Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Protecting McCain; Pounding Obama

By Brent Budowsky
July 23, 2008

This is a defamation; this is a slander; this is a lie. McCain should apologize to Obama.

Read on.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am absolutely sure that it was pure coincidence, but for some strange reason the segment of Olberman's show last night that was broadcast in my home town (Saginaw, Michigan, on Charter Communications cable TV shortly after 10:00 pm EST) kept breaking up. That single segment of the program - while comparison snippets of Couric's edited versus unedited interviews of McCain on CBS were being shown - kept losing both its audio and its visual signal in a scrambled, frustrating fashion.

This obvious "gotcha" moment that MSNBC intended to show their Olberman viewers, exposing CBS's biased editorial adjustments (and the falsity of CBS's initial denials, and later post hoc explanation efforts) was basically incoherent, due to these technical difficulties.

This is an open invite to anyone who just possibly might have been watching Olberman's show in some other community somewhere, and who just might possibly have witnessed the same phenomenon last evening, to POST THE PARTICULARS.

This weird digital signal breakup effected neither the introduction to Olberman's show, nor any of the program segments that followed. Nor did I discern any other technical difficulties on any of the other channels adjacent to MSNBC on my cable band at the time, although I only did a rather cursory channel surf before switching back to Olberman.

Unless someone else posts in here, reporting they too experienced a similar Twilight Zone moment last night, I'll write it all off as a fluke.

As a patriotic American taxpayer and cable TV customer, I have total confidence that the FCC has all sorts of built in safeguards to insure that it would be technologically impossible for this to be a content-based glitch somehow, mysteriously engineered to prevent NBC from blowing the whistle on CBS, and accusing its rival of conscious editorial bias in favor of John McCain.

It had to be sheer fluke.

Bill from Saginaw