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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:08 PM
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The View just now-Did ABC just shut down Lou Dobbs re Impeachment question?
Not sure this should be posted here in GD but did anyone else catch The View this AM?

Rosie O just asked Lou Dobbs (a guest today) if he thought Bushit should be impeached, right as he was about to answer -- and it sounded like he was going to say yes, they cut to a commercial!

Then the show ended after the commercial break.

Did anyone else see this and did I read the thing wrong?

WTF?
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eagler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:10 PM
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1. Yup,They sure did .
nt
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Robson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:28 PM
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11. Was it a local or network cut ?
If it was local station jumping the gun, it might be viewable on line.

http://abc.go.com/fsp/index.html?lid=ABCCOMGlobalMenu&lpos=VideoPlayer
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:11 PM
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2. he had plenty of time to respond
he stalled and they are live and had to go to commercial. They gave him a 5 second warning to respond which he obviously had trouble with a simple yes or no.

No conspiracy here just the reality of live TV and commercial breaks.
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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:12 PM
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7. I wasn't sure
The switch certainly seemed rather abrupt, but perhaps that is all it was!
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:43 PM
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14. well him stalling is better than the automatic no
Small battles.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:11 PM
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3. i didn't see it but i'd be interested in finding out the answer. my friend
tapes the show to watch later--so i'll ask him tonight (if no one else can respond back to this)
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Justitia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:12 PM
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4. Honestly, I think they just ran out the clock. His segment was packed & ran over.
Convenient? yes, but I really do think they just ran out of time.

From watching the whole segment I was left w/the impression Dobbs was in favor of impeachment & was trying to bring himself to say it.
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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:14 PM
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8. I thought he was getting around to a *yes* also
Pisses me off that it didn't get broadcast! :(
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snacker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 01:13 PM
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16. He came awfully close to a "yes," didn't he?
Anyway, good for Rosie though....bringing up impeachment two days in a row!
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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:12 PM
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5. Likewise.

MsPeek just told me she saw that, but that Dobbs was hemming and hawing just as they cut him off. Actually, it was probably just a 'hard break' as they say in the disinfo biz.

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TheDebbieDee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:12 PM
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6. Censorship............
I thought that only happened in dictatorships!

Oh.........wait.........
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:20 PM
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9. Interesting - I have it tivoed and will check it out.
Yesterday she also got a conversation going about impeachment. Rosie just wants the investigation and to show the world that the U.S. is (perhaps) still a democracy. Barbara did her best her shut it down.

I emailed ABC yesterday and suggested they fire Barbara and retain Rosie. Also suggested they get rid of Hasherback - she talks about how much she listens to and loves Hannity so let her go to Fox Nothing where she can give Sean a real blow job - it is where she belongs.

I quit watching The View during the Clinton impeachment process because I wanted to kill Joy. She was really awful about the Clintons but now she has switched her position a little and I read all of the time that people actually think she is a liberal. To me she is just a weather vane.
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patricia92243 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:41 PM
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13. Scarborough keeps saying that Barbara will fire Rosie. If the rating are high, ABC will fire Barbar
I think Barbara has enough sense to realize this. She (Barbara) may quit if things don't go to suit her.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:22 PM
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10. No matter what, we should email Dobbs and ask for him to answer the question on his show.
Edited on Thu Jan-25-07 12:22 PM by Swamp Rat
:)



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Merrill Donating Member (94 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:32 PM
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12. Lou Dobbs
Not only am I ready for the Bush admin to put in jail and the war for oil to be cut off it is time to run government different with new election campaign rules and voting rules as well.


Here is how I see it:

Middle Class can and should take absolute control of our government for the middle class is the most powerful influence on the USA planet. Remember the wealthy are only 1% of the population so middle class rules with votes. A change in voting and financing of elections is the only way. Elected officials do not want change. USA citizens NEED change!

We the people demand these issues be placed on the 2008 presidential ballot:

http://www.instantrunoff.com/
http://www.citizen.org/congress/campaign/
http://www.publicampaign.org/
National Healthcare for All

""Ironically, few Americans understand that a relatively small number of consumers, roughly 5 to 10 million have the economic power to severely damage the American and global economy. Spending cutbacks could be become contagious. Leaving out the working poor with little discretionary spending, the amount of discretionary spending by millions of middle class Americans with ample disposable income is sufficient to threaten economic growth and the economy. A major reason is that there is a large "multiplier" associated with consumer spending, meaning that every dollar spent has a large ripple or cumulative impact through various sectors of the economy. One person's spending is another's (actually many others') income. The multiplier can range from four to six. For example, cut consumer spending by $250 billion and it can easily reduce the national GDP by $1 trillion. If the middle class does not soon use its consumer spending power, it will surely lose it as its discretionary income evaporates, because the war against will be won by the Upper Class.

Economic civil disobedience for the foreseeable future has much more power to change our nation for the better than the political act of non-voting. The goal of the economic strategy is to obtain enough reforms and improvements in the political system to restore the effectiveness of voting at some later time. Now, in our perverse society, dollars are more powerful agents of change than votes. In truth, as has been evident for many years, we cannot vote ourselves out of a corrupt, oppressive and delusional democracy that uses military and economic weapons of mass devastation on a global scale for the benefit of elites, while pretending to be the world's best democracy. The truth of all this defines the case for a populist Second American Revolution. We must motivate some millions of Americans that are so fed up with current conditions that they will eagerly join a loose network of American Insurgents for Democracy, not fighting with weapons in the streets, but by withholding their dollars from the economy.""



http://www.populistamerica.com/progressive_civil_disobedience
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 12:44 PM
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15. welcome to DU
Edited on Thu Jan-25-07 12:45 PM by LSK
I think you are going to like it here!

:hi:

I did some math and I think 2 months in Iraq can pay for the all the elections in 2008. Really sicking what we are wasting over there.
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