Posted on 11/23/2013 5:52:28 AM PST by markomalley
Last Friday, MSNBC anchorman Martin Bashir suggested that anyone who uses the word “slavery” too lightly should be forced to eat human feces. Although Bashir had Sarah Palin in mind for this torture, his own standard might have necessitated its infliction closer to home -- as Bashir has used the same metaphor himself.
Bashir’s detractors immediately pointed out this inconsistency. Several of these critics said this disgusting punishment would be more befitting Bashir.
I have a better idea. NBC could just yank this kind of programming. If it did, the network that provides its anchors a platform for crude daily rants would be honoring its own legacy, which harks back to the very beginning of the medium.
NBC’s roots date to 1916, when a Russian immigrant named David Sarnoff wrote a prescient memo to his boss, Edward J. Nally. Both men were up-and-coming executives with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America, a firm founded by Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. Initially, Marconi hoped the telegraph would improve maritime safety. (Two of his operators -- only one of whom survived the voyage -- were aboard the Titanic the night it sunk 101 years ago. Their last message: “We are sinking fast, passengers being put into boats.”)
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Except for idealogical and political reasons, it’s hard to imagine how MSNBC stays afloat.
Someone on the left has to be subsidizing them.
Isn’t that the French flag in the background of that pic?
“Someone on the left has to be subsidizing them.”
Soros.
I have a better idea — why don’t we BOYCOTT General Electric, the parent company of NBC and this waste called MSNBC? Don’t buy a single lightbulb, appliance or any other GE product until they dump these travesties.
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Well I think a lot of people watch them for comedy. I do sometimes as well, it’s pretty hilarious. It’s like the Mary Tyler Moore show where they have a TV show and the biggest screw ups, the biggest idiots in existence are on it. Keith Olbermann was the best, I use to be in tears from laughing watching that guy. “Woooorst person of the wooorld” saying it like he’s a little kid or something “Nyah nyah nyah...This person is the wooorst person in the entire woooorld nyaaaah” That whole show is like watching adults with the minds of little children.
His analysis of the lemming-like leftist agenda of the network was undoubtedly written more in sorrow than in anger.
Leni
Comcast owns them now.
When Leno goes the network will have no one worthy to replace him. He probably draws the largest % of their viewership, except for the senior news junkies, who do not get their news from internet sources. Fallon will flop, just as the other guy did, he only appeals to 2 audiences liberals and those already brainwashed under 30.
There’s no plug to pull.
Just jiggle the handle for Barry
Reverse the blue and red. French flag is blue, white, red.
Just keep those jet engines running.
Your tax dollars are going to them indirectly.
A cable or any other network informed with any sensibility at all devoted to unearthing hard truths about the "knockout games" would be worth watching.
GE sold NBC to Comcast in Feb.
(not that there aren’t a lot of other reasons to dislike GE)
BOYCOTT COMCAST.
Comcast isn’t even in my area, I have direct tv.
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