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Américain Égalitaire
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posted 20 October 2006 08:33 PM
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Originally posted by siren:
Well, Olbermann sure scared the cwap out of me. I wonder what his viewership numbers are.CBC's The National took the most mundane approach to this story possible. Pointed out that prisoners would receive more rights. Not a word about habeas corpus of the Geneva conventions. It was downright eerie from Mansbridge.
That IS eerie. Usually I expect more pointed critique on American affairs from the CBC. Wonder what is going on. Olbermann, by virtue of simply cutting loose and saying what many have been thinking but afraid to say, has moved to the forefront of American progressivism. I'm beginning to think of him as Jon Stewart without (all) the laughs. I have to say I'm still puzzled that IMO, he's gone over the line for cable news as a leftie but MSNBC has still not issued any memorandums - and his ratings, while respectable, are nowhere near O'Reilly's - yet. So its puzzling. I think he has a guardian angel at GE.
From: Chardon, Ohio USA | Registered: Jan 2005
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a lonely worker
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posted 20 October 2006 10:02 PM
bubbles: quote:
In the end an all powerfull president is just as scary to the corporate world as to an individual.
Maybe some corporate heads are starting to realize that.
Bush is the face of corporate control. Corporations always need a lapdog in power to ensure us plebes don't so anything stupid like pass labour laws or any types of protections from their abuses. Everything Bush has done has been to the benefit of the corporations. Here's a lengthy but great article to read about the closeness between the corporations and a previous incarnation of a far-right government:
Profits über Alles! If they still did business and eagerly backed this right wing psycho, they will stick with this right wing chimp.
From: Anywhere that annoys neo-lib tools | Registered: Jul 2005
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thorin_bane
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posted 21 October 2006 10:51 AM
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Originally posted by Américain Égalitaire:
That IS eerie. Usually I expect more pointed critique on American affairs from the CBC. Wonder what is going on. Olbermann, by virtue of simply cutting loose and saying what many have been thinking but afraid to say, has moved to the forefront of American progressivism. I'm beginning to think of him as Jon Stewart without (all) the laughs. I have to say I'm still puzzled that IMO, he's gone over the line for cable news as a leftie but MSNBC has still not issued any memorandums - and his ratings, while respectable, are nowhere near O'Reilly's - yet. So its puzzling. I think he has a guardian angel at GE.
Yeah well the ceeb is dead. They have done everything internally they could to destroy the network. 3 very good reporters left in the last year, just waiting to see if Neil Mac jumps ship too. They killed off their best sports broadcasters in Chris Cuthbert and Brian Williams, the cbc is headed for the slag heap and the people responsible are those running it. Oh and The New Government of Canada BTW the CBC is also using this phrase when reporting about the cons.
From: Looking at the despair of Detroit from across the river! | Registered: Jun 2004
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