Colbert On Demand:
[C-SPAN has] asked two Internet video providers, YouTube and IFILM, to pull clips of Stephen Colbert's April 29 performance at the White House Correspondents Association dinner from their Web sites... [stating that] copyrighted material was posted online without its permission.
Both YouTube and IFILM complied with the request.
YouTube posted the Colbert video...(Read: sloppy reporting "What is YouTube? YouTube is a free online video streaming service that allows users to view and share videos that have been uploaded by our members")...shortly after the dinner ended and received the letter to remove it May 3... The Colbert video was viewed 2.7 million times in less than 48 hours...
"Our (YouTube) community was really passionate about it."
Indeed.
Much, much more below the fold... please jump
I'll use Time Warner as the first example, with it's continued link to MSM manipulation, and then go down the line of the C-SPAN Board of Directors (Think: Zapruder film purchase, vaults harboring the Public Trust, MSM misinterpretations--I'll post more on this later).
(
read: Stayin' Strong Throughout the Term Limits... Or The Assassination Cycles, Or the Disgraced 'War Presidents': you know, whichever):
Upon the
board of directors of C-SPAN sits Time-Warner's representative, Chief Operating Officer Landel Hobbs.
A Quick search of his
personal campaign contributions
leads us to the expected tributes back into his Company's PAC, Time Warner Political Action Committee.
TIME WARNER POLITICAL ACTION CMTE: $10,500 (totaled since 2001).
Another search, however, brings up the results of the cash-reserves of that
Time Warner PAC and its 2006 election cycle contributions to date...
Total to Democratic Senate Candidates: $38,500
Total to Republican Senate Candidates: $42,500
Total to Democratic House Candidates: $57,750
Total to Republican House Candidates: $85,000
And as for his
`Grand' ($1,000) contribution to the
National Cable and Telecommunications Association PAC?
Total to Democratic Senate Candidates: $58,000
Total to Republican Senate Candidates: $93,947
Total to Democratic House Candidates: $274,497
Total to Republican House Candidates: $449,500
Though conservatively dedicated to the pampering of well-established incumbents who hardly ever face potential defeat, acting as do most big-private PACs tend to stay on the `safe side,' the contributions are still evident in their Republican slant.
If there is any doubt to this truth, look at a `fair and balanced' representation of percentages based on currently held Congressional seats. The contributions from the most modestly Republican PAC the Board donated in more than an isolated instance, Time Warner PAC, (contingent of our great benefactors at CNN) is relatively equal when it comes to Senate Candidates. But their contributions skewer much more in the House. At current the normal ratio is 1.14 donation opportunity Republican, if balanced wholly on incumbent seats filled.
The Likely hood of a Time Warner PAC Red tinted contribution? nearly one and one half times (x1.47).
National Cable PAC is far worse, weighing in at 1.64x the likely hood that money ended up in a Republican Campaign fund. I will take this opportunity to remind you that these PAC contributions listed here
ARE for the most recent 2006 election cycle, when a sitting, distrusted and practically `lame duck' president has a national approval rating of 31%, having hovered there for months.
Let me be very clear here, I'm not stating that these individuals shouldn't be capable of investing in the party most likely to perhaps bailout their own, stubborn, wayward and increasingly archaic industry. I am stating that, whether or not the former is true, these individuals have a
liability in the continued success of this Republican Party, and that is abundantly clear. And this, dear reader, means a
liability in your viewing of Stephen Colbert's Speech. (
import most thoroughly established).
Here is a recent quote from
Mr. Hobbs Concerning a' la carte Cable distribution and his
perceived beneficiaries of such a program:
Time Warner Cable COO Landel Hobbs said that he sure hoped nothing happened on the à la carte front, saying that the result would be less choice and higher prices. Diversity would be driven out he said.
(Read: He
sure hopes he doesn't loose his job `bundling' considerably useless channels like SpikeTV and The WB with enjoyable networks like, say, Viacom's Comedy Central, in an attempt to seem chivalrous while simultaneously watching his ratings dwindle due to citizen-managed/cooperative mediums like the internet).
I
sure hope Mr. Hobbs learns to watch his mouth and start working toward reasonable solutions other than his current scheme of complicity in the censorship of American History. The only `Diversity' I see `driven out' of this equation is Landel Hobbs' stock portfolio. By the time Big-Cable gets around to massively implementing such an idea as
a' le carte Cable, how many more users will the internet have wrestled away?--and likewise how many regulations will the Republicans (and complacent democrats) allow this Cabal to inflict upon our access to this, a heavily Government fabricated medium, in the meantime?
A look into the List of C-SPAN's 2005-2006 Board of Directors yields similar, and very often even more drastic results:
Joseph Floyd, President & COO:
$5,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee since 97
Stephen B. Burke, President:
$2,000 for Bush's first term, $3,000 to National Cable PAC
Pat Esser, President:
$1,000 to Bush/Cheney Campaign 04' Campaign, at least $4,000 more to assorted Republican campaigns around the nation and $4,000 more to Republican Directly Related/ Heavily contributing PACs.
Robert Miron, President:
Despite genuinely donating a large majority to Democratic campaigns, was still responsible for a one thousand dollar contribution to our newly disposed/ mutual friend Tom Delay, among others.
Tom Rutledge, Senior Vice President:
$14,500 to the heavily Republican funding National Cable PAC
Franklin Schurz, President:
$6,500 since 1998 to the very heavy Republican.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS
NAB 2006 cycle:
Total to Democratic House Candidates: $80,658
Total to Republican House Candidates: $163,737
Total to Democratic Senate Candidates: $29,600
Total to Republican Senate Candidates: $105,325
Kelvin Westbrook, President & CEO:
Westbrook has made individual campaign contributions to both Republican (total 1,250) and Demcratic (total 2,500) candidates. Yet has donated 6,000 to the Republican Cable PAC.
Bill Bresnan, Board of Directors:
$4,000 National Cable PAC
Rocco Commisso, Chairman & CEO:
$36,000 to National Cable PAC, $4,500 to Republican Candidates/ Party.
Thomas Might, President & CEO:
$9,500 to Republican Candidates, $8,000 Nation Cable PAC (since 93!)
Robert Rosencrans, President:
Many donations to Both D and R; Since 2000 just One to John McCain for $1,000 and $2,000 to the red National Cable and Tel PAC
William Schleyer, Chairman & CEO:
He supported Kerry's Senate bid in 96' and '90, but since '99 all republican, $10,000 to candidates, $8,000 to National Cable PAC.
Michael Willner, President & CEO:
$9,750 to Republican Candidates, $4,000 to dems.
What does a non-for-profit organization such as
C-SPAN (who happens to be run by a conglomeration of cable executives, who happen to make up significant portions of the MSM, who happen to greatly favor the Republican Party in the way of campaign contributions, who happen to both have been deeply insulted within Colbert's speech and rightfully shamed afterwards for their blatantly inept coverage) have to loose from `portions' of their non-biased/nonprofit coverage breaching its way to a free and on-demand democratic medium?
That's a question for you to try and answer, (if you weren't satisfied with my explanation...) Because they certainly know its within their own interests never to potentially remind you, and therefore, of course, not worth the airtime.
I suggest you check the net; just look for the crowd of 2.7 million of your peer-to-peers--all huddled in masses around the YouTube.
UPDATE: sadly, more humor...
From the First AP article:
On May 5, two days after YouTube received C-SPAN's letter, the Colbert video was publicly available through an agreement with Google Video.
Google had been talking with C-SPAN about a partnership before the dinner...
C-SPAN said it chose Google as a partner because it agreed to post video of the entire dinner, and to include a link to C-SPAN's Web site.
In other, saner words: C-SPAN signed an agreement that stated it would be acceptable if Google hosted the video when it was still thought Stephen Colbert was going to be funny and merely “Sniff Bush’s Throne” for twenty some-odd minutes (to use a term coined by Time Warner’s honorable Tucker Carlson
while he was attacking comedian John Stewart for not taking the opportunity of an interview with 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry with more journalistic integrity—the self-serving hypocrisy knows no bounds ).
They will learn from this mistake in the future, but so should you.
To be fair, Colbert's Speech
is accessible through Google.CN Search Results (www.google.cn) to all Chinese citizens who might like to partake...
(Search: Colbert Speech).
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