Posted on 03/17/2012 1:42:22 PM PDT by Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri
Why isn't there a dedicated conservative news network on television that covers stories the liberal media won't cover? There's definitely a market for it, in my opinion and who cares if the progressive imams start calling for jihad.
Thanks but no. I had it for a while. I have never in my life seen such AWFUL customer service. Emailing them for help did no good---I'd get a form reply telling me I needed high speed broadband, which I have. So I had to call the 800 number, which meant holding for about an hour and then dealing for another hour and a half with someone who didn't know what they were doing. Once, someone accidentally cancelled my account, and it took them two weeks to figure it out.
Then I figured out Beck is a fraud, and I cancelled. Don't miss it----FR is the best source for news I know.
Because conservatism conflicts with globalism and the globalists own the networks due to Al Gore’s Telecommunications Act of 1996. In turn the government, also owned by the globalists uses federal monies to enhance the revenues of news networks that serve their purposes, and threats for those that don’t.
It’s a matter of corruption of Constitutional government and several administrations antagonistic towards freedom and the American way.
You can bluster about left right dems repubs, but they are all following the globalist playbook and there’s hardly a whit of difference.
Just look at the corruption going on in the primaries right now, so you know the republican party has fallen to the depths of the other party and now uses their tactics to ‘win’.
I bet the Koch brothers could fund one.
Correct. I'm quite sure Rush wouldn't tie himself in any way to Beck the nut.
Sell to whom? That's 180 degrees from the direction of something that I would watch.
Then again, you might be on to something. I won't name, names, but I recently (within the last month) had lunch with a fellow FReeper and his wife. The subject came up, that this guy thought I was a liberal plant for years, but when he'd search my posts, couldn't actually find a liberal position I'd taken.
Then he admitted he had figured out what it was that gave him that impression: I'm not angry or emotional, and even give the impression that I look down on those who are angry and emotional. I don't hate Obama, or Clinton, or anyone else, and it shows. My opposition is purely on policy, and I tolerate those who disagree with me without any negative emotions whatsoever.
So, you could be on to something. Maybe a network as you suggest, that does rile the emotions of those who are heavily emotionally invested might just fly. Just not with me.
Good idea, I really see a market for alternatives in news as well as hollywood.
I find his radio show to be at times vaudevillian. Far too much slapstick. His TV show shares nothing with his radio schtick.
The online news show, two hours long is superb. He hired the best in the business, and covers that which the other networks do not. Free two week subscription.
The new normal: All conservative celebrities must hire private security.
Perhaps it could generate revenue through fees and eliminate advertisements. This allows commercial free news without annoying distraction while allowing more time for sustained discussion and eliminates the whole boycott calls by left wingers.
I don’t hate liberals.
I hate the fact we live in a message-controlled society very much like that “big brother” commercial with the giant screen, and the runner who throws the anvil to demolish it.
That’s what we’ve become. Almost a new Soviet Union.
It’s the opposite of what America stands for. And the first competitor bold enough to offer it to a starving citizenry, will make oodles, and oodles of cash.
Almost a limitless opportunity for someone.
Literally there would be no competition right now.
Not one competitor. Not a single one. Five thousand three hundred sources of liberal bias.
Not one independent, conservative source.
Supply and demand is going to make whoever gets there first, with such an independent voice, richer than their wildest dreams.
It’s almost an incomprehensibly huge opportunity for someone. Once in a lifetime.
I had problems at first. They were taken care of. He had a very short beta period.
The content of his show is topnotch.
It wasn’t short for me....it never ended, until I cancelled, that is.
The show was adequate. But Beck’s hysterical Newt-hate and his self-righteous hypocrisy became so overwhelming that I don’t even listen to him on radio. He’s a nasty piece of work.
Why not have the Free Republic News Channel?
Perhaps, but as I said, Paul Weyrich thought the same, and it didn’t work out so well.
I’m in.
Sight unseen. Sign me up.
FR would be an excellent platform for such an alternative.
Think of it. The Internet’s most enthusiastic, tech-savvy bunch of rabble-rousing muck rakers anywhere.
History, waiting to be made.
I have been asking this for awhile. In the early days of Fox News, I would change all the channels at Costco to Fox News. I would change waiting rooms to Fox. I would ask Hotels why they didn’t carry it, and I would bug cable providers to carry it.
Now, I don’t car so much. They are better then the other lefty channels, but not a lot better.
I want an unabashed conservative channel that is as hard right as MSNBC is to the left. I know what the stinking lefties think is news, and I don’t care for it. I don’t want to be “fair and balanced”. I don’t want to see or hear their anti-American, America destroying drivel.
Give me a true conservative news network (TCN) and I will be as excited in as I was when I joined the legions that help promote Fox News.
There are a hugh number of small-l libertarians on FR.
Loads.
I would even question how conservative you can actually be without agreeing with small l libertarians a good deal of the time. You can’t be conservative and statist. The two are mutually exclusive. Now the capital L libertarians are a different story. It’s the rare occasion that they actually make any real sense at all.
You give yourself false comfort by believing conservatives represent majority of population imho. 40% conservative, 40% moderate, 20% liberal from Gallup poll
Most of those who say they’re Moderates are actually LIBERALS Half of those who called themselves conservatives are actually Liberals as well, just look at those who vote for Romney. Only 20% of the total population are Conservatives
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