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givemebackmycountry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 10:23 PM
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Here's a novel idea to get the MSM to change...(fairness doctrine)
Edited on Mon Oct-31-05 10:30 PM by givemebackmycountry
Here, here's an idea.

Eff Off.

NO MSNBC.
NO CNN.
NO FOX.
NO RADIO.
NO NOTHING!!

No Democrat will appear on any of these so called "news shows" until they make a concerted effort to inject some fairness.

How long would these shows survive with only conservatives sitting around a desk or a microphone talking their crazy zealotry?

Rush's ratings are down, so are O'Liellys.

If you don't have anyone to beat up on, sooner or later you will start fighting each other!

Ramp up slowly.
And then pull the plug.

If someone like that ASSHAT Matthews or Hanitty is spewing his garbage that "Bush is noble and sunny and decisive" interrupt him and say something like this...

"Look, I'll be happy to appear on your show when you are able to display even a small amount of fairness" then take off your mic and WALK.

How long would these cable news outlets survive if every one of them were ALL CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS, ALL THE TIME???
Not long, I would venture a guess.
If your getting cheated at a blackjack table, how long you going to continue to sit there?


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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 10:29 PM
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1. Tell that to Donna Brazille.
What you want, is what we've got now. There are only Vichy Dems on TV. Those who say to a reactionary lunatic like Bay Buchanan "Well, you make a good point..."

There are no real Dems on the airwaves now. They only tolerate Dean because of his chairmanship.

But I do agree with you, there should be a party wide boycott of all GOP spin shows (which is all of them, save TDS. Real Time just went to the dark side, when it became Tony Snow's Show last week), especially cable propaganda.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 11:08 PM
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5. Ditch Donna Brazille. Give her a desk job. Enough is enough with her!
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 10:32 PM
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2. Ummm.... actually I think they would do just fine.
They've been doing pretty well that way so far.

But perhaps there is a difference between marginalization and total deprivation...
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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 10:36 PM
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3. Dems need to stop reacting to their interruptions also
Edited on Mon Oct-31-05 10:37 PM by mitchtv
and stick to the point. Start telling them "shut up and let me finish" but yeah, No interviews and tell them why. Insist on equal =second for second, coverage before appearing.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 11:07 PM
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4. Over 90 thousand People wrote the FCC to try to stop more Media
Deregulation over a year ago. Michael Powell (Colin's son who was head of FCC at that time..pretty much ignored it with some modifications).

Thousands wrote letters to Sinclair Broadcasting over their trying to air Swift Boat Liars agains Kerry so called "Documentary." Here in my "red state" there were 25 protestors who went out and picketed our local Sinclair station and in places all over America other protestors did the same. They pulled the "Documentary" but aired a modified version in some places.

So...it's time for all Democrats to boycott the Cable Shows. It's not worth it to keep feeding them. Let them sit and discuss it all among their PsyOps and Whore M$M Pundits.

Boycott...it's our last resort. They don't listen. Our Government doesn't listen. But it's worth it to keep e-mailing them over and over, inspite of the fact that they don't listen. Still our Dems should Boycott. It's not like it's hard to do. We rarely have Democrats on those shows, anyway. Just the DINO's.
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