| Killing two birds with one stone. As if I didn't have enough reasons to hate Comcast and NBCU individually having barred them both from my home in perpetuity three years ago ...
Now I don't have to spend any more time debating which is the more vile, repugnant, anti-American, anti-consumer, anti-freedom company; they've combined their hideousness in to one wretched monstrosity that I can focus all my disdain at.
When Republicans mop the floor in 2010 and take back Congress I will be calling my representatives non-stop demanding they put an end to forced bundling by Cable companies and put an end to their ill-gotten gains once and for all. |
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 TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
1 edit | I don't know what the big deal is, with and average of 14 viewers per time period NBC isn't what you would call a popular place to spend an evening in front of the boob tube.  Then there is MSNBC which is the best thing that has ever happened to Foxnews. With Lew Dobbs leaving MSNBC with his 32 viewers what is going to happen now. 
Lew Dobb's was with CNN, not MSNBC, I don't watch either so they are all the same to me. 
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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
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| And that's the very point; what with their 36 viewers they still manage to retain a slot on ever major cable provider and take a slice of every bill because of the practice of forced bundling.
I'll keep hounding my representatives until my grave or until NBC, CNN and other stations I've locked out of my home's viewing selection years ago stop getting a slice of my monthly bill for service they DO NOT provide me and further allowing them to misrepresent to their advertisers that their programming is available in my household. |
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Dobbs was at CNN. |
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 Ebolla
join:2005-09-28
Dracut, MA | reply to UncleDirtNap
if you lock a channel out from being viewed on your own how exactly is this comcast not providing it to you? They are offering the channel, you choose not to watch it, that doesn't mean you should get the cost of channel removed from bill. You want ala carte pricing? Find a sat. provider that will give that to you. |
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TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY | reply to roymustang
Whoops you are right These propaganda cable news channels are all the same to me.
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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
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vannyxPremium
join:2003-07-07
Bronx, NY | reply to UncleDirtNap
why wait. Write your elected official now. and during the next election make sure the candidates know that this is important to you. |
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| I have and in 2006 when Republicans were in control of Congress a bill was sponsored to end the practice of forced bundling but then Democrats took over and it was immediately shelved.
Not coincidentally the top ten recipients of campaign contributions from Comcast, Time Warner, NBC Universal and the rest of the cable and entertainment lobby were Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama and the other top members of the Democratic Congressional leadership.
It's a very "sweet" arrangement they have amongst themselves, The cable channels pimp for the Democrats in their programming at every opportunity and the Democrats work to protect their unethical practices and keep the money flowing to them in return, a significant percentage of which goes right back into the campaign coffers.
But it looks good that things are going to finally change in 2010. |
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