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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on May 06, 2010, 09:01:19 AM

Title: CBS Affiliate Threatens GOP Candidate for Mentioning Dem's Bank Failure
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on May 06, 2010, 09:01:19 AM
CBS's local affiliate in Chicago today threatened to stop covering the Illinois Senate race if the Republican candidate continues to harp on an issue extremely damaging to his Democratic opponent.

If a candidate for the United States Senate was a senior loan officer for a bank that made over $20 million in loans to convicted bookies and pimps (while he was employed as a loan officer), is that candidate's opponent in the wrong for harping on the issue?

Chicago's CBS affiliate apparently thinks such connections should be off limits. A reporter from Chicago's CBS Channel 2 told Mark Kirk, the Republican opponent of former Broadway Bank loan officer Alexi Giannoulias that his channel is "not going to cover the Senate race, if it’s consistently only in your terms, is about Broadway Bank." (H/t Big Journalism, via Steve Gutowski)

LINK (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/05/05/cbs-affiliate-threatens-gop-candidate-mentioning-giannoulias-bank-fa)
Title: Re: CBS Affiliate Threatens GOP Candidate for Mentioning Dem's Bank Failure
Post by: Chris on May 06, 2010, 09:29:24 AM
Now we know where Barry gets it from. :whatever:
Title: Re: CBS Affiliate Threatens GOP Candidate for Mentioning Dem's Bank Failure
Post by: NHSparky on May 06, 2010, 09:35:29 AM
But they have no problem putting Jack Ryan's dirty laundry out front and center.

Hypocritical SOB's.
Title: Re: CBS Affiliate Threatens GOP Candidate for Mentioning Dem's Bank Failure
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on May 06, 2010, 09:58:22 AM
They'll just be cutting their own throats doing that if this is played correctly...in the first place, anything sensational WILL be covered by the competition, and in the second, they will just add a whole 'nother level to the story by making it "Too explosive for CBS to handle!!!111!!!"
Title: Re: CBS Affiliate Threatens GOP Candidate for Mentioning Dem's Bank Failure
Post by: JohnnyReb on May 06, 2010, 09:59:20 AM
JohnnyReb tries to remember the words to a song  "Only in America can a poor......"

....and then the senior moments come flooding in like a raging river. HEY! I think I'll write a poem.

Senior moments

like a flooding river

raging, raging, raging

flooding, flooding, flooding

into the brain

like the cat

pooping, pooping, pooping

 
Title: Re: CBS Affiliate Threatens GOP Candidate for Mentioning Dem's Bank Failure
Post by: debk on May 06, 2010, 11:11:18 AM
JohnnyReb tries to remember the words to a song  "Only in America can a poor......"

....and then the senior moments come flooding in like a raging river. HEY! I think I'll write a poem.

Senior moments

like a flooding river

raging, raging, raging

flooding, flooding, flooding

into the brain

like the cat

pooping, pooping, pooping

 



 :lmao:



those senior moments just suck, huh?... :-*
Title: Re: CBS Affiliate Threatens GOP Candidate for Mentioning Dem's Bank Failure
Post by: The Village Idiot on May 06, 2010, 11:39:14 AM
The unbiased media strikes again
Title: Re: CBS Affiliate Threatens GOP Candidate for Mentioning Dem's Bank Failure
Post by: littlelamb on May 06, 2010, 09:28:12 PM
Hello pot this is kettle