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Pull the Plug
ABC news engaged in nothing less than a media lynching by reporting that James Holmes was a Tea Party person. There are over EIGHTY men named James Holmes in the Denver metro area. ABC News did what they did intentionally. I would remind you of how the same media treated the Ft. Hood massacre. They knew for a fact that Hassan was a musloid, but refused to report ANYTHING, saying, “We cannot jump to any conclusions. We don’t have all of the information yet.” ABC News took the name “James Holmes” and then went looking for a way to rhetorically tie the event to their enemies, which are white, Christian, American men. They found exactly that in the Tea Party fellow, and got the meme out into the media knowing that once the well was poisoned, the damage would be irreversible.
I see lots of people talking about writing letters and boycotting this, that and the other. And I shake my head. Writing an angry letter to ABC complaining about this would be like writing an angry letter to Hitler, complaining about the behavior of Rudolf Hess. Brian Ross and Stephanopolous aren’t going to be fired. They performed exactly how their masters wanted them to perform. Both just accrued huge brownie points, and will likely be rewarded financially in some way for this.
The solution to this is simple. I have been preaching it for years. All you have to do is CANCEL YOUR CABLE and STOP WATCHING TELEVISION. If you would just do that, you could end the media within a week. But you know what? None of you will do it. You all are so whipped and addicted to the Marxist agitprop, mind-numbing circuses and porn that you will never, ever go without TV. You know it’s true. You know that you aren’t even remotely man enough to pick up the phone right now, call the cable company, cancel your feed and then go unplug the cable from the back of your TVs, and do not hook up an antenna so you can’t even receive broadcast channels. And don’t you dare feed me the whiny bullshit that you have to have cable in order to have internet. That is abject bullshit and we both know it. You can have an internet-only package. Even so, you can simply unplug the cable from the back of your TV. You are in total, complete, personal control of the situation. ANY attempt to claim that you “have to have it” is a despicable lie, and you will answer for it before Christ Crucified.
If what ABC News did doesn’t merit a media strike, then I guess nothing ever will in your mind. Enjoy living on your knees before your Marxist-islamic masters, you pathetic, miserable slave.
old_oaks
July 21st, 2012
Holmes? Hines?
What’s the difference?
Unneutral
July 21st, 2012
We know and they know how it stands, someone drop the flag and let’s start the revolution.
scr_north
July 21st, 2012
As mentioned before, if you really want to make a statement cancel your Disney vacation and email to let them know why. They’ll ignore complaints about the news but if they start losing an appreciable number of Disney trips (and mechandise) you can bet something will be done.
cfm990
July 21st, 2012
Are you effin serious?
old_oaks
July 21st, 2012
Yup SCR… DROP OUT!
Odd enough, they don’t miss you. I suggest everyone do it.
Chuck U Farley
July 21st, 2012
I stopped watching TV shows for going on several years now. My wife watched and would complain to the TV nightly. I finally convinced her that her (and my) life would be more trouble-free if she just turned the damned box off!
It is an enlightening and emboldening experience, enabling one the freedom to stop being tethered to the blathering garbage emanating from the tube.
(I do confess I still watch Baseball games and the NFL games. I am starting to weigh the difference in price for on-line subscriptions and cable bills.)
Chuck U Farley
July 21st, 2012
now my on-line porn…
…Keep your hands off my Internet, you Fascist!
Mark Zist
July 21st, 2012
How about a “viewers bill of rights” which allows the TV consumer to opt out of paying for the channels they don’t want to watch?
HippieCritic
July 21st, 2012
My problem with Ann Barnhardt is that she minces words.
Menderman
July 21st, 2012
I haven’t had cable for about 15 years. I watch ABC GMA for free every morning via a 50 buck antenna…
the aardvark
July 21st, 2012
I’ve aready quit watching any TV and haven’t had cable for about 3 yrs. I don’t miss it, even baseball which I love. There is nothing good about TV any more, all the programs are crap, the comedy is not funny, with vulgarity masquerading as humor. And TV news, forget about it. I read and listen to my satellite radio particularly Old time radio programs and the 50′ and 60′s channels. I also have lots of friends who I spend time with. My fed up point has been reached and I won’t be going back to being a sheeple like the masses who watch anything and everything just because its on TV, and worse yet tell me how good it is. I have better things to do and the time that I have left I would rather engage my mind in doing something constructive and not mind numbingly stupid.
michellesbigbeaver
July 21st, 2012
Right on Ann! If you can’t quit cold turkey just wean yourselves slowly and in a week or two you’ll be suprised how little you actually miss it. You’ll also be very suprised at how much stuff at home you’ll get done. How many books you can read, languages you can learn, hobbies you’ll have, how much better your relationships are and how much weight you’ll lose by walking or exercising instead of sitting in front of the boob tube.
Mackdaddy
July 21st, 2012
Maybe after Breaking Bad goes off.
Edith McCrotch
July 21st, 2012
Dang it Ann, you need to put a little fire into your statement and tell us how you really feel.
May I suggest….
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=142301
Racist
July 21st, 2012
As a matter of fact (Ann), you convinced me the first time you brought to my attention that I was subsidizing the degradation of our culture, the blasphemy and denial of our Lord, and the Marxist/Carnal/Pagan (Gaia)worship/anti-American indoctrination of my children, by sending them $50mo. It took a desperate financial situation and having to make a responsible budgetary choice of how to allocate our limited funds.(ok, actually I had gotten so broke that I couldn’t pay the bill and just let them cut it off.) But I convinced my wife and children that it was the right thing to do, and we weren’t getting it turned back on! To her credit, she submitted to my authority as the Spiritual Head of our Family, and didn’t even try to “manipulate me” into changing my mind. I’ve been extremely angry and frustrated by Pop media for a while, music and tv. Since I accepted the gift of Salvation from Jesus in ’04, I’ve been increasingly sensitive to the extremely sinful and often downright demonic influence of Hollyweird and L.A. But I chose to just “Turn the dang thing off” if I didn’t wanna watch it!(Thank You Jerry Clower) For months and mnths, the only thing I would watch was classic movies on TCM or maybe an HGTV type show. I just couldn’t tolerate watching Godless Commie morons denegrate everything I believe in and glorify everything I know to be wrong. So stopping paying to help them do it was a lot easier than you would think!
But thanks for insulting us anyway, Crazyeyes!!!
Cruisin' Cat
July 21st, 2012
Going along with what scr_north posted, if you want to hit ABC where it hurts, I suggest contacting their sponsors(there are a lot of them) and tell them you will no longer use their product, and why, and that you might reconsider if they severe their relationship with ABC. I’d say pile on the smaller companies for starters; they may be more receptive to their potential ex-customers than companies like ABC.
A blip to their bottom line is not something capitalists take lightly.
This site “Soap Fans United”
http://soapfansunite.webs.com/abcsponsors.htm
Has a pretty comprehensive list.
Zero and his lefties have been really provocative lately and pissed a lot of people off; we should use the momentum to really break it off where they live.
reddecaesari
July 21st, 2012
moved two years ago. didn’t hook up cable and have been tv free since.
only thing i miss is sports. but hey, that is why God invented sports bars.
Angrymike
July 21st, 2012
Yes, Ann is right, but I still shot off a email to ABC just to make myself feel better…… What these ppl are doing is just what the left has been doing since 1965, demonizing the middle class white American. The only time I watch tv, is when I visit someone else’s house……Till football season…,.
xthred
July 21st, 2012
So over her.
Lylelovett666
July 21st, 2012
I’m gonna have to answer to christ for watching tv?I l like Ann,but sometimes I get the feeling she’s skipped her meds.
Annie
July 21st, 2012
Don’t own a TV. Internet/phone provider calls every once in a while to offer a bundle. I listen then tell them I don’t own a TV, last time, there was a pause then she said, “I’ve heard that from other people.”
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Cruisin' Cat
July 21st, 2012
Can’t do it. I have trouble sleeping, and television is the best sleep inducer and night light there is.
Trixie Bluebell
July 22nd, 2012
I ditched cable 3 years ago. I have the $50 antenna but there really isn’t much I want to watch. Haven’t turned the thing on in probably 2 months. If I want to see a game, I go to a sports bar or listen to it on the radio. I’ve been reading a lot more than I did when I was watching the boob-tube and enjoying it a lot more. Try it, you’ll like it!
Bob M.
July 22nd, 2012
I’d always heard ABC stood for, “A Buncha Child” molesters.
Not sure why the “m” got dropped, but I have it from reliable sources, that it USED to be there… [whistling]
Bad Brad
July 22nd, 2012
I vote with my TV. Always on FOX>
Flyover Pilgrim
July 22nd, 2012
I dropped cable nearly 3 years ago. Don’t miss it a bit.
We watch (old) movies when we want to chill, or even read to each other. We LOVE that.
It bugs me no end to hear the network “news” at my folk’s. If I can stand to stay for the whole broadcast, I typically give my parents the entire news story…the stuff Blonde what’s-er-name leaves out. Disgusting.
People, please. Get rid of the malignant TV.
MNP
July 22nd, 2012
@Brad, What, do you take it in to the polling place with it under your arm?
Bad Brad
July 22nd, 2012
Where you been? Yep, you heard of getto blasters? I got the Burbs Blaster.
Nielsens.
MNP
July 22nd, 2012
I’ve been right here.
Danny Jeffrey
July 22nd, 2012
There is more we can do http://www.freedomrings1776.com/2012/07/change-of-tactics.html#more
Jewel
July 22nd, 2012
Get Roku and an internet connection. Choose what you want to watch.
Adrienne
July 22nd, 2012
There’s been no cable in our house for over 20 years. That adds up to a savings of way over 12K dollars.
LaBonBon
July 22nd, 2012
Ann, I HAVE done it! I only watch NFL football. Besides, I never had pay TV in the first place. My late father would come back to haunt me if I ever paid for the “boob tube.”
LaBonBon
July 22nd, 2012
Jewel, does this Roku carry NFL games? All I care about from TV is my football.
poptoy1949
July 22nd, 2012
The only TV I watch is Fox News
Robert Fine
July 22nd, 2012
There is no problem. Tea Party James Holmes is going to be a very rich man. So will the next person who is recklessly or intentionally defamed by a leftist media outlet. (And get another 10x their recovery in punitive damages.) They just need the fortitude to pursue their claim.
Wyatt, Insensitive Jerk
July 22nd, 2012
I agree and disagree on this one. Yes, too many people are addicted to television – if you have memorized the dialogue of some television show or arrange your life around television, you have a problem. However, this is a habit and is thus correctable; in fact, it is very liberating to not have to rely on television for one’s sole source of entertainment. Personally, unless there is a sporting event or a breaking news story such as election night, I never watch network television – it is a habit I broke in 1979.
On the other hand, there is plenty of programming that I do like. I enjoy watching History Channel (not the psuedo-reality shows History Channel concentrates on now, but the historical documentaries), Discovery, Smithsonian, etc. I love sports, and ESPN, MLB, NFL, FSN and BTN are great. The news channels are also a great source of information so long as one can discern the difference between news reporting and commentary. That being said, what I watch is nothing more than entertainment, and it does not dominate my life.
What I find interesting about Ms. Barnhardt’s piece is that it appears to be another facet of a growing call to return to some sort of “simpler” life which is promoted by various different groups for various different reasons. We live in an age where we have the technology to regulate the temperatures and comfort of our homes, yet we are bombarded by calls to not use air conditioning in summer and set thermostates to just above freezing in winter. We have the ability to produce abundant food using modern farming techniques that have been developed over several decades, yet people are insisting that organic foods are the best. We keep developing cleaner and more efficient automobiles, yet our social planners continue to plot to keep people out of cars. It seems that the only areas where rampant technological change is accepted and encouraged is in the area of personal communication devices like iPhones.
Television can be harmful. Soda can be harmful. Excess food consumption can be harmful. Too much leisure time can be harmful, and too much work can be harmful. Guns can be harmful. However, used properly these things can be beneficial and enjoyable.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
July 22nd, 2012
Did that long ago, during the lead-up to the 1992 elections. Got so sick of the crap I just cut off the cable and quit watching. I have an antenna for hurricane warnings and that’s IT!
Never miss it, especially since any show good enough will be on DVD at Netflix within a year.
Free4Now
July 22nd, 2012
I think Ann is sounding the clarion to Conservatives.
Pull the Plug! Yes it will be uncomfortable for a time but, in this fight for our very lives, any and every thing which can be done to defeat the enemy should be done and make no mistake about it the alphabet TV stations are most definitely ‘the enemy’.
Free4Now
July 22nd, 2012
I forgot to mention that it’s not only pulling the plug on the networks but on their sponsors as well. Hit them in the only place they will feel it.
Dianne
July 22nd, 2012
I haven’t had cable for several years now, and I already don’t watch network news any more. I realized a long time ago what a bunch of liars they are, and a big waste of time.
Dyrewulf
July 22nd, 2012
For a minute there, until I scrolled back to the top, I thought you’d written this BFH. But just so Ann knows:
1: I watch about, oh, 10 minutes of TV per week – I prefer my shows on NetFlix – commercial free, and I pick what I watch, period.
2: Nice way to put it ‘…You know that you aren’t even remotely man enough to pick up the phone right now…’ My WIFE is the one who watches TV 20 hours per day. But it has to be a ‘man enough’ situation? Nice.
shotwell
July 22nd, 2012
The French didn’t have TV. So what’s the point. Freedom is the mute button.
tucsondon
July 22nd, 2012
Boycott if you want, turn off your TV, cut the cable, throw the TV into the canyon. None of it matters. If the networks lose revenue because they lack viewers to support major sponsorship, the government will prop them up with you and I’s taxes and the band plays on. Think PBS.
Millertime
July 22nd, 2012
Reading through Ann’s post I could not help but imagining her scowling the oratory version while dressed in a black leather corset and punctuating with a riding crop.
No disrespect intended, I love Ann
I gave up movies and cut TV down to negligible amounts 15 years ago.
Racist
July 22nd, 2012
Reading thru the comments, I’m disturbed at how many of you are “addicted” to the sports diversion. My God, Professional sports is the very essence of population control! It’s the ultimate “bread and circus”. The Establisment Elites produce elaborate shows to herd people into coliseums and parlors across the nation at an orchestrated time, and pay players millions of dollars to entertain them. If the people are restless, give them what they want. Entertain them with gladiators who only fight to the buzzer! Entertainment for the masses!!!!
LaBonBon
July 22nd, 2012
You are right, Racist. I love my Vikings and Giants. NFL is my weakness. I cannot imagine life without the NFL.
reddecaesari
July 22nd, 2012
to add, gave up cable for economic reasons.
Enough
July 22nd, 2012
Ann is 100% correct, as usual.
Why feed the enemy?
I canceled my television subscription on the day after the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. I had been intending to do so before that but when I realized I was going to be bombarded by The Won and his lackeys 24/7 for the next four years the decision was easy. I can’t stand the man (or whatever his is). I detest his smug looks, his lying voice, and his condescending UN-American attitude.
I’m now saving $700+ a year and huge amounts of my time. I no longer have to be subjected to lame commercials every 10-15 minutes on how to keep my dick stiff, how to relieve my headache (not watching TV helps tremendously), or what soap use.
I have time to do more important things with my life.
Best decision I ever made.
Kairn
July 22nd, 2012
We first weaned ourselves from cable TV by just not turning it on for a few weeks. One day I caved in, turned it on, went to my favorite channel (TCM) hoping to watch an enjoyable movie, but was astonished to see a most distasteful movie was playing. I had to double-check I was actually at TCM. Needless to say, I took that as a sure sign, promptly turned the TV off and had hubby cancel cable TV subscription the next day.
Now we enjoy watching all kinds of various things on TV by way of the Internet (using an iPad and AppleTV). It takes some effort, but it is worth it. You are in complete control of your viewing pleasure and edification. Not to mention more money in your pocket book.
It is true, you will find yourself socializing more w/out cable TV. You will read more and will also get busy doing other things. Your life will become more balanced to be sure.
Kairn
July 22nd, 2012
@Wyatt,
We frequently and most exclusively tuned into the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, HGTV and mostly TCM. The problem with that was Comcast had us over a barrel by forcing us to subscribe to a vast amount of other channels we never watched in order to have access to the channels I listed above. That kind of marketing arm twisting really tans my hide.
We took Ann’s admonitions to heart not to mention the annual savings and pulled the cable TV plug about 2 months ago. We are quite satisfied with that decision.
You can still view many of your favorite shows at the channel websites. Besides, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, HGTV channel, etc. have been degenerating in quality in the past year anyways.
There truly is very good viewing options available on the Internet. You just have to be pro-active in looking for high quality stuff to watch. One good site will point you in the direction of another and so on. Use the Internet to do research on setting yourself up with AppleTV or Roku for example. There is no mystery or complications to kicking the cable TV habit. It is after all, just a matter of logistics.
Consider this a fun and righteous challenge, right Ann?
99th Squad Leader
July 22nd, 2012
Stopped subscribing to cable 24 years ago. Almost every channel and program was “moan and groan” – could not stand it anymore. Saved tons of money.
Watch only local news and some sports, G-rated dramas, and christian programming that I can get with an antenna. The internet allows me to be
selective with entertainment and news.