THE GRAPEVINE - PART II

(Theme song for post: I Heard it Through the Grapevine)

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Soon, the grapevine is going to be our only means of communication. Did you hear THIS through the grapevine.....’cause you sure aren’t gonna hear it in the mainstream media. ABC is refusing to air nationally an ad critical of BO’s health care reform plan. EXCUUUUSE ME, but.....gasp....didn’t ABC broadcast a prime-time special from the White House, featuring the messiah himself, pushing his plan? ABC says their policy is not to SELL advertising that presents a partisan position on a controversial issue. Okie-dokie, now. They can present one side only in a prime-time special but can’t sell an ad that presents a different view? WHY NOT? I’m beginning to think ABC stands for “Advancing Barack’s Causes.”

NBC said it will consider running the ad “with some revisions.” EXCUUUUSE ME, but.....gasp.....isn’t that called censorship? They are demanding to make revisions in the ad? I have seen a couple anti-Obama health care ads reviewed by the pollster, Frank Luntz. They were factual and very effective ads.....one ad polled favorable with 89% of Republicans and 53% of Dems. and a very high percentage of independents. Oooooops! That’s the problem!

Oh, by the way, Glenn Beck put an NBC shopping bag on his desk the other day–beautiful peacock logo on the bag. He pulled out Obama items you can buy at the NBC gift shop. Yep, you can buy an Obama doll, a coffee mug with a mug shot of BO on the side and a t-shirt that says, “Yes We Did.” WHY? What does Obama have to do with NBC? Oh, yes. There’s that little fact that Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric (owner of NBC), is a member of BO’s Economic Advisory Board. He had input with the stimulus bill and the health care reform plan and is a board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York helping to decide who gets lots of money. If cap and trade laws pass, GE stands to make billions from the sale of their products to other companies who will have to comply with the laws. Ditto if the health care plan is passed. Immelt might as well be sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom. (Go here to check all 29 Obama tchotchkes sold at NBC.)

The Blog Manager/Editor/SOS/Grunt/Media Czarina reported last week that I’d gone wobbly again. Although not fully recovered, I am out of the fetal position but still sucking my thumb and dragging around my blankie. At night I’m afraid to close my eyes because I have nightmares about the boogie man.....not sure he is imaginary. Just when you thought you’d heard it all, there’s this: Did you know there is a U.S. Senate bill that proposes to give the president emergency control of the internet? (Go here to read more.)

The boogie man may very well be real. Sleep well tonight, my friends, and sweet dreams.

THE PREZ