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September 21, 2012

NBC Attacks Romney As Racist, In Prime Time
— Ace

This is their Saturday Night Live on Thursday night show. Which has always been a cost-saving move, putting on a cheap segment from a show they're already producing instead of buying another show (which would probably fail, like most of their shows fail).

At Newsbusters.

Boycotts never work but I really, really want to get a national boycott of NBC going. Just take them out. They're barely hanging in as a network anyway. They are ready to fall, ready to become some kind of half-network like the CW.

Just to show how obnoxious they are, last night a segment on "Rock Center" (Brian Williams' bonus-round bias show) took on "the partisan press," by which they mean FoxNews. They did throw in one CYA clip, very short, of Ed Schultz, to pretend they were offering a nonpartisan view of "the partisan press," but the overwhelming emphasis was on FoxNews. And definitely not their little demented liberal sister channel MSNBC, where "real journalists" from NBC routinely appear in order to suggest that MSNBC is a real news channel.

They are so close to bankruptcy. And they're so obnoxious. It's not that the rest of these channels aren't biased. It's just at some point we need to make an example of one of them -- I think the old expression goes pour encourager les autres (You have to hang an admiral once in a while to encourage the others).

And I don't mean boycott their news. I mean boycott everything here. The whole thing. All of it. Put it under. Bankrupt it.

More than any other channel, NBC has cast itself as the Urban Liberal Network. And they are in the ratings cellar, and have been for years.

Conservatives who like The Office are helping keep this outfit afloat. Time to pull the plug and let it all go down the drain.

Posted by: Ace at 08:37 AM | Comments (381)
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1 They are so close to bankruptcy. Not if Obama -> GE -> NBC can help it.

Posted by: t-bird at September 21, 2012 08:39 AM (FcR7P)

2 Works for me, but I haven't had a tv for almost 10 years. Gave up on the whole works.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 21, 2012 08:39 AM (l3vZN)

3 With the exception of football, I don't watch anything on NBC anyway.

Posted by: eastvalleyphx says fuck islam at September 21, 2012 08:40 AM (wJX79)

4 Do I have to start watching NBC before I boycott it? Or can I just not watch it the same way I've not watched it for several years now?

Posted by: Whoever this is, it's definitely not Michael at September 21, 2012 08:40 AM (JVCVF)

5 I'm in. I don't watch many of their shows, anyway, but I'll also boycott Sunday Night Football. Frak them.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 21, 2012 08:40 AM (m0QPD)

6 At least SNL is still trying (in their sad, pitiful way) to get actual laughs. The Daily Show long ago stopped trying for laughs, and instead just goes for cheers from its NYC studio audience.

Posted by: wooga at September 21, 2012 08:40 AM (vjyZP)

7 Not if Obama -> GE -> NBC can help it.

Ayup. More federal dollars to move more jobs to China (to avoid paying union wages, Obamacare, EPA stuff, etc).

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at September 21, 2012 08:41 AM (/kI1Q)

No Bass-O-Matic, no SNL.

Mepps! Mepps!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 21, 2012 08:41 AM (d0Tfm)

9 Q: What's the difference between Brian Williams and a pedophile lurking in rest stop toilet stall? No, it's not a joke or riddle. I really can't figure this out.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 21, 2012 08:41 AM (AZGON)

10 Been boycotting NBC for over a decade.

Posted by: wheatie at September 21, 2012 08:42 AM (Z7b/q)

11 I have been boycotting all three of the alphabet networks + CNN for 20 years or more.

But in any case, everything is RACIST now,even chairs hanging from trees which is dog whistle for lynching.

http://is.gd/FD1H2K

But it is OK for the Chairman of the CBC to call blacks not black if they don't vote for Obama.

Posted by: Vic at September 21, 2012 08:42 AM (YdQQY)

12 They are a nasty, close-minded outfit.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 21, 2012 08:42 AM (Iyg03)

13 As with the last thread, the sad thing is most the millions raised in these elections are used to feed these fucking jackals.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 21, 2012 08:42 AM (GZitp)

14 I'm in; heck, with the rare exception of a Sunday Night Football game, the last time I watched NBC for anything was the Olympics. To Hades with them; if they want to go full-on retard, then have at it. I have better things to do than watch their crap.

Posted by: DaveinNC at September 21, 2012 08:43 AM (boNGU)

15 "Pour encourager les autres'" is the appropriate spelling.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 21, 2012 08:43 AM (2b4yb)

16 I thought that GE had unloaded them onto some sucker. Did that fall through?

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at September 21, 2012 08:43 AM (J/5jZ)

Just for the prurient interest, Sedakis is the guy who was dating January Jones when she became pregnant . . .

. . . by someone other than Sedakis.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at September 21, 2012 08:43 AM (auPSv)

18 I have no idea how to boycott NBC, as I don't watch them, but boycotting GE might be a tad difficult.

Posted by: Stark Dickflüssig at September 21, 2012 08:44 AM (f9xD7)

19 I agree with boycotting them, but it must be said that "boycotting NBC" means "boycotting NBC" and NOT "boycotting NBC, unless there's sports on."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 21, 2012 08:44 AM (i0App)

20 The Office is still on? Who knew?

Posted by: SnyderJohn at September 21, 2012 08:45 AM (W2qJe)

21 Doesn't Comcast basically own NBC now?

Honestly, I thought they would have dumped MSNBC a long time ago, not for political reasons, but for business ones.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 21, 2012 08:45 AM (T0NGe)

22 Dangit.

Heads up when there's a new thread, please.

I was talking to myself over there.

Kirsten Powers on FNC

1. Looks exceedingly hot today
2. Is taking it to the admin and the state dept

Grenell is on one side and she the other and if it was meant to be a setup of a pro/con argument, it isn't working.

Bail, Kirsten! Bail!

We'll take you in!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 08:45 AM (piMMO)

23 I don't have to boycott NBC, I don't watch them as it is. I tried to get into Grimm, but I wasn't feeling it.

Posted by: JDTAY at September 21, 2012 08:45 AM (a0nis)

24 You know what would kill NBC?

A la carte cable.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 21, 2012 08:45 AM (T0NGe)

25 SyFy is the biggest disappointment in any TV brand ever launched. It is shit just like the rest of them.

Posted by: Vic at September 21, 2012 08:45 AM (YdQQY)

26 @16 GE still owns a sizeable chunk of NBC.

Posted by: obie-doobie at September 21, 2012 08:45 AM (YQHqe)

27 Now that Bob Hope is gone, there's no reason to watch NBC anyway.

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at September 21, 2012 08:46 AM (IlZPo)

I heard one is ScyFi.

You would be correct. Breitbart took down their recent episode of Warehouse 13 for it's leftardedness.

Again, comment #8.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 21, 2012 08:46 AM (d0Tfm)

29 Those cocksuckers have been circling the drain for a long time. The Law and Order bullshit was the first fucking clue when they started using NEO NAZI SKINHEADS as the biggest fucking plague of NYC post 9/11. Plus having Brian "15 credits" Williams gobble the JEF's knob on a national broadcast set a new low standard for even them.

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at September 21, 2012 08:46 AM (7p9Q5)

What NBC/MSNBC is doing....is campaigning for Barky.

Barky should have to declare it as a campaign contribution!

Posted by: wheatie at September 21, 2012 08:46 AM (Z7b/q)

31 I can't think of any shows on NBC that I have to watch. Everything I do watch is on cable, and I torrent them anyways.

Posted by: EC at September 21, 2012 08:46 AM (GQ8sn)

32 Any show that runs a laugh track after every statement is truly intended for retards anyway.

Posted by: Fritz at September 21, 2012 08:46 AM (/ZZCn)

33 16 I thought that GE had unloaded them onto some sucker.

Did that fall through? Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge

Comcast is now the majority owner of the NBC Networks. I believe GE is a minority owner (less than 50%).

The Office has sucked for a long time (as with most of NBC's programming).

Posted by: Jim Scrummy at September 21, 2012 08:47 AM (sbV1u)

The Office is horrible now but I do love me some Parks and Recreation and Community.

Thankfully, old seasons are on Netflix, and I can find new episodes somewhere that isn't nbc.com or hulu.

Posted by: Colonel Pooteh at September 21, 2012 08:47 AM (z1pR+)

35 Many decades ago NBC was owned by RCA. Now GE own Comcast who owns NBC.

Posted by: Vic at September 21, 2012 08:47 AM (YdQQY)

Vic @ 26- I agree with you; when it first started, ScyFy was pretty decent. I still like to watch Ghost hunters, but the other shows? warehouse 13 showed promise at first, but now it is just the same thing episode after episode. Drek.

Posted by: DaveinNC at September 21, 2012 08:47 AM (boNGU)

37 Damnit!

Paul Ryan has GOT to get that "hmm"ing thing under control.

It just sounds perverse.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 08:47 AM (piMMO)

38 And not for nothing, but The Office hasn't been good for a few years now.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 21, 2012 08:48 AM (m0QPD)

39 The first segment was just dumb. 'The 47% of the US I was talking about are the 12% who are black'? Hahaha. Or was it billed as a newscast? I'm not sure what the difference would be.

Posted by: t-bird at September 21, 2012 08:48 AM (FcR7P)

40 NBC is an LLC owned by Comcast, 51% and GE 49%. There is a provision that Comcast can buy out GE or GE can force Comcast to buy them out within 7 years.

Posted by: AndrewsDad at September 21, 2012 08:48 AM (C2//T)

41 Lol no one watches NBC anymore if it's not sports, the network is dead. Can you think of any show that's worth watching. Maybe The Voice? I bet that's their most popular show right now. The Office will be gone after this season, their new show The New Normal has been widely panned even by diehard liberals. Every tv snob I've read says NBC just can't find their way out of this rut.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at September 21, 2012 08:48 AM (NzBQO)

42 otres should be autres

Posted by: gail at September 21, 2012 08:49 AM (p3pkI)

43 Well, if you consider 1 show out of 100 as decent.

Posted by: Vic at September 21, 2012 08:49 AM (YdQQY)

44 These idiots haven't been funny since Billy Crystal was on the show.. I hardly ever watch NBC. It's all crap.

Posted by: Barky O'Fuckstick at September 21, 2012 08:50 AM (f9c2L)

GE sold 51% of NBC to Comcast...they still own 49%.

GE owns Universal...which owns SyFy, USA channel, Weather Channel...and some others that I can't remember.

I've noticed a lot of Barky-Ads on SyFy and USA channels.

How do we know that Team-O isn't getting a discount rate on these channels?

Would that be legal?

Posted by: wheatie at September 21, 2012 08:50 AM (Z7b/q)

46 The only thing I watch on NBC is football. I also don't really know anyone else that admits to watching anything on NBC.

Posted by: Adam at September 21, 2012 08:50 AM (/YJYi)

47 And they're not even funny. And typically it's not that they really try to be funny and fail for some reason. Or that other people thought it was hilarious and people like me just don't get it. Really, there's no conceivable way anyone would find this material actually funny. Not even the guy who wrote it.

Posted by: GalosGann at September 21, 2012 08:50 AM (T3KlW)

48 Bass-O-Matic, no SNL.

Mepps! Mepps! Posted by: BackwardsBoy

Is that how Dan spelled it? Mepps is a famous spinning lure brand. So record We didn't see what he did there 30+ years?

Posted by: DaveA at September 21, 2012 08:50 AM (nKOL2)

49 Okay, so according to wikipedia, NBC is owned by a combination of GE (difficult to boycott), Comcast (not too hard, if you can find other internet/cable), & NBCUniversal (ah, so avoid a few movies).

Posted by: Stark Dickflüssig at September 21, 2012 08:50 AM (f9xD7)

50 Here's to hoping that the whole MSM/Commie/Dem Machine edifice begins to crumble-- starting with throwing the SCOAMF out of the Whitehouse in November!

Posted by: Gaspergoo at September 21, 2012 08:51 AM (qyV0n)

51 you realize msnbc has joe scarborough on 15 hours per week? is everything you encounter that is not in lock step with your beliefs simply a conspiracy to you guys? no wonder romney's in the toilet.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 08:51 AM (t1NLo)

52 Yeah, I never watch NBC except for football either. They're just a turkey with really nice plumage these days.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 21, 2012 08:51 AM (d0Tfm)

53 Lets face it people, TV hasn't been worth a shit since the early 70s and after the 80s became a cesspool of rat shit for programing.

And since I don't watch professional football I don't even have to watch them for that. Of course ESPN is owned by ABC, who is owned by Disney so I guess I am stuck with that for an occasional Saturday for my GA Dawgs game.

Posted by: Vic at September 21, 2012 08:51 AM (YdQQY)

54 If your going to put up this you at least need to add a best of Ron Swanson clip.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at September 21, 2012 08:52 AM (NzBQO)

55 The only thing I watch on NBC is football. I also don't really know anyone else that admits to watching anything on NBC.

****

Grimm.

Several of the morons and moronettes love it but, other than that and football, I can't name another NBC show.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 08:52 AM (piMMO)

56 If you're in a city, at least -try- the "Over the Air" version. If you watch via the cable box, Comcast (or whomever) gets feedback on which channels are watched. If you're using an antenna, they do not.

And when I cancelled Comcast (and the three times they've called to see if I'd like to hook it back up), I had a simple request that would get me back as a customer. "Yes, I want BBC America and the Sci Fi channel and -nothing-else- for $10/month. Can you do it? Oh? $79/month with how many useless channels?"

There are actually a couple more channels I'd take, but lumping in the 'wall of crap' needs to stop before I'll care.

Posted by: Al at September 21, 2012 08:52 AM (MzQOZ)

57 >>>I think the old expression goes pour encourager les otres (You have to hang an admiral once in a while to encourage the others).

"Sun TzuÂ’s book The Art of War, earned him an audience with the King of Wu, who said, Â“I have read your books, may i submit your theory of managing soldiers to a small test?Â”

Sun Tzu replied Â“Sir, you may.Â”

The King of Wu asked Â“Can the test be applied to women?Â”

Sun Tzu replied that it could, so arrangements were made to bring 180 beautiful women from the palace. Sun Tzu divided them into two troops with one of the KingÂ’s favourite concubines at the head of each

[snip]

He then repeated the explanations several times. This time he ordered the drums to signal Â‘left turn,Â’ and again the women burst into laughter.

[snip]

He immediately had the two concubines beheaded as an example and appointed the two next in line as the new leaders.

Now the drums were sounded and the drill began. The women performed all the maneuvers exactly as commanded. They drilled perfectly in precision and did not utter a single sound."

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 21, 2012 08:52 AM (0q2P7)

58 wheatie, 12:46 - "What NBC/MSNBC is doing....is campaigning for Barky." Which reminds me: I was listening to NPR this morning, just to piss myself off, and they were covering the story of relative fundraising: how the Obama campaign seems to have outraised the Romney campaign. They cut to one of their analysts, who opens by saying that fundraising only tells part of the story, because the press puts out a lot of their message for them for free. And I'm thinking, Aha! We admit this. It's just a short step from there to, "but we do our best to rebut Romney's statements and defend Obama's."

Posted by: JPS at September 21, 2012 08:53 AM (g6Ae5)

59 Shills

Posted by: USA at September 21, 2012 08:53 AM (6Cjut)

60 Toldya fifty years ago it was a wasteland. As you say in 2012: shit.

Posted by: Newton Minow at September 21, 2012 08:54 AM (EJ6V1)

61 Okay, so according to wikipedia, NBC is owned by a combination of GE (difficult to boycott), Comcast (not too hard, if you can find other internet/cable), & NBCUniversal (ah, so avoid a few movies).

****

I refuse to cook dinner or wash dishes until I can afford new appliances.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 08:54 AM (piMMO)

62 Isn't boycotting NBC kind of like a tree falling in the woods and no one seeing it?

Posted by: Crom at September 21, 2012 08:54 AM (1WKq7)

63 good luck with the boycott. purge! purge! purge!

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 08:54 AM (t1NLo)

Is that how Dan spelled it?

IIRC, yes. But it's been a few years and um, some other factors that don't help with my powers of recollection.

And I have a couple of Mepps lures myself.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 21, 2012 08:54 AM (d0Tfm)

65 53 you realize msnbc has joe scarborough on 15 hours per week? And? You consider Scarborough a conservative? He's a conservative like Michael Smerconish is a conservative.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 21, 2012 08:54 AM (m0QPD)

66 I can't not watch something that I never watch. I hope all of the MFM go broke, the sooner the better.

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at September 21, 2012 08:55 AM (R8hU8)

67 I wish cable providers allowed us to drop or pick up channels if we wanted, that would be great. I get so much useless shit, and I always see something I like on a channel I can't get.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at September 21, 2012 08:55 AM (NzBQO)

68 So, where's the retraction of the phony "Chik-fil-A caved" story?

Posted by: Gerry at September 21, 2012 08:55 AM (Z/Rts)

69 I forgot about Grimm. I do know a couple of people who watch that besides rons and ettes. Oh and the only thing remotely funny about SNL anymore is when they show a Lonely Island skit and you can watch those on YouTube so that's nothing.

Posted by: Adam at September 21, 2012 08:55 AM (/YJYi)

70 Why is GE hard to boycott? Do they not have competitors?

Posted by: ace at September 21, 2012 08:56 AM (fxHyG)

71 And? You consider Scarborough a conservative? He's a conservative like Michael Smerconish is a conservative.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 21, 2012 12:54 PM (m0QPD)

Scarred Burro makes McRINO look like a conservative.

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at September 21, 2012 08:56 AM (7p9Q5)

I heard Conan make a joke last night to the effect that 'Romney got such a dark tan that he isnt going to vote for himself."

So don't go running to TBS.

Posted by: california red at September 21, 2012 08:56 AM (Ho3p+)

73 In a spirit of objectivity, I pledge to never bow to the president again. Not making any promises about fellatio, though.

Posted by: Brian Williams at September 21, 2012 08:56 AM (AZGON)

74
Now the drums were sounded and the drill began. The women performed all the maneuvers exactly as commanded. They drilled perfectly in precision and did not utter a single sound."

****

Or, applied in a different way, Saddam Hussein tortures and kills his own men and then everyone else in the room busts into "tears of love and support".

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 08:56 AM (piMMO)

75 >>>no wonder romney's in the toilet.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 12:51 PM (t1NLo)

Oh it's Jon. Awesome. Every time you show up I know Obama is panicking, because, well he has to resort to using loathsome trolls. It buoys my morale so to hear you screech your desperate pathetic drivel. Tell me about how Obama is going to blow out Romney worse than McCain again? For me?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 21, 2012 08:56 AM (0q2P7)

I like the taste of poo. Alexrod's is very good. They tell me if I do a good job for them, I will get to eat some officicial poo from The One.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 12:51 PM (t1NLo)

--------------

Do you use a fork or a spoon, when you eat poo?

Posted by: wheatie at September 21, 2012 08:57 AM (Z7b/q)

77 NBC I think they don't care about making money--I swear it must be some sort of write -off.

Posted by: tasker at September 21, 2012 08:57 AM (r2PLg)

78 Silly Ace. You don't have to boycott NBC to take them down. You just have to boycott the advertisers. And not even all of the advertisers. Just make it known that all advertisers will be boycotted in turn unless they drop their advertising. Pick one of the advertisers as the "example to be made," and boycott that advertiser. When that advertiser caves, the others should cave as well, so as to avoid the boycott.

Posted by: Steve at September 21, 2012 08:57 AM (/+x5E)

good luck with the boycott.

purge! purge! purge!

Ah, get your mouth off your mommy's titty long enough to speak up and show everyone that you're an idiot?

Posted by: Fucker! at September 21, 2012 08:57 AM (F6KtL)

80 Why is GE hard to boycott? Do they not have competitors?

Posted by: ace at September 21, 2012 12:56 PM (fxHyG)

There are only about 3 large companies that make home appliances anymore even though there are hundreds of brands.

Posted by: Vic at September 21, 2012 08:57 AM (YdQQY)

81 SyFy is the biggest disappointment in any TV brand ever launched. It is shit just like the rest of them.

---

Excuse me.

Posted by: The History Channel at September 21, 2012 08:57 AM (Hx5uv)

82 I haven't supported network tv in years. I get all the tv I need from the Internet, including sports. They don't get one dime from me, the lying hacks.

Posted by: DangerGirl (@deadlyestrogen) at September 21, 2012 08:58 AM (8xOfO)

83 heh. so all conservatives need to pass some kind of purity test before getting on TV? that worked so well for romney. you guys are clueless. romney's campaign is over. nbc doesn't care if you watch them. really, you think you're going to gin up outrage among normal people based on SNL doing political humor? what happened to freedom of speech? SNL is a comedy show, and romney's a doofus.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 08:58 AM (t1NLo)

84 I forgot about Grimm. I do know a couple of people who watch that besides rons and ettes. Oh and the only thing remotely funny about SNL anymore is when they show a Lonely Island skit and you can watch those on YouTube so that's nothing.

****

Perhaps we'll get lucky and NBC will drop it and it'll be picked up by one of the cable networks. That seems to happen more and more these days.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 08:58 AM (piMMO)

85 Why is GE hard to boycott? Do they not have competitors?

GE makes their real money on things consumers don't buy: jet engines, generators, power company infrastructure parts, wind turbines, etc, etc.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2012 08:59 AM (rPA5/)

86 You boycott their sponsors. You tell the sponsors that you are boycotting them and why. You must be very specific, polite, sorrowful and give quotes. Business hates for it to be pointed out to them that they are sponsoring hate speech and that their competitors are going to profit from their stupidity.

Posted by: Joe Smoe at September 21, 2012 08:59 AM (Nsx1s)

87 Posted by: The History Channel at September 21, 2012 12:57 PM (Hx5uv)

Unlike SyFy I never had any hope for you. I knew TV would ruin history based on their past efforts.

Posted by: Vic at September 21, 2012 08:59 AM (YdQQY)

88 Jon at September 21, 2012 12:58 PM (t1NLo) So Butt Pirate when is The ONE going to reveal to us Stupid Fucks the other 7 Sates he visited in the 2008 Campaign ?

Posted by: Evilpens at September 21, 2012 09:00 AM (ck76k)

89 And yet, I can't get my wife to stop watching Today.

So I just curse at them and say nasty stuff about whichever guest they have on at the time as I walk by.

Posted by: RoyalOil at September 21, 2012 09:00 AM (imtbm)

90 Jon you fuck nugget, you of all people shouldn't presume to tell us who is and isn't conservative. What party does Tim Kaine belong to again? Which party Jon, you jackass.

Posted by: Adam at September 21, 2012 09:00 AM (/YJYi)

91 Conservatives who like The Office

Dear conservatives, this show is not funny. It has never been funny. It never will be funny.

Posted by: dogfish at September 21, 2012 09:00 AM (NuPNl)

92 I don't watch network tv, AT ALL. I would be ashamed to.

Posted by: maddogg at September 21, 2012 09:00 AM (kvYE6)

93 Average Joe's dumber than usual today.

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at September 21, 2012 09:00 AM (7p9Q5)

94 To let the networks get some real flack, call your local NBC affiliate and speak to the station manager or some other high-up guy, even if it is the owner.

Tell them you are not going to watch NBC as long as they are pushing such left-wing political stuff or however you want to phrase it.

Tell them if they are short of programming, they can air local high school games or I Love Lucy reruns to fill in.

And ask them if they are prepared for a lawsuit for illegal donations in kind to the Obama campaign.

Heh.

Posted by: Miss Marple at September 21, 2012 09:01 AM (GoIUi)

95 Why is GE hard to boycott? Do they not have competitors?
Posted by: ace at September 21, 2012 12:56 PM (fxHyG)

It's things they produce which an individual consumer really doesn't purchase such as jet engines, medical diagnostic equipment produce for purchase by corporation.

Posted by: YIKES! at September 21, 2012 09:01 AM (qUlBE)

.....scoamf is in the portolet

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work team dagny at September 21, 2012 09:01 AM (j1z2L)

97 Jon they have the right to say whatever they want. We have the right not to watch. I know critical thinking hurts your head, but you might want to at least try before writing something so asinine.

Posted by: Adam at September 21, 2012 09:01 AM (/YJYi)

98 Why is GE hard to boycott? Do they not have competitors? I demand to fly on Pratt & Whitney engines! Wow, that sounds kind of like Michelle.

Posted by: t-bird at September 21, 2012 09:01 AM (FcR7P)

99 I believe the last time i watched a minute of the SyFy Channel was when Warehouse 13 featured Special Ed Schultz pretending to be a journalist. If I wanted to watch Special Ed pretend to be a journalist, I'[d watch MSKGB.

Posted by: WalrusRex at September 21, 2012 09:01 AM (Hx5uv)

100 >>>Why is GE hard to boycott?

On some things, no credible competitors, and some things are simply transparent to you. You really think GE makes all of its money in consumer goods? Are you going to stop buying electricity generated by GE Reactors and Turbines and instrumented with GE switchgear and metering? Stop using hospitals that have GE medical devices? Stop buying consumer products that use GE programmable controls hardware in the manufacturing process? Stop buying goods shipped with GE train engines? Stop flying on planes powered by GE turbines? Edison built a Goliath.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 21, 2012 09:02 AM (0q2P7)

101 I have to admit, and somewhat sheepishly so, that my television viewing is divided about 60/40 between FNC and the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:02 AM (piMMO)

102 MK Ultra narrating a list of Muslim nations protesting that's as long as the credits for a big budget movie

Posted by: The Q at September 21, 2012 09:02 AM (B/yDO)

103 and romney's a doofus. Wow, brilliant, salient point, Jon. What's next; are you going to call him a doo-doo head? Enjoy voting for the man who went to a fundraiser the night his ambassador was sodomized and murdered. Or the man who owns over 8% unemployment. Or than guy who will raise your taxes an average of $1,250 when Obamacare is implemented. Tool.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 21, 2012 09:02 AM (m0QPD)

104 Why is GE hard to boycott? Do they not have competitors? When I bought my Harley and financed it at the dealer, GE money bank. When I bought my Polaris and financed it at the dealer, GE money bank...they have their filthy hands all over the place. Worst part, I had no idea until the bill came it was GE.

Posted by: Cu'Chulainn at September 21, 2012 09:02 AM (Vk2CC)

105 well, nbc is surely gonna get destroyed based on this thread. and no watching conan anymore. or letterman. so who are you guys allowed to watch these days, lest they offend your delicate sensibilities and feelings? gop has become a party of insulated know-nothings.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:02 AM (t1NLo)

106 Does torrenting their shows without commercials count as boycotting? Not that I would do that, but just askin'?

Posted by: DanInMN at September 21, 2012 09:02 AM (XqeyF)

107 72 "Why is GE hard to boycott? Do they not have competitors?"

GE sucks but is no longer the problem. They sold NBC to Comcast last year

Posted by: The Q at September 21, 2012 09:02 AM (B/yDO)

108

'heh. so all conservatives need to pass some kind of purity test before getting on TV? that worked so well for romney.

you guys are clueless. romney's campaign is over. nbc doesn't care if you watch them. really, you think you're going to gin up outrage among normal people based on SNL doing political humor?

what happened to freedom of speech? SNL is a comedy show, and romney's a doofus.'

Why are you over here then? Something tells me that your dick just isn't that hard for TEH ONE in '12 as it was in '08. So you come over here to try and jack it off and get hard by telling us (really yourself) that he's going to win. Is it that hard yet? Or you having trouble getting it up? I think you being here tells me all I need to know.

Posted by: Fucker! at September 21, 2012 09:03 AM (F6KtL)

109 So I saw this headline on the DailyMail "Father killed 15 week-old daughter during oral rape" I thought nope, not today, just can't do it, I clicked it anyway...

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at September 21, 2012 09:03 AM (NzBQO)

110 If we win nov 6, you can be goddamn sure that I'll be watching NBC then. Other than that, only if the Packers are on Sunday night football.

Posted by: Dave S. at September 21, 2012 09:03 AM (BfZ1r)

111 Listen people, Jon said yesterday that Tim Kaine was a republican. He's not the brightest troll to ever grace these parts.

Posted by: Adam at September 21, 2012 09:03 AM (/YJYi)

112 >>>you guys are clueless. romney's campaign is over.

YES! YES! YES! WE ARE SO GOING TO WIN! Keep going Jon. Don't stop there.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 21, 2012 09:03 AM (0q2P7)

113 MSM not reporting unrest in Middle East. I guess it has not been independently verified.

Posted by: HtP at September 21, 2012 09:04 AM (jx2j9)

114

And ask them if they are prepared for a lawsuit for illegal donations in kind to the Obama campaign.

Hmm, that's kinda dirty and underhanded. I like it.

Of course, the best thing would be to hear a loud pop on the other end of the phone from a leftard head a'splodin'.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 21, 2012 09:04 AM (d0Tfm)

115 Unless some of you morons want to get together and act out Grimm for me I'm going to have to make an exception.

Posted by: defjavidson at September 21, 2012 09:04 AM (L1h9A)

116 so all conservatives need to pass some kind of purity test before getting on TV?

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No. We're a big tent party. Crossbows and longbows.

Posted by: WalrusRex at September 21, 2012 09:04 AM (Hx5uv)

117 well, nbc is surely gonna get destroyed based on this thread. and no watching conan anymore. or letterman. so who are you guys allowed to watch these days, lest they offend your delicate sensibilities and feelings? gop has become a party of insulated know-nothings. Grammar (and capitalization) is hard. Speaking of delicate sensibilities, how is Islam working out for your party, douche canoe? Let me know when the SCOAMF is done apologizing to them and we'll talk.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 21, 2012 09:04 AM (m0QPD)

118 Why is GE hard to boycott? Do they not have competitors?

When was the last time you bought a locomotive?
Want to swap the hamsters for a reactor?

I quit looking when the meltdown happened but $ fiddling is probably still one of their biggest bits.

Posted by: DaveA at September 21, 2012 09:04 AM (nKOL2)

119 And I should've read farther up the thread

Posted by: The Q at September 21, 2012 09:04 AM (B/yDO)

120

Yes, our great Media industry, all American Jobs, are in Jeopardy... and may very well go bankrupt, so today I am announcing we will be using TARP funds to bailout NBC, and other failing Media outlets.

This will save 10's of thousands of jobs, as well as create a fair counterbalance to Republican owned corporations, such as Fox, who create such dissension in our country.

Tim Geithner will use TARP funds to buy stock in NBC, and we will help guide this great corporation back to fiscal stability, just like we saved GM...

Thank you... I'll be taking no question today...

Posted by: Barak Obama Press Announcement at September 21, 2012 09:04 AM (lZBBB)

121 Edison built a Goliath.

****

If you ever get the chance to visit the Ford/Edison compound in Ft. Myers, FL, do. Just fascinating.

And to think of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Harvey Firestone being best friends, brainstorming ideas, is just mind-blowing.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:05 AM (piMMO)

122 But the thing that really pisses me off about cable and the satellites is you always have to buy the mid level package to get anything you do want.

I am paying $80/month with a $10 discount for auto pay for over 100 channels. I watch college football when they have the Dawgs televised. I watch FoxB at supper, maybe 45 min/day, my wife watches Wheel of Fortune via a local station, and the rest of the time I use the satellite for music radio.

And even there you have to go mid level to get any decent programming.

Posted by: Vic at September 21, 2012 09:05 AM (YdQQY)

123 James Pethokoukis @JimPethokoukis 1m Gallup, 7-day tracking, Sept. 14-20, Obama 47-Romney 47

Posted by: Evilpens at September 21, 2012 09:05 AM (ck76k)

124 By the way, this isn't a free speech issue. NBC can air whatever they want.

But they have to accept the consequences, just like everyone else.

Posted by: Miss Marple at September 21, 2012 09:05 AM (GoIUi)

125 I demand to fly on Pratt & Whitney engines! Wow, that sounds kind of like Michelle.

Posted by: t-bird at September 21, 2012 01:01 PM (FcR7P)

Rolls Royce engine logo looks pretty cool to.

Posted by: YIKES! at September 21, 2012 09:05 AM (qUlBE)

126 funny how sensitive you all are to a few minutes of tv sketch comedy.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:05 AM (t1NLo)

127 108 well, nbc is surely gonna get destroyed based on this thread.

and no watching conan anymore. or letterman.

so who are you guys allowed to watch these days, lest they offend your delicate sensibilities and feelings?

gop has become a party of insulated know-nothings.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 01:02 PM (t1NLo)

That looks like it was written by a 12 year old.

Posted by: Adam at September 21, 2012 09:05 AM (/YJYi)

128 List of media assets owned by GE: Media NBCUniversal (49% ownership, remaining owned by Comcast) NBC - National Broadcasting Company NBC Entertainment NBC News TheGrio.com Peacock Productions NBC Sports NBC Studios NBCUniversal Sports & Olympics NBCUniversal Television Group Universal Television NBCUniversal Television Distribution NBCUniversal International Television NBC Owned Television Stations WNBC 4 - New York KNBC 4 - Los Angeles WMAQ 5 - Chicago WCAU 10 - Philadelphia KNTV 11 - San Jose/San Francisco KXAS 5 - Dallas/Fort WorthÂ² WRC 4 - Washington WTVJ 6 - Miami KNSD 39 (cable 7) - San DiegoÂ² WVIT 30 - Hartford NBC Nonstop LXTV EMKA, Ltd. NBC Universal Digital Media NBC Universal Cable A&E Television Networks (co-owned with The Hearst Corporation and Disney/ABC): A&E The Biography Channel Crime & Investigation Network The History Channel The History Channel en EspaÃ±ol History Channel International Lifetime Military History Channel Bravo Chiller (horror-themed cable channel, launched March 1, 2007) [1] CNBC CNBC World MSNBC (co-owned with Microsoft) mun2 SyFy ShopNBC Sleuth USA Network Universal HD Weather Channel Companies - with private equity firms Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group The Weather Channel Weatherscan The Weather Channel Interactive weather.com The Weather Channel Mobile The Weather Channel Desktop Weather Services International Comcast Sports Group NBCUniversal Global Networks NBCUniversal Global Networks LAPTV (Latin America) - co-owned with Paramount Pictures (Viacom), MGM and 20th Century Fox (News Corporation); Telecine (Brazil) - co-owned with Globosat Canais, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, MGM and 20th Century Fox; Universal Channel Latin America (except Brazil) Universal Channel Brazil (co-owned with Globosat Canais); Sci Fi Channel (Latin America) NBCUniversal Global Networks EspaÃ±a. Telemundo KVEA/KWHY - Los Angeles WNJU - New York WSCV - Miami KTMD - Houston WSNS - Chicago KXTX - Dallas/Fort Worth KVDA - San Antonio KSTS - San Jose/San Francisco KTAZ - Phoenix KBLR - Las Vegas KNSO - Fresno KDEN - Longmont, Colorado WNEU - Boston/Merrimack KHRR - Tucson WKAQ - Puerto Rico (independent Spanish station) Universal Studios (co-owned with Comcast) Universal Pictures Focus Features Rogue Working Title Films Universal Studios Licensing Universal Animation Studios Universal Interactive Universal Pictures International Universal Studios Home Entertainment Universal Home Entertainment Productions United International Pictures (co-owned with Paramount Pictures/Viacom); Universal Operations Group Universal Production Studios Universal Parks & Resorts qubo - Qubo Venture,LLCÂ¹ Â¹Minority interest Â²Stations which LIN Television owns a minority in

Posted by: tasker at September 21, 2012 09:06 AM (r2PLg)

129 Boycotts rarely work because if a company is successful enough the injury has to be more obvious than the utility of their products/service.

2nd, boycotts that can't capture the majority of the public's attention have to use targeted, concentrated power. Alinsky's method comes in handy here.

Ace, if you're looking for action, pick a target. Don't just go with, "BERCOTT N-BER-CEH!"

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 21, 2012 09:06 AM (3CiXB)

130 Don't buy any GE shit either, in market sectors where they have competitors.

Posted by: buzz at September 21, 2012 09:06 AM (i27M5)

131 So, how do they know when you're boycotting? I mean if Arbitron or someone calls, I can say I'm not watching.

Posted by: jeanne at September 21, 2012 09:06 AM (GdalM)

132 gop has become a party of insulated know-nothings. Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 01:02 PM (t1NLo) And the dems find themselves well represented by you. Please do keep up the good work.

Posted by: HtP at September 21, 2012 09:06 AM (jx2j9)

133

110...GE sucks but is no longer the problem. They sold NBC to Comcast last year

GE still owns 49% of NBC/MSNBC.

Posted by: wheatie at September 21, 2012 09:06 AM (Z7b/q)

134

I do not have a problem shutting off tv , but i only turn on the tv if it is available to me which is rare.

however if nbc has football i will never be able to talk spouse and boy children into a boycott

is there another idea for recieving football viewing that won't break the bank?

Posted by: willow at September 21, 2012 09:06 AM (TomZ9)

135 When was the last time you bought a locomotive?

****

There is virtually nothing in your house that didn't move with the aid of a GE locomotive at some point from raw material to final delivery.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:06 AM (piMMO)

136 I haven't watched any NBC program in years with the exception football. It's all left-wing garbage. And I'm certain they lose money to get the rights to football.

Posted by: NJRob at September 21, 2012 09:06 AM (FVp26)

137 I've quit watching the networks altogether. About 20 years ago I began working evenings and quit watching network crap. I never saw Seinfeld until a few years after the last show.

Now I have a Sony media player, like a Roku, and instead of paying $80 a month for cable (ComCast is part owner of NBC) I pay $8 for Netflix.

Breitbart, Drudge, AoSHQ, Instpundit, Limbaugh, and Newsbusters are where I get most of my news. I also throw in Mediaite, TPM and DU (it's like my Daily Show) for balance.

I watch sports (any game I want to see) on the internet, FREE.

Posted by: CozMark at September 21, 2012 09:07 AM (BjOkm)

138 So, how do they know when you're boycotting? I mean if Arbitron or someone calls, I can say I'm not watching.

****

If you have cable, they know.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:07 AM (piMMO)

139 Hi my name is Jon and I think that Time Kaine (D) is a republican! What's that (D) thingy next to his name mean!?!?!? Oh my gosh you guys are so mean to me!

Posted by: JonSuckCockByChoice at September 21, 2012 09:07 AM (/YJYi)

140 130 funny how sensitive you all are to a few minutes of tv sketch comedy. SNL isn't the topic here, moron. The topic is an "alleged" news show painting Romney as a racist. Reading comprehension is hard. So is your mother's cock.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 21, 2012 09:07 AM (m0QPD)

141 The SNL segment is obvious, over the top, satire of the type they've been doing for 35 years and is hardly worth getting your panties all bunched up. Calling for a boycott usually makes the person doing it look like a humorless turd and has the added bonus of being totally ineffective. However, if one were looking to make the election season influx of Hot Air retards feel right at home, this could be a good move.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at September 21, 2012 09:07 AM (+lsX1)

142 I quit watching most TV a long time ago. What movies I want to see I either see them at the theater or on demand with either Amazon or iTunes.

I haven't missed much.

Posted by: navybrat at September 21, 2012 09:07 AM (urgS1)

143 The weird thing about NBC is that the more they have hemmorraghed viewers, the more extreme they have become, as if the answer to Fox was not to become more balanced, but to become even more shrill in their bias. Corporate heads have a duty to try to maximize profit. One would think it would have occurred to someone that drilling into the Fox honeypot by moving slightly to their left would increase profits.

The proper response to Fox should have been to take their viewers, not play into the reasons why Fox is successful.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 21, 2012 09:07 AM (Iyg03)

144 Ace I think you're the only moron who regularly watches NBC. Aside from football there's nothing worth watching. That's fine, I'll stop the football on Sunday night.

Posted by: Truman North, iPhone scribbler at September 21, 2012 09:07 AM (yF/I1)

145 Why is GE hard to boycott? Do they not have competitors?

It's like Proctor and Gamble. Their fingers are in so many farking pies you can't even keep track. The detergent/soap/whitener/bleach/whatever aisle at the store would be 99% accurate with a sign "Proctor and Gamble Aisle."

And that's just the products where P&G shows up on there. They sell raw chemicals to -all- the boutiques for their house-brand shampoos, etc.

Just to highlight GE:
I don't think you could reliably manage to actually -fly- if you were on a 100% boycott of GE. There's Rolls Royce engines, Pratt and Whitney, and GE. And you won't know which are in your plane without asking enough questions to get your name Red Flagged. Probably with Stars.

Posted by: Al at September 21, 2012 09:07 AM (MzQOZ)

146

gop has become a party of insulated know-nothings.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 01:02 PM (t1NLo)

you mean like Obama not knwing the amount of the debt?

Posted by: willow at September 21, 2012 09:08 AM (TomZ9)

147 It's hard to boycott a network I have not tuned into since the 8th grade.

Posted by: Lambchop at September 21, 2012 09:08 AM (swBuL)

148 109: DVRing them and skipping the commercials counts, even. For the major networks, all that counts is watching the commercials.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 21, 2012 09:08 AM (rPA5/)

149 Conan is on TBS.

Posted by: gumchewer at September 21, 2012 09:08 AM (ceoOP)

150 heheh. "talk your spouse and kids into not watching nbc... stick it to the mean comedy people who aren't deferential enough to my political heroes!" truly amusing, you all are.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:08 AM (t1NLo)

151 turnabout is fair play. CrossingBroad.com reported on 15 Aug that Ed Rendell (D-PA) was implicated, in a child sex ring. It appears one of his big donors named Savitz, who died of AIDS years ago, ran pedo ring that Jerry Sandusky was part of. The FBI is currently investigating it. One of the rent boys grew up and became a cop and has been talking to whoever will listen. His name is Bucceroni. The story reads, in part Bucceroni thinks that Lynne Abraham - yes, the same Philadelphia DA who wrote that commentary about Savitz - prematurely and quietly concluded her independent investigation of Second Mile because it might, yep, turn up information about Savitz and the people he was connected to... including Ed Rendell, who is the main target of BucceroniÂ’s anger. Bucceroni claims that Savitz was buddies with Rendell and donated a lot of money to his 1977 District Attorney campaign. He also makes the huge leap to call Rendell an enabler, who knew full-well what Savitz was up to, citing the fact that his victims were often around Rendell and helped out with his campaign, but did nothing because Savitz was a political backer. ThatÂ’s a massive leap, as itÂ’s assumed (and noted by Bucceroni) that Savitz had contact with many powerful men, who may only be guilty by association. But, Bucceroni points out that, to this day, Rendell is still friends with members of the Savitz family, including SavitzÂ’s brother, Samuel, and his wife, Selma. Indeed, in 2009, Rendell, as Governor, honored Selma for her volunteer work. If Romney can be called a racist based on nothing, than Ed Rendell supported a pedophile ring by inference.

Posted by: Thunderb at September 21, 2012 09:08 AM (Dnbau)

152 Yeah that's some straigt-up stupid shit right there, what's sad is that people actually watch this shit.

Posted by: dananjcon at September 21, 2012 09:09 AM (eavT+)

153 Now I have a Sony media player, like a Roku, and instead of paying $80 a month for cable (ComCast is part owner of NBC) I pay $8 for Netflix.

****

Check out Amazon Prime as well. Like Netflix, they have tons of free content but unlike Netflix, if you want to see something that isn't offered for free, you can still elect to rent or purchase it.

Their libraries are not parallel, so I actually use both services.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:09 AM (piMMO)

154 Hehehehehe

Posted by: JonMasturbatesToObamaPosters at September 21, 2012 09:09 AM (/YJYi)

155 and hussein isn't a dufus? have you ever heard him speak?

Posted by: D. Hopper at September 21, 2012 09:09 AM (AVfT8)

156 i suck cocks by choice but of course obama's is THE ONE i really want in my mouth. and hey, at least i quit the fucking stupid laughing. oh, and obama's totally winning winning winning, and i'm not saying that to try to convince myself, so you can just forget about that.

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:10 AM (aHR5E)

157 Is Jon Below-Average Joe?

Posted by: t-bird at September 21, 2012 09:10 AM (FcR7P)

158 @132, Dayum. They're literally everywhere.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 21, 2012 09:10 AM (d0Tfm)

159 just wait until a real knee-slappin' conservative-approved comedy show comes on the air and totally beats up snl! that'll teach 'em!

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:10 AM (t1NLo)

160 Cancel your cable/satellite.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at September 21, 2012 09:10 AM (nZvGM)

161 CrossingBroad.com reported on 15 Aug that Ed Rendell (D-PA) was implicated, in a child sex ring Talk to any Philly cop who works Northwest Division and they'll tell you all you want to know about Rendell. The man's skeletons have skeletons. Doesn't matter, though; because no one will ever report it.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 21, 2012 09:11 AM (m0QPD)

162 funny how sensitive you all are to a few minutes of tv sketch comedy.
Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 01:05 PM (t1NLo)

You think that's funny, this is a real knee slapper.
From the "What World Are Democrats Living In, Exactly?"
thread.

Is the economy mostly poor or not, Jon?
Show us how reality-based you are.
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 21, 2012 10:45 AM (WdoDE)

Kinda sensitive about that question aren't you?

Posted by: YIKES! at September 21, 2012 09:11 AM (qUlBE)

163 But the thing that really pisses me off about cable and the satellites is you always have to buy the mid level package to get anything you do want.

I called to move my internet connection to my new house, and the Cox rep asked me, "Don't you want cable?"

Me: "Can you get me a la carte programming so I don't have to pay for the channels I don't want?"

Cox: "We've got various packages."

Me: "Nope. I've been doin' just fine without it, thankyouverymuch."

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at September 21, 2012 09:11 AM (4+LTj)

164 The snl skit is actually a sample of the libtard mindset. I am having my house painted right now. One of the painter's assistants is on a ladder outside my office window spewing all kinds of liberal bullshit related to Romney and the election.He has not a clue in the world. If he doesn't shut-up, I am thisclose to pushing his ladder over...

Posted by: Rondinellamamma at September 21, 2012 09:11 AM (53riN)

165 GE sold NBC to Comcast - if Comcast don't get it then the whole enterprise will swirl the toilet bowl.... NBC is banned from my house - yes even NBC football.....

Posted by: izoneguy at September 21, 2012 09:11 AM (oKH8p)

166 i'm so glad you guys pay attention to me. nobody else does. i can't imagine why. i'm such an awesome guy and mr. axelrod tells me i give great head, so i don't get it. oh well. winning winning winning, yep siree!

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:11 AM (aHR5E)

167 Jon don't listen to these racists here. OUr first post-multi-racial president is trulyy doing god'ss work. Me and the ladys of the Brattlesboro Womans Community Clinic are proud to have you stands with us in our fight for womans rights and our crusade to relect our beloved Obmaa.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattlesboro, VT at September 21, 2012 09:11 AM (/YJYi)

168 Cancel your cable/satellite.

****

Sirius Satellite

FNC without the hotness.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:11 AM (piMMO)

169 It also seems like NBC's unethical, unprofessional dive to the left started about the same time they were bought by General Electric. They started reflecting the close-minded politics of asshole Jeff Immelt. So their out-and-proud politics may not have been solely in reaction to Fox. It could have been part of the corporate culture created by Immelt.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 21, 2012 09:12 AM (Iyg03)

170 Watch, don't watch, it doesn't matter if you aren't a Neilsen family.

Posted by: Pious Agnostic at September 21, 2012 09:12 AM (PiESu)

171 is Jon dishonest cloud?

Posted by: willow at September 21, 2012 09:12 AM (TomZ9)

172 When will people learn that NBC is a left wing, liberal, Marxist, socialist, putrid pile of goat dung. Don't act so surprised when they pull crap like this.

Posted by: rplat at September 21, 2012 09:13 AM (wSYyB)

173 Watch, don't watch, it doesn't matter if you aren't a Neilsen family.

The way a boycott works is you have to tell them why you're not watching.

Just not watching doesn't change anything.

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at September 21, 2012 09:13 AM (4+LTj)

174 Watch, don't watch, it doesn't matter if you aren't a Neilsen family.

****

Not true.

Unlike when we used to just pick signals out of the air, most people use a cable for their service. Bandwidth usage can be measured.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:13 AM (piMMO)

175 I wasn't around for Average Joe but I'm going to go ahead and say Jon is far below him. Tim Kaine is a republican!

Posted by: Adam at September 21, 2012 09:13 AM (/YJYi)

176

Conan is on TBS.

He thinks he's hilarious.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 21, 2012 09:13 AM (d0Tfm)

177 just wait until a real knee-slappin' conservative-approved comedy show comes on the air and totally beats up snl!

You've never watched Cops?

Posted by: Cicero at September 21, 2012 09:14 AM (QKKT0)

178 Sorry about Jon,guys.
We had to recruit our site turfers from the sex offenders registry today.
They're really low information.You know, can't tell Rs from Ds
I hope to have our regular staff tomorrow lured in by free MD 20/20 and Suzie Qs.

Posted by: David "King Combover" Axelrod at September 21, 2012 09:14 AM (jfWE9)

179 i am nobody else but myself. i can't help it if some of my fellow progressives hold the same exact opinions as i do on everything. great minds think alike. (that's what i was supposed to say, right mr. axelrod?)

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:14 AM (aHR5E)

180 @110 GE still owns 49% of NBC.

Posted by: obie-doobie at September 21, 2012 09:14 AM (YQHqe)

181 From what I have heard.. unless you are a neilson family.. a boycott doesnt work very well. However.. if you use the parental controls and BLOCK NBC/MSLSD your cable provider can see that .. and it effects the ad dollars they can get.

Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at September 21, 2012 09:15 AM (DGIjM)

182 I've switched to CBS' morning show. It's definitely liberal, and it's got Oprah's gal pal Gayle on it. Still, it's better than Today. I don't feel as if I'm watching High School Girls' Clique; and even if they are liberal, I don't feel as if they are insulting my intelligence nearly as much as Today or GMA. Also, not nearly as hyper as Fox and Friends. Their morning "eye opener in 90 seconds" is what got me, if for no other reason than to show me the media's focus for the day.

Posted by: Rocky at September 21, 2012 09:16 AM (1ywuz)

183 I've switched to CBS' morning show. It's definitely liberal, and it's got Oprah's gal pal Gayle on it. Still, it's better than Today. I don't feel as if I'm watching High School Girls' Clique; and even if they are liberal, I don't feel as if they are insulting my intelligence nearly as much as Today or GMA. Also, not nearly as hyper as Fox and Friends. Their morning "eye opener in 90 seconds" is what got me, if for no other reason than to show me the media's focus for the day.

Posted by: Rocky at September 21, 2012 09:16 AM (1ywuz)

184 I've switched to CBS' morning show. It's definitely liberal, and it's got Oprah's gal pal Gayle on it. Still, it's better than Today. I don't feel as if I'm watching High School Girls' Clique; and even if they are liberal, I don't feel as if they are insulting my intelligence nearly as much as Today or GMA. Also, not nearly as hyper as Fox and Friends. Their morning "eye opener in 90 seconds" is what got me, if for no other reason than to show me the media's focus for the day.

Posted by: Rocky at September 21, 2012 09:16 AM (1ywuz)

185 NBC = Nothing But Commies

Posted by: Murph at September 21, 2012 09:16 AM (23ik4)

186

What we need is to take advantage of online delivery to start producing conservative alternatives to the leftwing networks. With more and more conservatives in Hollywood standing up for themselves, why wouldn't it be possible for a conservative writer and producer to get together and raise money to put out a miniseries for distrobution on Amazon Prime or through Netflix?

Posted by: Alex at September 21, 2012 09:16 AM (6jo2q)

187 i really need to have a word or two with the folks that run this library. the shift key is totally broken and there's spittle all over the monitor. they try to blame me for that but i don't let them get away with it. truth to power winning winning winning!

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:16 AM (aHR5E)

188 >>>just wait until

If you look to the second to last row of keys on your keyboard, you will note two keys marked with a combination of "Shift" and/or "↑" these can be interchangeably used to implement use of majuscule lettering for proper rendering of Latin type. I invite you to give it a try.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 21, 2012 09:16 AM (0q2P7)

189 zomg nbc is doomed.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:16 AM (t1NLo)

190 I don't boycott them exactly. I just watch them really, really infrequently, but that's probably because I'm a sports and news nerd. They have hockey and Sunday night football for sports, but little else. Sure, they might call it news but they don't really do news at NBC. If they have a hockey season I'm watching it though. Sorry.

Posted by: Dave S. at September 21, 2012 09:17 AM (tWrwm)

191 is Jon dishonest cloud?

Posted by: willow at September 21, 2012 01:12 PM (TomZ9)

iirc honest cloud would try to stay on topic to make his case and wouldn't duck a question.

Posted by: YIKES! at September 21, 2012 09:17 AM (qUlBE)

192 @178 Anything beyond the base cable box has a computer that reports back on everything - no need to "monitor bandwidth" when the box is reporting "Hey, I'm on channel 17."

Posted by: Al at September 21, 2012 09:17 AM (MzQOZ)

193

However.. if you use the parental controls and BLOCK NBC/MSLSD your cable provider can see that .. and it effects the ad dollars they can get.

I should've suspected as much when I couldn't get a straight answer our of Bridget House down here when I asked them if they keep track of blocked channels.

brb, now where's the remote?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 21, 2012 09:17 AM (d0Tfm)

194 Ya know whats funneh?? When I cream pie Jon's bung hole then donkey puch him.

Posted by: A.C. Cooper at September 21, 2012 09:18 AM (eavT+)

195 nbc is totally not doomed unlike romney, who as i mentioned earlier is totally losing you betcha, because my lord and savior obama is just so dreamy and successful.

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:18 AM (aHR5E)

196 193 zomg nbc is doomed. Capitalization is your friend. Most likely your only friend.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 21, 2012 09:18 AM (m0QPD)

197 The way a boycott works is you have to tell them why you're not watching.

So tell them why you aren't watching and tune in anyway.

Unlike when we used to just pick signals out of the air, most people use a cable for their service. Bandwidth usage can be measured.

Theoretically true, but in fact not actually being used. Neilsen is how ratings are calculated and how ad rates are determined.

Posted by: Pious Agnostic at September 21, 2012 09:18 AM (PiESu)

198 Apologies for the multi-post; not sure how that happened.

Posted by: Rocky at September 21, 2012 09:19 AM (1ywuz)

199 The lasht funny thing on "Shaterday Night Live" was the fuck I gave your mother lasht night. So suck it, Trebek. The day is mine!

Posted by: Sean Connery, but not really at September 21, 2012 09:19 AM (jCQ+I)

200 If you people would respond to Jon my mouse wheel would get a lot less work.

Posted by: Vic at September 21, 2012 09:19 AM (YdQQY)

201 would NOT respond dammit.

Posted by: Vic at September 21, 2012 09:20 AM (YdQQY)

202 Posted by: Rocky at September 21, 2012 01:16 PM (1ywuz)

I'd worry a lot if CBS' morning show didn't insult my intelligence. Just sayin'.

Also, unless you're selling cat filters or lace wigs, one post is usually enough.

Posted by: Cicero at September 21, 2012 09:20 AM (QKKT0)

203 I remember after Fox took over the top spot in cable news MSNBC hired Michael Savage and Alan Keyes and they had bald eagles and American flags swooping to and fro in their break to commercials, a Wall of Heroes for people to send in pictures of relatives serving in the military and on and on in an attempt to beat Fox. Of course, that didn't work and people stayed with Fox so they became the shrill lefty douchebag network they are today which still hasn't beaten Fox but at this point NBC as the democrat propaganda arm is ingrained into the public's consciousness and they can't escape it.

Posted by: booger at September 21, 2012 09:20 AM (HI6wa)

204 man you'd think the power of the free market would have already proven the immense value of conservative comedy. hint- when you start out doing any kind of art -- writing, tv, online, whatever -- with a specific goal as to spread your political views, it's propaganda. the old soviet politburo knew it well, looks like you guys are itchin' to form one yourselves.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:20 AM (t1NLo)

205

Idealists thought television would usher in a new age of informed voters who would change the world for the better. Idealists are always wrong.

They soon learned the proles prefered game shows to news.

Posted by: Invictus at September 21, 2012 09:20 AM (OQpzc)

206

Rasmussen Pennsylvania: Obama 51 - Romney 39. Romney takes Indepenents 47-40. Whites split 44-44. Blacks 96-4 Obama. Romney gets 76% republicans, 11% democrats. Obama gets 83% democrats, 12% republicans.

Posted by: VBJonny at September 21, 2012 09:20 AM (bED4B)

207 i have lots of friends, it's just that everyone else says they can't see them. anyway i hate rethuglikkkans because they like to poke me with sharp sticks and say mean things like dance monkey dance, even though i tell them i'm not a monkey they don't listen.

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:20 AM (aHR5E)

208 "Not watching" doesn't help if you're still sending them money. Cable/satellite packages, I'm looking at you.

I tend to not like the TV and movies Ace likes. So, half of the shows my wife and I watch are on NBC. Yes, The Office is on life support, but I suppose it's like a trainwreck we can't turn away from. Maybe this season will be the impetus.

But if we watch it for free with an antenna, don't buy shows' merch, and don't talk about it at the water cooler, are we actually hurting a boycott in anyway?

Posted by: red sweater at September 21, 2012 09:21 AM (Xwgt3)

209 The way you hurt a network is to punch at their advertizers. Boycott them.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 21, 2012 09:21 AM (l3vZN)

210

i am nobody else but myself. i can't help it if some of my fellow progressives hold the same exact opinions as i do on everything. great minds think alike.

(that's what i was supposed to say, right mr. axelrod?)

Yes it is, son. Now, you look kinda young. Like a schoolboy. You want some candy? It's in my car...

Posted by: Jim Messina at September 21, 2012 09:21 AM (F6KtL)

211 The only boycotts that work are boycotts of the advertiser's products, and only if you go to the trouble of writing them and telling them why.

Posted by: toby928© at September 21, 2012 09:21 AM (QupBk)

212 I hope Dennis Miller just says "fuck it" and comes out swinging here. I don't know if I've heard him criticize SNL but it would be pretty easy and striking for him to come out and say "SNL is horrible now and has been on a steady decline for years."

Posted by: Uncle Milty at September 21, 2012 09:21 AM (8J5Ck)

213

"You consider Scarborough a conservative? He's a conservative like Michael Smerconish is a conservative."

Hey, give those guys a break. It's tough to get an offer you can't refuse from left/MSM (BIRM). Besides, the money is fabulous.

It almost makes the hassle of dead girls and live boys worth it.

Posted by: Jaws at September 21, 2012 09:21 AM (4I3Uo)

214 It really would be handy to have a right-wing network that wasn't explicitly so-con for a little balance. Ace could easily write a funnier Friday YukFest than SNL.

Posted by: DaveA at September 21, 2012 09:21 AM (nKOL2)

215 And jinx to jinx the cat

Posted by: toby928© at September 21, 2012 09:21 AM (QupBk)

216 One of the painter's assistants is on a ladder outside my office window spewing all kinds of liberal bullshit related to Romney and the election

It's your house. Tell Gabby McBungalowBlaster's boss you need quiet to work and therefore Moutho should shut the f up and paint, like he's being paid for. If you put up with it you're just going to get more of it. If you're worried you won't get a good job, painting is pretty easy to inspect; if it doesn't look good, it isn't a good job. If it looks good, it usually is a good job. Just don't pay the contractor until you're satisfied; if you want to crack hard, let him know his mouthy employee is why you're being picky.

I've worked with painters for more years than I care to admit, and nobody likes getting static just because some motormouth can't shut up and paint.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at September 21, 2012 09:22 AM (DLu2s)

217 capital letters are so bourgeouis. did i spell that right? i don't care. correct spelling is a tool of the rethuglikkans anyway. did i mention obama's totally winning? yep, winning winning winning!

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:22 AM (aHR5E)

218

I don't mind trolls as long as they're intelligent and witty. But this Jon person sounds like a fourteen year old. I'm still waiting for it to make a case for Obummer but it can't. I want to hear from him how the economy is doing swell and the ME has been pacified.

Funny how lefties hate capitalism but love and defend O's crony capitalism. Lenin had a name for them: useful idiots.

Posted by: obie-doobie at September 21, 2012 09:22 AM (YQHqe)

219 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at September 21, 2012 09:22 AM (6o4Fb)

220 yeah, dennis miller will show them! maybe you could email him and see if he's up to the job.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:22 AM (t1NLo)

221 Conservatives who like The Office are helping keep this outfit afloat.

I am guilty. I started watching and will prob keep watching that horse til they finish beating the dead corpse. That said, I can't stand any of the other comedies on NBC like Community or Parks and Rec. I tried to watch Eli Manning (Giants fan here) on SNL and didn't make it through the opening sketch. The left leaning bias leaks into all of their comedy shows.

Posted by: Otherdanintexas at September 21, 2012 09:22 AM (bLICx)

222

Cut the cable and screw them all.

Steal content off the internet. It's only stealing because they bought our copyright laws.

Posted by: entropy at September 21, 2012 09:22 AM (TULs6)

223 Great minds think alike!

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 21, 2012 09:23 AM (l3vZN)

224 Listen I can't help it I'm so fucking stupid. My mother put bleach in my sippy cup when I was younger. I think it may have done something to my head.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:23 AM (/YJYi)

225 what happened to freedom of speech? SNL is a comedy show, and romney's a doofus.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 12:58 PM (t1NLo)

Doesn't it have to be funny to be a comedy show? And it's not by any stretch a funny show

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 21, 2012 09:23 AM (1Jaio)

226 All NBC has for me is Sunday night football.I don't even watch most of those anyway.

Posted by: steevy at September 21, 2012 09:23 AM (6o4Fb)

227 Rasmussen Pennsylvania: Obama 51 - Romney 39. Romney takes Indepenents 47-40. Whites split 44-44. Blacks 96-4 Obama. Romney gets 76% republicans, 11% democrats. Obama gets 83% democrats, 12% republicans. Wow. PA sure has some mixed up demographics compared with the rest of the country. No wonder it's always a tease.

Posted by: toby928© at September 21, 2012 09:23 AM (QupBk)

228 That may also explain why I have such a hard time with grammar. But then again grammar is so old and white so it's not cool. When you think about it grammar is very republican.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:24 AM (/YJYi)

229 >>>man you'd think the power of the free market would have already proven the immense value of conservative comedy.

Hold on, let me go ask Jeff Foxworthy, Larry TCG, and Bill Engvall how the free market has treated them.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 21, 2012 09:24 AM (0q2P7)

230 don't you talk about my mother. i love my mother. you know, in that special way. ok that's not true. i want to have sex with my mother but i'm totally impotent. but it's all about intentions with folks like me, so there you go. winning.

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:24 AM (aHR5E)

231

The attempt to launch a boycott of NBC from your crummy little corner of the fringe is almost funnier than Romney trying to recover from his latest gaffe. Face it Â– you canÂ’t beat Barry. HeÂ’s smarter, funnier, cooler and more politically savvy than Romney. YouÂ’re all frothing cuz you thought it would be a slam-dunk Â– you pathetic load of horse cum. Obama ainÂ’t Carter and Romney ainÂ’t Reagan. You canÂ’t win even with the debt exploding, 8% unemployment and a mid-east crisis. YouÂ’re worst than losers, because a loser at least admits theyÂ’ve lost. Fucking pathetic, whiney, throat-fucked, ass-jizzed subby whores. Fine. Now go kill yourselves.

Posted by: Rupert Pupkin, Esq. at September 21, 2012 09:24 AM (icwKQ)

232 It stunk at every level. SNL is a franchise that's had strong years and lean, but this reeks of total lack of talent in the writing. That's not the performers' faults, that's a production problem. This didn't even seem like the sort of performance that was about risk-taking and fell down; it just plain flat stunk. The only lasting impression beyond that was the cartoonishly overt bloviating racism. It's possible there was some idea behind this, to effect that F&F typically is the most obvious program on FNC for using barely-concealed dog whistle racism, and just SAYING it, sort of like what Key & Peele do with their Obama-and-Luther routine with Luther the Anger Translator going way OTT, constitutes parody; but if so, it sure didn't come across like that was the idea, especially in that some of the most blatantly racist language was put in Romney's mouth, even though there's not an atom of evidence in at least two decades of public office to support that Romney has EVER been racist or said anything at all racist. I doubt SNL has the least historical understanding or feel for it's identity any more. It should be sent up state to frolic in splendorius grasses and meet with a sudden and entirely unforeseen fatal hunting accident.

Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at September 21, 2012 09:25 AM (vahvH)

233 well, nbc is surely gonna get destroyed based on this thread.

and no watching conan anymore. or letterman.

so who are you guys allowed to watch these days, lest they offend your delicate sensibilities and feelings?

gop has become a party of insulated know-nothings.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 01:02 PM (t1NLo)

If you think that watching NBC or any other network makes you informed, then you're a bigger idiot than I gave you credit for

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 21, 2012 09:25 AM (1Jaio)

234 @220 I can't imagine any boss who would allow an employee to spout partisan politics within hearing range of customers. The customer should complain to the contractor.

Posted by: obie-doobie at September 21, 2012 09:25 AM (YQHqe)

235 Pupkin, that is priceless.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 21, 2012 09:25 AM (Iyg03)

236 We can hurt NBC financially bigtime by cancelling your Comcast service since Comcast owns NBC.

Posted by: AJ Lynch at September 21, 2012 09:25 AM (ASPsd)

237 Wow. PA sure has some mixed up demographics compared with the rest of the country. No wonder it's always a tease. PA is lost, thanks to my suckass city. Philly will vote (often) and sit by while the NBPP "monitors" the polls again. Hope for Colorado, because PA is toast.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 21, 2012 09:25 AM (m0QPD)

238

201...Neilsen is how ratings are calculated and how ad rates are determined.

Not anymore....not exclusively.

Digital Set-Top Boxes track what they are tuned into.

So all cable companies now have the same ability that Neilson does...in caluculating what people are watching.

Neilson is not the only source for 'ratings' anymore.

Posted by: wheatie at September 21, 2012 09:26 AM (Z7b/q)

239 Now go kill yourselves.

Posted by: Rupert Pupkin, Esq. at September 21, 2012 01:24 PM (icwKQ)

You first, we'll kill ourselves after, promise.

Posted by: booger at September 21, 2012 09:26 AM (HI6wa)

240 romney's a total doofus, not like the great thinkers on my side, like joe biden and major owens and that guy that warned you all about guam but did you listen? you did not. winning.

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:26 AM (aHR5E)

241 OT but if anyone here is a member of Goodreads and wants to add me as a friend my name there is Dnagirl. I'm always looking for new book recommendations.

Posted by: DangerGirl (@deadlyestrogen) at September 21, 2012 09:26 AM (9ek7+)

242 Not watched NBC, ABC, or CBS for about 10 years. On satellite TV, did not feel like spending even more money to get local stations. I can watch the local stations on the Internet if I want. And I rarely do.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 21, 2012 09:26 AM (YQmAD)

243 Obama ainÂ’t Carter If only Barry was as competent as Carter.

Posted by: toby928© at September 21, 2012 09:27 AM (QupBk)

244 That Tim Allen show Last Man Standing? Pro gun, pro family, anti enviro hysteria and anti Obama and it's doing quite well.

Posted by: Adam at September 21, 2012 09:27 AM (/YJYi)

245 >>>what happened to freedom of speech?

Really? We say we won't watch NBC and suddenly "FREE SPEECH!!!!!1111!!!!"

MONDAY, mind you of this week MONDAY "That movie is offensive and he tried and held accountable"

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 21, 2012 09:27 AM (0q2P7)

246 Average Jon is a Man of the World. Unlike us wingnuts.

Posted by: Cicero at September 21, 2012 09:27 AM (QKKT0)

247 Pupkin has strong emotions, and he wants you to know it. And to deal with it.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 21, 2012 09:27 AM (Iyg03)

248 hint- when you start out doing any kind of art -- writing, tv, online, whatever -- with a specific goal as to spread your political views, it's propaganda.

the old soviet politburo knew it well, looks like you guys are itchin' to form one yourselves. Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 01:20 PM

Oh you mean like the ass sucking left has been doing for 40 years? Go fuck yourself.

Posted by: Berserker at September 21, 2012 09:27 AM (FMbng)

249 I don't mind trolls as long as they're intelligent and witty. But this Jon person sounds like a fourteen year old. Posted by: obie-doobie

Trolls by definition aren't dumping their daddy issues on the comment threads for the purpose of discussion.

They're here to stir up shit and then beat off to the angry responses. It's attention-seeking behavior that most of us grow out of at 5 years old.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 21, 2012 09:28 AM (3CiXB)

250 heh. you guys are really sensitive softies inside, rent ya? you get so worked up over the silliest things.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:28 AM (t1NLo)

251 210
Rasmussen Pennsylvania: Obama 51 - Romney 39. Romney takes Indepenents 47-40. Whites split 44-44. Blacks 96-4 Obama. Romney gets 76% republicans, 11% democrats. Obama gets 83% democrats, 12% republicans. I would love to see the party ID on this one. Obama won independents by 19 in 2008, with a D+7.

Posted by: tofer732 at September 21, 2012 09:29 AM (m5Iwq)

252 Comcast is now the majority owner of the NBC Networks.

Twice a month for years now, I've been getting junk mail from Comcast trying to get me to sign up. They gotta be pretty desperate, or profoundly stupid to keep sending twice a month junk mail for years to the same house.

Posted by: @PurpAv at September 21, 2012 09:29 AM (E9ajU)

253 Obama is so politically savvy that after a U.S. ambassador is murdered he goes to Vegas to party. Then with the middle east on fire he goes on Letterman and parties with Jay-Z next to a six figure tower of champagne and then embargoes photos of it. Damn he's a fucking genius.

Posted by: Rupert Pupkin, Professional Anus at September 21, 2012 09:29 AM (/YJYi)

254 when i say freedom of speech of course i mean speech i agree with. anything critical of dear leader must of course be silenced because it's not real speech it's just hate speech, which isn't speech. also anything that offends islam. that's not speech either. burning a flag, though, is speech. because your betters say so.

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:29 AM (aHR5E)

255 Anything beyond the base cable box has a computer that reports back on everything - no need to "monitor bandwidth" when the box is reporting "Hey, I'm on channel 17."

****

Which, I suppose, is a much more direct way of saying exactly what I was trying to say,

Duh.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:30 AM (piMMO)

256 @235 You wouldn't be so over-the-top frothing at the mouth if your guy was winning, troll. You'd be happy. Why aren't you happy and serene if your guy is winning? You should be smug instead of ballistic.

Posted by: frothy obots on the loose at September 21, 2012 09:30 AM (YQHqe)

257 Comcast is one of the worst cable companies. Get DirectTV.

Posted by: tasker at September 21, 2012 09:30 AM (r2PLg)

258 Obama gets ... 12% republicans.

The heck?

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at September 21, 2012 09:30 AM (4+LTj)

259 heh, mak fn uf my spelig al u want. my mom thinx im snrt

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:30 AM (m0QPD)

260 heh. you guys are really sensitive softies inside, rent ya?

you get so worked up over the silliest things.

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 01:28 PM (t1NLo)

Just more proof that mommy put bleach in my sippy cup. Rent ya? What the fuck was I trying to say?

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:31 AM (/YJYi)

261 Megyn reported that 47 muzzies have been killed in ongoing protests. Those new toxic flags are awesome.

Posted by: HtP at September 21, 2012 09:31 AM (jx2j9)

262 you sensitive softies should be more like muslims. you never see them getting worked up about anything. and when they do, it's totally our fault and we must apologize. winning.

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:31 AM (aHR5E)

263 Grimm. Several of the morons and moronettes love it but, other than that and football, I can't name another NBC show. Yes. Usually, pretty good. Really long story arc, tho. I'm not sure it is better than the first couple of seasons of Supernatural. If you like Grimm, you'll like Supernatural. It's in syndication on TNT.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at September 21, 2012 09:31 AM (1hM1d)

264 It' easy for Jon to waste his day away on a site to which he contributes nothing nor learns anything.

It's one of the benefits of living in your mom's basement. No bills, and no need to get a job.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:31 AM (piMMO)

265 sock change font change

Posted by: dananjcon at September 21, 2012 09:31 AM (eavT+)

266
Synopsis, so you don't actually have to watch this drivel:

The first Â“Saturday Night Live Weekend Update ThursdayÂ” aired last night on NBC, continuing an election year tradition that began in 2008. The first show kicked off last night with a sketch about Â– what else? Â– Mitt RomneyÂ’s Â“47%Â” videotape and the determined efforts by the perky hosts at Â“Fox & FriendsÂ” to downplay the nomineeÂ’s comments.

Naturally, in the Â“SNLÂ” version of the undercover videotape, Jason SudeikisÂ’ Romney puts things in even starker terms than his real-life counterpart. As for Â“these peopleÂ” who wonÂ’t vote for him, the candidate wasnÂ’t referring to senior citizens, members of the armed services, and especially not Southern whites.

After pausing to make sure his remarks werenÂ’t being recorded, fake-Romney put it blunty. Â“When I say Â‘these people,Â’ I mean black people.Â”

The personalities on Â“Fox & FriendsÂ” werenÂ’t bothered. Â“Call me crazy but I like seeing an honest moment from a politician,Â” said Gretchen Carlson, played by Vanessa Bayer.

From there, the secret Romney tapes grew gradually more offensive. In one, Romney spit out hamburgers at McDonaldÂ’s; in another, he takes a ride in the Â“Cash CabÂ” and expresses distrust for employees at hotels in California Â– "a.k.a. North Mexico."

But it wasnÂ’t until a fourth videotape of Romney singing a song about poor people in the shower (lyrics: Â“The only thing the poor hate more than condoms, is waking up and going to a jobÂ”) that the Â“Fox & FriendsÂ” gang was finally at a loss.

Â“That oneÂ’s tougher to spin,Â” said Steve Doocy, played by Taran Killam.

Not to worry, though: Doocy came to the rescue by teasing an ominous-sounding video of a Â“4-year-old Obama asking for something called pasketti.Â”

LA Times

An election year tradition, since 2008.....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 21, 2012 09:31 AM (kdS6q)

267 Those new toxic flags are awesome.

I think they're made in China. What does that mean?

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at September 21, 2012 09:32 AM (4+LTj)

268 Megyn reported that 47 muzzies have been killed in ongoing protests. Those new toxic flags are awesome.

****

New-age smallpox blankets?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:32 AM (piMMO)

269 Or, as Sartre would have it, l'enfer, c'est les autres ("Hell is other people").

Posted by: jakeman at September 21, 2012 09:32 AM (96M6e)

270 Obama ainÂ’t Carter

Oh I know. Carter made home brewing legal again, I will be eternally grateful for that act which led to the rise renaissance of American Ale brewing.

Whereas Obama well, he managed not to bumble the OBL strike, but as long as it took to make such an obvious choice, it is no wonder the WH is screwed up with no direction.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 21, 2012 09:33 AM (0q2P7)

271 Tommy Thompson is behind in Wisconsin on a poll with higher R than in '10 or this years recall election. We need this seat. Donate here: https://www.tommyforwisconsin.com/donate/ Also, a new poll in Nevada's new Congressional district shows the Republican 3+ over the Dem nominee. This is a Dem district drawn to elect a Dem. This is winnable, though very, very close. Considering the Dems ability to pad their registration numbers, and the fact that the local and state GOP is run by insane Ron Paul cultist, the Republican Danny Tarkanian needs all the help he can get. Donate here: http://bit.ly/UmcSPD While your at it, please consider donating to Sen. Heller: https://secure.deanheller.com/donate/search/google/

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 21, 2012 09:33 AM (XvHmy)

272

241) Agreed. I think it's hopeful that the Rasmussen swing state polls in only Obama +1 and it includes Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Romney is ahead in Colorado +2, North Carolina +6, New Hampshire +3, Iowa +3

Obama is ahead Nevada +2, Pennsylvania +12, Wisconsin +3.

We haven't had updates on Michigan, Virginia, Ohio, and Florida lately. They were all Obama by a few last week. With Obama up so much in PA and also ahead in Nevada and Wisconsin, but only up 1 overall, I'm thinking that VA, OH, and FL are all either very close or barely Romney. I'm not sure how the states are all weighted but I would assume it's based on Electoral Votes, so it would take more than CO and NH to balance out PA, and a 12 point lead in PA is huge.

Long story short, hopefully this means Romney is up in VA, OH, and FL.

Posted by: VBJonny at September 21, 2012 09:33 AM (bED4B)

273 I say boycott all of them until they get their news agencies in line AND their tv shows, how many of them have been sending messages for years. It's freaking entertainment, not re-education. AND LET THEM KNOW IT!

Posted by: Mrs Compton at September 21, 2012 09:33 AM (dX4hn)

274

html fail

Posted by: VBJonny at September 21, 2012 09:33 AM (bED4B)

275 I think they're made in China. What does that mean? Posted by: Meiczyslaw at September 21, 2012 01:32 PM (4+LTj) China hates muzzies too?

Posted by: HtP at September 21, 2012 09:33 AM (jx2j9)

276 My troll advice, just ignore them. Win or lose, they're gone in November. Somebody mentioned 'honest cloud', that guy was like toenail fungus around here. After the 2008 elections, vwoop, gone. Probably just bored Obama 2012 phonebank operatiors killing time because nobody's calling in donations............

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at September 21, 2012 09:34 AM (DLu2s)

277 I watch channels for entertainment value. So I don't really watch much t.v. since I think most of it is crap.

Posted by: Bosk at September 21, 2012 09:34 AM (n2K+4)

278 Yes. Usually, pretty good. Really long story arc, tho. I'm not sure it is better than the first couple of seasons of Supernatural. If you like Grimm, you'll like Supernatural. It's in syndication on TNT.

****

I dunno about that.

Grimm encompasses everything I normal find unwatchable: Sci-Fi, mythology, the supernatural, but still managed to suck me in. Others here have expressed the same, strange, attraction to it. However, I'l check out Supernatural because there's the chance it might grown on me as well.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:34 AM (piMMO)

279 "Those new toxic flags are awesome."

They're probably just freaking carbon monoxide poisoning. Haven't seen anything that contradicts that - but "poison flags!" are someone -else's- fault, while carbon monoxide poisoning is an honest Darwin Award contender.

Posted by: Al at September 21, 2012 09:34 AM (MzQOZ)

280 Megyn reported that 47 muzzies have been killed in ongoing protests. Those new toxic flags are awesome.

Those sneaky Joooos are behind this.

Also, Bush.

Posted by: Cicero at September 21, 2012 09:34 AM (QKKT0)

281 Long story short, hopefully this means Romney is up in VA, OH, and FL. Still too close, though. Way too close, and I don't understand it. What the frak is the matter with people?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 21, 2012 09:34 AM (m0QPD)

282

btw...

'Rupert Pupkin'....was a character played by Robert De Niro in an 80's movie.

The Pupkin character indulged in elaborate and obsessive fantasies, and fancied himself a standup comedian.

Posted by: wheatie at September 21, 2012 09:35 AM (Z7b/q)

283 http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/contests/us-president-12 romney's toast

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:35 AM (t1NLo)

284 Obama ainÂ’t Carter

No kidding. Carter had 10 million more jobs when he left office. Obama's something like 8 million behind that pace.

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at September 21, 2012 09:35 AM (4+LTj)

285 Here is a list of sponsors of ABC NBC and CBS news programs: Geico, Walgreens , Merck, Allergan ,GE , Pfizer, The Scotts, Fidelity, Kellogg, Foot Solutions, Kraft, Foods, Transistions Optical, McNeil-PPC, Inc. Allstate Insurance ,The ServiceMasterCo., Roche Therapeudics Inc, Bayer, Novartis, Consuemer Health, P & G Kashi Co., Remax Int'l ,Astrazeneca, Nestle, Dupont ,Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, Campbell Soups, Boehringer SC ,Johnson, General Mills, SCA Svenska Cellulosa, Dardin Restaurants, Eli Lilly, Abbott Labs, Astellas Pharmacy, Combe Inc., TD Ameritrade, Ameriprise, The Progressive, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Legal Zoom, Nutrisystems, Sepracor, Donatos Pizza ,Ally Bank,

Posted by: Howard Beale at September 21, 2012 09:35 AM (WnjLc)

286 47 muzzies have been killed in ongoing protests

Order for 3,384, coming right up.

Posted by: The Virgin Depot at September 21, 2012 09:35 AM (96M6e)

287
Also, ratings:

The SNL special managed just a 1.6 rating in the 18-49 age group that determines much of prime-time ad sales. That audience was vastly down from the first prime-time edition four years ago, which scored what now looks like an astronomical 5.1 rating. The 2008 show was fueled by intense interest in Tina FeyÂ’s portrayal of Sarah Palin. This year, there is no comparable character driving interest.

But with that less-than-stellar number at the beginning of the night, the rest of NBCÂ’s comedy lineup performed limply. Â“Up All NightÂ” could only manage a 1.3 rating, which was down from its 2.4 premiere a year ago. In a truly ominous sign for its last season, Â“The OfficeÂ” tied its worst performance ever, with just a 2.1 rating. And the promising Â“Parks and Recreation,Â” with a special Washington-based episode, could only manage a 1.7 rating, down from a 2.1 premiere last year.

The Â“SNLÂ” special (with a total audience of 5.1 million) and Â“The OfficeÂ” (4.3 million) were the only NBC shows to draw over four million viewers.

NYT

Suck it, Peacock Network.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 21, 2012 09:35 AM (kdS6q)

288 Obie-Doobie: "I don't mind trolls as long as they're intelligent and witty. " Hell, I don't even mind stupid people necessarily. It's stupid people who smugly mistake their stupidity for brilliance that get on my nerves.

Posted by: JPS at September 21, 2012 09:35 AM (g6Ae5)

289 Long story short, hopefully this means Romney is up in VA, OH, and FL. --- No no no, Romney's losing everywhere, didn't you know that? Jonboy and Gergy and the rest are constantly tell us so. Surely they're not just trying to convince themselves? That's crazy talk.

Posted by: mediumheadboy at September 21, 2012 09:35 AM (aHR5E)

290 html fail VBJonny use these instead: "[ ]"

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 21, 2012 09:35 AM (m0QPD)

291 280 He pissed me off by blaming Romney though.

Posted by: steevy at September 21, 2012 09:36 AM (6o4Fb)

292 ""Blacks 96-4 Obama.""

Oh my, we are a racist country after all.

Posted by: Berserker at September 21, 2012 09:36 AM (FMbng)

293 I'd like to boycott them more, but without a TV it's hard to watch them less.

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at September 21, 2012 09:36 AM (SDkq3)

294 America closing multiple embassies throughout the ME because Obama's foreign policy is so totally awesome... pretty sure that's it.

Posted by: HtP at September 21, 2012 09:36 AM (jx2j9)

295 I think Joe Scarborough is an idiot

Posted by: Thunderb at September 21, 2012 09:36 AM (Dnbau)

296 292 http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/contests/us-president-12 romney's toast Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 01:35 PM (t1NLo) From this day forth, all the toilets in the kingdom shall be known as... jons!

Posted by: King Richard: at September 21, 2012 09:37 AM (136wp)

297 *yawn* Yes, Average Jon, some fuckwits did a poll with D +googolplex that shows Urkel ahead by the MOE. All is lost. Oh, woe is us. Die in a fire, won't you please?

Posted by: mediumheadboy at September 21, 2012 09:37 AM (aHR5E)

298 294 The boner pill purveyors are the biggest ad buyers on every fucking station!

Posted by: steevy at September 21, 2012 09:37 AM (6o4Fb)

299 Yeah I'll get you guys real scarred by linking to a talking points memo article, that'll do it!

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:37 AM (/YJYi)

300 That's the main reason 75% of the products are shit. You have talentless hacks producing crap and being allowed to do so because they have the correct politics.

Yeah, nothing wrong with having a politically driven record or movie now and again but when it gets to the point that most of your product is politically driven it turns to shit and that's where we're at now. It's not as bad as it was during Bush 43, but the entertainment industry still hasn't realized that it's just not very entertaining anymore. Not to mention that the style of entertainment these days just feels old and stale, comedy especially feels like warmed over rehashed crap.

Posted by: booger at September 21, 2012 09:37 AM (HI6wa)

301 ~~I think~~ Joe Scarborough is an idiot

***

Stop using your passive voice.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:37 AM (piMMO)

302 From this day forth, all the toilets in the kingdom shall be known as... jons!

Wow. Did he really link to a talking points memo?

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at September 21, 2012 09:38 AM (4+LTj)

303 polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com Heh.

Posted by: toby928© at September 21, 2012 09:38 AM (QupBk)

304
Oh I know. Carter made home brewing legal again, I will be eternally grateful for that act which led to the rise renaissance of American Ale brewing.

Just think about that. The single best thing Carter did in office, de-regulate brewing so it could be done legally on the home scale.

Suddenly (Over a period of years) markets arose to supply the home brewers, successful home brewers went on to start micro-breweries that expanded in to craft breweries. Opportunities for American 2 row, and 6 row and American grown specialty malts expanded for farmers, not to mention commercial opportunities for hops varietal growers in the US. Those craft brewers start exporting their beers. Industries supporting home, small, and medium scope brewing operation, yeast labs...

All because Carter managed to get the government out of the US citizens way on one little thing.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 21, 2012 09:38 AM (0q2P7)

305 305 I think Joe Scarborough is an idiot Posted by: Thunderb at September 21, 2012 01:36 PM (Dnbau) He is my intellectual model, him and Kinnocks

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 21, 2012 09:38 AM (136wp)

306 I'll take the contrarian side here. MSNBC needs to live, because it is funnier than SNL, Stewart, and Colbert combined.

Posted by: jakeman at September 21, 2012 09:39 AM (96M6e)

307 FNC has clearly hired a new stylist.

More black and white on the gals. Edgier hairstyles. MUCH improved makeup.

Kirsten Powers was stone-cold foxy this morning and Megyn Kelly looks even better than usual.

No. I am not gay.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:39 AM (piMMO)

308 The single best thing Carter did in office, de-regulate brewing so it could be done legally on the home scale.

I'll credit Billy for that one.

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at September 21, 2012 09:40 AM (4+LTj)

309 MSNBC needs to live, because it is funnier than SNL, Stewart, and Colbert combined. --- But then so is amoebic dysentery.

Posted by: mediumheadboy at September 21, 2012 09:40 AM (aHR5E)

310 it's a link to an average of many polls. you can ignore anything you want. you guys are the creationists who believe abstinence-only is the best kind of sex ed. you have a lot of tough talk though, i'll give you that

Posted by: Jon at September 21, 2012 09:40 AM (t1NLo)

311 I'll take the contrarian side here. MSNBC needs to live, because it is funnier than SNL, Stewart, and Colbert combined. Literally, the only time I even go to the trouble of looking up what channel MSLSD is on is on election night, just to laugh at Chris Matthews.

Posted by: toby928© at September 21, 2012 09:41 AM (QupBk)

312 Hey, at least Carter supported his idiot brother. The JEF, not so much.

Posted by: Thunderb at September 21, 2012 09:41 AM (Dnbau)

313 NDH, that's excellent news. But how are they gonna fix Greta?

Posted by: jakeman at September 21, 2012 09:41 AM (96M6e)

314 I'd like to boycott them more, but without a TV it's hard to watch them less.

There's a widget called TV-B-Gone. There's a kit for a $19 version, and you can soup the hell out of it. adafruit.com/ products/ 73 (with fewer spaces).

Now the irritating CNN at the airport/bar/barbershop can "malfunction."

Posted by: Al at September 21, 2012 09:41 AM (MzQOZ)

315 I'll credit Billy for that one.

****

Billy Beer!

http://binged.it/S9JIg8

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:41 AM (piMMO)

316 @220. Thank for the advice. I already have it in my plans to speak with the contractor. I like the guy and he's good..his assistants are jerks who can't keep their mouths shut about anything. I didn't speak up yet because I hate to have to be the bitch-on-wheels, but I gotta do what I gotta do...

Posted by: Rondinellamamma at September 21, 2012 09:42 AM (53riN)

317 NDH, that's excellent news. But how are they gonna fix Greta?

****

I like Greta.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:42 AM (piMMO)

318 These attacks are working. Romney needs to hit back harder.

Posted by: Hector at September 21, 2012 09:43 AM (+IAze)

319 The Â“SNLÂ” special (with a total audience of 5.1 million) and Â“The OfficeÂ” (4.3 million) were the only NBC shows to draw over four million viewers.

NYT

Suck it, Peacock Network.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 21, 2012 01:35 PM (kdS6q)

Who watches SNL any more? Is their remote broke and stuck on NBC?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 21, 2012 09:43 AM (1Jaio)

320 you rethunglikkans are all the same! unless us progressives, who hold a wide range of views on many issues. excuse me a minute... lieberman is a traitor! ok where was i?

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:43 AM (aHR5E)

321 New thread up for 10 minutes now. You'd think someone would think to tell us.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 09:43 AM (piMMO)

322 oh geez. Now with hectoring hector

Posted by: Thunderb at September 21, 2012 09:44 AM (Dnbau)

323 17 minutes!!!! And nbc can eat a dick

Posted by: navycopjoe at September 21, 2012 09:44 AM (iBaHp)

324 I HATE THE OFFICE

Posted by: Fresh at September 21, 2012 09:44 AM (O7ksG)

325 I've seen parts of "The Office" here and there. It's really boring, nothing funny at all. I always assumed it was some sort of "dog whistle", or maybe an "Emperor's New Clothes" kind of thing.

Posted by: Optimizer at September 21, 2012 09:44 AM (As94z)

326

SNL is just Air America for late night TV.

Posted by: Fresh at September 21, 2012 09:45 AM (O7ksG)

327 I like Greta too. I say that as a guy with absolutely no fashion sense, but with a wife who hammers Greta's outfits every evening.

Posted by: jakeman at September 21, 2012 09:45 AM (96M6e)

328 Actually, Billy Beer was almost drinkable. Certainly not up to the high standards of Valu-Rite, but not bad.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 21, 2012 09:46 AM (d0Tfm)

329 My problem is that in my very remote small market, the only local channel, and it comes via cable, is an NBC affiliate. It's our default channel. My wife cannot detect the bias when it rolls into the national feed at evening news time, and thinks I am overreacting in the noise I make to either switch it off or change the channel to FoxNews. To me, Bwian Wiwyums is a worthless pussy.

Posted by: The littl shyning man at September 21, 2012 09:46 AM (ZM6Zz)

330 #171- if you're going to impersonate me, you vile right-wing whore, at least learn how your spelling and grammar checkers work beforehand.

And your ridicule of the important work that the Brattleboro Womens' Free Clinic does proves you are probably an impotent right-wing male hater hiding behind a stolen sock. Then again I suppose you have lots of free time to ridicule correctly-thinking progressive people on the Internet since you lost your job in an illegal Republican weapons factory and your wife left you for a brown person!

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at September 21, 2012 09:47 AM (jCQ+I)

331 right on, sister! speak truth to power!

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:48 AM (aHR5E)

332

@322 You're practicing abstinence-only sex, aren't you, Jon? Just not by choice. Don't worry, maybe someday you'll get laid. Hope!

Posted by: obie-doobie at September 21, 2012 09:48 AM (YQHqe)

333 I didn't speak up yet because I hate to have to be the bitch-on-wheels, but
I gotta do what I gotta do...

Have no shame. Not only is it your house, and you're the one paying them to paint it; it's a work site. I worked on big commercial sites my entire career, and they are the tightest about keeping the monkey business down to zero, even though no one's around to watch the hijinks. Anybody who thinks they can cut up just because they're doing residential should stay home and post nonsensical crap on blog comment strings under the name of 'Jon'.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at September 21, 2012 09:48 AM (DLu2s)

334 i'll have you know i get all the sex i want. see, there's this barrel.

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:49 AM (aHR5E)

335 Rather than just boycott NBC, I would get rid of Comcast, parent company of NBC, if you have a competitor available in the area.

I switched to AT&T Uverse but Verizon FiOS is also available in some areas. If you have an alternative cable provider, use it.

Posted by: crosspatch at September 21, 2012 09:49 AM (ZbLJZ)

336 Oh and the State Department issued this travel advisory for Libya on August 27, 2012 Libya August 27, 2012 The Department of State warns U.S. citizens against all but essential travel to Libya. The incidence of violent crime, especially carjacking and robbery, has become a serious problem. In addition, political violence in the form of assassinations and vehicle bombs has increased in both Benghazi and Tripoli. This Travel Warning replaces the Travel Warning dated September 22, 2011, and notes the resumption of full consular services to U.S. citizens on August 27, 2012. http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_5762.html

Posted by: tasker at September 21, 2012 09:50 AM (r2PLg)

337

So tell me if this sounds plausible as a theory for some of the polling we've seen lately.

Gallup told us a couple weeks back that the self-identifcation of Democrats was the lowest they'd recorded since 1992 or so. Therefore, a lot of the fairweather Democrats (not hardened socialists, but probably the middle income public school teachers and so on) are gone to either I, and a few to R.

My guess it that those still self-identifying as D on a polling call are (a) more pro-Obama than the set of all people that are actually registered D, and (b) more excited about the election than the set of people that are actually registered as D, and (c) probably vote more often than the set of all people registered as D, since they are strong partisans, rather than casual, 'swingable' voters. That would explain why Obama's enthusiasm numbers higher now than about three months ago, if the self-identifcation dropped in the meantime.

What I'm wondering is if the non-Rasmussen polling firms are either encouraging or turning a blind eye to this selection bias that comes as an artefact of the self-identifcation in the poll. While only (something like) 32 percent of people self-ID'd as D to Gallup, we still see the very optimistic turnout predictions (D+8 or D+9, etc.) Not only are the predictions way too high, but they are also extrapolating the characteristics of the most partisan and excited Democrat base (that 32 percent of the electorate) and extending them to the 'fairweather' layer of people that would be necessary to achieve anything above a D+4 national turnout.

And in the meantime, the daily drum beat of 'it's over for Romney' from the MSM depresses casual R voter turnout, turning a 1% Romney win to a narrow loss, in their game plan.

Is this plausible or just non-sense?

Posted by: math is effin hard at September 21, 2012 09:51 AM (rsPKs)

338

Hey, I'm already on board just by virtue of their prime time suckitude.

Stopped watching the Office half way through the year that Steve Carell left. Will only watch SNF if the Broncos are playing. Their Olympics coverage also sucked.

Posted by: rockhead at September 21, 2012 09:51 AM (jtTKf)

339 My mistake on the Independents in Pennsylvania. I was looking at 'race'. Romney leads by 7 among "other races". Obama leads independents 57-26. Is that even possible??

Posted by: VBJonny at September 21, 2012 09:52 AM (bED4B)

340 strawmen? you mean when the other guy cums in you and then sucks it out with a straw? i've done that.

Posted by: Average Jon at September 21, 2012 09:53 AM (aHR5E)

341

155

Rendell is a notorious jock-sniffer, loves to hobnob with athletes and sports media. As Governor, he enjoyed dinner at the Paternos (a highly desired invite in PA) more than once. He was Governor and on the Penn State Board of Trustees when the Sandusky reign of perversion was underway at PSU athletic facilities. He also was chief executive of the state when AG Tom Corbett opened the Sandusky probe in 2009.

There is no way that Rendell didn't at least hear rumors of the charges against Sandusky. In PA, all roads lead to Rendell. It wouldn't be in the least surprising to learn he had covered for Eddie Savitz early in his political career.

Savitz was a pedophile who was beyond perverted, if you want, look him up but be prepared to get grossed out.

Posted by: kallisto at September 21, 2012 09:53 AM (jm/9g)

342

>>>Digital Set-Top Boxes track what they are tuned into.
So all cable companies now have the same ability that Neilson does...in caluculating what people are watching.

I'll be sure to tune to FBN before I leave for work and before I go to bed.

Posted by: LibertarianJim at September 21, 2012 09:54 AM (9TK8E)

343 And honestly, even the British version of The Office wasn't that good, apart from a few moments.

Posted by: LibertarianJim at September 21, 2012 09:56 AM (9TK8E)

344 'Rupert Pupkin'....was a character played by Robert De Niro in an 80's movie.

The Pupkin character indulged in elaborate and obsessive fantasies, and fancied himself a standup comedian.

Posted by: wheatie at September 21, 2012 01:35 PM (Z7b/q)

Which is why I've been calling the JEF Rupert Pupkin for over 4 years.

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at September 21, 2012 09:56 AM (7p9Q5)

345 Will only watch SNF if the Broncos are playing. Their Olympics coverage also sucked.

Posted by: rockhead at September 21, 2012 01:51 PM (jtTKf)

NBC sports has been in the toilet for decades. They made kollidge basketball real popular with Al McGuire and then let that get away. The NHL is about to go in the shitter forever with another dumbass strike. The Olympics is a total fucking sham run by bureaucratic turds that wreck the economy of the host country unless it has somebody smart like Romney overseeing the shit show. They snagged Notre Dame football just when it got terrible. I think they have the lezzo date night known as the WNBA although they might have jettisoned that ratings nightmare.

Pure.Fucking.Genius

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at September 21, 2012 10:03 AM (7p9Q5)

346 I wish I watched them so I could boycott, but the truth is I cut the cable years ago. The MSM sucks. Fox sucks less, but they still have a buttload of sdtupid on there as well.

Posted by: houndofdoom at September 21, 2012 10:04 AM (KhioZ)

347

I like Grimm too much, sorry. And Parks and Rec, which has an awesome libertarian on crack character.

Posted by: Lea at September 21, 2012 10:04 AM (lIU4e)

348 last season of the office, the plug will pull itself

Posted by: dr. shatterhand at September 21, 2012 10:05 AM (n/ogz)

349 I have been wanting to organize a full blown boycott of NBC, ABC, and CBS. These people have been keeping Obama afloat and ruining our country for so long that I have no idea why any conservative allows them any ad revenue. If every conservative stopped watching, they would tank, and deservedly so.

Why do we contribute to businesses that are destroying us?

Posted by: Brisco_County at September 21, 2012 10:07 AM (XOy/e)

350 364 last season of the office, the plug will pull itself. Yup, they have nothing to lose now. No one's watching since Steve Carrel left anyway.

Posted by: Derpman at September 21, 2012 10:07 AM (6VzqY)

351 I can't boycott them. I don't watch them. The television is turned off most of the time.

Posted by: Ron at September 21, 2012 10:09 AM (DyFv1)

352 Anybody seen Coward Robert Ford? We were going to go out and drink some pee.

Posted by: Pee-drinking Jon the troll at September 21, 2012 10:11 AM (xm1A1)

353 Here's an easy one to go tell pound sand, the AARP

Paul Ryan booed at AARP

http://tinyurl.com/cbm8t6d

AARP is nothing but a senior health insurance company reseller anyway.

Posted by: kbdabear at September 21, 2012 10:12 AM (wwsoB)

354 There are ways to watch The Office without giving NBC ratings.

Posted by: holygoat at September 21, 2012 10:21 AM (XnwWl)

355 I like Grimm too much, sorry. --- Me too, I just watch it on Hulu.

Posted by: mediumheadboy at September 21, 2012 10:22 AM (aHR5E)

356 "I think the old expression goes pour encourager les autres (You have to hang an admiral once in a while to encourage the others)."

Yup, Voltaire in "Candide", a reference to the British execution by firing squad of Admiral Byng for "failure to do his utmost" in the battle of Minorca.

And now that I've achieved my quota of obnoxious pedantry for the day, I'm off!

Posted by: SparcVark at September 21, 2012 10:28 AM (8HaYL)

357 After Romney wins in November, a virtual certainty, we'll still have the same sad, stupid, lying media. And they'll tear into the GOP with a vengance. So, realistically, what can we do to more effectively challenge their false narratives after the election?

Lefties like to use lies and threats. Those are bad, and even if they weren't. they're ineffective and counterproductive for our cause. Boycotts? Conservatives tend to be a pragmatic and independent bunch, and as such we really don't fall in line when asked to engage in collective action. We need to play to our strengths.

Ideas?

Posted by: GalosGann at September 21, 2012 10:30 AM (T3KlW)

358 Huh. I see the troll went away. The librarian must have kicked him out for slobbering all over the keyboard again.

Posted by: mediumheadboy at September 21, 2012 10:37 AM (aHR5E)

359 So, with DVR I don't always know what network a show is on, so I checked the NBC schedule. There are two shows my wife watches SVU, Voice and 1 for me (NFL). That's it. I think we can live without them. I can watch the NFL that I DVR during the day and then watch whatever game NBC had on the coaches tape on NFL.com. Looking at the list of shows, is anybody really watching that crap?

Posted by: RKinRoanoke at September 21, 2012 10:40 AM (DOEXI)

360 Crap. There's goes auditioning for "The Voice".

Posted by: Captain Whitebread, The Karaoke King at September 21, 2012 10:46 AM (cVfX0)

361 I'll even skip the Thursday night football game.
NBC sucks that bad.
Plus I don't have to hear Chris Collinsworth's dumb ass to boot.

Posted by: 1idvet at September 21, 2012 10:49 AM (DXQ6h)

362 I've been doing this for years.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 21, 2012 10:51 AM (bxiXv)

363 People keep referring to a boycott of GE. I believe Comcast now owns the television properties, no?

Posted by: Chester Copperpot at September 21, 2012 10:54 AM (d4C+6)

364 Isn't thursday night on NFL network? Today show ratings continue to plummet, too. And Matt's popularity is dropping like a stone. Notice how Newsweek is putting less totally left bias on their covers now that they are trying to make money.

Posted by: RKinRoanoke at September 21, 2012 10:54 AM (DOEXI)

365

Yeah, Dennis Miller is gonna set his former employers at SNL straight. He's gonna do that as soon as he pulls his smug face from out of Ayn Rand's decomposing cunt.

Posted by: Rupert Pupkin, Esq. at September 21, 2012 11:02 AM (icwKQ)

366 @379 Yes, GE sold NBC to Comcast. Comcast cable owns NBC. If you want to hurt NBC, dump Comcast.

Posted by: crosspatch at September 21, 2012 11:16 AM (ZbLJZ)

367 294Here is a list of sponsors of ABC NBC and CBS news programs:
Geico, Walgreens , Merck, Allergan ,GE , Pfizer, The Scotts, Fidelity, Kellogg, Foot Solutions, Kraft, Foods, Transistions Optical, McNeil-PPC, Inc. Allstate Insurance ,The ServiceMasterCo., Roche Therapeudics Inc, Bayer, Novartis, Consuemer Health, P & G Kashi Co., Remax Int'l ,Astrazeneca, Nestle, Dupont ,Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, Campbell Soups, Boehringer SC ,Johnson, General Mills, SCA Svenska Cellulosa, Dardin Restaurants, Eli Lilly, Abbott Labs, Astellas Pharmacy, Combe Inc., TD Ameritrade, Ameriprise, The Progressive, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Legal Zoom, Nutrisystems, Sepracor, Donatos Pizza ,Ally Bank,
Posted by: Howard Beale at September 21, 2012 01:35 PM (WnjLc) So how do you reconcile a business boycott as a form of protest against attacs on your pro-business candidate? You think Geico and Bristol Meyers Squibb and Legal Zoom DON'T advertise on Salem Media or EIB or Clear Channel? Are you that fucking stupid? I would like to see someone go one week without purchasing a Proctor and Gamble or Kraft Product, you fucking morons. "oh, boo, hoo, hoooooo ... SNL satirized Barry's opponent (sniffle, sniffle) ... that's SOOO not fair ...." Go back to your sandbox, Ace and minions. Stop attempting to breathe adult air and mingle on an adult level. While you're at it, try to figure out how to explain that you need to boycott the largest corporations to punish them for their support for a program that, by what most have posted here, is poorly rated and irrelevant. Oh, this should be interesting. Useless horse-cum despositories.

Posted by: Rupert Pupkin, Esq. at September 21, 2012 11:31 AM (icwKQ)

368 I am not even going to read it because you know, 200 years ago, a guy like Rombley would have owned slaves.

F#ck the MBM.

Posted by: Damn Sock at September 21, 2012 12:23 PM (y3DhL)

369 My family has been quietly boycotting all NBC at our house for well over four years now. We missed the Office at the beginning, but got over that pretty quick.

I really don't mind being exposed to other political views. Hell, as a conservative, it's nigh-on-impossible to exists in a bubble here in California. But there's a difference between a media group that is openly liberal, and one that is actively hateful and hostile to me, my family, and the values we hold dear.

I will not be called names by you all night and still consume your shitty product, NBC/Universal. That should go without saying.

But boycotting NBC cannot end at NBC and MSNBC. They own several cable channels and they all need to be removed permanently from your program guides. Just use the Parental Blocks on your cable/satellite box to wipe out all of the following NBC-owned channels:

A&E ("Law & Order" reruns 4ever)
Bravo (mostly gay)
CNBC
E! (culture wars crap)
SyFy
Oxygen
USA network
Style (more culture wars crap)
The Weather Channel (AGW central)
G4
NBC network (natch)
MSNBC (everything liberals claim Fox News is)
The Golf Channel (this one hurts a little)

And our spanish-speaking morons should also boycott Telemundo. Univision, TV Azteca and Galavision are all better anyway.

Finally, those of you who collect movies on home video should cancel all Universal Home Video purchases until they are sold again.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at September 21, 2012 12:33 PM (QxGmu)

370 I never heard so much anti-American, anti-business rhetoric, and coming straight out of the right-wing rectums. What a confused, sorry lot.

Posted by: Rupert Pupkin, Esq. at September 21, 2012 12:41 PM (icwKQ)

371 Cancel all of your Comcast products and when the customer support person asks why, tell them you are "finished financing a corporation that broadcast's leftwing propaganda...buh-bye!" Make them hurt.

Posted by: Harrison J. Bounel at September 21, 2012 12:45 PM (WMeMr)

372 @386 it is called the market. If someone produces a product you don't like, you avoid buying it. Your argument is silly and implies a "correct" right-wing person should buy things they don't like. That is the left wing solution where the only option is what the government provides and there are no alternatives.

I would not go after advertisers. They advertise on all networks. But by reducing ratings for NBC, what happens is the rate they can charge for that advertising falls. Advertising rates are based on eyeballs seeing the ads. Those eyeballs are measured by ratings. The higher the rating, the more you can charge for ads in that slot. So if people don't use the product (watch NBC), then their revenue falls regardless of any actions against the advertisers.

But, if you get rid of Comcast cable and choose a competitor AND don't watch NBC, it gets them at both ends.

Don't boycott the advertisers, just kick NBC and Comcast to the curb.

Posted by: crosspatch at September 21, 2012 12:47 PM (ZbLJZ)

373

Michael Savage, who's got just a tad more exposure than Ace-hole, suggested a boycott of HBO because of the Larry David episode where he splattered pee on the picture of christ in the bathroom and the "water" was interpreted as tears of christ and, therefore, a miracle. That went well - HBO is all washed up now. Lighten up or go suck on an exhaust pipe, already. I thought Republicunts were supposed to be stronger and tougher and smarter than the Lib-tards. Bitches, right down the fukn line you are, and whiney pussy ones at that.

Posted by: Rupert Pupkin, Esq. at September 21, 2012 01:07 PM (icwKQ)

374 I smell old diapers. ^^^^^

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at September 21, 2012 01:27 PM (cVfX0)

375 Old diapers smell better than that sample of progressive desperation. Publish a list of NBC's national advertisers, and two sentences:

"We're not watching NBC. But we're watching you."

Posted by: Ken at September 21, 2012 05:44 PM (fFh95)

376 They may be having troubles as look at the picture which accompanies this article online; The title of the article is "How To: Choose the Right Bathroom Flooring: I found this when I followed a drudge link. Anyway, one might assume that the accompanying picture would at the very least show the entire bathroom, including floor, since that is what the article is about. Nope, don't assume. http://tinyurl.com/8u68o9g

Posted by: pray for peace at September 21, 2012 05:53 PM (oZfic)

377

Totally agree on pulling the plug. Unfortunately, it means on everything, including football!!!! I know, sacrilige, but it is the only way.

Posted by: rick at September 21, 2012 06:22 PM (d5rnY)

378 They may be having troubles as look at the picture which accompanies this article online;

The title of the article is "How To: Choose the Right Bathroom Flooring: I found this when I followed a drudge link. Anyway, one might assume that the accompanying picture would at the very least show the entire bathroom, including floor, since that is what the article is about. Nope, don't assume.

***

I bought a book, online, about the use of color in decorating. The word "color" was in the title.

The book was black and white and didn't contain a single photo or illustration.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 21, 2012 08:17 PM (piMMO)

379 Lets do this, that skit had me furious especially being as I saw a few minutes of the RNC and DNC on MSNBC and wanted to puke. Matthews/Clinton and Martians, Sharpton with his brutalization of the english language, race, race, race . Boycott ON.

Posted by: Jimbo at September 21, 2012 08:28 PM (6VKtL)

380 Wait... people actually like The Office?

Posted by: Kelgair at September 22, 2012 01:40 AM (85l4A)

381 Obama ainÂ’t Carter

Oh I know. Carter made home brewing legal again, I will be eternally grateful for that act which led to the rise renaissance of American Ale brewing. [...]

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 21, 2012 01:33 PM (0q2P7)

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Obama is not Carter...

And the Koran [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maisir] forbids drinking wine. Just saying.

/Mary in LA, now pre-denounced for your convenience

Posted by: Mary in LA at September 24, 2012 09:40 AM (9wOfB)

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