ideological reasons are pro-business, have not raised questions about, or objections to, the conjoining of two Democratic institutions into a media trust. If Republicans had any sense, they would wage war against Comcast and its Democratic enablers and turn the merger into a live issue. Needless to say they have not done so, perhaps in the wrongheaded and futile hope of scraps from the table of the Comcast cable beast, perhaps in the foolish and selfish notion that David Cohen may one day add another man to his company of lobbyists.
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Maybe...hasn’t happened yet...proper “grease” has to be applied to the regulators first.
Why all the aliases?
“There are so many channels available over air now might as well just get an antenna and save even more.”
There has been a rebound in homes with antennas in our area. Besides the do it your self people, Radio Shack and a local tv shop have some packages of high quality and fairy expensive antennas.
However, it will not work in our area as we have some hills and lot of trees that will block the signals. I know one guy who lives about 500 yards away as the crows fiies. His home is on higher ground. He got the raping bill from Comcast at Thanksgiving time. He had an antennae costing about $500 with a antennae rotator installed. He says he has better tv reception than with Comcast or satellite. He has the Hughes satellite internet, and it works for him. He put in two of the stand alone wireless home phones. He had the antenna installed last Dec, and his savings to date has paid for the cost. His cost for the Hughes internet and stand alone wireless home phones is less than $100 per month.
His savings are about $1600 per year.
Sounds good, but Centurylink doesn’t provide services in my area.
Thanks
How do you access the internet to get what you get.
Google Chrome is my backup when Comcast is too slow like today, but I still have to log on to Comcast to get GC.
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