TV Terrorism

My TV is under attack!  

From corporate greed to political correctness, everyday people are being held prisoner by their televisions!   

Like most Americans,  I'm glued to my 42 inch flat screen HD TV on a daily basis.  If you're not operating with a flat screen HD TV by now you're kinda pathetic, lets be honest...  TV is awesome! I enjoy watching movies from all genres, I keep up with a few weekly TV shows (not Jersey Shore) and I like watching sports...mainly my beloved Yankees, who are going in to a crucial game 6 of the ALCS tonight against the Texas Rangers.  GO YANKS!

Speaking of the baseball playoffs, more then 3 million people in the north east wont be able to see this years World Series because cable provider Cablevision is in millionaire fight with Fox News Corps.  As of last week Cablevision stopped providing Tri-state area homes with all Fox media channels, except Fox News.  This is the second time within a year that Cablevision has had a contract dispute with a major media outlet.  Remember when they pulled ABC off the air during the 2010 Academy Awards?  For weeks Cablevision threatened to take ABC 7 off the air if they didnt get the contract what they wanted.  After much deliberation Cablevision decided to pull the plug on ABC during it's highest rated program leaving millions of customers outraged.   This is, what I like to call, TV Terrorism!  Cablevision is holding the people hostage until their demands for millions are met and if these demands aren't met then they'll be forced to take drastic measures.  On some Hans Gruber shit! 

Look, I didn't really care when Cablevision took ABC off the air because honestly, who watches ABC??  But this if Fox were talking about!  Fox airs all my favorite shows and plays a crucial role in my life from 6:30 to 8:00!!   Did Craig Kilborn become president of Cablevision in order to enact some diabolical scheme against me and my coveted TV time slot????  Fuck off Cablevision!

It gets worse!

24 hr cable news channels are the biggest TV Terrorists out there.  Gone are the days of Walter Cronkite and objective journalism.   Today's news media uses fear and the distortion of facts to drive home their political points of view.  Between MSNBC, CNN, and FOX News, Americans are being bombarded with a steady flow of slanted, biased information meant to confuse and divide people.

Take the Juan Williams situation.  Juan Williams is a journalist who was fired from his position at NPR (National Public Radio)  over comments he made about muslims on the Bill O'Reilly Show.   Here's the clip.



To me, that statement was in no way offensive or a fireable offense

Here's what the head of NPR had to say about this...


What??  This lady is bugging!  Juan Williams needs to see a psychiatrist because of this???  This woman really comes off as a typical liberal elitist...  The worst thing about George W Bush was that he made ALL liberal democrats think that they could be a better president then he was.  To me, liberal democrats think they're the smartest, most eloquent people around and if you disagree with them, well you're just not smart enough to understand the issue.  Dont get me wrong, Republicans are dicks too just in a different way.

The back story on why Juan Williams was fired was because NPR didn't like his involvement with the Fox New Channel, more specifically Bill O'Reilly.  NPR is liberal and FOX is conservative.  The liberal media have been going to war with Fox News for a long time and the American people are getting caught in the cross fire.  Understand that when you watch any of the 3 major cable news outlets you are being feed a certain political and social agenda, not fair and balanced news.

I can understand the vitriol against Fox, their reporting is biased, their anchors are jerks and they're always in the middle of some controversy.  Bill O'Reilly created a stir this week when he appeared on the brain draining, gossip show The View when he said "Muslims killed us on 9/11".  Whoopi and Joy got all upset over his use of the word "Muslims" and stormed off the stage that in no way seemed like it was rehearsed.  Here's the clip.



I dont often defend Bill O'Reilly but he is technically right.  The hijackers on 9/11 were Muslim men but if you really wanna get technical Bill why don't you mention that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia yet we invade Iraq?  I'm just sayin....

The firing of Juan Williams is more then a story about a dude who lost his job unfairly, its about corporate media giants trying to control and dictate what is and what is not acceptable speech.  Everyone is a fan of free speech when they agree on whats being said but it the ugly, hate filled speech that people disagree with that needs to be protected as well.  Unfortunately, political correctness has run amuck in America today and is mostly due hyper sensitivity over race.  Now a days it seems like you cant criticize anyone without being called a racist.  Apparently "muslim" is the new "N word".   If you say it in public you have to mutter it under your breath after looking over your shoulder.

Plan "B" is a lover of free speech that's why I encourage my readers to comment on everything I write.  Voice your opinion!

WORDS ARE POWER! THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THEN THE SWORD!!!  FUCK POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND SPEAK YOUR MIND!!!!