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This was a news item on imdb.com earlier today:
"Report: O'Reilly Was "Unleashed" Against NBC, GE
Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes phoned NBC chief Jeff Zucker last summer and threatened to "unleash" Bill O'Reilly against NBC and its parent, General Electric, unless Zucker reigned in MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who was regularly attacking O'Reilly (as "the worst person in the world") and Ailes himself, the Washington Post reported today (Monday). The complaints were later echoed in phone calls to Zucker from Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp, which owns Fox News, the Post said. After the appeals failed, O'Reilly began an assault on GE chief Jeffrey Immelt, accusing him and his company of supporting the Iranian government. "If my child were killed in Iraq, I would blame the likes of Jeffrey Immelt," O'Reilly said during one broadcast. GE spokesman Gary Sheffer insisted that "nothing we supply ... to Iran is in any way endangering U.S. troops." He said that News Corp execs "tell us if the attacks on O'Reilly end, the attacks on GE will end."

This riles me up so terribly. You know these Evangelists are constantly claiming the Rapture is coming. Alright, when and if America starts muting its outspoken citizens, the end may be near. My brother once taught me, "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." There has never been a truer statement in our brave new world.

Seriously, if no one takes our news distributors to task you end up with the same situation that followed 9/11. We cannot allow certain companies to continue 'Rule by Fear' approaches without others distributing information about 'the truth' (as I see it). I cannot speak to the radical approach Keith Olbermann takes because I am too busy watching baseball (j/k).

When I do watch The Countdown, I know some of what is said is propaganda. At the same time, when I am stuck watching The No-Spin Zone or whatever, I take the same approach. I don't really know where to go with this except to say if Americans can no longer read between the lines, what does that say about the state of our union? I love America. I hate stupid people. I guess we saw the failed 'War on Drugs', the failed 'War in Iraq', etc... and now we can see the ongoing 'War of the Cable News'. Bring it and the results will show in November.