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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 05:18 PM
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A few days ago DUers were calling MSNBC "Our side's Fox"
was stupid then, is stoopider now
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 05:21 PM
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1. The solution is for CNBC to be re-branded as Conservative NBC and MSNBC as Progressive NBC.
All that would be required is some minor changes to the line-up.

For example, move Joe Scum to CNBC, and give Tweety new marching orders that he's to pretend to be more Liberal. Tweety will follow the money, as always.

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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 05:27 PM
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3. Except that it's NOT liberal NBC
they run various right-wing criminals, murderers, sycophants during the day, and now have begun firing people who support Dems.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 05:30 PM
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5. Obviously, that would need to change as part of the re-launch. n/t
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Yeshuah Ben Joseph Donating Member (763 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 05:21 PM
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2. Except for now, they're actually ACTING like FAUX
At least the corporate office is.
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Mimosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 05:30 PM
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4. I never much watched MSNBC and wondered why others did.
No supposed 'news channel' ought to be all propaganda and opinions, all the time. They're boring. But Fox is dangerous.
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 05:30 PM
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6. Who?
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Luminous Animal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 05:31 PM
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7. DUers, of course! We are the Borg, apparently. (At least "some people say" we are.)
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 05:53 PM
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9. It's autumn. There is a lot of fresh cut straw on the ground.
So there are a lot of straw men being built in GD.

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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-10 05:36 PM
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8. I never called it that. MSNBC is a corporate outlet, that's seen fit to
Edited on Fri Nov-05-10 05:37 PM by Marr
air a few liberal voices in the evening because that portion of the market was untapped and profitable, that's all. Fox is a propaganda outlet. Profits are incidental for them, as is demonstrated by their continued support for Glenn Beck when his advertisers abandoned him, their initial few years' existence when they ran a large loss, etc.

MSNBC is just another corporate outlet, following a dollar. You can bet they'd drop every liberal voice if their parent conglomerate decided it was in their broader business interest.
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