John -- deep breaths, buddy.
I'm the only VRWC member on my floor ... that I know of. We're organized in isolated cadres so when the Revolution comes and we're put against the wall by our open-minded Liberators we won't know any other paleocons' names to reveal under interrogation. As an obvious, ardent conspiracist yourself, you know what I mean...
How, exactly, does the Admin get these 10 stories into the press? Just curious b/c I'd love to see that in action. Think CBS would just swallow an admin story whole and put it on the air without even rudimentary, Journalism 101 fact checking?
The Technical Boards are getting on fine w/o me. I haven't had a car in my possession in a year, so no questions to ask (or when I have questions I ask Ron or Cramer, frankly). And I don't know enough about most of the technical stuff to be able to offer a whole lot of what you'd call mechanical guidance w/o fear of being sued for gross negligence. I jump in on the occasional "what color is the best" or "how 'bout a fall get-together" or "I agree: Rod Birch rules!!!" thread, and though I like Jack Olsen's car, I've seen enough pix of it for a while. So, while I lurk on the Technical Board, I post here. Do you miss me or something, you old softie?
My thanks, and the thanks of the GOP for checking out my ad, though!
BC04!!!
Ubiquity --
I believe (but I'm willing to be educated otherwise) that Mc-F does not contemplate the opportunity costs you refer to as "disbursements." Also, even if they're going to "bump" another program to run the documentary, it almost certainly won't "cost" them anything, given viewership and ratings/advertising.
Unfortunately, there's nobody available to do the non-Euclidian conjectural accounting involved in valuing the time, the revenues and the ratings against the possible opportunity cost, as they're all working on Kerry's "plans". {snicker}.
That first quote is a bit out of context for me, what was the illegal activity at issue? Maybe it actually was illegal? That does happen sometimes.
As for the
Reagans, CBS (hmm... CBS....) "moved" it to one of the pay channels owned by its gargantuan parent entity... maybe Showtime? Moonves himself said it was a disgrace (OK, I'm putting words in his mouth. He was not comfortable with it, let's say).
And, really, that's the RNC appealing to the decency, such as it is, of CBS not to defile the memory of Reagan with what was almost universally described as a vicious partisan hack job. The RNC didn't run to court or to the FCC
AFAIK. And they made no stink about it showing on some pay channel.
Kos -- that was Krier's line about the capillaries. Who did he say that about? I can vividly picture the pained look on his face when he said it, in class, in front of everyone, but I can't remember the target of his lament.
JP