-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:26 am Subject: New GOP Motto: "Think Globally, Act (to Suppress the Truth) Locally" http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Here's the 60 Minutes segment you may not have seen last night, since it ran opposite the Oscars. (Thanks to Brad Friedman.) Alas, folks in Alabama couldn't see this report even if they had their teevees (or Tivos) tuned to CBS. Why? Because the station suddenly experienced "technical difficulties" -- for that segment alone. Larisa has been covering this astounding turn of events: Some of the Alabama blackouts are reported to have happened on Channel 19, which is owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners, owned by the Bass family of Texas. The others appeared to have happened on one Comcast channel. Could this Bass family be the same family involved in George W. Bush's Harken energy scandal? Here's what Scott Horton of Harpers has to say about the blackout: The station ran a trailer stating “We apologize that you missed the first segment of 60 Minutes tonight featuring ‘The Prosecution of Don Siegelman.’ It was a techincal problem with CBS out of New York.” I contacted CBS News in New York and was told that “there is no delicate way to put this: the WHNT claim is not true. There were no transmission difficulties. The problems were peculiar to Channel 19, which had the signal and had functioning transmitters.” I was told that the decision to blacken screens across Northern Alabama “could only have been an editorial call.” Channel 19 is owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners, who can be contacted through Rhonda Barnat, 212-371-5999 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oak Hill Partners represents interests of the Bass family, which contribute heavily to the Republican Party. Contact dear Rhonda, by all means. Better still: Contact the new FCC, once a Democrat takes the reins. Someone should lose a broadcast license over this transparent stunt. Delicious ideas to please the pickiest eaters. Watch the video on AOL Living.
