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Conflict of Interest May Taint DTV Delay Proposal
Anonymous writes "Ars Technica has discovered that one of the Obama transition team members advising on the digital TV transition has a conflict of interest that would benefit WiMAX carrier Clearwire over Verizon. 'Barack Obama's call to delay the DTV transition would affect not only millions of analog TV viewers, but also powerful companies with a vested interest in the changeover date — including at least one with an executive on Obama's transition team.'"
Cheney didn't know he had these investments until CRS did the study. By then, Iraq had already been invaded. Nice try.
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You've got to be kidding. When the hell did the media ever go easy on Bush? They blamed him for basically everything. I'm not saying he didn't deserve a lot of criticism, but according to the media he did nothing right. The one exception was, predictably, Foxnews. But somehow a lot of people seem to take one news network and extrapolate that out to represent all of news media, print included.
If anything, I'm surprised the media changed it's tune so quickly on Obama. What remains to be seen is if the entertainment shits on Obama the way they did with Bush. Somehow I don't see that happening.
Well shit, you CAN tie the technicals to the election results. I mean literally the next day the stock market shit itself and then cried mommy.
Sorry bub, but if you voted for Republicans in any presidential election, I'll vote for Obama in 2012. But I am not worried that I will have to do that.
/. with mod points would mod you down, assuming you were brave enough to post this invective in an active discussion. Considering 3 of your 5 moderated comments were modded flamebait, apparently that assumption is correct. And considering that everyone in this thread was debating cheerfully and was modded insightful - until you came along, suddenly flamebaiting the discussion, I think that speaks louder than any other argument. Nice job!
I was happy to make actual arguments until you dragged it into the gutter and used every third word to insult me (or Bush or Cheney). Republicans simply don't talk that way, even the ones who disagree with Bush. And characterizing my only argument as "bleating liberal" in a thread where I had already posted three comments and didn't even mention the word "liberal" until you came along and crapped on the thread is disingenuous, or suggests bad reading comp skills on your SATs.
Liberals, especially the hard-left, do talk that way, at least from reading the two iconic left-wing Websites. So I assumed you were a liberal. And reading your praise of center-left European countries (which by American political standards are socialist) in your other comments, I think calling you a liberal, based on your own description of your politics, is accurate, and hardly "ad hominem." I mean come on, people in a right-wing system are "slaves of the elite?" You couldn't sound more Marxist without actually quoting him. And America, which spends 60% of its $3T budget on entitlements (redistribution of wealth), and regulates every aspect of business endeavor - including minimum wage laws and allowing labor to collude but not business - and where freedom of contract has been replaced by the Nanny State is hardly Classically Liberal! 2009 America is a lot of good things, but laissez-faire and small government it is decidedly not. And with Obama as POTUS and 58 or 59 senators and a majority in the House on his side, I doubt it's going to get more Classically Liberal any time soon.
Calling someone stupid and saying they have bad parents and being anti-American and a scumbag - merely because they have the nerve to disagree with you - that, Sparky, is ad hominem. And in my experience, liberals tend to do that more than conservatives. Conservatives think liberals (and sometimes Bush) are wrong and misguided. Liberals think conservatives are evil. So you can see why I'd think you are a liberal.
If you don't believe me, go read redstate.org's or NRO.com's forums.
Then go read moveon.org's and huffingtonpost.com's forums and read the vitriol.
And this "anti-American" is done with you and your ad hominem attacks. And I believe that 90% of the people on
Go to the Huffington Post or moveon.org and you will be well-received. They might even make you a columnist.
Good luck with that "debating" style. I'm done with it.
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