If it’s Sunday, it’s still conservative.
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If it’s Sunday, it’s still conservative.
In 2006, Media Matters conducted a study on Sunday political talk shows, finding that “Republicans and conservatives have been offered more opportunities to appear on the Sunday shows — in some cases, dramatically so.” From 2001 to 2005, conservative guests outnumbered progressives “by 58 percent to 42 percent.” Atrios notes that tomorrow’s shows will also be dominated by conservative guests:
7 Appearances by Republican current elected officeholders
3 Appearances by Democratic current elected officeholders.
2 Appearances by Republican former elected officeholders.
1 Appearance by a Bush Cabinet Secretary.
T. Boone Pickens
Ted Turner.
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Who really gives a shit? Just watch football and ignore the stupid bastards and their SPONSERS!
November 15th, 2008 at 8:30 pmcorrect me if i’m wrong, but i heard mike papentonio today say that for every 300 hours of righty radio, there is one (1) minute of left…
he named a study, but i forget… a familiar name…
November 15th, 2008 at 8:37 pmDoes anyone get the feeling that even if we were vote every Republican out of our government, these assclowns would still be taking up most of our airtime?
November 15th, 2008 at 8:38 pmTHE NEW AND COMING 21st CENTURY FAIRNESS DOCTRINE WILL TAKE CARE OF THE REPUGLICAN PROPAGANDA MACHINE AND THE COMPLICIT IDIOT CORPORATE MEDIA
November 15th, 2008 at 8:42 pmFrank, Dorgan, Levin, Rangel – though I’d be hard-pressed to call any progressives – that’s four. MSM must think it’s getting swamped with dirty hippies.
Now, if they’d have Chomsky, Zinn, Parenti and Tariq Ali, maybe ‘Merkuh would get an education.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:49 pmWhat else are they going to do?
November 15th, 2008 at 8:57 pmFurther proof that the good ole’ US of A is a center right nation!
/sarc off
November 15th, 2008 at 8:57 pmFreightening how the myth of the “liberal media” seems to still have the conservative-biased media actively seeking out conservatives for their biased reporting. Heckuva job.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:02 pmLet the conservatives spout off and prove again that they are idiots with failed policies and failed ideas.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:07 pmGregor Samsa Says:
Further proof that the good ole’ US of A is a center right nation!
/sarc off
no doubt that will be the topic too…
gotta propagate the propaganda… if you will…
November 15th, 2008 at 9:11 pmThis is how they “catapult the propaganda” that America is a center-to-right country.
The mainstream media stacks the deck with overwhelming conservative talking heads with a few token dems thrown in – often, morons that do not stand for or cannot articulate progressive ideas.
Then the echo chamber takes over. The rest of the media repeats the distortions and lies because they were on the Sunday bobble head circuit.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:12 pmI think it’s okay to have republicans in the majority on the Sunday news programs for a couple more weeks. It will take them at least that long to (1) complete their post mortem on their now-dead party and (2) agree upon who is responsible for killing it. Actually, I kind of enjoy watching them flail around, trash Palin and stick knives in each other’s backs.
In the meantime, democrats have some work to do preparing for the job ahead. Climbing out of the hole that GDumbya, Darth Cheney and the Kongressional Keystone Kops is going to be a seven-day-a-week job.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:27 pmThe liberal media is having conservatives on so they can play gotcha!!
/wingnut/rant.ini
November 15th, 2008 at 9:34 pmBut really I find it slightly amusing that after eight years+ of this they still didnt win in 2006 or 2008 and they refuse to change.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:40 pm“Liberal Media” is a phrase propagated by the republican neocons that own the media. There is no such animal. As far as the Sunday morning propaganda hour or so, I no longer bother with it. It is a waste of time, not to mention being total bullshit.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:44 pmI rather agree with Tom – the Rs are flailing around, some of them still using the same campaign talking points. Admittedly, there will be yet another election day in Georgia to excuse the campaign-overtime mode, but I think that some of the Republican talking heads that they throw on just don’t know what else to say. I have to say that now that Obama is the President-elect, I can laugh at them more easily.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:45 pmXisithrus, it’s because their mindset refuses to let them see that they were wrong.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:47 pmOT – but just read something… have question:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/15/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4607049.shtml
Dems Attach Strings To Auto Bailout
[...]
Pelosi can probably push the auto bailout through the House next week, but in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has some serious negotiating on his hands with Senate Republicans. And Reid is working with even less than his 51 seat Democratic majority next week thanks to Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s promotions in the Nov. 4 election.
why did obama resign before the lame duck session ended?
did biden resign also?
can the replacement(s) vote in this lame duck session?
November 15th, 2008 at 9:55 pmWant to get change on the Sunday morning blowhardfests? Email the sponsors and tell them that you actively avoid buying their products and will encourage friends and family, as well as your Congress critters to avoid spending money with the defense contractors who advertise there unless they balance the Republicans with more Progressive Democrats.
Then actively avoid their products. When we get enough people involved, there will be change because sponsors will pull their money. It won’t be quick, but boycotts do get the attention of businesses.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:12 pmXisithrus, it’s because their mindset refuses to let them see that they were wrong. -Jane Schneider
Thats probably so, but it also occurs to me they have lost the ability to frame issues.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:16 pmsarah’s “liberal media”.
right.
*
November 15th, 2008 at 10:18 pmI know this works on a local level. My local paper stopped delivering their advertising sheet to my area. I called and asked to have it back and had no luck. After fuming about it I decided to do something. I went to the people who I frequent, markets, department and discount stores and spoke to the managers. I told them how much I spend in their stores per week or month and told them the paperwas taking their money and not delivering.
Two weeks ater I had a call from the local paper circulation manager. He wasn’t happy with what I had done. I listed dates and times of my calls and the name of the person I spoke with if I had it and explained that I tried to go through the paper and got nothing. Now my campaign wouls continue until I was satisifed.
A couple of weeks of consistent deliveries and I spoke with the store managers and thanked them for listening to me.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:18 pmEffective boycotting is a POWERFUL weapon in a society that worships money. REMEMBER THIS.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:33 pmThe republican fire sale has started.
While its still smoldering:
Alaska’s Stevens faces party ouster, election defeat
By Erika Bolstad | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — If Republicans in the U.S. Senate ever secretly hoped for one of their own to lose an election, it might be Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, who’s in a cliffhanger of a race with Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich.
[...]
“I think it would be very difficult, as a convicted felon, that he should remain in the conference,” Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla. said last week. “The Republican Party needs to send a signal that we are at a moment in time where we are not to tolerate that…I think a convicted felon is pretty inconsistent with serving in the U.S. Senate.”
Martinez added that he needs to hear from Stevens first before he decides how he would vote on the proposal, brought by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.
DeMint’s office has characterized the vote on Stevens as a way of cleaning Republican house of any scandalous taint before the 111th Congress begins in January. They expect it to pass, said DeMint spokesman Wesley Denton. It’s the only chance such a vote has to pass, since after this week, Congress is unlikely to return until the new session begins with the Jan. 6 swearing-in of new members.
While the vote is on Tuesday’s agenda for 9:30 a.m., it’s not clear whether it will even take place. Many Republican senators say they would rather wait for the final election results so they don’t have to cast an uncomfortable vote on whether Stevens should stay in their conference.
“The latest report I saw is that Begich is pulling ahead,” making it a moot point, said Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho. But then he added: “Look, we have due process rights. Until a person has been exhausted all of them, we should reserve judgment till he’s had full due process. We need to wait to see the outcome of the election as well as due process.”
Martinez added that he is “hopeful that the election will resolve this perhaps, and we won’t have to deal with it.”
He’s hopeful — that Stevens loses. Another of the Reagan-era republican mantras, “thou shalt not speak ill of another republican,” now defunct.
The reporter shaded the truth a bit, in her opening: “If Republicans in the U.S. Senate ever secretly hoped for one of their own to lose an election…”
Fla. rep. Mel Martinez was more overt: “Martinez added that he is “hopeful that the election will resolve this perhaps, and we won’t have to deal with it.”
And “Martinez added that he needs to hear from Stevens first before he decides how he would vote on the proposal, brought by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.” announces that it’s every rat for himself.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:39 pmImagine if instead of the Dems steamrolling the GOP on Nov. 4th it had been the other way around. That guest list would probably look something like this:
17 Appearances by Republican current elected officeholders
0 Appearances by Democratic current elected officeholders.
12 Appearances by Republican former elected officeholders.
5 Appearances by a Bush Cabinet Secretaries.
Sarah Palin on every show
Bill Ayers
Jeremiah Wright
Liberal media my ass. Just saying . . .
November 16th, 2008 at 12:32 amRich people don’t pay taxes? I’m SHOCKED
November 16th, 2008 at 1:37 amDon’t watch. Don’t watch, don’t blog about what the wingnuts say on the Sunday shows – just ignore them. Seriously – these people live and die by the ratings. If having progressive guests gets better ratings and better buzz, they’ll have more progressive guests.
November 16th, 2008 at 1:39 amConservative Republican “boardroom” mentality is so predictable.
For instance, U.S. Treachery Secretary Henry Paulson won’t help out Detroit and U.S. automakers for one reason only: Labor Unions.
In Paulson’s “Goldman Sachs” frame of mind, giving billions of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street firms and banks is ideologically acceptable because at these financial institutions the only workers possibly connected to labor unions are members of the overnight cleaning crews.
In Detroit, on the other hand, the United Auto Workers and other labor unions have a major presence, successfully representing working Americans in Detroit’s boardrooms for many years.
Plus, one can’t discount the possibility of “race” being behind U.S. Treachery Secretary Paulson’s decision to stiff Detroit, with far more blacks being members of labor unions in Detroit as compared to the dearth of blacks being in middle- to top-level positions at Wall Street firms/banks.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that U.S. Treachery Secretary Henry Paulson is a typical Republican, which is why he was chosen by other typical Republicans like Bush and Cheney to be their U.S. Treachery Secretary…which means we are still in the Herbert Hoover phase of this world-wide financial crisis with the financial situation for millions of U.S. citizens bound to get much, much worse…with things turning around only when U.S. Treachery Secretary Henry Paulson is gone (no doubt back to a corporate boardroom somewhere) and replaced by someone who cares about America and American workers for a change.
November 16th, 2008 at 1:45 amWonder what they are really putting in those Communion wafers?
November 16th, 2008 at 1:48 amthe brown acid Says:
Effective boycotting is a POWERFUL weapon in a society that worships money. REMEMBER THIS.
Boycotting is so much easier since I don’t have any money anyway. Oh yeah, top-down economics really works for me.
November 16th, 2008 at 1:51 amcheck this out, it explains a lot
November 16th, 2008 at 1:59 amhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-klein/cable-news-networks-ban-a_b_143570.html
Title: Cable News Networks Ban Actual News
a few snippets:
“the major news networks have directed anchors and correspondents to refrain from traditional news reporting and focus on what they do best — glitz, opinion, “happy talk,” sarcasm and stating the obvious.”
“”Broadcasts will be monitored to ensure that the risk to viewers of being exposed to something they don’t already know is eliminated or kept to a minimum,” the CNN memo says.”
“”If someone wants to see actual news,” the executive continued, “they can watch C-Span — or the bloody BBC.”"
The “news” just became a little more stupid – on purpose.
Thank you for lowering the bar of expectations. God forgive the “news” give us fact-based journalism versus the recent string of opinion-based or “I-feel” journalism. God bless corporate media. God bless ratings. God bless the almighty dollar.
WHAT THEY ARE REALLY PRAYING TO
http://wonkette.com/403920/jesus-people-pray-that-false-idol-will-save-gods-economy
November 16th, 2008 at 2:10 amDear President Obama,
Please nationalize the U.S. media forthwith. Clearly, capitalism is not up to the task of providing us with reliable news and commentary.
How to Tell Your Party Is Dead:
November 16th, 2008 at 6:19 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qi4ezdmO08
The right-wingers are utterly ridiculous. They claim that we control the media, and yet they receive considerably more air-time on Sunday talk shows to promote their “conservative policies” that lost them this election?
Hypocrites at work here.
November 16th, 2008 at 7:29 amWhat I don’t understand is why the lying liars of the repug/neocon party are always on TV on Sundays?
There are the same folks that want to kill innocent women and children in their illegal wars.
They will even make up stories about WMD and lie about who was responsible for 9/11 to justify the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of civilians to justify these war crimes and crimes against humanity.
They will then call the killing “collateral damage.”
And when it comes to domestic policies, they promote class warfare via fraudulent economic policies, a dysfunctional health care system, and abandoning any real compassion and safety net for the poor.
Yet the masquerade as “religious” even though they stand for virtually everything Jesus stands for.
Lies make baby Jesus cry, yet Sunday morning is a parade of lying liars.
November 16th, 2008 at 8:35 ammadstork123 Says:
Want to get change on the Sunday morning blowhardfests?
Glad you saw some results, but let’s get real here. The large corporations (mostly global) that own or are underwriting the mainstream media do not give a damn if we, as individuals, buy their products.
The walmarts, applebees, home depots, mcdonalds, staples, and the rest of the neocon/repug cash-cows don’t pay attention to single consumers – their business models have made us irrelevant unless we act as an organized group.
November 16th, 2008 at 8:39 amthe brown acid Says:
Effective boycotting is a POWERFUL weapon in a society that worships money. REMEMBER THIS.
Spot-on, key word is EFFECTIVE. It cannot be effective if it is not organized.
November 16th, 2008 at 8:41 amwell, we’d certainly like to see this change, but in the meantime regardless of their ranting, we have the whitehouse (soon enough), both houses of congress and a majority of the governors’ spots. not to shabby, folks!!!!!! :)
November 16th, 2008 at 9:00 amThis is truly distressing.
November 16th, 2008 at 9:46 amObama has not been controversial, so he and the Dems are not making news — so the talk shows invite the vanquished, the bitter losers to critique everything and anything so to fill the time and justify their appearances.
The networks perpetuate the false notion that we are all conservative at heart – because they are – they assume the same for the majority of America.
It’s time to work the crossword puzzle and skip Brokaw, Stephanopolous, Schieffer and Wallace — they aren’t worth the cost of the electricity to turn on the TV.
its past time to breakup Big Media, which is something everyone should be able to get behind. If nothing else, after a generation or more of conservatives’ crocodile tears railing about how liberally biased the major media is, it would be very interesting to see if conservatives would get behind breaking up Big Media, which if successful would have the effect of unbiasing the media, i.e., more diversity/less concentrated control equates to less bias and more equal time available according to what the market dictates. It should be a twofer that conservatives could support: more access and more capitalist. Somehow though, I think conservatives would make up excuses to not support breaking up Big Media.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:01 amWatching C-Span, and their announcement that Obama will make a serious attempt at placing republicans at all levels of government.
While this sounds like a good idea, one must remark that it also opens the administration up to all sorts of political chicanery, by undercover operatives of the GOP.
As detailed in Perlstein’s Nixonland, the republican party is replete with fraudsters, and has been for decades. While some principled republicans do exist, they are a miniscule minority, and giving republicans authority to represent a democratic administration risks all sorts of catastrophes that can be used as political fodder by the republican party.
Republicans have learned that to effectively rodent-rape another person or campaign, no traces can be left which points to them. Giving them authority allows them to design and enact these r/a/t/f/u/c/k/s at their convenience.
This bi-partisan administration will be based upon finding reputable republicans; but after 8 years of following their beloved leader, no matter what, I seriously doubt that many can be located who haven’t engaged in unethical attacks on dems.
This is comparable to paying members of the Sunni Awakening, not to attack US forces in Iraq.
Except the republicans will, in some instances, have security clearances, for viewing top secret intel – something the Sunnis don’t have access to.
There’s a bad moon on the rise.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:06 amMarie says: Obama has not been controversial, so he and the Dems are not making news — so the talk shows invite the vanquished, the bitter losers to critique everything and anything so to fill the time and justify their appearances.
this is not what it is at all. There is no doubt whatsoever that had mccain and the republicans won it would have been wall-to-wall all republicans/conservatives – a virtual democratic blackout. Just look at 2004 – I don’t recall a wave of progressive and Democrat appreances on the major media shows (because it didn’t happen). No, in 2004 the media carried the republican water that bush’s win, although significantly less than Obama’s, was a mandate to do whatever bush wanted. They harped on that for months.
With Big Media being GOP propagandists as job 1, it is always heads republicans win, tails democrats lose no matter what the reality is. There is little more important to the survival of the US as a democracy and nation of equal rights than to breakup Big Media.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:09 amIf nothing else, after a generation or more of conservatives’ crocodile tears railing about how liberally biased the major media is, it would be very interesting to see if conservatives would get behind breaking up Big Media, which if successful would have the effect of unbiasing the media, i.e., more diversity/less concentrated control equates to less bias and more equal time available according to what the market dictates.
This would be framed as an attempt to muzzle the Right, because “big media” are corporations that own radio, TV, and print outlets. Like Fox.
They would howl that it was another liberal attempt to gag Rush, and Hannity.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:10 amThis would be a nonissue if people would just get rid of their televisions…
November 16th, 2008 at 10:27 amI care about studies like this and here’s why.
The Right promotes the myth that somehow FoxNews and talk radio are conservative and everything else in the media is “liberal.” It’s a lie.
While NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN are not as conservative as Fox, all four of these media outlets are actually far more conservative than liberal. What studies like this do is provide concrete factual data to back up my point while the other side just yells sound bites from the rooftop.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:48 amThis would be framed as an attempt to muzzle the Right, because “big media” are corporations that own radio, TV, and print outlets. Like Fox.
but that is exactly why its a win-win for progressives – the right has been screaming liberal bias for decades, so how can they claim that breaking up big media hurt conservatives. Its a trap for conservatives that either way progressives win: if they fail in breaking up big media because of conservative intervention, the liberal bias meme is exposed in a big way for the hoax that it is. If they do break up Break Media, at least to some degree, its a big win for democracy. Plus, just getting the problem out in the open would be a big plus.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:54 amTV is the new AM radio.
It has been pointed out that the people who fund these shows are owned lock, stock and barrell by the right and their friends.
Do you really think a boycott would change am radio who is wholly owned by clearchannel?…..no.
The internet is the new media of the left. The right is still afraid of it because they are conservatives who are afraid of change.
Now that bush is gone and the rep majority has been dismantled, we no longer have to fear losing this tool to spread truth……
educate….
November 16th, 2008 at 11:22 ampluege Says:
…so how can they claim that breaking up big media hurt conservatives.
Sounds like a rational point, but you are assuming that reason has a place in this dialog.
Clearly not true – the owners of MSM play the public like fools. And they will always succeed as long at they can create an “echo chamber” to make the lies resonate.
You cannot “trap” lying liars that have virtually complete control over the mainstream media.
If you think that we can somehow create positive change by anything less than organized economic boycotts, you are not paying attention.
November 16th, 2008 at 11:22 amFred – an organized boycott where it was widely known that large segments of Americans were making a statement certainly would be effective.
All social change in America has come about this way – proclaiming otherwise would have doomed the civil rights movement and many labor reforms.
Be a naysayer if you want, but change isn’t going to come from some type of rational dialog either.
It is disappointing when people want to argue that peaceful action like the work of Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi cannot work.
And they haven’t event tried it…
November 16th, 2008 at 11:24 amAnother Joe Says:
I repect your passion and your intent. I would add that I was a part of the group of Americans that protested and sucessfully ended the viet nam war so don’t condecend to me about my perspective please.
I’m just saying that the common denominator for the right to get their propaganda out is to cater to the lowest common denominator.
most of the people the right is trying to reach have not moved on from am radio and will stick with tv because it’s easy. That’s what the right counts on.
When you confront young people about the issues and can prove what you say by using the internet…..they listen, they understand and you can often actually see the light bulb go “on”.
Reality…..tv is owned. They don’t care what you think because their purpose is to “tell you what to think”
They will lose money in this endeavor and have done so but it paid off big time in 2000 and 2004.
These shows, just like walmart, will close down shop and leave town before they will adhere to rules set by your.
So, that might be an objective that we could sign on to…..drive them off the air if they don’t change..
The only alternative is the fairness doctrine but I don’t see it coming back any time soon, do you guys?
November 16th, 2008 at 11:39 amWhat liberal media????
November 16th, 2008 at 11:48 amIt’s ridiculous because the righties love to point to studies like “McCain gets more negative attention in media” and say “See, the media is biased!”. What they fail to realize is that McCain fought a very negative campaign against Obama that presented lot’s of factual error and smearing. When you play a negative campaign, your going to get negative attention from the media.
Conservatives just can’t work this stuff out logically, they just parrot what hate radio and Fox noise tells them.
November 16th, 2008 at 11:52 amWhat you say, Fred, is all the more reason why it needs to be an organized boycott.
Right now, plenty of blogs are full of people that, as individuals, say, “I never shop at blah blah blah blah blah…”
And the corporcracy doesn’t give a damn – as individuals, our dollars mean nothing to global enterprises.
Yes, they can even just shut down shops and relocate. But that is not an excuse to give up – that is why we need an organized, peaceful effort that reaches across the nation.
Now if some forums, for example the “superblogs” were work on creating a dialog about this and, over time, we could actually document the results, then we would see change.
That idea is flamed and baited at atrios, fdl, c&l and it will be ridiculed by many here. In the meantime, we just become another version of the “101st Keyboarding Brigade”.
Yes, it will take time.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” ~ Gandhi
November 16th, 2008 at 11:54 amThe fairness doctrine is a non-issue! The future is not in AM radio, the future is in wireless communication and other means of technology that brings information to you. The best bet for progressives is to take advantage of the growing technology to present their ideas to the current generation of youth’s so that we gain a huge army of informed voters. How many young people listen to radio and watch tv?
The Republicans use the fairness doctrine as a scare tactic to smear progressives and make us look like bad guys. We progressives should use our own tactics to gain a larger following which adapts to the future and appeals to the masses. Look at Obama’s campaign, he is pretty much the first President in history to get elected by the internet! We don’t need the Fairness Doctrine, it’s a non-issue and we can do accomplish what we need our own way.
November 16th, 2008 at 12:05 pmAnother Joe Says:
I would cooperate in such an endeavor Joe. The problem with quoting Gandhi is that you would have to be talking about issues that the majority felt strongly about which is what Gandhi did.
This is not an issue that most Americans feel that strongly about. It’s not civil rights or sufferage that can pull a majority of Americans into the fray.
This is an “under the radar” issue if you will. One that informed people understand but few mainstream Americans give much thought to. Trying to motivate the masses on this issue will likely not work…….that is the point I think people are trying to make when you get opposition to the idea.
I contend that Gandhi would never have taken on this issue.
November 16th, 2008 at 12:06 pmI respectfully disagree, although I agree with most of what you say.
The fairness doctrine is regulation. Corporations need to be regulated…..I think even the republicans have admitted this simple, obvious truth in light of the sub-prime debacle.
Corporations will not do the right thing unless they are required by law.
November 16th, 2008 at 12:10 pmNo, our POLITICIANS are center right, and the messages put out by the MEDIA are center-right. The populace itself, however, even unbeknownst to themselves, leans center left. :o
When tested BLINDLY during the primaries, 75%+ of the populace, when answering polls with no loaded terms, and merely policy, were most in line with DENNIS KUCINICH. When the loaded terms were added back in, and questions asked in a “traditional media” manner, the numbers fell roughly back in line with expected demographics.
Again, when asked purely where their stance on the issues were, most people fall center-left, even those who identify as right-leaning. That is mostly due to the social issues, not the fiscal issues. The lie that the country leans center-right is just that: a lie. Pure propaganda, spun over and over and over again on right-wing owned consolidated media outlets. *shrug* Goes ta show ya…
November 16th, 2008 at 3:48 pmOh, and the Fairness Doctrine only goes so far. Some sort of NEW Fairness Doctrine that breaks up the consolidated media, prevents new media consolidation especially with regards to the news and journalism, and the repeal of the idiotic Florida case allowing FOX News to legally lie on their “news” broadcasts merely because they are on cable and thus not covered by the FCC, would go much further than the old Fairness Doctrine.
November 16th, 2008 at 3:50 pm#36 Just another Joe;
I agree with you that a boycott by an individual won’t bother major corporations much, but a boycott by millions will. I accomplished what I did but starting somewhere locally. I’m not the only one who can do something. A boycott is a major project. Think Progress is read by many. Everyone working toward the goal can accomplish much. We just need a single company we can start with.
Suggestions?
November 16th, 2008 at 4:09 pmThe key to understanding what is going on in this country is to recognize that the rotting foundation of our democracy is being caused by the termite infested infrastructure that owns an operates the Congress and administration of the United States. The name of the party in control is irrelevant. That infestation is the almost total control of our country by CORPORATE POWER. Just look at what is happening via the economic bailout. Socialism for corporations.
Who dares to say it outloud? Capitalism is DEAD!! The public just can’t figure out where the stench is coming from. Just one example: The corporate controlled congress is planning another taxpayer afforded bailout, this time for the auto companies. The includes Ford Motor Co who only a few months ago sent 40,000 Michigan livelihoods to Mexico, thus devastating not only the workers and families themselves, but the entire economic and social infrastructure of the communities in which they live. THE MSM REMAINS MUTE!
November 16th, 2008 at 5:34 pmSLEEPERS AWAKE!!
Another Joe says: The walmarts, applebees, home depots, mcdonalds, staples, and the rest of the neocon/repug cash-cows don’t pay attention to single consumers
Applebee’s is somewhat more progressive in their business model–they offer insurance to employees that include same sex couples and even pet insurance, which is a lot more than the others (insider info by the way), hire people without regard to employee sexual preference and they screen their employees better than the RNP. Also they DO care if a customer has not had a good meal or a good time there, workers can get wrote up or fired over too many complaints-three write ups and you’re out. Many Applebees are going franchise so that may change per individual store, but in general they are not Chillis or TGIFs. Sorry, personal beef with dissin’ the Bee:)
November 16th, 2008 at 5:47 pmModeration Says:
This far lefty agrees with both your posts pretty much completely
November 16th, 2008 at 6:05 pmAll areas of the MSM, especially the Sunday shows, have always been “conservative” biased. Thinking people just don’t watch enough of the junk to bother complaining about it. It’s like being from another planet – when they talk about “big government” I want to refute them, but they wouldn’t even get it. So, haven’t actually watched in years.
November 16th, 2008 at 8:55 pmI’ll give props to Applebee’s if that is so. Still the whole Applebees industrialization of food thing is so disturbing. So I suppose real chefs are no longer needed just some low wagers reheating preportioned cryovac units as per regional district managements orders. Support your local ala carte privately owned eateries!
November 16th, 2008 at 9:36 pmAlright dbadass, I’ll admit it–I have worked there before while attending college (Applebees) so yes, I know for fact it is true. Why do I feel dirty for admitting that?
November 17th, 2008 at 7:44 amAbout the FCC
November 17th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Just like the cold war when everyone who didn’t agree with the U.S. was either a communist or a communist sympathizer. toki This poor crazy guy spent half a decade being tortured because a bunch of stupid politicians araç sorgulama were sure the NVA was in bed with the Russians (minimal help) and/or the Chinese (ancient enemy of the vietnamese). ssk sorgulama You would think he would have learned from others’ mistakes. Guess not. Republicans need an enemy. key ödemeleri This century it apparently will be all Muslims, health all of whom must be alQaeda operatives.
March 1st, 2009 at 1:37 pmI know for fact it is true. Why do I feel dirty for admitting that? kredi
March 1st, 2009 at 1:38 pm