Got this e-mail earlier this afternoon, which pretty much says it all about ABC's news priorities:
The links in the e-mail are after the jump.
Stossel's original tease ("Canadian Health Care: The End of Innovation?") is here.
Stossel's too kind (in my opinion) reax to the pull is here.
Not much to elaborate on, except to say that if the free market for broadcast time were really in effect at ABC, I'd be hearing a lot of people saying, "Gee, there hasn't been enough coverage of Michael Jackson. I want more."
I haven't heard any of that. Has anyone else?
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How convenient.
June 30, 2009 - 16:19 ET by R D Helm-Dave
Obama's health care "reform" plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof-Herman Cain
No I haven't Tom...and this
June 30, 2009 - 16:23 ET by bigtimerNo I haven't Tom...and this is just another glaring example of State Run Media.
Anything for O...anything.
Keep the masses dumbed down as much as possible by omission.
Infuriating.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
They make more money of a
June 30, 2009 - 16:35 ET by mattmThey make more money off a celebrity's death than off the country's death.
It was just one week ago
June 30, 2009 - 16:50 ET by RightOfMostIt was just one week ago that ABC teased us with this line...
"What's more important than having good health care when you need it? Nothing!!"
...to implore us to watch the June 24 Obama infomercial.
One week later, it appears that an already-dead person must be more important. What kind of good health care did Jacko get?
The current economic crisis: (c) 2008, George Soros, LLC (with assistance from the U.S. Democrat Party). All their Marxist rights reserved; all my rights severed.
Taking bets
June 30, 2009 - 17:02 ET by Kat Outta the BagShall we take bets on when or even whether ABC will reschedule Stossel's report for airing?
Kat,
June 30, 2009 - 17:10 ET by UpNorthmy money, what little I have left, is on no re-schedule for this. Combined with Stuart Smalley, er Al Franken being declared the winner in Minnesota, the dems now have 60 votes in the Senate. We'll have Obamacare, DADT, repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and more and higher taxes. And they can't be stopped!!
I e-mailed the local ABC affiliate over the Obamacare special, got no response at all. So, they've chosen to go with the 0 and ignore the local population who, leaving out the illegals and lazy who want it, are opposed to Canadian style healthcare.
UpNorth...
June 30, 2009 - 17:44 ET by Kat Outta the BagSickening, isn't it? At least I can say I can remember when this was once a great country. Too bad the today's kids won't have that same memory when they grow up.
Kat... Maybe they will
June 30, 2009 - 17:16 ET by bigtimerKat...
Maybe they will air it after the Nationalized Health Care Bill passes...maybe.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
bt...
June 30, 2009 - 17:45 ET by Kat Outta the BagThey'll show it at their yearly Christmas party for laughs, kind of like a blooper reel.
I haven't heard any of
June 30, 2009 - 17:41 ET by Carl KolchakI haven't heard any of that. Has anyone else?
Tom, what are you talking about? There never was a special that was going to air by John Stossel, and who is this Lyndsi person? We show no record of any Lyndsi person who exists in Oceania. Also, we show no record of any special by John Stossel that was going to air on ABC. Winston Smith who is a clerk in the records department can confirm all of this information.
Yours truely
The Ministry of Truth
ObamaCare will be the final nail in Americ'a coffin...
June 30, 2009 - 18:05 ET by R D Helm...even if Crap & Tax dies in the Senate.
-Dave
Obama's health care "reform" plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof-Herman Cain
How will it die in the Senate?
June 30, 2009 - 18:18 ET by Kat Outta the BagThe Dem. majority will most likely rubber stamp Obama's every wish at this point...and some of the RINOs in there will be happy to help.
Exactly...plus they've
June 30, 2009 - 18:23 ET by bigtimerExactly...plus they've added the brain dead, angry, shrill clown Franken today to-boot.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Franken
June 30, 2009 - 18:26 ET by Kat Outta the BagYeah, when I heard that I knew it was over. Ugh!
Kat... Yeah...I've had a
June 30, 2009 - 18:34 ET by bigtimerKat...
Yeah...I've had a hard enough time as it is lately to even listen to the House and the Senate floor speeches/votes etc...with him, I just don't know anymore if I can even do so.
One thing about it...at first it may interesting in a way to see how he acts etc...but I know I despise him, the Soros money and the dem power in the Minnesota that got him in there that it will be very brief that I can stand it.
Pure filth.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
bt, Did you ever think it would come down to this?
June 30, 2009 - 18:47 ET by R D HelmI mean, that THE vote that kills America for good would be cast by Al Franken?
-Dave
Obama's health care "reform" plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof-Herman Cain
Dave... Never in my worst
June 30, 2009 - 18:56 ET by bigtimerDave...
Never in my worst nightmares could I have dreamed up what is happening to this country at break-neck speed....
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
I did ...
July 1, 2009 - 04:34 ET by MeowMeowthink that the pivotal vote would come from Stuart Smalley....
in my version of the apocalypse.
KOtB, I think Crap & Tax will ultimately pass in the Senate
June 30, 2009 - 19:12 ET by R D HelmWe have lost control of our own government.
-Dave
"Obama's health care "reform" plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof" -Herman Cain
Volkskammer
June 30, 2009 - 19:12 ET by UnsaneWe no longer have a Congress. It is, in fact, a Volkskammer.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Uns,
July 1, 2009 - 23:37 ET by R D HelmRight you are.
-Dave
"Obama's health care 'reform' plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof." - Herman Cain
Das Partie
June 30, 2009 - 20:06 ET by nadadhimmiThe msm has willingly prostituted itself to one political party over the constitution. The msm is now essentially nothing more than the Nazi Party newspaper the "Deutche Beobachter".
When we criticize
June 30, 2009 - 20:33 ET by GregEWhen we criticize politicians, often we'll hear people say "Well, they're going nuts up there but there is nothing we can do about it."
Are we witnessing, in all of the Obama/Congressional madness, that statement being true? And even more importantly, are we witnessing a federal government that has begun to also believe that very thing that many Americans often say? Has government gotten to a point where many of them literally believe that there is nothing the dumb American can or will do about them? And if they are correct......
Pondering......
Not even surprised
July 1, 2009 - 04:30 ET by MeowMeowWe are going to dumb ourselves down and stick our heads in the sand, focusing only on celebrity who-screwed-who gossip, and meanwhile, these cads in congress are passing things right under our noses and the vast majority (the same majority who elected The Messiah) are too stupid to even know it.
I can't (and can) believe America has gotten this stupid, lazy and complacent.
MJ coverage
July 1, 2009 - 07:58 ET by OuttaMyWayWouldn't taking the attention drawing "news" down and broadcastin real news, even if it is less popular, take more conviction? Is this being determined by high schoolers that just want to be popular and cool?
I guess they are just a big business after all!
Michael in Obamacare Land....????
July 1, 2009 - 13:21 ET by Pilgrim1949Food for thought....
If Michael had lived under our Deer-in-the-headlights Leader's proposed health care system I wonder how many of Mikey's seemingly endless (and increasingly bizarre) medical procedures would have been approved and, hence, graciously paid for by our benevolent bureacracy (and your and my tax dollars)?
Would any potential limitations thereof have increased the likelihood that he might still be alive today?
Hmmm???? Oh, I see that gloved hand.....
Sorry, but irrelevant
July 1, 2009 - 15:18 ET by needleMikey, and people like him including well connected politicians, will always get their medical attention outside of any system established for the proletariat.
- Relying upon the MSM for your information is like relying upon an embezzler to manage your portfolio.
Indeediroonie right-o-mundo
July 1, 2009 - 16:26 ET by Pilgrim1949That was the better part of the tongue-in-cheek point of this little thought(less) exercise.
The elite will always have their exclusive perqs and the rest of us poor peasants will be left with the dregs, after they have drunk their fill.
Alas, poor best-in-the-world health system with best-(and often ONLY)in-the-world innovations in drugs, technology and treatments, we knew it well, Horatio...
Would you like fries with that?
July 1, 2009 - 15:33 ET by needleDidn’t ABC promise the public that they would present both sides go the ObamaCare issue. So there you have it.
I once heard of a poor man’s version of chicken soup. It consisted of a cook dipping momentarily a piece of chicken in a pot of boiling water. ABC has come up with an “agin’ it” side of the ObamaCare issue that is commensurate with poorman’s chicken soup.
Enjoy.
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MJ coverage
July 1, 2009 - 16:18 ET by Delsatook over EVERY television station and I am including FOX!
Tabloid everywhere. I watched C-Span and could NOT believe FOX did not cover this all important subjecy!
The American people have NO hope if the news stations do not turn around.
Like mushrooms they are living in the DARK!
I won't watch FOX until Jackson is buried!
Big whoop
July 1, 2009 - 17:58 ET by needleI am studiously trying to be ignorant of the entire Michael Jackson shtick; but it sure sounds as if he is in direct competition with Elvis Presley. I wonder if there are going to be “reported sightings” of Michael Jackson as time rolls on. And twenty years from now who will be The real [posthumous] King?
Yawn. Believe me; I truly could not care less.
- Relying upon the MSM for your information is like relying upon an embezzler to manage your portfolio.