Do RWs think that there is a "liberal media bias" simply because they are too stupid to realize...

[Billy000]

...that Fox News is the home of republican dick-sucking politics? They clearly believe Fox News is "fair and balanced". Now you may be asking yourself how a person could be stupid enough to believe that Fox News is fair and balanced, but you have to remember that these are the same people who vote Trump and Cruz as the two top polling candidates for their party. Stupidity among them is just common place.

Now don't get it twisted - any idiot can point out that MSNBC has a pretty obvious liberal bias. I mean that network doesn't even try to hide their bias unlike Fox News with their retarded slogans.

The problem is believing the rest of the TV news networks have a liberal bias. I really don't believe the execs at network TV stations like NBC, ABC, and CBS would be stupid enough to push a liberal bias. They depend on having a diverse demographic audience watching them. That means making an attempt to be neutral in politics.

Now when it comes to CNN that is on basic cable like Fox News, it's different. I think CNN has their own unique agenda. I think it has a thinly veiled conservative bias. They are just smart enough to not go balls in like Fox News. How they have covered this election cycle is proof. They throw softball questions at the republican debates but grill the democratic debates. They really do want the dems to lose in November.

All of this brings me to my original point: RWs think the rest of the TV news networks are biased simply because they think anything besides republican propaganda is bullshit. They won't accept any information that doesn't validate their simple minded pre-conceived notions about republican politics. They are totally brainwashed. That is why USMB cons are so busy demonizing democrats that they make no effort to defend republicans. If they did try to defend the GOP, they would realize nothing would come out of their mouths.

 

[Auld Phart]

NBC, ABC, and CBS were liberal before cable existed

 

[Billy000]

NBC, ABC, and CBS were liberal before cable existed

No you're just making shit up.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

NBC, ABC, and CBS were liberal before cable existed

No you're just making shit up.

No, he's not. Prior to cable the three networks and PBS were it as far as televised news went, and largely followed the Democrat line.

The funny thing was, you could flip between channels and find each delivering precisely the same message with precisely the same attitude at the precisely the same time at 6 and 11. It was uncanny.

 

[BULLDOG]

I find it funny that so many right wingers are shocked that Fox is out to get Trump. Fox has always been out to destroy the GOP's enemies, and their tactics haven't changed just for trump.

 

[Compost]

...that Fox News is the home of republican dick-sucking politics? They clearly believe Fox News is "fair and balanced". Now you may be asking yourself how a person could be stupid enough to believe that Fox News is fair and balanced, but you have to remember that these are the same people who vote Trump and Cruz as the two top polling candidates for their party. Stupidity among them is just common place.

Now don't get it twisted - any idiot can point out that MSNBC has a pretty obvious liberal bias. I mean that network doesn't even try to hide their bias unlike Fox News with their retarded slogans.

The problem is believing the rest of the TV news networks have a liberal bias. I really don't believe the execs at network TV stations like NBC, ABC, and CBS would be stupid enough to push a liberal bias. They depend on having a diverse demographic audience watching them. That means making an attempt to be neutral in politics.

Now when it comes to CNN that is on basic cable like Fox News, it's different. I think CNN has their own unique agenda. I think it has a thinly veiled conservative bias. They are just smart enough to not go balls in like Fox News. How they have covered this election cycle is proof. They throw softball questions at the republican debates but grill the democratic debates. They really do want the dems to lose in November.

All of this brings me to my original point: RWs think the rest of the TV news networks are biased simply because they think anything besides republican propaganda is bullshit. They won't accept any information that doesn't validate their simple minded pre-conceived notions about republican politics. They are totally brainwashed. That is why USMB cons are so busy demonizing democrats that they make no effort to defend republicans. If they did try to defend the GOP, they would realize nothing would come out of their mouths.

Most every news source has a slant. Most have a bias. Billy is painting all RWers as stupid and brainwashed. Sure looks like Billy is so biased against an entire group of people that he can't see past his own prejudice.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

...that Fox News is the home of republican dick-sucking politics? They clearly believe Fox News is "fair and balanced". Now you may be asking yourself how a person could be stupid enough to believe that Fox News is fair and balanced, but you have to remember that these are the same people who vote Trump and Cruz as the two top polling candidates for their party. Stupidity among them is just common place.

Now don't get it twisted - any idiot can point out that MSNBC has a pretty obvious liberal bias. I mean that network doesn't even try to hide their bias unlike Fox News with their retarded slogans.

The problem is believing the rest of the TV news networks have a liberal bias. I really don't believe the execs at network TV stations like NBC, ABC, and CBS would be stupid enough to push a liberal bias. They depend on having a diverse demographic audience watching them. That means making an attempt to be neutral in politics.

Now when it comes to CNN that is on basic cable like Fox News, it's different. I think CNN has their own unique agenda. I think it has a thinly veiled conservative bias. They are just smart enough to not go balls in like Fox News. How they have covered this election cycle is proof. They throw softball questions at the republican debates but grill the democratic debates. They really do want the dems to lose in November.

All of this brings me to my original point: RWs think the rest of the TV news networks are biased simply because they think anything besides republican propaganda is bullshit. They won't accept any information that doesn't validate their simple minded pre-conceived notions about republican politics. They are totally brainwashed. That is why USMB cons are so busy demonizing democrats that they make no effort to defend republicans. If they did try to defend the GOP, they would realize nothing would come out of their mouths.

Most every news source has a slant. Most have a bias. Billy is painting all RWers as stupid and brainwashed. Sure looks like Billy is so biased against an entire group of people that he can't see past his own prejudice.

Please refer to him as Billy000. I don't wanna get any on me.

 

[Compost]

...that Fox News is the home of republican dick-sucking politics? They clearly believe Fox News is "fair and balanced". Now you may be asking yourself how a person could be stupid enough to believe that Fox News is fair and balanced, but you have to remember that these are the same people who vote Trump and Cruz as the two top polling candidates for their party. Stupidity among them is just common place.

Now don't get it twisted - any idiot can point out that MSNBC has a pretty obvious liberal bias. I mean that network doesn't even try to hide their bias unlike Fox News with their retarded slogans.

The problem is believing the rest of the TV news networks have a liberal bias. I really don't believe the execs at network TV stations like NBC, ABC, and CBS would be stupid enough to push a liberal bias. They depend on having a diverse demographic audience watching them. That means making an attempt to be neutral in politics.

Now when it comes to CNN that is on basic cable like Fox News, it's different. I think CNN has their own unique agenda. I think it has a thinly veiled conservative bias. They are just smart enough to not go balls in like Fox News. How they have covered this election cycle is proof. They throw softball questions at the republican debates but grill the democratic debates. They really do want the dems to lose in November.

All of this brings me to my original point: RWs think the rest of the TV news networks are biased simply because they think anything besides republican propaganda is bullshit. They won't accept any information that doesn't validate their simple minded pre-conceived notions about republican politics. They are totally brainwashed. That is why USMB cons are so busy demonizing democrats that they make no effort to defend republicans. If they did try to defend the GOP, they would realize nothing would come out of their mouths.

Most every news source has a slant. Most have a bias. Billy is painting all RWers as stupid and brainwashed. Sure looks like Billy is so biased against an entire group of people that he can't see past his own prejudice.

Please refer to him as Billy000. I don't wanna get any on me.

Understood. Will do.

 

[blastoff]

[QUOWillHaftawaite, post: 13969083, member: 42925"]NBC, ABC, and CBS were liberal before cable existed[/QUOTE]
But that's too stupid for billy to realize.

 

[Billy000]

...that Fox News is the home of republican dick-sucking politics? They clearly believe Fox News is "fair and balanced". Now you may be asking yourself how a person could be stupid enough to believe that Fox News is fair and balanced, but you have to remember that these are the same people who vote Trump and Cruz as the two top polling candidates for their party. Stupidity among them is just common place.

Now don't get it twisted - any idiot can point out that MSNBC has a pretty obvious liberal bias. I mean that network doesn't even try to hide their bias unlike Fox News with their retarded slogans.

The problem is believing the rest of the TV news networks have a liberal bias. I really don't believe the execs at network TV stations like NBC, ABC, and CBS would be stupid enough to push a liberal bias. They depend on having a diverse demographic audience watching them. That means making an attempt to be neutral in politics.

Now when it comes to CNN that is on basic cable like Fox News, it's different. I think CNN has their own unique agenda. I think it has a thinly veiled conservative bias. They are just smart enough to not go balls in like Fox News. How they have covered this election cycle is proof. They throw softball questions at the republican debates but grill the democratic debates. They really do want the dems to lose in November.

All of this brings me to my original point: RWs think the rest of the TV news networks are biased simply because they think anything besides republican propaganda is bullshit. They won't accept any information that doesn't validate their simple minded pre-conceived notions about republican politics. They are totally brainwashed. That is why USMB cons are so busy demonizing democrats that they make no effort to defend republicans. If they did try to defend the GOP, they would realize nothing would come out of their mouths.

Most every news source has a slant. Most have a bias. Billy is painting all RWers as stupid and brainwashed. Sure looks like Billy is so biased against an entire group of people that he can't see past his own prejudice.

Please refer to him as Billy000. I don't wanna get any on me.

Too late.

 

[edthecynic]

NBC, ABC, and CBS were liberal before cable existed

Bullshit, they blackballed the Smothers Brothers from television at the behest of Tricky Dicky Nixon before cable existed, hardly very Liberal of them!!!!

 

[Auld Phart]

NBC, ABC, and CBS were liberal before cable existed

Bullshit, they blackballed the Smothers Brothers from television at the behest of Tricky Dicky Nixon before cable existed, hardly very Liberal of them!!!!

Nixon did it?

LOL

"It has long been widely believed that the Smothers Brothers were canceled. In fact, their show had been renewed for the 1969-1970 season, and they had sold over 90 percent of the ad space available. It was only when Tom Smothers began lobbying the FCC and members of Congress over corporate censorship that CBS President Robert Wood fired them. This firing resulted in a breach of contract lawsuit, in which CBS lost and ultimately had to pay the Brothers for the season in 1973."

 

[edthecynic]

Prior to cable the three networks and PBS were it as far as televised news went, and largely followed the Democrat line.

Again pure BULLSHIT!

When the Smothers Brothers were destroying LBJ over the Vietnam War, they were allowed to broadcast, but as soon as they attacked Nixon for the same reason they were booted not only off the air with the number 1 show but kicked off television entirely!!!! They were allowed to attack Democrats but not Republicans.

 

[edthecynic]

NBC, ABC, and CBS were liberal before cable existed

Bullshit, they blackballed the Smothers Brothers from television at the behest of Tricky Dicky Nixon before cable existed, hardly very Liberal of them!!!!

Nixon did it?

LOL

"It has long been widely believed that the Smothers Brothers were canceled. In fact, their show had been renewed for the 1969-1970 season, and they had sold over 90 percent of the ad space available. It was only when Tom Smothers began lobbying the FCC and members of Congress over corporate censorship that CBS President Robert Wood fired them. This firing resulted in a breach of contract lawsuit, in which CBS lost and ultimately had to pay the Brothers for the season in 1973."

What a load of unsourced hogwash!

Here is the real deal:

'The Uncensored Story' Of The Smothers Brothers

Significantly, the Smothers Brothers received their Freedom of Speech Award from comic David Steinberg, whose controversial mock sermons on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour played a key part in having that variety show yanked and the brothers fired, despite three successful seasons on CBS from 1967 to 1969 and an announced renewal for a fourth.

"The most innovative variety show on television shut down because of political pressure," Steinberg told the audience in Aspen that night. "But the Smothers Brothers got their revenge. Never giving up, they sued CBS — and they won. And they forever became prominent symbols in the fight for free speech."

 

[Auld Phart]

NBC, ABC, and CBS were liberal before cable existed

Bullshit, they blackballed the Smothers Brothers from television at the behest of Tricky Dicky Nixon before cable existed, hardly very Liberal of them!!!!

Nixon did it?

LOL

"It has long been widely believed that the Smothers Brothers were canceled. In fact, their show had been renewed for the 1969-1970 season, and they had sold over 90 percent of the ad space available. It was only when Tom Smothers began lobbying the FCC and members of Congress over corporate censorship that CBS President Robert Wood fired them. This firing resulted in a breach of contract lawsuit, in which CBS lost and ultimately had to pay the Brothers for the season in 1973."

What a load of unsourced hogwash!

Here is the real deal:

'The Uncensored Story' Of The Smothers Brothers

Significantly, the Smothers Brothers received their Freedom of Speech Award from comic David Steinberg, whose controversial mock sermons on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour played a key part in having that variety show yanked and the brothers fired, despite three successful seasons on CBS from 1967 to 1969 and an announced renewal for a fourth.

"The most innovative variety show on television shut down because of political pressure," Steinberg told the audience in Aspen that night. "But the Smothers Brothers got their revenge. Never giving up, they sued CBS — and they won. And they forever became prominent symbols in the fight for free speech."

Of course it is.

The last episode aired April 20, 1969, 3 months after Nixon took office.

and it makes so much better press for the Brothers to have been picked on for political views than having it aired the show was cancelled over a contract dispute.

Feed your slop to the sheep.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

NBC, ABC, and CBS were liberal before cable existed

No you're just making shit up.

LOL

 

[edthecynic]

NBC, ABC, and CBS were liberal before cable existed

Bullshit, they blackballed the Smothers Brothers from television at the behest of Tricky Dicky Nixon before cable existed, hardly very Liberal of them!!!!

Nixon did it?

LOL

"It has long been widely believed that the Smothers Brothers were canceled. In fact, their show had been renewed for the 1969-1970 season, and they had sold over 90 percent of the ad space available. It was only when Tom Smothers began lobbying the FCC and members of Congress over corporate censorship that CBS President Robert Wood fired them. This firing resulted in a breach of contract lawsuit, in which CBS lost and ultimately had to pay the Brothers for the season in 1973."

What a load of unsourced hogwash!

Here is the real deal:

'The Uncensored Story' Of The Smothers Brothers

Significantly, the Smothers Brothers received their Freedom of Speech Award from comic David Steinberg, whose controversial mock sermons on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour played a key part in having that variety show yanked and the brothers fired, despite three successful seasons on CBS from 1967 to 1969 and an announced renewal for a fourth.

"The most innovative variety show on television shut down because of political pressure," Steinberg told the audience in Aspen that night. "But the Smothers Brothers got their revenge. Never giving up, they sued CBS — and they won. And they forever became prominent symbols in the fight for free speech."

Of course it is.

The last episode aired April 20, 1969, 3 months after Nixon took office.

and it makes so much better press for the Brothers to have been picked on for political views than having it aired the show was cancelled over a contract dispute.

Feed your slop to the sheep.

Do you really think that CBS would admit they were kissing Nixon's ass???

When comedy offends: revisiting the Smothers Brothers | First Amendment Center – news, commentary, analysis on free speech, press, religion, assembly, petition

In the spring of 1969 the United States was fighting a war in Vietnam, and the Smothers Brothers were at the top of their game.

The popular “Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” had lampooned Lyndon Johnson’s administration and the Vietnam War, and recently had satirized Richard Nixon, the new president.

The brothers’ popular, but controversial, show had prompted viewer complaints for years. This, in turn, caused a rift between the Smothers Brothers and the network, CBS. Tired of fielding complaints from affiliates, CBS imposed a requirement that the show be reviewed several days before broadcast.

Days before the April 6 show was to air, CBS canceled the show. CBS blamed the Smothers Brothers, saying Tom and Dick had failed to deliver the programs on time. Others speculated that CBS was caving in to political pressure and seeking to curry favor with the Nixon administration. The final, unaired show included a skit deriding congressional hearings on television content.

Given some of the passionate arguments surrounding free speech and Maher in recent weeks, you may have thought that in 1969 an influential magazine like TV Guide would have come to the defense of the brothers and their First Amendment rights. That wasn’t the case.

In fact, TV Guide quickly endorsed the network’s decision. Their unsigned “special editorial” essentially argued that good taste should trump free speech:

“Where does satire end — and sacrilege begin? Where does criticism end — and affront begin? Where does disagreement end — and national division begin?” the editorial said.

TV Guide suggested that the nation’s most powerful medium shouldn’t “insult the general mores of the country.” The magazine opted for a majority-rules philosophy:

“The issue is: Shall entertainers using a mass medium for all the people be allowed to amuse a few by satirizing religion while offending the substantial majority? …

“Shall a network be required to provide time for a Joan Baez to pay tribute to her draft-evading husband while hundreds of thousands of viewers in the households of men fighting and dying in Vietnam look on in shocked resentment?”

Of course, TV Guide exercised its own free-speech right to lambaste the Smothers Brothers. But the magazine also revealed a common failure among the news media. Too often, the media — then and now — view the First Amendment as a protector of a free press, but overlook the amendment’s critical role in protecting unpopular speech and expression.

I spoke with Tom Smothers earlier this year at a taping of our “Speaking Freely” television show. He believes that CBS canceled the show under instructions from Nixon.

“When Nixon said, ‘I want those guys off,’ they were off,” Smothers said. “If (Hubert) Humphrey [had] been elected, we would have been on.”

 

[Auld Phart]

After a certain point, all you can do is sit back and laugh.

 

[Billy000]

NBC, ABC, and CBS were liberal before cable existed

No you're just making shit up.

LOL

You know I'm right.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

NBC, ABC, and CBS were liberal before cable existed

No you're just making shit up.

LOL

You know I'm right.

You've never been right.