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Comment by RJ on Al Doing It Right

Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:53:02 EDT

[unsheathes two-handed battle axe] "How many hit points does the gully dwarf have left?"

Comment by Al Barger on Al Doing It Right

Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:55:09 EDT

The dark woman, she is too wise and her soul too strong for us. She knows too much. She must be eliminated. Mike Kole and RJ, my minions, you must dispatch this Fighter for Justice with extreme prejudice before she exposes our plans for World Domination. Go, now!

Comment by bob2112 on Al Doing It Right

Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:45:48 EDT

It's OK, Diva. I can take it. I've been left out in these NW woods for the last 24 of my 35 years!

Comment by Mike Kole on Al Doing It Right

Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:18:50 EDT

Diva, that was really unseemly of you to describe my relationship with Al Barger that way. The civil thing to do would be to apologize. In all actuality, you have the relationship backward, though. Al is the candidate and I am the party operative. As such, I am his gofer.

Comment by Mike Kole on Al Doing It Right

Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:36:07 EDT

Relax in the safety of your own delusions, Diva. Whenever you're off on a topic, you will do one one the following: play the race card, call names, insult, put words in the mouth of your opposition. You've done all of these things on this thread. Why not just concede that you're wrong once in a while? It works wonders, especially when you *are* wrong.

Comment by Mac Diva on Al Doing It Right

Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:38:58 EDT

Sorry I left you off the list, Bob2. You are right.

Comment by bob2112 on Al Doing It Right

Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:30:44 EDT

"FCC deregulation, overt assbackward right-wing benefit. Check." post#98 "FCC rules recently allowing companies to legally buy up signals so one voice can monoploize more stations, under the guise of capitalism." post#43 Thanks, Lucy! Arrrgh!

Comment by Mac Diva on Al Doing It Right

Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:36:23 EDT

The only facts about deregulation on this thread were posted by myself, Steve (Boom), and bhw. Until his last comment, Mike Kole denied that deregulation has occurred. Furthermore, the man who would be king* of his own Dungeons and Dragons world is totally tripping in regard to the main thing deregulation achieves -- concentration of ownership. Deregulate more and the same entities that own multiple television stations, radio stations and newspapers will own even more. The problems will be exacerbated. *Yes, Mike Kole believes he would be king. He perceives Al Barger as his subject, a gofer. And entertainment. A kind of 'Mr. Piggy.'

Comment by Andrew Ian Dodge on Al Doing It Right

Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:20:40 EDT

There are those who will stand up and be counted (like Al) and there are those like MD. Deeds not words...

Comment by Mike Kole on Al Doing It Right

Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:39:50 EDT

Look, Mac. The FCC as it is now is what you call de-regulated, but I do not call it de-regulated. I call it re-regulated. A de-regulated FCC would create no artificial barriers to entry for any entity wishing to pop a TV station up. The result would be *lots* of TV stations, and would prevent the possibility that a Sinclair could be the sole media outlet. You argued that Sinclair was the only outlet in some places. I showed it wasn't true. You would be imminently more credible if you stopped calling names, and debated on the facts. Alas, you sweep facts under the rug, never allowing them to get in the way of your bombast. Que sera sera.

Comment by Mac Diva on Al Doing It Right

Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:50:56 EDT

Once again, Liberinfant Mike Kole misses the point. But, then, he is ignorant of the deregulation of the media that makes the point an issue. As I said before, the problem is twofold: limited access to other voices and the intent of Sinclair to directly influence the election. Before deregulation, neither aspect of the problem would have occurred. There would have been other local options for viewers and the Fairness Doctrine would have required Sinclair be balanced in its airing of political content. This not quite equivalent to Kole bragging about doing all the research he needed in regard to the Digital Divide in one minute on the Internet elsewhere, but it is further evidence of someone imagining hinself to be much brighter than he is.

Comment by bob2112 on Al Doing It Right

Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:29:01 EDT

RJ, maybe I should have clarified what I meant. I would be kicking those guys asses in 1970-whenever as an NVA victim of their long distance atrocities they inflicted on my family. These guys committed their own share atrocities. I wouldn't want to be in the same room with these guys today. The lies they tell hurt too much.

Comment by Mike Kole on Al Doing It Right

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:57:39 EDT

Quoth Mac-Who-Cannot-Be-Named: "Free speech is not absolute". I guess she or another dictator will the arbiter of what shall pass. In this case, the FCC will do nicely. "The problems with what Sinclair does... They are the only local option for many of their viewers who do not have cable" Once again, Mac's fact checking is lousy. A two-minute check of Sinclair's website reveals that they are present mainly in markets with plenty of TV viewing options: Baltimore, Buffalo, Birmingham AL, Cincinnati, Columbus OH, Dayton, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Antonio, Syracuse... They are in places I'm not so familiar with, such as in Asheville, NC. Turns out they have an ABC afiliate in Asheville, which isn't much, but then again, they also get Nashville TN tv stations as well as Hickory NC stations. They have cable and are fighting to get the local County Commissioners to create the public access channel, which would allow for diverse viewpoints. OK, how about Paducah, KY? Turns out Paducah has plenty of TV- all the network affiliates and Comcast cable. I just can't find a market Sinclair serves where they are a monopoly player, or even where the market they are in isn't served by cable. Your 'proven ability' seems to be in blowing smoke.

Comment by RJ on Al Doing It Right

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:24:34 EDT

"someone of my proven ability" RETCH!

Comment by RJ on Al Doing It Right

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:21:13 EDT

"Show me someone who loves Al Barger and I will show you someone with a race problem." Is Justene on vacation? Or just utterly useless vis-a-vis race-baiting?

Comment by RJ on Al Doing It Right

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:12:02 EDT

"I am not much of a {...} name caller" (retch...)

Comment by RJ on Al Doing It Right

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:02:32 EDT

"Even when the journalist has the floor, the lawyer is not far away." (retch...)

Comment by Mac Diva on Al Doing It Right

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:53:36 EDT

Under the old, pre-deregulation rules (needless to say media has been deregulated) there would have been a requirement that Sinclair's Broadcast be presented as political fare (which would have brought the equal time requirement into play) or that it be aired after the election. Free speech is not absolute. The problems with what Sinclair does are twofold: They are the only local option for many of their viewers who do not have cable, and, they don't distinguish between opinion and fact. There will be viewers who believe they are watching a factual presentation.

Comment by RJ on Al Doing It Right

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:48:40 EDT

"I would be kicking these guys asses myself if they were to be unlucky enough to be face to face with me, as a victim of their long distance atrocities." Ooo...I would LOVE to see that...

Comment by RJ on Al Doing It Right

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:42:58 EDT

"They are attempting to influence public opinion in a coming election. This should be illegal, I don't know why it is not." Have you ever heard of free speech? Have you ever read Newsweek or Time?

Comment by andy marsh on Al Doing It Right

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:52:34 EDT

you really do crack me up Bob...glad you're around here...one of the few liberals with a real sense of humor...you're a good man charlie brown!!!

Comment by bob2112 on Al Doing It Right

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:15:03 EDT

I forgot: Saddam, Tariq Aziz, & Noriega are all nodding off on pure Afgani dope, not naming names. James Baker is 'real' Secretary of State Dick Cheney still smokes. Bush is on perfect prescription cocktail developed by Eli-Lilly. There is no hope or help on the way if Republicans win. Check, check, check, check, check, check!

Comment by Mac Diva on Al Doing It Right

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:44:26 EDT

Now, Bob2, I dunno about the flu shot conspiracy. ROFL!

Comment by bob2112 on Al Doing It Right

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:38:55 EDT

Ballot mailed. Check. Not influenced by other state's early voting. Check. Still believe current version of (R)Party is watered down Fascism. Check. FCC deregulation, overt assbackward right-wing benefit. Check. Walmart is current version of government cheese.(Throw 'em a bone!) Check. Tax cuts will bankrupt social programs to enslave the poor, more. Check. Diebold programmed back door in vote count program for over 1000 counties to allow cyber-terrorism, in hopes of postponing election. Check. Healthy Forest Initiative attempt to tip the balance for Bush, in swing states WA & OR. Check. Flu Shot crisis, purposeful population control tactic to kill Seniors before 2006 Medicare prescription benefit kicks in. Check. Medicare prescription benefit, carrot to secure as many (R) Senior Citzen votes as possible. Check. Alan Keyes can kiss my ass! Check. Tom Delay pure evil! Check. Karl Rove, please die! Check. Colin Powell, quit now, man! Check. Michael Powell, down with the ship. Check. John McCain, I understand what you have to do. Those guys are sick bastards, & who knows what they'll do to you if you don't play ball. John McCain last (R) standing. Check!

Comment by Mac Diva on Al Doing It Right

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:21:38 EDT

LOL! So, someone told you Natalie isn't white and you think that will get you off the hook, Mike Kole. It won't. Your claim that someone of my proven ability is your intellectual inferior is ludicrous. It is the kind of a thing a bigot would say. And, frankly, I am a lot smarter than you will ever be. Andy, I will see if any of the local media have a picture of the phony voters' pamphlets.