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CBS' Shame (Network Helps BTK Killer - CBS' Felons Airtime Special Alert)
Debbie Schlussel.com ^ | 10/09/05 | Debbie Schlussel

Posted on 10/09/2005 3:43:29 PM PDT by goldstategop

CBS Shame: Network Helps BTK Killer By Debbie Schlussel

Tonight's CBS TV Movie is a two-hour Lifetime-style waste of time on the BTK killer. Besides being the usual brain-addled damsel-in-distress "movie of the week" crap, this movie is exactly what the BTK killer wanted.

BTK wanted fame--even wrote notes to police and the press asking what he needed to do to get noticed, to get more publicity. He craved this notoriety, and tortured and murdered ten innocent women to attain it. By doing this two-hour movie, CBS is playing right into his hands--rewarding this cretin on network prime-time. And making some greedy, callous Hollywood producers even more wealthy.

Unlike CBS, we won't repeat BTK's real name or post his picture here. That's what he wants.

Hopefully, and likely, it will be tape-delayed by NFL football and trounced by "Desperate Housewives" in the ratings.

CBS . . . the network that rewards serial killers.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: btk; cbs; cbsboycott; debbieschlussel; dennisrader; felonsnetwork; firstdaburglar; thenserialkiller; tvtrash
CBS... the network that rewards Clinton burglar Sandy Berger and then rewards a serial killer. I have to disagree with Debbie Schlussel. They never got around to punishing liar Dan Rather. Then again being trash TV, its profits despite ethics. What a lovely network. Two good things about this Sunday: NFL football and "Desperate Housewives."

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
1 posted on 10/09/2005 3:43:32 PM PDT by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop

What's the difference between an MSM producer and a hyena?

There are some things a hyena just won't do.


2 posted on 10/09/2005 3:46:03 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Islamo-terrorists: Strike force of the MSM)
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To: goldstategop
I have to disagree with Debbie Schlussel. They never got around to punishing liar Dan Rather.

To Debbie and her ilk, not worshiping Dan as the true coming is punishment.

3 posted on 10/09/2005 3:54:07 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: ncountylee
Actually Debbie's a conservative. I was making the point that CBS is about on the bottom rung of respectable organizations. Today the most vile people get toasted. Must be the new tolerance. Oh yeah and this is the same network that was all set to make a Ronald Reagan bashing biopic until the blogosphere rose up to kill it.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
4 posted on 10/09/2005 3:58:48 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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. . . this movie is exactly what the BTK killer wanted.

Isn't this what the BTK Killer already has and will continue to have long after he's dead?

Others have already written and published their books.  No doubt, other books will be written . . . far into the future.  Specialty cable networks will produce their documentaries and show them ad nauseam.

Better to check what's running in the same timeslot and get on with enjoying life.  I'll be watching Rome

5 posted on 10/09/2005 4:00:50 PM PDT by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: Racehorse
Murder is a kind of cheap fame. Nothing genuinely lasting about it beyond the books and the crappy TV movie of the week. There's nothing admirable to celebrate here.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
6 posted on 10/09/2005 4:03:36 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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You think that's disgraceful? I watched Mike Wallace interview louis Freeh. Talk about a dance around the truth. I wonder why CBS did'nt give a full hour to Freeh?
Seems it was more of an indictment against Freeh than an interview concerning his book on Clinton.


7 posted on 10/09/2005 4:28:28 PM PDT by ChiMark
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To: goldstategop
CBS?

They have been off my channel list for several years. I am surprised to hear they are still around.

8 posted on 10/09/2005 5:08:53 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon (Lt. Gen. Russel Honore to MSM: "You are stuck on stupid. Over.")
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I will either be watching the Angel/Yankees or the Bengal/ Jaguar game. Thanks anyways. CBS another loser network.


9 posted on 10/09/2005 5:12:27 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: goldstategop

It appears that Joey Greco and 'Cheaters" is back on my local cable.

I'll be watching that


10 posted on 10/09/2005 5:19:23 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Not too worry - we'll all be united again under the next Clinton presidency!!)
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To: ChiMark

If 60 Minutes wants to "come clean" in an interview like that, I want to see it aired live, no edits.

What might slip out then?


11 posted on 10/09/2005 6:48:39 PM PDT by weegee (The lesson from New Orleans? Smart Growth kills. You can't evacuate dense populations easily.)
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To: goldstategop
Although I agree about CBS being full of crap and I hate it that Rader may gain pleasure from this tv movie, I did watch it and have to say it was quite good and the actor that portrayed Rader did an eerily fantastic job.
The story is too fascinating to just ignore.
12 posted on 10/09/2005 8:01:30 PM PDT by RDTF
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I must confess I also watched, and the actor that played Rader did do a great job.
Did he really ask the police if he could send them a floppy and not be traced?


13 posted on 10/09/2005 8:04:23 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
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Re: floppy: yes I think so. I am pretty sure it was how they caught him. I also think his daughter did give the DNA they were able to use to seal the deal.
That actor was fantasic. Gave me the creeps.


14 posted on 10/09/2005 8:42:34 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: goldstategop

Yes, I saw last night on "59 Minutes" Mike Wallace quote Sandy Berger, who is in real credibility trouble, as a defense to Louis Freeh's documented and proven allegations against Klinton. But this show last night was hardly some reward for the BTK killer.


15 posted on 10/10/2005 7:22:24 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: goldstategop
CBS has always been a tacky network.

On 60 Minutes last night they interviewed a jewel thief - and treated him like some kind of hero. I suspect the old men of 60 Minutes are caught in a 1940s masochistic fantasy.

They think "edgy" is siding with criminals and creeps. And they want all of us to be outraged. Yeah, right. Pathetic doesn't earn "outrage". Here's the sad news, no one thinks 60 Minutes is cool, we're embarrassed for them. That type of "rebellion" went out with 1950s seventeen year olds.

They also interviewed Freeh with close ups to make it look like he was under interrogation. Jesus, that CBS crew is sooooo old and out of it.

16 posted on 10/10/2005 7:32:04 AM PDT by GOPJ (The enemy is never tired, never sated, never content with yesterday's brutality. -- President Bush)
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17 posted on 07/12/2006 10:25:34 PM PDT by Stallone (Mainstream Media is dead. I helped kill it.)
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