This KO thing will be better than the election night returns

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

highplainsdem  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-06-10 12:04 AM
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ThinkProgress: Shortly After Major Bush Donor Takes Over MSNBC, Network Selectively Applies Rules
 

Shortly After Major Bush Donor Takes Over MSNBC, Network Selectively Applies Rules To Suspend Olbermann
By Lee Fang at 6:56 pm


Earlier today, MSNBC declared that it would be suspending progressive host Keith Olbermann because he violated NBC’s ethics rules by donating to three Democratic candidates for Congress. As many bloggers have noted, conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough has donated to Republican candidates for Congress while promoting the same candidate on air, but has never been disciplined. Moreover, Gawker notes that MSNBC has been exempt from the formal NBC ethics rules for years. It is still a mystery why MSNBC selectively applied NBC’s ethics rules to Olbermann. However, it important to realize that MSNBC has undergone a fundamental change in leadership in the last two months.

Late last year, Comcast — the nation’s largest cable provider and second largest Internet service provider — inked a deal taking over NBC Universal, the parent company of MSNBC. Comcast moved swiftly to reshuffle MSNBC’s top staff. On September 26th of this year, Comcast announced perhaps the most dramatic shift, replacing longtime MSNBC chief Jeff Zucker with Comcast executive Steve Burke. Burke has given generous amounts to both parties — providing cash to outgoing Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) as well as to Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and other top Republicans. But as Public Citizen has noted, Burke has deep ties to the Republican Party. Public Citizen’s report reveals that Burke served as a key fundraiser to President George Bush, and even served on Bush’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology:

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hy would Comcast be interested in silencing progressive voices? Historically, Comcast has boosted its profits by buying up various telecommunication and media content companies — instead of providing faster Internet or better services (overall, American broadband services are far slower than in many industrialized nations). Many of these mergers, as Public Citizen and Free Press have reported, have been allowed by regulators because of Comcast’s considerable political muscle. Comcast’s latest regulatory battle has been to oppose Net Neutrality — a rule allowing a free and open Internet — because the company would prefer to have customers pay for preferred online content.

Olbermann has been a strong voice in favor of a free and open Internet. Republicans, on the other hand, have supported the telecommunication industry’s push to radically change the Internet so corporate content producers have the upper hand over start-ups like blogs, independent media, small businesses, etc. As Reuters has reported, the incoming Republican Congress has signaled that it will vigorously side with companies like Comcast against an open Internet.

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Go ahead you ****ing emotionally-stunted retards. "Expose" NBC. Boycott them. Bring them to their knees in a fit of petulant rage.

Then let's see where madcow, schitz and the rest wander off to.

Do it!

[Airwolf]

It would be epic that the demise of NBC would be the very people they gave support to for decades.

[Ballygrl]

WTG Comcast!

[jukin]

I thought everyone knew that all evil corporations are interested in is THE PROFIT.  Now if Olberman was making them money he would surely be retained.  If Olberman was not and Comcast needed a way to get out of a multi-year contract.....

I fully expect Comcast to shift pMSNBC from Mao to Stalin..maybe just Castro.  Whatever, Queef may have pissed the wrong people off.

[USA4ME]

To have the whackos boycott PMSNBC would be OK with me.  But let's not lose sight of the fact that their imagined influence and size verses their actual influence and size have nothing in common.  The primitives, for the most part, don't have disposable income, living their entire lives hand-to-mouth and complaining the whole way.  If they expended the energy they used to get out of work to actually doing some work, they'd do alright.

Personally, I hope Keef stays on for 2 reasons.  First, the world needs to hear just how looney the left really is, and second, at least during the evening, with them glued to the TV, there's that fewer children being molested.

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[true_blood]

Personally, I hope Keef stays on for 2 reasons.  First, the world needs to hear just how looney the left really is, and second, at least during the evening, with them glued to the TV, there's that fewer children being molested.

HA HA! 2 VERY good points there USA4ME!

[PatriotGame]

Bush AGAIN?!?! Really?!?!

I mean REALLY?!?! Buller...Buller...Buller???

Rove, ya done it again my VRWC operative God!

[BlueStateSaint]

Personally, I hope Keef stays on for 2 reasons.  First, the world needs to hear just how looney the left really is, and second, at least during the evening, with them glued to the TV, there's that fewer children being molested.

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H5!

[JohnnyReb]

Now, if MSNBC would just fill his spot with Rush L. or Glenn B..

[BlueStateSaint]

Now, if MSNBC would just fill his spot with Rush L. or Glenn B..

GE would be bankrupt trying to lure either one over.

[JohnnyReb]

GE would be bankrupt trying to lure either one over.

Yeah, but just think of the fun you could have watching DUmmie brains dry on the walls and ceilings.