Comments on: UPDATE III: Closing The Door On Closed, Cloistered American Media

By: David

David — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:00:16 +0000

Normally I trust your judgment Ilana, your my kind of gal, but RT (Russian Television)?! Ok, I’ll try it. Thx

By: Reggie Meezer

Reggie Meezer — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:52:24 +0000

I would have to agree with John on this. Okay, so some of you don’t like the Judge’s schtick, that’s fine. Remember, TV shows are all about ratings.

As far as the “Ron Paul Worship”: For crying out loud, it’s election season.

Someone on our side needs to “bang the drum” all day, every day for our guy Ron Paul.

The MSM does this for Obama 24/7 & so does the Neo-con media for Romney.

By: John Danforth

John Danforth — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:09:05 +0000

So we’ll toss out the only stalwart daily defender of freedom based on… style? There’s a lot about the style and format that I dislike too. But he is the only one out there with a daily show who is right on the issues. So I don’t CARE about the style. Let’s offer him advice to improve the delivery instead of demeaning him. Nuff said.

[See my comments in post update.]

By: Rebel Without a Clause

Rebel Without a Clause — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:02:07 +0000

I’ll file a dissenting opinion here. I think listening to the Enemy – Leftists, neo-cons, whatever – is a most useful excercise. On my days off, for instance, I’ll have Limbaugh, Hannity, and Hedgecock on the radio for 9 hours straight…while, of course, doing other useful things on my own or on the net, including ranting right back at them. TV, agreed, is pretty much brainpoison…and because it’s sonic and visual, you can’t do much else useful while engaged with it. Except eat.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:04:16 +0000

I like RT, sometimes the left swings leave me asking “I thought you learned better” but otherwise, I appreciate reading their stuff. The fact that they have Jim Rogers economic comments helps. Stoosel is good but it’s ‘been there done that’ his experts are always Reason and CATO. The Judge overdoes the melodrama for me. I will be recommending RT to those few I think might listen.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:52:07 +0000

Of course the Judge is gonna shout. He’s a pudgy Italian in a pin-striped suit. It just goes without saying that he’ll be booming and shouting. [It seems a tad fake, don’t you think? The barking is certainly unbearable. My husband refuses to watch it. Nothing in it that’s original except the cringe factor is his opinion.]

That being said, I greatly admire RT.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:52:14 +0000

Paddy Chayevsky, the prophet, foretold the complete garbage that now passes for television news in his 1976 masterpiece “Network”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(film)

Agree with you about Ron Paul worship and the quasi-huckstering nature of Judge Napolitano’s programming but him and Stossel are the closest things to capitalism and limited government on American TV. [Stossel is a gentleman and a scholarly journalist. Agreed.]

And, yes, I disliked Ron Paul referring the Gaza as a “concentration camp” (perhaps mental asylum would be more appropriate since the Gaza “inmates” have helped bring about their own hellish conditions with their continual jihad).

Just look at the idiotic Republican debates where complex issues have to be answered in 30 second soundbites for ADHD idiots in the audience to boo and cheer and where the “debate moderators” goad the front-runners to get into idiotically staged “confrontations” over nya nya nya moronic political ads. Thereafter, the two main contenders get “scored” over who looked best in the pissing contest.

The old Hapsburg Monarchy looks better and better nowadays! Did they have a Transportation Security Agency, killer drones, national educational testing, toilet bowl and lightbulb requirements…? Oh, that is right, America contains the most “educated” (e.g. students pursuing worthless “degrees” from semi-Marxist pedagogical parasites) and freest people on Earth!

By: George Pal

George Pal — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:58:44 +0000

The best thing I’d heard about was RT was “less unwatchable than European television”.

Does RT obscure for obscurity’s sake or security’s – they’ve just made some sort of deal with the nouveau louche Julian Assange, so I can understand security’s sake.

But the obscurity? The Corporate Profile link on their site is no such thing. Over two dozen satellite transponders, covering EU, and North America, telecasting/reporting in three languages – no advertising (internet RT). Who owns it? Who pays operating costs? The State? Media mogul? George Soros? Shadowy figures?

Cordially,
Doubter, Skeptic, & Cynic, (Wrapped In Easygoing Nature)

By: Stephen Bernier

Stephen Bernier — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:15:02 +0000

Gee, you know how to make a fellow feel ignorant! Keep up thought provoking blogs and articles!

By: Redman

Redman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:32:40 +0000

From inception, I had hoped Freedom Watch would be ‘fresh air’ in the fog of the MMS. But, alas, it has morphed into just as you say; but then, Faux is just another tool of the oligarchy, so, no surprise here. Sad, but true.