Freepers begin their "Boycott CBS" drive.

[Cascadian]

Oh gawd! This is so pathetic!


http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a738ae1794f.htm

They want CBS to replace Dan Rather with a Fox News style conservative anchorperson.

:eyes:


John

[AuntPatsy]

1. It only proves their desperation, someone is definatly

running scared, ya gotta admit, they do whine quite often, is their an age one must be when calling yourself a republican?

[bluestateguy]

2. CBS brought it on themselves

Their cowardice in the Reagans movie flap showed conservatives that they can be bullied arounf.

[Warpy]

17. CBS News and the CBS entertainment divisions are separate

CBS News is autonomous, set up that way in the 60s to avoid the kind of corporate pressure that the other networks are feeling. CBS entertainment is fully under the Viacom corporate boot, and that's why they caved to pressure to can the Reagan movie.

CBS News isn't bully proof. They can be pressured to report on right wing stories and to give that harpy Laura Ingraham airtime to strut around and lie. However, they've never been successfully pressured to drop a story completely, although they have sat on them for a period of time at the request of the government (Abu Ghraib, for example).

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Too bad they didn't get this upset

when a CIA deep cover agent was outed by the WH, because her husband found out the WH used forged documents in the SOTU.

[AlCzervik]

4. I thought they were still boycotting because of the reagan mini-series

even though cbs didnt run it they were pissed at a viacom.

[Catfight]

5. They choose to hate the truth and worship their false prophet anyway. nt

[shockingelk]

18. As if they watch anything but FOX anyway. n/t

[blondeatlast]

6. How many members do they have? The other day, I counted:

Jim, his sister, his aunt, his dog, his mom, a college roomie who owes him a favor, and his second cousin.

That makes 4, at my count.

:evilgrin:

[mark414]

7. i still can't fathom

the idea that people still actually believe that there's a liberal bias in the media.

but according to them, we need to replace rather, etc. with "conservative anchors?" so i guess "bias" is ok when it's on their side?

fucking douchebags

[alittlelark]

8. Damn, those people are creepy.

I wonder how many, on Monday, will be picking up the assault weapons they pre-ordered?

[LynnTheDem]

9. I wonder if rightwingnuts ever wonder...

why, when they own pretty much the entire government, when they own pretty much the entire media, that they are still despised loathed detested hated mocked ridiculed laughed at by the entire world and half of America???

You'd think they'd wonder why that is.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

28. You'd think they'd wonder why that is.

You would think. Perhaps selfrighteousness doesn't allow for such introspection. I mean... if you ask them why they hate us... certainly they will say "because we're free" or some such rubbish.

[LynnTheDem]

34. ROTFL!

Soda up the nose!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

37. Here's some

kleenex there..... sorry 'bout the nasal irrigation... :)

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. I used their link to give CBS a heads up

including ahem... well the thread from Free Republic.

I invite all of you to write a letter of apreciatiion to CBS and please do pioint their thread out. It is time to ahem fight fire with well fire

[bacchant]

11. How do you boycott something you never watched in the first place?

Freepers pride themselves on the their lack of exposure to information. I don't imagine CBS was ever part of the extremely narrow bandwidth that informs them.

[johnfunk]

12. Take a look at the dates on the FR post...

... more than 3 years ago! Yuppers, RimJob and his Chimpfluffing Kargo Kult have made HUEUEUEUEUEUGE strides in destroying CBS... NOT!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. "Chimpfluffing" LOL!

[MidwestTransplant]

13. Why should CBS care...they don't watch anyway.

[maine_raptor]

14. Wait a minute here..............

if these idjits are "boycotting CBS" because of the Reagan show, then how did they know about the Documents Story?

Ignoring their own boycott? :evilgrin:

[Protected]

15. I really can't believe this

They have their own "news" network for themselves, but when one journalist on CBS finally comes up to the plate and questions this administration, they're calling for his replacement? This is America, right?

[Nimrod]

19. Damn librul media!

Repubs sure like to feel persecuted don't they? Reminds me of the CCers who are having their freedom of religion attacked every time they're not allowed to force second-graders to pray to Jehovah in school.

Good luck getting rid of Gunga Dan. :)

[Slit Skirt]

23. OK THEN ...IT'S TIME TO FIGHT

EMAIL MSNBC, CNN, FOX,
COPY WHAT YOU EMAIL
SEND TO CBS AND TELL THEM YOU SUPPORT THEM AND SHOW THEM THAT
YOU WILL ONLY WATCH NEWSTATION THAT REPORT THE TRUTH.....

THIS IS GETTING DIRTY AND IF WE DON'T STOP IT ...THEY WILL WIN ...JUST LIKE THEY ALWAYS DO.....UNFAIRLY.

[Bush was AWOL]

20. This is a scary comment:

"CNN should be frozen out too. All television releases and interviews should be channeled through FoxNews so the other networks would have to constantly accredit Fox. The print released should all be channeled through Free Republic."

[Slit Skirt]

24. OH ...OK THAT'S NOT FASCISM

[Bush was AWOL]

25. That is certainly what they seem to want

[Nimrod]

26. Yeah, THAT's a free country

Like we needed proof of what their vision for America is.

[tandot]

32. Hitler would have been so proud of his little freeper brown-shirts

Government controlled media ... isn't that what is going on in Cuba?

A free society depends on a free press ... why do Freepers hate America so much?

[demwing]

21. Well, what is the word that means the opposite of boycott?

Whatever it is, I'm saying it.

How about "advocate" ???

CBS news and its sponsors get my full attention for at least a week. :)

Lets all advocate CBS!

[gauguin57]

22. I'm going to write to CBS and tell them I'm going to START watching

their evening news regularly (hell, with Brian Williams taking over at NBC, I'm ready for a switch anyway!) BECAUSE they stood behind this story.

And EXCUSE ME, "Bush and the Republicans should boycott CBS until they replace Rather with a Conservative Anchor"????

The anchor is supposed to be OBJECTIVE, not liberal or conservative. That's what journalism is SUPPOSED to be.

[Chichiri]

27. Then I guess CBS will have to do without freepers who actually boycott.

Both of them.

[Kahuna]

29. CBS are already on to their tactics. They cited the "blogesphere" in

their news report last night as spearheading the questions about the authenticity of the documents. I'm sure they meant Drudge and freerepublic.

[colonel odis]

30. freepers ... lol..... snot-eating p*ssies used to getting

the crap beaten out of them every day.

they don't have the balls to boycott anything or anybody. especially cbs. they might miss an episode of csi: asscrack.

they fire off a nasty letter to some editor, then post it so they can gather in one big cybercirclejerk, convinced they're a bunch of badasses.

why pay any attention to them? i hate to call people "losers," but that's really the most appropriate description.

[funky_bug]

31. I say, welcome to the club!

We've been dealing with their fox-style conservative reports for a long damned time. It's about time they got a taste of what it's like when you're not the "moral majority" so to speak.

Besides, with Bush's current approval rating, I seriously doubt that those in the 48% bracket are gonna hurt CBS's rating. On a related note, it's obvious they all watch FOX anyhow, so I'm sure CBS is really shakin' in their boots.

I for one, NEVER watch FOX, but I'm sure as hell running CBS 24/7... whether I'm in the room or not.

[West Coast Democrat]

33. Conservatives never did watch CBS News....

they don't like to get the real news. That's why they watch Fox.

[LTR]

35. Well, if you're a freeper, and you watch football...

...And you're especially a fan of these teams:


New England Patriots
Buffalo Bills
Miami Dolphins
New York Jets
Denver Broncos
San Diego Chargers
Kansas City Chiefs
Oakland Raiders
Cincinnati Bengals
Cleveland Browns
Baltimore Ravens
Pittsburgh Steelers
Jacksonville Jaguars
Houston Texans
Tennessee Titans
Indianapolis Colts

Guess what? Most of their games are on CBS. Sure, FOX has the NFC slate, but I watch anyway. I don't watch FOX News, though. I like my news with at least some truth to it.

Wanna listen on the radio? Out of town games are broadcast by Westwood One, a division of Viacom, owner of CBS.

Like to listen to Bill O'Really on the radio? Guess who syndicates him.

Going to the movies? Guess who owns Paramount?

My those freepers are sooo naive!

[Jade Fox]

36. All twelve of them?

Oh no, poor CBS!

[mbee]

38. If we all have to cancel our cable subscriptions they won't

have their precious Fox anymore!

[SoCalDemocrat]

39. Laugh or be afraid, I'm not sure which?

Republican idiocy is often hard to comprehend. They beat the drum for Fox News, but at the first hint of a network leaning left they're pissing all over it and screaming for boycotts.

Businesses need to start standing up to the radical right and not cave in to political dogma.

[Guaranteed]

40. WRITE MORE EMAILS, FOLKS.

Write as much as you can.