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If you are wondering why low-rated cable television shows and networks not only stay alive but also manage to be profitable, it is due to the bundled cable racket that forces over a hundred million Americans to pay for dozens of channels they don't like and/or watch. For example, if you want Fox News but have to get CNN and MSNBC in the package, chances are very good that CNN and MSNBC are getting a chunk of your cable bill. Yep, that is right. This racket has been so perfected that not only is failure rewarded, the networks can pretty...

With streaming television becoming more and more popular, and providers like Aereo making an end-run around cable and satellite providers, a lot of attention is being paid to the future of bundled cable. In a world of growing choices and a weak, jobless economy, how long can something last that charges customers a ton of money for dozens of channels they never watch? Bundled cable is, in my opinion, one of the greatest hustles ever perpetuated against the American people. The worst part is how it works as a kind of affirmative-action program for left-wing programming that likely wouldn’t survive...

The rise of streaming television is something I've been covering rather obsessively on my Daily Call Sheet for going on a year now. Not because I have any kind of inside information or data, but because if you connect the dots of the hundreds of various news stories that have been written about the phenomenon, you can see that something seismic is happening. Bundled cable is evil, and through this evil we are forced to not only pay for dozens and sometimes hundreds of channels we never watch, but we're also forced to pay for and subsidize channels that offend...

We received the following unsolicited E-mail from Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. To begin with, it is excellent news that John McCain raised so much money in only one month, because it shows that Americans will put up their hard-earned money to stop a phony smile in an empty suit, a fraud and a front for the Chicago Daley machine, and a George Soros stooge from getting anywhere near the White House. More importantly, though, the Obama campaign is now firmly on record as telling its prospective donors a blatant untruth: that Obama does not take money from big donors,...