CBS Cancels "Reagans"

[tritsofme]

BLACK EYE: CBS CANCELS 'REAGANS'

VIACOM CHAIR SUMNER REDSTONE EXPRESSED GRAVE CONCERN FOR NETWORK BROADCAST...
WILL AIR ON SHOWTIME UNCUT...

http://www.drudgereport.com/


Fascist intimadators win again. Why do we stand for this?

[mmonk]

1. cowards

[barbaraann]

2. Because "the center cannot hold."

That thought from the Yeats poem has been bothering me for days.

[Democrats unite]

3. The weasles nobackbone!

eom

[Cat Atomic]

4. We don't, but the fascist enablers own the TV networks do.

*sigh*

[hang a left]

5. Good! I am glad. At least they won't hack the shit out of it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. I wonder what pressure was used against them.

Demonstrates the absolute power of the regime and the misguided rule of the FCC.

[SoCalDem]

7. Every tiime they "win" we all lose BIG..

There are not that many of them, but they are organized and they know how to squeal like the little piggies they are..

I can only hope that CBS actually ADDS stuff that they were afraid to before, and releases it to Showtime with a HUGE splash, so that people will talk about it.MORE ..

[tritsofme]

9. I wouldnt doubt that they now they just move their

intimidation over to Showtime, and it gets dumped there too.

[david_vincent]

8. Damn it

I don't get Showtime. Can I come over to somebody's place & watch it?

[tridim]

10. The producers should sue CBS, The RNC and

FreeRepublic.com. If this is true I'm sure they've already made the call to their lawyers. They stand to lose a ton of cash in the deal.

The precedent this sets is chilling.

[David Zephyr]

11. So Who's Next?

Don't worry. The appetite for fascism is relentless. It must be fed.

[RapidCreek]

12. Ah yes...the liberal media strikes again.

I'm writing the fuckers an email....gonna tell them I'll never watch CBS again.

RC

[MessiahRp]

13. I didn't see...

anyone pulling the BS revisionist history of Showtime's Bush-9/11 movie that made him appear so brave and in control...

Whining bitches.

Rp

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. The bastards are relentless

with their whining. I am so depressed. This has been a lousy week for we Dems. WHY does NOTHING go our way? What the hell are we doing wrong? Why do the repukes always win their battles? I'm so sick and tired of this.

[w4rma]

16. Because the Republican Party favors the big corporations that own

big media and the Democratic Party often tries to limit their power, IMHO.

[radwriter0555]

15. THE TERRORISTS WIN again... the bush regime fascist censors

can't handle the TRUTH.

[tridim]

17. I bet Letterman's next

Now that wholesale censoring of public entertainment is the norm. I wonder if they will just bleep his Bush jokes or censor the jokes before they are even written? Maybe it'd be easier to just cancel the show entirely.

This whole thing is so sad.

[jobycom]

18. Any confirmation of this on a non-fiction site?

Drudge is always wrong, except for the proverbial broken clock occasions.

If true, wouldn't Showtime be a good venue? That way they could include some of Kitty Kelly's details. Imagine Frank Sinatra and Nancy in all their glory... Eh, maybe not.

[Snellius]

19. This has got to be the most chicken-shittinest cowardly time

in American History. Christ, even in the Cold War hysteria of the 50s, great CBS newsmen like Ed Murrow still stand up to the McCarthys. They would risk everything to stand up for what they believed. CBS was the last bastion and now it's gone. The whole culture of free people will have to change dramatically. Revolution or nothing.

[ShaneGR]

20. So we get the uncut version on Showtime?

Good, if the film turns out to be a complete farce, then it was only on Showtime. If it isn't that bad, we can use it to our advantage.

[wuushew]

21. This could have been a result of creative differences not freeper pressure

The showing of the uncut version may reflect the directors objection showing the hacked version on CBS.

[roguevalley]

22. apparently they schlepped it to Showtime.