MSNBC suspends Olberman

[FORD]

I'm 100% in agreement with Bernie Sanders on this one. Even if there was not a Busheep running Comca$t, the company controls far too much as it is. NBC/Universal, in it's current configuration is even too big of a company, with a dozen or so TV Networks under its umbrella, not to mention all the other media holdings (movies, music, etc.)

BOTH companies should be forced to split up just as AT&T was back in the Carter & Reagan years. Merging the two would create a monopoly even bigger than the original AT&T was before they were forced to split.

[Nitro Express]

Of course MSNBC wants to become more like FOX NEWS. FOX is killing them in the ratings and CNN's middle of the road format is losing ratings as well. Hate them if you will FOX's conservative format is willing the ratings war and in television if something is working you want a piece of it. Expect MSNBC to be more conservative in the future because that seems to be what viewers want and you have to have viewers to sell advertising. Either the liberals don't watch much television or they get their news from another source. The block of voters on welfare who are bused in to vote each election probably have no idea who Keith Olbermann is anyways. I doubt the fat lady who drinks 40oz Smirnoff Ice knows who he is either but she is a proud Democrat supporter.

[Nitro Express]

Howard Stern makes a good point why people are turning their backs on the Democrat Party.

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[Nitro Express]

I hear you on the anti-trust Ford. The more competition the better. We are seeing monopolies form on everything but the Democrats have enabled this collusion as much as the Republicans have. They both are dirty and banker's bailout show this.

[GAR]

I'm 100% in agreement with Bernie Sanders on this one. Even if there was not a Busheep running Comca$t...

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[GAR]

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[FORD]

[GAR]

Howard Stern makes a good point why people are turning their backs on the Democrat Party.

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Not to be oppositional but the fact is that what Howard's relating to is the media-consolitation effect after Bush 1's deregulation of media-ownership rules, and that ball started rolling during the Reagan years the same as ABA lobby started their part towards banking deregulation.

The FCC has always been Howard Stern's enemy because he's a foulmouth. But the agency wouldn't be so powerful today unless the Democrats looked the other way on shenanigans hoping that they too get to play around in the money when it's their turn at the wheel.

At some point we're going to have to experience a painful rollback to re-regulation: banks will have to split up, media companies will have to split up, and the public at large is gonna be the one to pay the bill for that mark my words even though they've both caused the problems in the first place.

[FORD]

Not to be oppositional but the fact is that what Howard's relating to is the media-consolitation effect after Bush 1's deregulation of media-ownership rules, and that ball started rolling during the Reagan years the same as ABA lobby started their part towards banking deregulation.

The FCC has always been Howard Stern's enemy because he's a foulmouth. But the agency wouldn't be so powerful today unless the Democrats looked the other way on shenanigans hoping that they too get to play around in the money when it's their turn at the wheel.

At some point we're going to have to experience a painful rollback to re-regulation: banks will have to split up, media companies will have to split up, and the public at large is gonna be the one to pay the bill for that mark my words even though they've both caused the problems in the first place.

Holy shit

Did GAyR just post something that made sense??

[sadaist]

Keith needs to grow the mustache back.

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Damn. Olberman, Lampley & Bree Walker all on the same newscast in LA? Weird. Bree is the chick with the fucked up hands from birth. Still extremely hot. She used to be in San Diego before she broke into the LA market. We brought her back several years ago and it was a big deal in San Diego. Always a classy chick. That she was teamed with Olberman & Lampley (her husband for a while) is just a shame as neither of those guys has class.

But this clip just shows that being mean-spirited & full of vinegar with nothing nice to say is Keiths shtick. He has based his entire career on making smart ass negative comments on anything he reports on. He is a lowlight reporter rather than a highlight reporter. Thats fun once in a while...but not 5 nights a week.

[Nitro Express]

Yeah. I noticed it too from this old clip of Olbermann. Even when he was doing sports it was just a smart ass tear down of everyone and not much sports reporting at all. I mean I bought into it when Bush was president and Keith's rips were funny but then the political climate changed and he wouldn't rip Democrats the way he ripped Republicans. I saw the bias and frankly his act got old. Television is a fickle medium and to be frank, we just got bored of Keith Olbermann who basically as we can see, has been doing the same thing his whole career.

[Nitro Express]

Everything is getting consolidated. Banks, media companies, trucking companies. Name an industry and it's going on plus the outsourcing. On top of that the government has been composed of politicians being bought off or even being former employees of the companies themselves. Joe Public is waking up to the corruption when they saw investment banks like Goldmann Sachs was above the law by buying the law with money stolen from Joe Public. Now the politicians are going to feel more public eyes on them than when times were good.

So I think what we will see is not a swing to Republican dominant control or Democrats dominant control (both abused their power) but a compromise in the middle. Now Washington can stalemate and watch the whole country go to shit or they can agree to do what is necessary to get the economy going again instead of just bailing out rich friends and grabbing all the power you can. Because the American people want a real industrialized economy again. We want reals jobs and we are tired of being taxed to death and all the regulation that rich people are exempt from.

[GAR]

Holy shit

Did GAyR just post something that made sense??

Stating that deregulation started with the Republicans supports the idea that Communism is the ultimate DNC goal here because that's one part of corporate irresponsibility that provides them an "out" while they quietly add to it.

Clinton made things worse, then here comes Bush after him continuing the idea that floats market monopolies as a free-market approach to governance.

As hip as our half-Black SCROTUS is supposed to be with technology and media he's not said one damn thing about these most obvious of monopolies, and it affects news, music, advertising and our whole culture of US communications. He's bought and paid.. he cannot do anything about it.

[Nitro Express]

Well look at what happened when the Democrats finally got 100% control. They wasted no time trying to grab everything and doing all they could to run independent businesses out of business, while letting the big guys like Goldmann Sachs be above the law. They wanted amnesty so they couldn't be voted out and they wanted cap and trade and the healthcare law to control the American public.

[GAR]

They wasted no time trying to grab everything and doing all they could...

They took majority in Congress when, 2006? 2008?

It took years to write these 2500 page bills.. years. They planned all this, roleplayed the scenarios of "what would the Republicans do" thru thinktank subcommitees behind closed doors then - voila - the minute thier Chosen One is empowered they drop these bills down as if to say "oh we know what to do here" when it should have been more like "we planned this out and want to do THIS here."

This election I voted for anything-but a Democrat when in the past I chose the best candidate if he happened to be a Dem that was okay.. because I can't trust a Dem anymore when they are pocketing these attacks you don't know about.