As you’ll recall, a local Alabama affiliate blacked out last Sunday’s 60 Minutes report on the railroading of former AL Gov. Don Siegelman, who still sits in jail today (even if The BRAD BLOG has proof that Karl Rove, who evidence suggests helped put him there, now wants him “Free”!) The only segment of the show that didn’t make it to the AL viewers, when 60 Minutes originally aired Sunday, was the Siegelman segment. The local station then lied about the reasons for the blackout, initially claiming a “transmission problem” from CBS. The network has denied it, and the local station has recanted that explanation and come up with something equally thin. (We covered it all in detail, along with the full video of the 60M report, back here.)
The following interesting point comes from a New York Times editorial today covering the boondoggle…
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WHNT is owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity firm whose lead investor is one of the Bass brothers of Texas. The brothers are former business partners of George W. Bush and generous contributors to Republican causes.
In 1969, the F.C.C. revoked the license of WLBT in Jackson after the commission established a systematic effort by the broadcaster to suppress information about the civil rights movement. Today, broadcast rules have changed, giving stations more leeway to decide what to air. Dropping a single report is unlikely to set the regulators in motion. Still, it would be deeply troubling if a partisan broadcaster could suppress information on the public airwaves and hide behind a technical fig leaf.
Yeah, imagine if they “could” do that. Wouldn’t that be terrible? Luckily, we’d never see anything like that in America in 2008.
The arrogance of the neo-con support media is breathtaking almost as bizarre as the arrogance of their driving force – Rove. More news this week of neo-con defenders disparaging the public and treating us like dirt is on display in 9/11 Blogger’s/We are Change’s Willy Brown answering questions about his warning not to fly on 9/11 as reported correctly (which was never before disputed by Brown) at the time by the SF Chronicle. Brown says now, rewriting history, they were wrong. He also told a person questioning him about this with anger, “You’re full of %$#@.”
so will the dept of justice investigate…lol jkjk
seriously…brad u seem to have a bit of influence,how can we help u to get congress to investigate?
Turd blossom and the Bass-turds. Keeping Amurka safe from democracy.
American flag waived, Amurkan flag waved …
I hear that Senator Craig (R-Closet) is hiring interns. He is conducting interviews in Alabama, where it is safer for him. (They got judges there.)
Here is a picture of some young male interns interviewing for the job.
I guess we ought to be grateful that even this completely muddled exposé by “60 Fascist Media Minutes” has rejuvenated the subject. I posted about it months and months ago and have been appalled by its lack of legs since then.
Same goes for the Alabama CBS affiliate’s unAmerican activities too….
B.I.H. ~ william F. buckley, Jr ~ (1925 ~ 2008)
Founder of the nazi
NationalReview . . .So whatta ya do if your girlfriend worked for the Bass brothers before you met her and before you came to cowTown?
Bravo! ~ Dan Abrams @ MSNBC wont let this story go! ~ Bravo!
Hmmm… That sound a lot like what TV journalist’s used to do.
Agent 99 said:
Exactly. I didn’t realize this story existed until I read Brad’s American Gangsters post. But just looking around the last days, it is clear that this isn’t new news. This has been around for a while but has been censored/obfuscated.
The following website is a joke, but I did start a thread there on this subject. For the longest time, none of the plants and useful idiots responded. It was liberal/progressive city. The pigs needed time to figure out their strategies.
Only one of them showed up. He has been going with the but, but, but Clinton.
This forum used to be owned by Arianna Huffington, until she moved to the Huffington Post.
http://debatebothsides.com/show...ad.php?t=66444
Here’s how bad things are in Alabama. It’s a story from the Huntsville Times, on 2/25/2008, following up on the Siegelman 60 Minutes story:
Siegelman bribed inmates with mackerel to see TV show.
I called “Fintan Dunne” out for not covering the Siegalman story. He’s the guy who put Brad Friedman, RawStory, and a few other decent links with a good chunk of links which are probably at the least CIA/NSA influenced. I called him out for putting Brad on his CIA fakes list.
I followed his link to the Democratic Underground. A few folks made the good argument that Dunne is a disinfo, Rovian type. That guy destroyed a really good psy-op. Steven Hertzberg was writing all over his forum. He got an interview with Ron Paul. I’ll find the link if folks want, but he has also decoded an alien language!
I write this because its creeps like John Caylor and “Fintan Dunne” who make a mockery out of real progressives trying to work together to make this a better world.
Not one of his crew has started a thread on Don Siegelman. I did see one thread at Kos, but I had to seek it out. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I bet it isn’t a big story over there. It’d be interesting to see if Kos has written anything about it personally.
I won’t link to Dunne. It is a joke of a place. Here’s the thread where his Karl Rove tendencies began to emerge. This was at the Democratic Underground.
Who else would attack people like RawStory and Bradblog but Republican/rightwing operatives?
Proof that BradBlog is CIA, LOL
Posted by Mastiff #36 {on the Madsen story}
Here’s one thread on Siegelman I found at KOS:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyon...766/699/464080
Don Siegelman can’t appeal his conviction. Catch-22
I keep getting a logon screen for NYTimes articles, that previously the link went right to the article. A lot! The NYTimes should stop that, if they want their readers back! They’re claiming they’re losing readership, etc…and then they themselves turn-off people from reading their articles!
Siegelman was not a strict constructionist in the way McCain and right-wingnuts define the term.
Siegelman would say that John McCain is a natural born Citizen, even tho McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, because his parents were natural born citizens.
How strict of a constructionist is McCain?
OT: Correction of Dredd’s #8 comment:
Oh,Dredd,lovie,
I never worked for Ed Bass. I was merely an acquaintance who was acquainted with some of his closest friends at the Caravan of Dreams (Ed Bass’s personal play palace) which had live theater, live jazz, and lots of kinds of art featured and a dome on the top of the building with rare plants from Madagascar and an outdoor grotto/bar. It was the arts that I was going there for. Ornette Coleman recorded an album there. I met Muddy Waters, Dr. John, John McLaughlin the virtuoso guitar player, Kirk Whalem, the saxophonist, Hugh Masacala, “Momma Africa” who was imprisoned for 30 years as a political prisoner along with Nelson Mandela, Ziggy Marley, and many, many famous talented people, I saw plays there and also made friends with talented locals. I was networking for local artists of all sorts for a non-profit arts alliance organization to have exhibitions, shows to help the locals know that we have talent in our city, and to help the artists themselves make a living with their art, and to give them business and tax advice. I am proud of that work and enjoyed it immensely.
I never had any knowledge of any Bass/Bush business dealings. However, I am not surprised that the wealthy of Texas do business with the wealthy of Texas.
{I fixed yer typo, but I don’t believe you’re Dredd’s girlfriend! No one would have him! And he won’t let you correct him! He’s going to argue till the day he dies that you did TOO work for Ed Bass. Mark my words! 😛 –99}
Dredd’s Girlfriendd #15-16
Meet me at our place and lets play bass, fish for bass, and get down to bassics.
Lets hope the Bass brothers have rejected the war criminal, American hating, Amurkan loving preznit blush. If not I must reject them.
Agent 99 #15.powertrip
Wrong again!
BTW The canard “Ed Bass” cannot be found in my posts on this or any other thread. It is a figment of other imaginations.
99 waxeth dorky 007.
#17 — Well, and, plus, he has NO sense of humor about his shortcomings.
#18 — And he projects them onto beleaguered old battle axes!
BTW I have seen pictures of your last cow.
It was a pretty big female qui tam asshole.
That’s the french for you.
Hmmm… I hear Dredd has a lot of girl friends … some wicked hot ones!
oops
To All of the above, re: Dredd’s girlfriendd:
A. Thanks, but it was not a typo.
B. I’m afraid you are both wrong. Dredd does have a girlfriendd, but only one. That would be me. We live together and just bought a house together,
C. Dredd and I have twin bumpers stickers.
D. Dredd…shortcomings…what shortcomings?
E. I assure you I am neither beleaguered nor an old battle axe. Well, maybe some of the old part.
F. Dredd and I have faced many challenges in life together and have fended off many storms. There is no one I’d rather have on my side when I need someone in my corner.
G. The very essence of understanding Dredd is precisely to understand his complex sense of humor.
H. I believe that most women are attracted to a fine mind and a multi-dimensional sense of humor
I. Besides, he has one of those cute tight duck butts that women love and I’m not bad looking myself.
Thanks for being interested in Dredd’s love life. I’ll be sure he notes your concern.
Agent 99 the bold part at the end of #15
Thanks for trying to fix my spelling. Someone (like myself should have fixed my grammar in that post.) Talk about a run-on sentence…whew!
BTW Brad and I spoke on the phone once. He can confirm that I exist and that I am female.
DG, #23, all I did was change your typo about the number of the comment you were responding to. I was JOKING about Dredd, giving him a friendly ribbing, and ….
JoJ #21
I just mailed a letter off to your father.
The Blackout Brad talks about was pure fascism and the coverup afterthought is pure bullshit.
Once I thought Masters of War was the ultimate expression, but Universal Soldier is just as expressive.
Support the
troopsuniversal soldier?Why wouldn’t a partisan broadcaster censoring ’60 Minutes’ and lying to its paying audience warrant an investigation by the TV industry regulators? It certainly would here in Britain.
Dredd & Ms. ~ I assume you know where I was coming from, A good place, only!
Universal Soldier is a classic in my book.
P.S. ~ Dredd & Ms. ~ I wish you’s all the Best Luck in the world !!!
JoJ #29
Your father
forgivesunderstands you 😉 … just don’t tell my wives about my girlfriend … ;P …FCC investigates due to 20 or so complaints.