Posted on 09/05/2008 3:36:27 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Just across. BET and TV One apparently decided that with Barry O already pulling 90-95% of the black vote, they needn’t bother turning any precious airtime over to McCain. In fact, all four nights of the Democratic convention aired on both networks. The GOP convention didn’t air at all.
Do note: Palin finished just shy of both candidates in total audience running on only six networks, two fewer than McCain and four fewer than Obama. Telemundo and Univision didn’t bother with night three coverage.
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Thank you! Just saw it...awesome.
That's interesting. I hope it's true, because I've been very upset to learn that the two stations directed at an Hispanic audience might have been trying to manipulate that audience by not letting them see the Republican side. One of these stations - Telemundo, possibly - is owned by NBC.
Even complaining about it could be construed as a hate crime.
Good slogan for us FReepers:
John McCain
Love him now
Throttle him as President
That’s hilarious when you think about it: The DNC convention = “Black Entertainment Television.”
Sounds to me like BET and TV One are run by racist mysoginists.
There ain't nothing pretty about it.
If the libs were to pass the “Fairness Doctrine” I think they would be for a rude awakening.
Bias Excellence Television
(A subsidiary of Oprah Winfrey's HARPO Productions)
I don’t think it is racist of BET to air Obama’s speech but not McCain’s. They are an advertising-funded business. It would be irresponsible of their management team to run programming that would cause 95% of their audience to change the channel.
Their audience won’t be watching McCain because it is going 95+% to vote for Obama not matter what; even if a pair of horns popped out of his head tomorrow, 95% of the black population is going to vote for Obama.
Some idiot from the Washington Post was on this morning claiming he got high ratings because he followed the football game. They just can’t give us any credit for anything whatsoever. It’s just a matter of time before the print media becomes obsolete.
Their audience won’t be watching McCain because it is going 95+% to vote for Obama not matter what; even if a pair of horns popped out of his head tomorrow, 95% of the black population is going to vote for Obama.
I think it of racist of you to suggest that Black folks wouldn't want to watch a white man on TV. Of course race is involoved in their decision and to suggest otherwise, shows racism in the extreme.
LOL.
I think some folks need to go to dictionary.com and look up the meaning of the word “racist”. I bet you’d agree with me that the word is misused and overused quite a bit.
Bite your tongue. You KNOW that blacks cannot be racists towards whites. You KNOW that when they call whites "cracker" or "honky" or "white BOY", you KNOW that they are not being racist. They are just giving their opinions of things. Blacks are all nice. They do not have huge gangs that shoot and kill their own. They do not have huge government owned and government run ghettos, where they get free stuff to vote 90-95% for Marxist Dimocrats EVERY election no matter what. They refuse to vote for Republicans because YOU KNOW that republicans are responsible for slavery, for keeping them in bondage, for refusing to allow the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act. You MUST KNOW that KNOWN socialist senators such as Fulbright (Klinton's mentor) and Algore, Senior, were republicans who refused them their rights. You MUST KNOW all this, you must!!! /sarcasm still on, and on and on and on and on . . . . .
bttt
Oh, I understand racism very well and do not need your lecture. Next you will be explaining patriotism to me. Some words do not need further explanation.
No, I don’t think you do understand what it is. First off, I don’t appreciate you twisting my argument. I didn’t say black folks don’t want to watch a white man on TV. What I said was that black people are going to vote for Obama in huge numbers (and ALL polling data backs that up), and so aren’t interested in watching McCain on TV. It’s the same reason that die-hard Democrats generally don’t watch the Republican convention in as high a numbers as Republicans.
Secondly, if you’ve ever listened to the Neil Boortz show you’ll now that “racist” and “racism” are two of the most misused words in the English language. He makes this point all the time when people call in and misapply the word to some situation or person.
No you defended your argument by saying that they could not get advertiser. They could have got the same advertisers that the other networks got. That is why you were making racist assertions. The idea that advertisers would not advertise on black today, means that you made the assumption that because it was a black network, mainstream advertisers would not advertise on the network. That sounds pretty racist to me. I am tired of elitist like you trying to tell me what words mean.
No you defended your argument by saying that they could not get advertiser. They could have got the same advertisers that the other networks got. That is why you were making racist assertions.No, I didn't say that at all. What I was saying was that advertisers won't pay for advertising during a time slot where there aren't any viewers. If the number of viewers of BET during a showing of the Republican convention is extremely low, advertisers will not spend their money to run ads during that time slot.
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