DUDE!!!

new blog up for all to read. I remember ABC was a good station for kids in very early 70s. Today its total sleeze.

Take care and good night alles

Best regards

Of course ABC is biased toward Hillary. A big corporation like them wants a Republican president and elected or not - Hillary will deliver.

Here’s my latest email to Chuckles Gibson and Stephanie:

My God!!! Here we are 30minutes into your so called “debate” and neither you or Stephanopolis have had the guts or journalistic integrity to ask either Democratic Candidate a substantive question.

Is there any chance this will change or will you and Stephie continue your gutless form of journalism.

A question about Sanctioned Torture, the Economy, Energy Independence, or anything of substance is not expected….but would be appreciated.

Oh sorry i did forget to danke C&L for a nice blog and allowing others as well as myself to comment here too.
Thanks again folks.

Night again

:)

After 45 minutes of that dribble, I was pretty much convinced that Fox News was actually running the show.

The really dumb question about the lapel pin was the first big hint. The McCarthyesque hit job over the Weather Underground “connection” was the clincher.

I switched back to the baseball game. Should’ve been there all along.

What do you expect from Disney News?

Yes, but what I need to know is do you deny Bill Ayers? What about Bill Ayers? Do you disown Bill Ayers? There are no such things as questions about the economy or John McCain’s threats to attack Iran, etc., or basing his Iraq plans on fantasies of “oh yeah what if it’s like South Korea or Japan”. What America needs to know is why you love Weather Underground terrorism 40 years ago and why have you not sewn your children into a giant American flag which says “Americans Are Never Bitter.”

Also, do you disown and reject and deny Bill Ayers? This is important. Sean Hannity says so.

Worst. Debate. Ever.

I emailed a question yesterday to ask them to focus on torture.

I got GARBAGE back. The response has nothing to do with the question. It was about how to use their frigging web site.

totally agree
worthless “debate” tonight and a waste of everyone’s time
thanks a lot for that

This debate has been an utter joke. Nearly the first HOUR of it was the most ridiculous display I’ve seen in a very long time on NETWORK television. What an embarrassment.

It got better at the end, but the candidates pretty much had identical answers to everything.
Not much substance there - we’ve heard it all before.

exceprts of tim robbings keynote address from the national association of broadcasters show april 14, 2008, from vegas

not filmed of course, but there is audio

http://adage.com/brightcove/si.....1506582278

robbins, robbins, robbins

Make it stop, please, Just. Make. It. Stop!!!

I tuned it off after 35 minutes of NOTHING!!! It wasn’t a debate at all but just a series of wierd loaded questions on minutia. I was stunned after they spent 18 minutes on Rev. Wright and then segued onto FLAG PIN WEARING!!! WTF!!!!

The crowd is turning on him.

Its corporate media, what did you expect?

This is a taste of the general debates and Clinton does well.

The interesting aspect to these comments at the ABC site is that the posters seem genuinely disappointed in the performance of the questioners.

How can that be? This is rote for these guys. I never would have even bothered to turn the TV on.
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disney buying abc started the debasement of broadcast news. nbc being bought by ge brought it to a lower level and fox news finished it.

An hour into the latest Democratic Debate and overwhelmingly, the consensus is that ABC is doing a fine job… of completely ignoring the issues that concern Americans and focusing on minutia that is hurting the race, the Democratic party and the American electoral process.

Disneyfied elections?

4 Friar Tuck

Wasn’t Danke a brand of coffee?

I remember at least a couple of months ago getting an email from Hillary supporters requesting me to email a question to the candidate for her to answer in an upcoming event. My question was what she would do to restore Civil Rights in this country. I don’t know if she was ever asked this or not, but I doubt it.

Bring back the DAR-sponsored debates! At least they were substantive.

Billary should have run as a GOP…she makes a good one and runs a GOP campaign, sleezy, and dirty. She could ask Liarman to be her VP candidate. If she is able to steal this nomination with the help of the media, I stay home. I would have voted for her a few months ago but she is as sickening as McSame. It is time for real Americans to take to the streets if they steal this election. Billary lost and should step aside before she ruins her Senate career.

Mo Rocca just slammed Dick Cheney, saying about his gentle ribbing of Dick “Sorry, this must be torture, I mean, an inconvenience…” something like that….

i left them a pretty nasty one at 212——-
no 4letter bombs, but plenty of excoriation.

If bitter people are voting for Obama then he just got a few million votes from everyone who suffered through this tabloid teevee crapola. Worst debate ever.

QuakerDave @ 5:

After 45 minutes of that dribble, I was pretty much convinced that Fox News was actually running the show.

The really dumb question about the lapel pin was the first big hint. The McCarthyesque hit job over the Weather Underground “connection” was the clincher.

I switched back to the baseball game. Should’ve been there all along.

It’s an interesting idea - that ABC is actually an affiliate of Fukz News. Hard to argue that they’re not.
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I was watching the internet stream, complete with the ‘real-time’ readout. Did anyone else catch the ABC news staff ALTERING the chart of who won the debate? They didn’t kill the live link, and you could see the mouse pointer of whoever was operating the machine. After the debate, they called up the bar chart, and then typed new numbers into it.

They rigged it.

El Tex @ 10:

totally agree
worthless “debate” tonight and a waste of everyone’s time
thanks a lot for that

Can’t waste an opportunity to push all those shiny buttons that say “BE ALARMED!” on them, now can we????
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I wanted to hear a debate. Not an extended edition of Real Housewives of NYC.
Thank God we have candidates. Now all we need for a debate are real people to ask real questions. What knid of crap were these “moderators” trying to pull?
I think what we saw tonight is what the republicans want to see for the rest of the campaign - NOTHING but drivel and idiotic questions about who a candidate taliked to when he was 8 years old.
My God, this country has been ruined my morons for the last eight years, we do not need morons like these tow “moderators” to make sure another moron is put into the White House.
ABC - YOU BLEW IT. You wasted a chance to help America and all you did was lower the level. BOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was just stunningly awful. I don’t know how Charlie and George can ask those questions with a straight face. I gotta hand it to Obama though, man that guy has just been taking it on the chin for months now. I know he wants to keep it positive but I really wanted to see him get mad and tell them how ridiculous our country’s media has become. I wonder if the general public will say enough all ready at some point.

Ahh, he kinda blew mostly, but oh well..

ABC just wanted America to know that Obama is a tax-raiser who is unpatriotic and consorts with fanatical pastors and anarchists.

That’s all.

Mission accomplished.

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” - David Rockefeller at Bilderberg Meeting… Baden-Baden, Germany 1991

“There’s really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear.” - Ted Turner

Lance @ 30:

That was just stunningly awful. I don’t know how Charlie and George can ask those questions with a straight face. I gotta hand it to Obama though, man that guy has just been taking it on the chin for months now. I know he wants to keep it positive but I really wanted to see him get mad and tell them how ridiculous our country’s media has become. I wonder if the general public will say enough all ready at some point.

Not by the mainstream media he hasn’t. Of course since the debate wasn’t on MSNBC, there was nobody around to be his nursemaid.

I don’t see the point in watching the debates. Television debates are just a platform to dumb-down the political dialog in this country.

ABC was terrible. It was nearly half way through the debate until they actually got to actual issues that are important to America. These silly gaffes are only important because the media is hyping them. Obama had a good comeback to this ridiculous non- issue of this Aires guy that they brought up. That was puzzling to say the least. These are not the important issues of the day. Bringing up tax’s are the most important issues in the election per John McCain was playing right into the main republican talking points. Democrats will raise taxes is all they say even if it’s not directly said by any candidate. Tax’s are not at all the most important issues of the day as everybody with any common sense knows. This debate was more like ABC/FOX debate. Worst debate ever,except if it were held on Fox news.

SHAME ON ALL THE MEDIA NETWORKS WHO SPEND THIER TIME AND ANYONE WHO TUNES IN WITH DUMB STUFF WHEN WE THE AMERICA PEOPLE ARE BITTER AT THE WAY OF LIFE WE DON’T HAVE.BUSH AND HIS WAR CRIMALS SHOULD BE IMPEACHED.

But *gasp*, I thought the MSM was firmly backing Obama this whole time! I mean, that’s what Clinton and SNL have been telling me! Backing him once they gave up on their “Hillary Clinton is too far ahead, the other Democrats shouldn’t even run” meme from a few months before the Iowa caucuses, I mean. Am I the only one who remembers that time period?

OMG, you think the corporate media and the gop are going to hand over power without a fight?
Are going to be fair? Come on.

Reality check.

This is what the general debates will be like.

Need a fighter not a whiner.

Geez.

I am trying to be objective, but if you look at the list of topics in the first hour…could it have been any better a choice for Hillary? And the capital gains tax? For fucks sake that is a campaign issue for the Club for Growth not regular Americans. I have no idea what ABC was thinking, but they get the Tim Russert award for failing as humans much less moderators.

Thanks for the number and email link for contacting ABC News. The switchboard sent me to a voice message system that didn’t work. So I did the email thing. Thanks again for the link!

I can’t have been the only one watching the internet stream. Someone else has to have seen them rigging the poll results.

Welcome to Fascist Amerika. No surprises here. Move along.

the msm simply want to keep trying to cripple the democratic frontrunner until the convention, so that they will have some disadvantage against mcAin’t. it’s completely transparent.

additionally, if you ever saw stephanopolos on sundays, you know that he couldn’t fit a though into that head with a shoehorn.

like it or not, America is seeing just how far the media is going in order to control the election process. maybe they’ll realize that the media erased Kucinich and Edwards.

maybe.

I really couldnt believe what I was watching. What you would imagine to be a historic debate-in Philadelphia, long hotly contested primary, probably the last one before a nominee is decided, national coverage….and it was a slimey sleeze fest.
40 minutes of one after an another
-Flag pin? Barack
-Ayers?Barack
-Bitter Clingers? Barack
-Wright? Barack
-Oh and are you sorry you misspoke about Bosnia Hillary? Good lets move on.
Asked her about Iraq but did not mention she voted for it.
Asked her about Bosnia but did not pin her down on the fact that she said it multiple times from prepared speeches and that until tonight she had never actually apologized.
Didnt ask her about her statements about the blue collar workers in the 90’s, or being on the board of Walmart, or accepting lobbyist money from all the companies she mentioned being against tonight
Let her ramble about the beauty of the 90’s without pointing out it was her husbands presidency, not hers…and that we are no longer in the 90’s

Look-I know I am rambling and sound combative. But those two guys were ridiculous. Their favoritism obvious. And the entire debate so demeaning that even Obama-well-you could see the look of incredulity on his face.

Really? Did we really just go there for two hours? I barely recognize us…or US, anymore.

ABC News, where I know many execs, and Stephanopolous, whom I’ve met, should hang their head in Shame. In trying to avoid become an SNL parody, they overcompensated. The lack of drive-by nature of the questioning and the clear Hillary bias (and hey, I like Hillary), was astonishing, even to a cynic. Another sad day for network news.

the first hour was spent talking about a flag pin, obama’s pastor, bosnian snipers, the weather underground, and bitterness. FUCKING PATHETIC. ABC should be ashamed.

Sen. Barack Obama
3,022
Sen. Hillary Clinton
1,268
It was a tie
376
Total Vote: 4,666
Not a scientific survey. LOL

Howard Wolfson is disgusting. He has no morals.

My hope is my liver can survive tonight’s debate, but even if it doesn’t, I had a good laugh by seeing that Obama won it 60-40 on Drudge’s poll.

I mean, really, Howard doesn’t understand what he is doing, he is disgusting, disgusting, disgusting.

This is why we need to get behind the front runner, Obama. This is the BS that’s hurting our chances right now and the wounds will remain into the future. ABC just fanned the flames some more. It was gossip first and issues second. We need to end this!!

Jeff @ 47:

the first hour was spent